Remembering JFK

November 22, 1963   President John F. Kennedy Assassinated On this date 47 years ago, JFK was assassinated as his presidential motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. He was 46 years old having served only two years in office.

 

I remember clearly where I was when I heard this horrible news. I was riding my motorcycle across 42nd Street in Manhattan, returning to the Daily News building, where I worked as a motorcycle news courier. Just about across from Grand Central Station, a man rolled down his car 

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window and shouted to me that "The president was just shot!" I gasped and then raced back to UPI headquarters. Well, that's where I spent the next few days, without a break, as the news stories and pictures came in and we had to distribute them to the different News papers and TV stations here in New York and around the USA and even around the world. My job, among others, was to get those pictures as fast as I could to their destinations. So it was a constant up and down, back and forth, riding and delivering to about 7 Daily papers in New York city and also going to the airports and shipping out the pix to different News Organizations. It was hectic and you could imagine the scene in the UPI Newsroom. The ticker tape machines were printing out stories non-stop and the camera men were sending photos constantly via a photo fax machine that was set up in the newsroom. Of course the quality was not great so they wanted the real negatives of the pictures ASAP so  I was sent to the airport often to meet the incoming planes carrying the film and rushing the it back to UPI Headquarters.

Yes, I can not forget this day, November 22. 1963.

Deacon John Giglio

     

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