It was one of those things that stand out in my memory as well. A friend of mine had a small blue transistor radio, (they were new and a big deal at that time) and we heard it over the small radio. Ran off to tell the first teacher we seen, (we were at school at the time) she got real mad at us and didn't believe us at all. In fact gave us the devil for lying and was going to take us to the principal. You just don't say things like that. Had to show her the radio and even turn it on so it would work. (doubt if she had seen a transistor radio up until then) Next thing we know she's off on a high speed waddle down the hall and left us standing there. It was only a few minutes later that there were at least 4 or 5 teachers huddled around the big old wooden case tube radio that all schools had back then, didn't take long to find out the whole thing was true.
I've read countless books, and have seen a large number of movies and documentaries on the JFK assassination. Never felt as though the real truth or true events ever were revealed, and still haven't to this day. But one book in many, does stand out from the rest. It was written by a man named Howard Donohue who was an expert firearms witness and testified in the hearings. His own beliefs were turned around and in the end he uncovered where the fatal bullit came from. The various levels of government that he approached with the findings, shunned him and didn't want to hear about it. With hard work, common sense, and science to back it up, it's the most compelling and truthful account I feel has been presented to date. Mortal Error is the name of the book and was released in 1992. Due to public indifference, or people being bombarded with so many other 'who done it' accounts, this book just seem to fade away, and it seemed a lot of people preferred it that way. It's a tough book to read with all the science behind it, but that is what makes it a worthwhile account and makes the information hard to dismiss. By the way....the info points to Secret Service agent George Hickey as the source of the fatal bullet....and it was fired by accident. Another interesting little tidbit, Oswald kept saying he was "a patsy" and had been set up. No doubt he really did believe it. If you are shooting at a target with others, you can pretty well tell when you, or the other person hits the target, due to where you were aiming or the timing of your shot etc. Now Oswald gets off two shots, the first miss the intended target and hits the road surface, the second hits Kennedy in the neck. The third shot hits Kennedy in the head while Oswald is looking on, or looking down the barrel sight. Either way, he knows he didn't fire that shot..so who else is there? He thought he was alone. Oswald gets away, but gets caught later on and figures he was set up to be caught. If...Oswald was working alone, he would have no reason to think he was set up. But...if he was working with someone else, he would think he was set up to take all the blame, since someone else was there and shot Kennedy, and he now sees himself as "a patsy", and says so over and over. So the question remains, who was Oswald working for??? Ruby? Maybe. Would explain why Ruby shot Oswald, to keep him quite. So..who was Ruby with?? And on and on it goes....
