Post by Arjan Hut on Dec 18, 2019 3:59:22 GMT -5
(255 The identity of two pallbearers)
I understand that the identity of the pallbearers is trivial information. Knowing all the names wouldn't add to
a better understanding of the JFK assassination. Most likely.
Post #254 quotes the complete article as it appeared in the Fort Worth Star of 11-22-2013. A rather flimsy piece
that doesn't dig very deep (no pun intended), but some of the quotes stood out to me, as they illustrate the mood
of the time and the ease with which people were convinced that 'a communist' killed the president.
No words of sympathy even for the young widow, the children, the mother and brother of the brutally murdered suspect.
"The Dallas Morning News’ reporter that day, Eddie Hughes, started to help but decided that the News’
conservative editors “wouldn’t like me carrying a communist,” he said from his retirement home in
Albuquerque."
"From CBS to the Star-Telegram last week, former local Associated Press reporter Mike Cochran eloquently
retold the tale. Oswald’s popularity that day was “at an all-time low,” Cochran has joked. When Groody
asked him to help, he first said, “Not only no, but hell no.”"
Eddie Hughes of Albuquerque was a 27-year-old reporter for The Dallas Morning News when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during a motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963. Hughes reported on Kennedy's final speech and his propensity to mix with crowds, much to the chagrin of his Secret Service team. (Marla Brose/Albuquerque Journal)
I understand that the identity of the pallbearers is trivial information. Knowing all the names wouldn't add to
a better understanding of the JFK assassination. Most likely.
Post #254 quotes the complete article as it appeared in the Fort Worth Star of 11-22-2013. A rather flimsy piece
that doesn't dig very deep (no pun intended), but some of the quotes stood out to me, as they illustrate the mood
of the time and the ease with which people were convinced that 'a communist' killed the president.
No words of sympathy even for the young widow, the children, the mother and brother of the brutally murdered suspect.
"The Dallas Morning News’ reporter that day, Eddie Hughes, started to help but decided that the News’
conservative editors “wouldn’t like me carrying a communist,” he said from his retirement home in
Albuquerque."
"From CBS to the Star-Telegram last week, former local Associated Press reporter Mike Cochran eloquently
retold the tale. Oswald’s popularity that day was “at an all-time low,” Cochran has joked. When Groody
asked him to help, he first said, “Not only no, but hell no.”"
Eddie Hughes of Albuquerque was a 27-year-old reporter for The Dallas Morning News when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during a motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963. Hughes reported on Kennedy's final speech and his propensity to mix with crowds, much to the chagrin of his Secret Service team. (Marla Brose/Albuquerque Journal)
