01-12-2013, 08:10 AM
Just think this needs a bump for the 50th.
SHARON
When Norman Katz was 23 years old, he was a military attaché to the Secret Service, working in the continuity of the U.S. Government program at the White House during John F. Kennedy's administration in 1961.
The former Sharon selectman was an Army second lieutenant who handled communications in one of the "secure rooms" in Washington, D.C. In the event of a national alert, Katz would be among those who made sure the president and other elected leaders kept in contact.
Now 76-years-old, he sat in his basement office in his house in Sharon and recounted how Jacqueline Kennedy would always remember the roses that were given to her in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
"She was delighted by the people who presented her with yellow roses," Katz said.
He recalls that everywhere else in Texas, Jackie was given yellow roses, a symbol of the famous folk song, "The Yellow Rose of Texas."
He said that Jackie remembers, "Only in Dallas was I given red roses. How funny, red roses for me," she thought.
Katz said, "But soon the back seat of the presidential limo would be strewn with blood-soaked rose petals. [The] 46-year-old President and his 34-year-old First Lady exchanged one final glance and then in an instant, it all ended."
Going back to 1961, Katz was sitting in a history class at Northeastern University when he was called to the university president's office.
"I said, Oh my god, what did I do?'," Katz said. "My tuition was always late. Who had money in those days?"
Waiting for him in the president's office were two men.
"They said to me that I had been selected for a special position in the military [and] if I would be interested," said Katz. "I had already received orders for Korea…and I said, Well, where is it?'
Well, we can't tell you,'" Katz recalled the two men saying.
"Well, what would I do?'
Well, we can't tell you.'
"I said, I'm getting married in a few months, can my wife go?'"
They said, "Yes."
Then he asked, "Is it in the United States?"
They said, "Yes."
To Katz, staying in the United States and being able to be with his new wife was better than going to Korea. And so, despite knowing very little about his new job, after graduating from Northeastern, he and his wife packed up their Volkswagen Beetle and headed for Virginia.
Read more: http://www.wickedlocal.com/walpole/news/...z2mCm5TrOi
SHARON
When Norman Katz was 23 years old, he was a military attaché to the Secret Service, working in the continuity of the U.S. Government program at the White House during John F. Kennedy's administration in 1961.
The former Sharon selectman was an Army second lieutenant who handled communications in one of the "secure rooms" in Washington, D.C. In the event of a national alert, Katz would be among those who made sure the president and other elected leaders kept in contact.
Now 76-years-old, he sat in his basement office in his house in Sharon and recounted how Jacqueline Kennedy would always remember the roses that were given to her in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
"She was delighted by the people who presented her with yellow roses," Katz said.
He recalls that everywhere else in Texas, Jackie was given yellow roses, a symbol of the famous folk song, "The Yellow Rose of Texas."
He said that Jackie remembers, "Only in Dallas was I given red roses. How funny, red roses for me," she thought.
Katz said, "But soon the back seat of the presidential limo would be strewn with blood-soaked rose petals. [The] 46-year-old President and his 34-year-old First Lady exchanged one final glance and then in an instant, it all ended."
Going back to 1961, Katz was sitting in a history class at Northeastern University when he was called to the university president's office.
"I said, Oh my god, what did I do?'," Katz said. "My tuition was always late. Who had money in those days?"
Waiting for him in the president's office were two men.
"They said to me that I had been selected for a special position in the military [and] if I would be interested," said Katz. "I had already received orders for Korea…and I said, Well, where is it?'
Well, we can't tell you,'" Katz recalled the two men saying.
"Well, what would I do?'
Well, we can't tell you.'
"I said, I'm getting married in a few months, can my wife go?'"
They said, "Yes."
Then he asked, "Is it in the United States?"
They said, "Yes."
To Katz, staying in the United States and being able to be with his new wife was better than going to Korea. And so, despite knowing very little about his new job, after graduating from Northeastern, he and his wife packed up their Volkswagen Beetle and headed for Virginia.
Read more: http://www.wickedlocal.com/walpole/news/...z2mCm5TrOi
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass