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Collinsville,
Oklahoma
November
21, 2013
JFK
In Oklahoma 1961
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Photos By C.H. Wright During President Kennedy's Visit To Senator Robert S.
Kerr's
Oklahoma Ranch In November 1961
(Two Years Before Kennedy Assassinated)
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Ted Wright -- last update 11/21/2013 (JFKinOklahoma1961.html)
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Copyright 2013 -- Collinsville, Oklahoma
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In
October 1961 Claude Henderson (C.H.) Wright, then retired editor of The Collinsville
News, took the photo above of President John F. Kennedy (in the rocking chair)
during a visit to Oklahoma 52 years ago (at Big Cedar near Poteau). The event
was held at the ranch of Oklahoma U.S. Senator Robert S. Kerr (standing at the
microphone). Seated to the right of Kennedy are Vice President Lyndon Johnson,
Senator Mike Monroney, Congressman Carl Albert (blocked from view by Mrs. Kerr),
Oklahoma Governor Howard Edmondson. I can't identify several others but am pretty
sure that Clem McSpadden is seated to the far right. -- Ted Wright 11/21/2013
50 Years Ago --
Collinsville Coverage Of President Kennedy's 1963 Death |
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| I was a 7th grader
in class in the old Collinsville High Building (along with all the other
7th-12th graders) on a Friday mid-day (November 22, 1963) when the word
was sent room to room first that the President had been shot. Superintendent
Howell Wilson then came back with the update that the President had died.
The entire nation then spent the next several days watching more history
unfold live on television. We have spent the following 50 years as the
story seems to never end or satisfy the curious. My grandfather took the
photos on this page. My grandmother told us during the days following
Kennedy's death that she remembered as a child when President McKinley
had been assassinated. -- Ted Wright 11/21/2013 |
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