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Originally Posted by Ocala Mike

I was in my final semester at Queens College in NYC. I decided to cut my afternoon classes and head for the Big A to play some ponies. I actually heard the news of his death from Fred Cappossella, the track announcer. Jay Hovdey, in a recent DRF article, reported that the final TWO races were cancelled that day, but my recollection as one of the 24,000 in attendance (pre-OTB; people actually went to the track) is that racing was cancelled after about the 3rd or 4th race. Anyway, I headed home, and went to my part-time job at the Boys Club of Queens in Astoria that evening (I was the librarian, believe it or not). I usually didn't allow the tv set to be on except for special occasions or sports events, but that Friday night I sat glued to the tv set with all the kids, witnessing history. I remember it like yesterday (although my wife insists I can't remember yesterday, and she's absolutely right.)

I have that problem with names of many people i've know forever..

Do you remember the Cuban missle crisis?..I remember Kennedy on tv talking about the situation and saying 'we are taking these initial steps' and basically telling the Russians to GTFO of Cuba..a very good tv movie about that time in history was The Missiles of October (1974)..William Devane play JFK and Martin Sheen was Bobby...netflix has it...