Subject: Woodward Article/DMN Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:27:29 -0600 From: Russell Burr Organization: None Newsgroups: alt.assassination.jfk Well Don, I'm assuming this is the piece from Mary Woodward that appeared in the DMN on 11/23/63, that you mentioned was pulled. Gary, if you read this let us know if this is the article that was pulled. Thanks. ************************************************** WITNESS FROM THE NEWS DESCRIBES ASSASSINATION (The following eyewitness account was written by a Dallas News staff writer) By MARY E. WOODWARD Four of us from Women's News, Maggie Brown, Aurelia Alonzo, my roommate, Ann Donaldson and myself had decided to spend our lunch hour by going to see the President. We took our lunch along-some crackers and apples-and started walking down Houston Street. We decided to cross Elm and wait there on the grassy slope just east of the Triple Underpass, since there weren't very many people there and we could have a better view. We had been waiting about a half and hour when the first motorcycle escorts came by, followed by the President's car. The President was looking straight ahead and we were afraid we would not get to see his face. But we started clapping and cheering and both he and Mrs. Kennedy turned, and smiled and waved, directly at us, it seemed. Jackie was wearing a beautiful pink suit with beret to match. Two of us, who had seen the President last during the final weeks of the 1960 campaign, remarked almost simultaneously how relaxed and robust he looked. As it turned out, we were almost certainly the last faces he noticed in the crowd. After acknowledging our cheers, he faced forward again and suddenly there was a horrible ear-shattering noise coming from behind us and a little to right. My first reaction, and also my friends', was that as a joke, someone had backfired their car. Apparently the driver and occupants of the President's car, had the same impression, because instead of speeding up the car came almost to a halt. Things are a little hazy from this point, but I don't believe anyone was hit from the first bullet. The President and Mrs. Kennedy turned and looked around, as if, they too, didn't believe the noise was really coming from a gun. Then after a moments pause there was another shot and I saw the President slumping in the car. This was followed rapidly by another shot. Mrs. Kennedy stood up in the car, turned half way around, then fell on top of her husband's body. Not until this minute did it sink in what actually was happening. We had witnessed the assassination of the President. The cars behind stopped and several men-Secret Service men, I suppose-got out and started rushing forward obstructing our view of the President's car. Then I started looking around at the stunned crowd. About 10 feet from where we were standing, a man and woman had thrown their small child to the ground and covered his body with theirs. Apparently the bullets had whizzed over their heads. Next to us were two Negro women. One collapsed in the other's arms weeping and uttering what everyone was thinking: "They've shot him." **************************************************** Russ --