JFK Remembered

45th Anniversary of the Assassination
1917 - 1963

Headline Memories of That Terrible Day
by Jerry Pippin
President John Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson attended a morning breakfast a breakfast in Fort Worth the morning of November 22, 1963. I remember that morning like it was yesterday. I was in the San Francisco Bay area and had just gone to KJAZ-FM in Alameda, California to talk business about my doing a comedy and jazz show on the station. When I went into the station it was a little after 10:00 a.m. and on the car radio I had one of my favorite DJs at the time Al "Jazzbo" Collins who was on the air at KSFO in San Francisco, one of the best radio stations that ever existed at that time. When I came back out, the radio was not playing a pop hit of the day as was the KSFO format but classical music. As I wheeled my car back on the Freeway from that picturesque Island Community in Northern California I could see that the traffic had slowed and it seemed very somber, very strange for a California Freeway.

Then I found out why, Aaron Edwards who was the newsman on duty mornings on KSFO came on with an update...President Kennedy had been shot in a motorcade in Dallas and they were on their way to Parkland Hospital. By the time I got home near Berkeley in the East Bay, the TV was on KPIX-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco ..and Walter Cronkite was taking his glasses off..took a deep sigh with tears in his eyes and a choking voice.."It is official now.. President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas Texas..."

Things changed that day around the world and certainly in my life as I didn't take that job in California, I accepted a job with a radio and TV station in Lawton, Oklahoma as I wanted to continue in broadcast journalism. My life took lots of turns since that morning in Northern California, I somehow gave into other dreams in my life and pursued personality radio as a disc jockey and later a talk show host with a few turns along the way doing stand-up comedy and other show business ventures. The world took several turns since that day as well and I am not at all sure those turns have been for the better.

November 25th is my birthday and regardless of how many I have I will remember that one back in 1963 when they buried the dream. This young President had captured the imagination of America and it is hard for those who were not alive then to realize how dark those days were when he was killed in Dallas. The next few days were like a trance, the body being moved by train, the new President standing next to the widow in the blood-soaked dress.

On the 30th anniversary of this sad event, I was doing a national talk show and we spent the three hours on the assassination and the many theories about who did it, why they did it, etc.

Jerry Pippin

Now available - New Program on the Kennedy Assassinations
40 years ago last June 2008, Robert Kennedy was killed in Los Angeles. Not quite five years earlier, his brother President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas.
In this program, we feature rare tape of a telephone conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover one week after the murder in Dallas plus an in-depth interview with author/historian Paris Flammonde about his series of works called Assassination of America - The program deals with his two years of working with Jim Garrison as the New Orleans DA prepared his case against Clay Shaw who was charged by him with conspiracy to commit murder.
MP3 - Running time: 1 hour, 8 minutes Windows media Part 1, Windows media Part 2

November 22, 2003 will be forty years to the day sense President John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas. On 9-28-03, Jerry caught up with Jim Marrs who wrote the book on which the movie JFK was based, and talked to him about the assassination and whether or not Marrs had changed his mind about the case in the past 40 years. This interview was recorded at Harrah's in Laughlin, Nevada. CLICK HERE to listen to the interview.

For years many of us have felt that the vast right wing conspiracy played a part in the murder of JFK. Imagine, if you will, the confluence of the leaders of the right, all in Dallas at the time of the murder. There seems to be evidence now that former Presidents Richard Nixon and George Bush, Sr. were there. Bush has long denied, until recently, that he was in Dallas when JFK was assassinated. We are working on a new program for November, 2003, and in this program, we hope to have a picture of Bush standing on the Dallas Police Department building steps. I have been told the picture was published in some newspapers at the time...he was wearing dark rimmed glasses. There is video tape that has been released showing that Mr. Bush was there.

In the interest of equal time, scroll on down this page and hear other theories about the killing of a President, and keep coming back to this section, as we have several shows planned around this subject to be presented sooner than later.

Our program gets lots of listener reaction and Peter called us from Missouri. He has a strange but sincere reaction to the world events and to our program on the Kennedy Assassination below. Click here to listen.

Click here to listen to my opening Monologue - Independent Broadcasters Network - November 20, 1993.

Click here for Segment two - Open Phones - Tennessee caller brings up the subject of Russian involvement and coverage by Dan Rather.

Click here for Segment Three - Tucson caller has done his homework on the JFK subject and brings up some interesting questions and he has some answers as well.

Click here for Segment Four - Jerry continues with John from Arizona who has been doing his own investigation. This listener tells Jerry he is going to Dallas on Monday for the 30^th anniversary observation.

Click here for Segment Five - Dorothy from Kansas City talks about being in Dallas the morning of the JFK murder. Then Jerry goes to Craig in Phoenix who has some freedom of information act papers.

Click here for Segment Six - The subject of the gun used by Oswald is covered in this segment including the fact that the serial number does not match the sales slip.

Jim Moore was a frequent guest of mine. He was an investigative reporter and author of real events laid out in book form. He was an establishment kind of guy and wrote a book called "Conspiracy of One." He bought into the idea that Oswald did it... by himself. Our listeners are not so sure. Listen to these four segments from that broadcast and make up your own mind.

Mary Moorman shot this Polaroid photo right after the shooting.

Click here to listen to Segment one of Jim Moore interview.
Click here to listen to Segment two of Jim Moore Interview.
Click here to listen to Segment Three, in which the above photo is discussed.
Click here to listen to Segment Four of the interview, in which Lee Harvey Oswald ’s New Orleans connections are discussed.

Famous Back Yard Photos as discussed inside the show with Jim Moore.
Lee Harvey Oswald and the rifle?

Photo Memories of the Kennedy Presidency