Halloween, 1963

Indianapolis Star ^ | November 12, 2002 | Will Higgins

[onehipdad]

Some people believe if you don't dwell on a thing, it will go away. That had long been Shirley Rogers' way. For years, Rogers tried to forget her parents' deaths, which were ghastly -- they died at the Coliseum, at the ice show.

[onehipdad]

Everybody remembers where they were when the President was shot and killed, but it was particularly hard for Hoosiers who had to endure this tragedy barely three weeks previous. I was in 6th grade, and my grandma was supposed to go that night but couldn't arrange a ride. She was so disappointed, she always enjoyed Holiday on Ice nearly every single year. I remember the paper the next day - All Saints' Day - and the picture of all those bodies laid out on the ice. We lived just fifteen miles from there, and I can remember feeling just so, so bad about it - it was haunting. Go to the source URL to see a pic, I was not able to drag it in. http://www.indystar.com/article.php?iceshow12.html

[EggsAckley]

[js1138]

I don't remember this one, although I was 70 miles away in richmond at the time. I remember the Richmond explosion in 1968 that leveled a city block. I was in Vietnam at the time, but it rated a full page photo in Stars and Stripes. I guess both of these events got swallowed up in the news by assassinations.