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November 22, 1963, is a date defined by I will never forget. Sent home from school alone, frightened and attached to the TV, the day unfolded before me that even by today's standards was too much, too fast and too sad to grasp the entirety of what went down. My commitment to understanding it moved from passive to active many years later when Dr. Lawrence Klein, one of my personal physicians introduced to me by by mom, told me that on Nov. 22, 1963, he was a third-year medical student at UT Southwestern, doing a rotation at Parkland Memorial Hospital,...

Dreams and vision of events... The city of Phoenix is situated on Parallel 33. - The city of Phoenix was given its name by its founders because it had sprung from from the ruins of a former (ancient) civilization that had vanished into history ! https://www.phoenix.gov/pio/official-city-bird-logo/history-of-the-city-bird === The Myth The phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death, and in ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology it is associated with the sun god. According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well. Every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to...

JFK and the corset that helped to kill a president Back brace made Kennedy an almost stationary target By JAMES RESTON JR. Two years ago, historian Robert Dallek revealed new details about the extraordinary range of shots, stimulants and pills President Kennedy took to control his physical pain and present his youthful image to the world. Important and interesting as these details are, they should not distract us from the one medical remedy that probably killed the president: his corset. Members of Kennedy's inner circle had often witnessed the painful ritual that Kennedy endured in his private quarters before he...

Gulfstream clips pole at toll booth--hits down close to major freeway

A private plane crashed near Houston's Hobby Airport Monday. And it was a plane that was coming to Houston to transport former President Bush to a conference in Equador. The plane went down Monday morning near Highway 288 and Beltway 8. Former President Bush suspendeded his trip to Ecuador because of the crash. A conference organizer says the plane should have flown the ex-president from Houston. Houston District Fire Chief Jack Williams said that the twin-engine Gulfstream jet arriving from Dallas Love Field apparently clipped a tall light tower at a Beltway 8 toll plaza, shearing off a wing. He...

QUITO, Ecuador - Former President George Bush has suspended a trip to Ecuador because the jet he was going to board -- crashed today in Houston. A conference organizer confirms Bush has canceled his trip because the plane that should have flown the ex-president from Houston -- went down. Three crewmembers died in the accident during foggy weather. The private jet clipped a light pole and crashed near Hobby Airport. Nobody on board survived. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig says the Gulfstream flight originated at Dallas Love Field. The plane's registered owner is Jet Place of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The...

Master of the Quiet Style November 25, 2003 Forty years ago, on November 22, 1963, I was as shocked as billions of other people by the murder of John F. Kennedy. I didn’t even notice the passing of another man the same day, whose name at that time I barely knew: the English writer C.S. Lewis. But within a few years, Lewis was my favorite modern writer, and he has remained so. He is best known as a Christian apologist, but he was also a literary scholar of great distinction as well as an immensely popular writer of science fiction...

Residents look back on JFK assassination It's been 40 years since America's 35th president was gunned down in Dallas. By Michelle Dynes rep2@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - On Nov. 22, 1963, America watched as its 35th president was assassinated. While John F. Kennedy's assassination has reached its 40th anniversary, it still has historical relevance for the people who lived it. To some, the assassination is comparable to other catastrophic world events, like the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "It was the first blow to that bubble, the idea that our institutions and our presidents were untouchable," said Dale...