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Where were you when JFK died? George Rice's story

'We were living on the river farm which is now Green River Lake and stripping tobacco in a barn that now would be in the second parking lot of Holmes Bend Marina . . . Charles Barnes . . . told us our President had been shot.' - GEORGE RICE

By George Rice

Great story by Ralph and the journey in a V.W. to Arlington cemetery.

I wonder if those four young men were pressed in various shapes as sardines from a can when they exited from that Volkswagen.

I think everyone living in that era of time remembers when and where they were when the terrible news reached us.

We were living on the river farm which is now Green River Lake and stripping tobacco in a barn that now would be in the second parking lot of Holmes Bend marina.

Mr. Charles Barns make an appearance promoting Moorman feed that he said was the best feed ever invented and told us as he was coming over the hill that it was announced on the radio that OUR PRESIDENT had been shot. It was difficult to believe because that was Our President and that just couldn\'t happen in our time. --George Rice

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