I was in first grade at Serrania Elementary School in Woodland Hills, California on November 22, 1963. My teacher was crying, and the principal came of the PA system and announced the tragic news. Students were dismissed early to return home. As I walked the one mile to my home I noticed many cars in the streets returning very early to their homes for an early Friday afternoon. I walked into a market to buy a soda. Many adults were crowded inside watching a small TV on the wall that was broadcasting the lasted news involving the assassination.
Since that day I have had a great interest in the JFK assassination. In October of 1990 I flew to Dallas to make a tour of as many of the locations of November 22-24 as I could find. First, I flew into Love Field. As the taxi cab drove me to the hotel we drove directly into Dealy Plaza. I could see the Book Depository, and Grassy Knoll as I looked out the taxi cab window! Wow! What a memorable experience to see it in person after studying about it for 27 years.
During my visit to Dallas I went to the Sixth Floor Museum on October 30, 1990. I have since been back five times to see the Museum and other locations. During the visit in 1990 I went to the City Police station and went down to the basement to see the location were Ruby shot Oswald. A very nice security guard showed me the exact shot. The security guard then told me very politely that I needed to leave, it was a restricted area.
I also went to the site on 10th and Patton were Oswald shot Officer Tippit. I went to the Texas Theater, the site of the Hardy Shoe Store on Jefferson Blvd. where Johnny Calvin Brewer was the manger, Parkland Hospital. Last February I visited the gravesite of J.D. Tippit and his wife.
I hope to be back in the Dallas area soon to visit The Sixth Floor Museum again. I hope I can watch in person on the seventh floor one of the great guests Stephan Fagin interviews for the oral history-living history projects. I hope Mr.Fagin interviews Roger Staubach, John Brewer, or Bob Jackson AGAIN while on am there.
Roger Wilson
68 years old
Woodland Hills, California