Jim Bedwell
Lowell,
I remember that Dallas/Detroit playoff game. We won 5-0, so it's obvious how those points were scored.
All,
Yesterday I saw a couple of new documentaries on the JFK assassination. And LO AND BEHOLD there was a 97-year-old Bill Mercer; he was discussing when he was at the Dallas jail before Oswald was shot. I hadn't known until just a few years ago that he was one of the reporters involved in that circus in downtown Dallas - I had seen a documentary that showed Bill's being in the hallway at the Dallas jail with all the others. THEN yesterday on the new show, there's Bill saying how at the bizarre midnight press conference with suspect Lee Harvey the night of Nov 22-23, the guy next to Bill asked Oswald if he had shot the President. After the misfit's reply, Bill said he (Bill) immediately then told Oswald what he had recently heard officially, i.e., that Oswald had been charged with killing JFK. Oswald asked him what did you just say? And then Bill said he repeated to Lee Harvey that he had been charged with the assassination.
Anyway, I hadn't known until yesterday that that was Bill Mercer who was enlightening Oswald of his legal predicament. I remember seeing that clip decades ago. Oh, and yes, in case you missed it, there's a photo that's turned up the last few years that shows Jack Ruby was also there at that midnight press conference - I bet that wasn't a banana in his pocket that night!
And Bill Mercer, who'll be 98 early next year.........I last saw him December, 2010 at their house in Richardson when I stopped by on a lark. His son Evan and daughter were there and his wife, who was disabled due to Parkinson's, was also there. So Bill's added a little weight and lost all his hair pretty much now, but MAN, he's just as sharp as he ever was!!!! How many 97-year-old men are that preserved mentally? PRECIOUS FEW!!!! And I think I spotted a melanoma-surgery scar on his left cheek (if he were Australian, it would be more likely to be on the right cheek since they drive on the wrong side of the road there) that looks like the two I've got on my left cheek - they try to stitch up the wound so that it's at a diagonal - that way, it disappears & looks like another wrinkle when you smile (at least that's the idea).
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