On November 22, 1963, I wanted to see the President and decided to take my two small children, my Mom and my Aunt with me. It was too late to see the speech downtown, so we drove until we found a place to wait for the motorcade. It was a road on the way to Carswell, and had a gentle curve to it, and we thought this is the place! We stood alongside the road and waited. I was a young Mom, only 22 years old. I had never voted, but could not wait to vote for President Kennedy in the next election. When the Presidential car passed, they slowed to make the turn and we waved and cheered. We were so close. For one brief moment I looked in the eyes of President Kennedy and I was so thrilled. Just after we had returned home, the news came over the TV and the world was forever changed. A few years after that, 5 Fort Worth ladies decided to do something about having a memorial to JFK. We worked so hard and managed to get the theatre in the convention center named the JFK Theatre. I’m the last one left of those ladies and I am so happy that Fort Worth will finally have a lasting, wonderful memorial to John F. Kennedy.
