Vernon Dozier, Don Berman and Dean Wheeler shared their memories of that fateful day in Dallas, TX some 50 years ago. Margaret Grey and General Gaylon Shaw took exception to some of those memories. For instance Don Berman remembered being called into work even though he had just had his tonsils out and was resting comfortably back at his parents, eating ice cream and reading "Little Lulu and Nancy" comics. He told his editor that he "wasn't getting aid enough to go get reaction to Kennedy's death from little old ladies gumming sandwiches at the Green Hotel and backwashing into their tea." And Vernon Dozier said he was upset but more upset that the Bears didn't cover that weekend thus losing him $30, and Monday was declared a national day of mourning so he'd be out his pay as a bus boy at some place called "The Abstract Chicken."
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