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bitter cold hoping to catch a glimpse of the presumed assassin.

Dotty Jones waited outside for hours, until her toes were frozen, and finally, she went home. When she got there, she heard that Jack Ruby had killed Oswald.

“We were all shocked again,” she says.

The flag was flown at half-mast at Adamson following the assassination. A small photo of the flag and the date, Nov. 22, are the only reference to the assassination in the school’s yearbook, The Oak, from 1964.

For years after the incident, some Adamson grads say, they felt prejudice toward their hometown, labeled “the city of hate.”

Dan Eddy joined the Air Force and was stationed at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. He was in boot camp with 19 Texans and 21 New Yorkers.

“From the very first day, the New Yorkers hated their Texas brothers,” Eddy recalls. “We were responsible for the death of President Kennedy. The squad had many a fight before we realized we must work together in order to graduate from boot camp on time.”

Others want to avoid the connection even now.

“To this day, it makes me sick that people come from all over the world to see where President Kennedy was killed,” says ’66 Ad- amson grad Linda Pool. “If I have company visit, I don’t even bring up visiting the site. I understand the fascination, but I don’t like Dallas being associated that way.”

Even though everyone in Dallas and the nation was talking about it, there was also some avoidance of the topic, says Jean Wilson Meyer.

The Adamson basketball team won the city championship that year and went to the state playoffs in Austin. That helped to take everyone’s mind off the tragedy, she says.

“It sounds terrible, but I was so busy being a little teenager that I don’t know that I really thought about it that much,” she says.