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It was all over in a few seconds, he recalls, and everyone went back to work. Then a few minutes later, someone came into their office, hysterically sharing the news. They turned the radio dial to Oak Cliff-based KLIF in time to hear newscaster Gary DeLaune’s announcement: “This KLIF bulletin from Dallas: Three shots reportedly were fired at the motorcade of President Kennedy today near the Downtown section. KLIF News is checking out the report. We will have further reports. Stay tuned.”

Oakley himself had skipped school that day and was at the Trade Mart. He had entered a lottery that offered student journalists the opportunity to ask the president a question, and he hoped he might have his chance to ask, “When are we going to put a man on the moon?”

School was dismissed on time that day, at 2:45 p.m.

Richard Worthy, a ’65 grad, had finally scored a date with his crush, Cheri Tarwater. She had just broken up with her boyfriend at the time, Rusty Hendrix, and Worthy swooped in. He had borrowed his scoutmaster’s Pontiac Bonneville, but most of the restaurants were closed, and Worthy had to take his date to the only place that was open, the chi-chi Polynesian Room at Love Field. He had just enough money to pay for dinner and couldn’t take his date to a movie. Afterward, news reports of the assassination dominated radio broadcasts, souring any chance of a romantic mood.

Ted Jernigan, class of ’64, also remembers that virtually every business in Oak Cliff was closed.

“We went riding around, because I had a car, but we had to go home because I ran out of gas and couldn’t buy any,” he says. “Everything was just completely shut down. I’ve never seen anything like that before or since.”

On Sunday, when police were to transfer Lee Harvey Oswald from police headquarters to a courthouse Downtown, several Adamson students waited outside in the