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JFK ASSASSINATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY
The state championship is the fifth in a row for Pojoaque’s volleyball team. SPORTS, D-1
Lottery board mum on CEO
An unforgettable story
The organization remains tight-lipped on its reasons for removing Tom Romero. PAGE C-1
Nurturing creative forces SWAIA workshop puts Native youth on stage in mixed-media performance. PAGE C-1
2014 GUBERNATORIAL RACE
Dems stake ground on education By Robert Nott The New Mexican
Attorney General Gary King, a Democratic candidate in the governor’s race, blasted the Martinez administration Friday over plans to push legislation that would allow the state to hold back third-graders who can’t read at grade level. He offered his own funding plan to address the issue. The same day, another gubernatorial candidate, Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Albuquerque, said if she is elected, she will put a stop to the controversial new teacher Gary King evaluation plan rolled out by Gov. Susana Martinez and Public Education Secretary-designate Hanna Skandera. And a third Democrat in the race, Sen. Howie Morales of Silver City, said he intends to propose his own initiative to address reading challenges faced by elementary school students. With a year to go before the Linda Lopez next gubernatorial election, Democratic challengers to the Republican governor are laying the groundwork to make education a critical front in their efforts to unseat her. Those efforts are already setting the stage for the legislative session that starts in January, during which partisan battles over Martinez’s education policies are expected. Democrats hope education will be another chink — along with the economy — in Martinez’s record that will slow her re-election campaign, which now
Santa Fe resident recalls how he secured rights to recording of JFK assassination By Anne Constable
allas businessman Abraham Zapruder had set up his 8 mm projector on a little stand in a small, windowless room at his company’s office on Dealey Plaza early on the morning of Nov. 23, 1963. Hoping to beat out his competitors, Richard Stolley, 35, Life magazine’s Los Angeles bureau chief, arrived at 8 a.m., an hour before Zapruder was expecting him. Stolley introduced himself to the short, balding man. Two Secret Service agents were already there, waiting for Zapruder to show them the 26-second film he had made the previous day, using his new Bell & Howell movie camera, of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. “We all knew the president had been killed, but we had no idea what it looked like,” Stolley recalled recently during an interview in Santa Fe, where he has lived since 2004. He recounted in detail the events of 50 years ago. Stolley was the first reporter to make contact with Zapruder, late on the night of Kennedy’s assassination. Then, facing fierce competition from other members of the press, he outwitted them all to buy the rights to the film for Life magazine, which published 22 frames from it in an issue that appeared on newsstands just three days after the president’s death.
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Devotees turn to Santa Muerte seeking miracles, health, revenge Stills from the Zapruder film show the moments before and after the shooting that killed John F. Kennedy. ©1967, 1995 THE SIXTH FLOOR MUSEUM AT DEALEY PLAZA
By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican
The first thing that greets you when you walk into Yerberia Santa Fe, a Cerrillos Road store that sells religious goods, is a 3-foot-tall figure with a hooded, multicolored robe holding a scythe. Behind the hood is a skull with bright red eyes. She is La Santa Muerte, a female folk saint popular among Mexican Catholics. Behind the counter, the cashier, who asked not to be named, said Santa Muerte statues and related items, such as candles and necklaces with the image of Santa Muerte, have been among the best-selling products at the store over the two years she has worked there. All types of people pray to the saint, asking for a variety of miracles, she said. “I had a lady who came in and told me that after she prayed to it, her husband was able to avoid deportation.” Devotees pray to Santa Muerte for healing, career success and love, as well as revenge against enemies. She is known by a number of names, including La Dama Poderosa, Spanish for “The Powerful Lady.”
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AT TOP: Richard Stolley poses with a copy of The Day Kennedy Died: 50 Years Later LIFE Remembers the Man and the Moment in his Santa Fe home Nov. 6. Stolley obtained the Zapruder film for Life. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
u Mementos kept for five decades mark awful day. PAGE A-5
Stolley said this was the biggest story of his long career in journalism, although he went on to many other successes, including becoming the founding editor of People magazine. Back in the little room at the offices of Jennifer Juniors, Zapruder’s garment-manufacturing company named for actress Jennifer Jones, Zapruder turned on the projector. The office was quiet except for the clicking of the old machine. Stolley and the two agents stood behind, watching the film on the whitewashed wall. The footage begins with the presidential motorcade snaking into Dealey Plaza that Friday, the president and his wife waving to bystanders. Texas Gov. John Connelly and his wife, Nellie, are sitting in the limousine’s jump seats; behind the limo, Secret Service agent Clint Hill is on the running board of the so-called Queen Mary, the car carrying the men charged with protecting the president. The limousine reappears from behind a sign, and “suddenly the film shows Kennedy with both fists jammed into his throat,” Stolley said. “Then the right top of the president’s head spurts up into the air.”
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I realized what an unbelievable piece of “ film this was. I had no idea what else was available, but I knew Life had to have it.” Richard Stolley, first reporter to make contact with man who made Zapruder film
Playing chicken Some find the fun of bringing a slice of farm life to urban areas stops when hens become infertile and stop laying eggs. PAGE A-2
Neighbors C-7
Obituaries
Michael Martinez, 52, Santa Fe, Nov. 13 Jose Plutarco Quintana, 66, Oct. 27 Thomas Tucker, 57, Santa Fe, Nov. 19 William R. “Bill” Ulrich, 75, Santa Fe, Nov. 1
John Frederick Eichelmann III, 80, Albuquerque, Nov. 8 John H. Dendahl, 75, Nov. 9 Rafaelita (Fela) R. Griego, 87, Nov. 11 Nila Jaramillo Haught, Santa Fe Twyla P. “Sage” Mansfield, Santa Fe PAGE C-2
Opinions B-1
Police notes C-3
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Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival
Today Partly cloudy. High 54, low 32.
Recycled art market, juried exhibit and trash fashion contest, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St., no charge, recyclesantafe.org.
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