Today’s LivingHistory Program featured former WFAA-Radio program director, Pierce Allman. Mr. Allman was one of the first journalists inside the Texas School Book Depository after the assassination. He is believed to have encountered Lee Harvey Oswald leaving the building. Allman ran into the book depository to phone that the President had been shot as a man believed to be Oswald was running out of the building. Mr. Allman is the voice you hear narrating the museum's audio guide.
Allman told the audience today that there was no doubt in his mind that
Oswald was the shooter acting alone.
Allman recalled that fateful day in Dallas, when he was a young newsman, at the
corner of Elm Street directly across from the Texas School Book Depository, to
see the young first couple.
“They
turned the corner and (closes his eyes) boom!” he recalled. To Mr. Allman, it's as if it happened
yesterday. “If I go to the site, it's
forever 1963,” he said. “I can hear it. I can see it. It's a memory that stays
with you forever.” Fifty years later, a day still frozen in time.
Mr.
Allman took the time after today’s program to take a photo with Caleb and
another member of the Sixth Floor Museum’s Youth Advisory Committee and a
teacher advisor.
Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. Ecclesiastes 3:19
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