Very interesting; and consider how much easier it might have been to
assassinate him there, then.
JFK’s was the first Boston accent that I remember hearing, when young. It was
quite a surprise to me as it really didn’t accord with my idea of what
Americans could sound like.
Chris
> On 31 Jul 2018, at 20:44, Michael Gordon via olympus
> <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I was a very little tyke and remember seeing JFK at the Niagara Falls
> international airport. There was a small air force base there and it could
> handle jets that could not land in Buffalo with its shorter
> runways. I was watching on my dad's shoulders. ( if you look very closely
> at the image, we might be there ;-) One can see a cam or two in the image,
> but Ican't speculate on the specifics.
>
> I recall the Boston accent, being a bit bored and hot, not being able to hear
> that well and could understand very little. I have never seen so many people
> at that little airport.
>
> Mike
>
> https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-ST-464-41-62.aspx
> <https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-ST-464-41-62.aspx>
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