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Taft man has JFK photos taken just before shooting
By Doug Keeler
Midway Driller Editor
A Taft man has two rare mementos of one of the most tragic periods in
American history.
Ted Enrique, a retired postal worker, has two photos taken of the late
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, taken as
they landed at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Tx. It late
November 1963.
The photos were taken only a day or two before the Nov. 22
assassination of Kennedy in Dallas.
Enrique's mother, Concepcion, was a civilian clerk working at the
Kelly AFB.
When the Kennedy's landed, an Air Force photographer took pictures of
the president and first lady as they debarked from Air Force 1 and
shook hands with San Antonio police.
The photographer later sold copies of the photos to base workers.
Concepcion brought the photos home to share with her family. A short
time later, the president was dead.
Enrique, like most Americans of his generation, said he remembers
vividly where he was when word of the president's assassination came.
He was a senior at Sidney Lanier High School in San Antonio.
=93We were in sixth period and the student body president came in and
said =91the presidents just been shot,=94 Enrique recalls.
He and others were updated as the tragic events unfolded.
=93Regardless of whether you were a Republican or Democrat, it was a sad
day,=94 he said.
Enrique retired from the United States Postal Service in Van Nuys and
moved to Taft late last year.
=93I figured once I retired, I wanted a small town (to live in),=94 he
said.
Enrique was having his truck serviced at Taft Chevrolet last week when
he went into the office of General Manager Devinder Singh Bains.
He noticed a photograph Bains has in his office showing Kennedy with
then-Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson and told Bains of his
photos.
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