Article: JFK more than history in Dallas.(Columns)(Column)

Byline: Bob Welch / The Register-Guard

DALLAS, Texas - For those of us alive on Nov. 22, 1963, the words "Texas School Book Depository" is etched into our psyches like a scar that we forget about but never goes away.

Until Saturday, however, it had always seemed little more than that - just words. Four cold words, forever linked with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Then, as part of a newspaper columnists' field trip, I stood on the building's sixth floor, a few feet from the glassed-off spot where Lee Harvey Oswald fired the rifle. I saw the notebook of KRLD News Director Eddie Barker who - not Walter Cronkite - first broke the ...

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