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By DeBBie BryceFor the Journal

POCATELLO — John F. Ken-nedy had strong ties to the Gem state. U.S. Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, nominated Kennedy for the presidency and so it seemed practical that Kennedy would start his 1960 Western presidential campaign tour in Pocatello. While the young senator from Massachusetts spent less than 48 hours in the Gate City, he made a lifelong impression on everyone he met here. Al Kuta Jr. said his father, Al Kuta Sr., a former Pocatello police officer, spent the evening with Kennedy during that visit to Pocatello more than 50 years ago. Al Sr. passed away in 1978,

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By Michael h. O’[email protected]

With 80 percent of their students at-tending school in a building that is more than a century old and facing the need for a multimillion-dollar bond issue in March, the residents of North Gem School District are taking a hard look at a possible merger with the Grace Joint School District. Elementary schools would remain in

Thatcher, Ban-croft and Grace, but older students would likely attend a new school built between Grace and Bancroft. The options are many, but the decision is

tough. Ultimately the patrons in both dis-tricts would have to agree. Jamie Holyoak, who has served as a shared superintendent for both school dis-tricts the past three years, said people are weighing the pros and cons. “We’ve been holding community meet-ings to try to determine a consensus,” Holyoak said. The next meeting in the North Gem district will be Dec. 17. Patrons in North Gem would have to agree to the concept of consolidation first and then Grace patrons would have to decide. Holyoak said school histories and pride make the decision a hard one. “Both of the high schools are Five Star schools,” Holyoak said. Five Star schools

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Her attacker sat naked on the edge of a bed with a knife in his hand. Carrie Ann didn’t realize he was in the room as she lifted

her T-shirt to get ready to dress for the day. When she realized a fel-low seaman from her base in Pensacola, Fla., was in the room, she screamed and yelled for help. No one in the home off-base came to her rescue because a video game being pumped through a stereo system in the other room was too loud. Behind the noise, Carrie Ann says she was raped and then thrown across the room with enough force to injure her young back. Bruised with a torn nipple on her breast, she felt helpless and defeated as her at-tacker held a knife to her throat and made threats about the conse-quences of what had just taken place — a rape. Carrie Ann is a nickname for this young woman from Bingham County who joined the Navy at the age of 17 and began a career she had hoped would take her outside the narrow world of rural

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One memorable evening

Woman recounts being raped by fellow seaman at Florida Navy base

Son tells of father’s meeting with Kennedy

North Gem might merge with Grace schools

By JOurnal Staff POCATELLO — Bannock County commissioners are currently drafting changes in the ordinance that governs the Bannock County Fair Board, according to commissioner and 10-year mem-ber of that fair board, Karl An-derson. “We’re trying to bring the way the fair board operates up to standards,” An-derson said. Changes to the fair board opera-tional guidelines have not been completed yet and no action will be taken until Commissioner Howard Manwar-ing recovers from recent back surgery and is able to participate, according to Anderson. If the county adopts the changes, Anderson said it could mean the current members of the fair board, who are appoint-ed by the county commission, could be released. “We may have to release them and have them apply to come back on the board,” Anderson said. “We will announce when the meeting is set to take action on the fair board.” Commission Chairman Steve Hadley currently serves as the county commission’s represen-tative on the fair board.

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then--presidential candidate John F. Kennedy is shown during a 1960 campaign stop in Pocatello.

‘All I want is to be normal’A 20-year-old Bingham County woman, who was discharged from the Navy after she said she was brutally raped and reported it, shows off the statements she has written inside her Navy fatigues as a reminder that the truth remains hidden when it comes to sexual assaults in our Armed Forces.

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This is part one of the Journal’s series marking the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death. The six-part series will pick up again in Tuesday’s print edition.

u Visit idahostatejournal.com for a poll on whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating Kennedy.

u Find a photo gallery from Kennedy’s 1960 visit to Pocatello at idahostatejournal.com.

u Visit yesteryear.idahostatejournal.com for the text of both speeches John F. Kennedy gave during his 1960 visit to Pocatello.

u Visit yesteryear.idahostatejournal.com for this online only story: It’s the most asked question for those who can remember Nov. 22, 1963: Where were you when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated? For Pocatellans George Coutis and Don Miller, they were on the cusp of becoming teens. Current McCammon resident Mary M. Cox was teaching school in Hawaii. All three of them still remember the tragic day.

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but his son said he often talked about the night he took President Kennedy out on the town. However Al Sr. never di-vulged how he and Kennedy spent that evening. “Knowing my dad and knowing Kennedy, they might have done something they shouldn’t have,” Al Jr. joked. Al Sr. and his partner, Jim Moldenhauer, flipped a coin to see who would be charged with showing Kennedy the nightlife in Pocatello. Al won the toss. “Lucky for Kennedy, my dad won, because he knew everybody in Pocatello,” Al Jr. said. Originally from Detroit, Al Sr. was a staunch Re-publican, but he loved Ken-nedy, his son said. “He thought Kennedy was going to be the one that saved the country,” Al. Jr. said. Dave Stevenson was a sophomore at Pocatello High School when Kennedy spoke there on Sept. 6, 1960, and he got to shake hands with the man who would become the 35th president of the United States. “Just seeing the guy was something, but then getting to shake his hand was over-whelming,” Stevenson said. “I’ve been a Democrat ever since.” According to Idaho State Journal reports on the event, more than 3,000 people filled the auditorium at Poky High to listen to Kennedy speak. “He was very eloquent and seemed to have a wealth of knowledge about anything he talked about,” Stevenson said. Jim Elbrader was also a student at Pocatello High and he devised his own plan to meet Kennedy. He hid in the bushes and waited for the presidential hopeful to pass by. “I jumped out of the bushes and said ‘Nice to meet you sir,’” Elbrader said. “He was startled, but he shook my hand. I wouldn’t get away with that today with all the Secret Service.” Elbrader, a retired Idaho Health and Welfare coun-selor, described Kennedy as very good looking. “He really stood out, he was very polished. He was a Kennedy,” Elbrader said. Former District Judge Pete McDermott was out of town when Kennedy visited Pocatello. But his parents, P.A. and Emily McDermott, longtime Bannock County Democrats, met the future president during a reception at the old Hotel Bannock. P.A. died in 1976 and Emily passed away in 2001, but Pete recalls that they were both very excited about the encounter. The couple described Kennedy as being very personable

and they said he had great sense of humor. “My mother was im-pressed by how much he knew about Idaho,” Pete said. “My parents had a place in Mackay and some-how that came up and Ken-nedy said, ‘Mackay, that’s just over the hill from Sun Valley.’” During the opening of his 1960 speech at Po-catello High School, Ken-nedy made reference to the state’s famous tubers. Kennedy noted that both Idaho and Maine in his na-tive New England claimed to be the potato capital of the world. “It doesn’t matter where the potato capital of the world is, that’s not impor-

tant,” Kennedy said. “What’s important is where the capi-tal of the free world is.” Headlines on the front page of the Tuesday Journal that day included a story about a spy who had de-fected to Russia and news that Vice President Richard Nixon was being released from Walter Reed Army hospital after being treated for a knee infection. Kennedy declined to comment that day on a statement made by Presi-dent Harry Truman on the previous Labor Day that accused Nixon of backdoor campaigning and stated that he would stick to his policy of not criticizing the GOP candidate until Nixon was out of the hospital.

However, Kennedy didn’t mince words when he told the crowd that the Dwight Eisenhower administration had been “an era of inactiv-ity and indecision.” “We can’t assert our will against Communism unless we are strong at home,” Ken-nedy said. “We cannot be leaders of the free world un-less we are leaders at home.” Willie George, a Shosho-ne Bannock tribal member, presented Kennedy with handcrafted gifts for him, Jackie Kennedy and the couple’s daughter, Caroline. The gifts were followed by a traditional dance. Kennedy lingered until the dancers finished and thanked each of them before leaving the auditorium.

Pocatello attorney Mark Nye was one of about 600 people who waited outside the auditorium to get a glimpse of Kennedy. Nye, a freshman at Po-catello High at that time, said the presidential hope-ful was like a rock star. “When he came out the teen-aged girls were giddy and even jumping up and down in excitement,” Nye wrote in a letter to the Jour-nal. In fact, about 50 people camped out at the Pocatello Municipal Airport to greet Kennedy. The crowd had dwindled from about 100 people and a brass band when the charter plane was delayed by two hours. When Kennedy’s en-tourage landed, Church was the first to step off the plane. “What are all you people doing up at this hour of the morning,” Church asked. Kennedy planned to sleep on the plane until that next morning, but instead he got off and shook hands with the crowd assembled at airport. Two other charter planes carrying Kennedy’s cam-paign staff and a press crew of about 50 also landed at the Pocatello airport that night. David Fortsch, a retired geo-science professor at Idaho State University, was a Bannock County Deputy in 1960 and was entrusted to drive Kennedy and then Sheriff Hank Parker to the Hotel Bannock, which was at the time located on South Arthur. Seated behind stacks of books, papers and trays filled with rocks, Fortsch recalled the ride. “We had the lights on and the siren blaring and Ken-nedy said, ‘No, not for me,’ then the sheriff explained we were doing it to clear the way,” Fortsch said. “He was just a person of importance that was being escorted to town.”

While he had little in-teraction with Kennedy, Fortsch did overhear Ken-nedy telling a story about his father, Joe. “He said that his dad told him we’ll spend just enough to win — I can’t afford the landslide,” Fortsch said. “And it was the Kennedys.” That November, Kenne-dy won the presidency with 303 electoral votes, Nixon got 219 votes and Harry F. Byrd, also a Democrat, earned just 15 electoral votes. Nye said he had the op-portunity to see Kennedy again in 1963 when he at-tended a football game at Harvard. President Kenne-dy was seated just 10 rows behind him. “Part of the reason I went to school there was that Teddy Roosevelt and JFK had gone there before,” Nye wrote. Nye said security was tight and he and his crew were careful to keep their libations out of sight, but occasionally he managed to turn around and sneak a peek at Kennedy and his large entourage without appearing to be a threat to security. “I remember thinking that he had a large head with his recognizable shock of hair, just like in Pocatel-lo,” Nye wrote. Less than a month later, Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Elbrader was stationed in France at the Loam Air Force Base when he got the news of Kennedy’s assas-sination. “I told all the guys that I had met him, but they didn’t believe me,” Elbrader said. “He would have been a great president, it’s too bad they killed him.” In 1963, Stevenson had graduated Poky High and was attending ISU. He was en route from his job at a service station on Poleline Road back to the university when he heard about Ken-nedy’s death on the radio. “I had to pull over and I just sat there and cried, it just struck me so hard,” Ste-venson said. “It was over-whelming, in fact, it still is.” Nye said a couple of his roommates attended the funeral procession in Wash-ington, D.C. “It wasn’t about politics then, just a sign of respect and being a witness to his-tory,” Nye explained in his letter. “We watched it on television like half the world. His inaugural speech still resonates with me, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,’ more of us should do that and many are. From Pocatello to Massachu-setts and back, I was just one, like so many, with a bond and connection to JFK.” Al Jr. said news of Ken-nedy’s killing hit his father hard. “When he was killed, my dad told me, ‘There went the country’s last chance,’” Al Jr. said.

John F. Kennedy’s impact on IdahoMost people over 55 can

tell anyone where they were on Nov. 22, 1963,

when they heard the news that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas. The news was unbelievably stunning. A junior at Spokane’s Central Valley High School, I was walking between classes as a palpable murmur surged through the hallways following a brief announcement by the principal. Many of the girls started crying. Others rushed to their lockers to grab transistor radios to listen for additional news. There was instant confusion, a degree of fear as students tried to assimilate the impossible to fath-om news. Rumors swept through the halls: the Russians were going to launch a nuclear missile attack; war was surely coming was the most prevalent. Over the ensuing days Ameri-cans came together as never before, or since (not even 9/11), watching their televisions, listen-ing to the reassuring voice of Wal-ter Cronkite. Indelibly imprinted in the minds of “baby boomers” will be the image of the riderless horse being led down Pennsylva-nia Avenue following the caisson

carrying the Presi-dent’s casket. Nor will any forget the heart-breaking image of young three-year-old John Kenne-dy Junior saluting as the caisson rolled by a grieving Jackie and Caroline Kennedy. Idaho, like the rest of the nation, shared the grief, and in many respects joined in em-bracing the myth that quickly be-came Camelot. Beyond the shared grief, though, JFK impacted Ida-ho in several ways not recognized by many today. As the 50th anniversary is ob-served there will be numerous stories and various opinions on President Kennedy, his legacy and his impact on people and states. Without question his most last-ing Idaho impact was the inspira-tion he gave a young, 28-year-old lumberjack with one year of col-lege to enter politics. In the spring of 1960 Kennedy agreed to a stopover in Lewiston to give a speech at the Lewis-Clark Hotel before heading on to Portland to campaign in the

important Oregon Presidential primary. The young lumber-jack, Cecil Andrus, decided to drive the 40 miles from his home in Orofino down the Clearwater River to hear Ken-nedy’s remarks. To this day he cannot tell you what exactly it was Kennedy said, but he walked out

of the hotel feeling he had heard a great person’s call to others to enter public service, to be part of the new generation taking over in America. Andrus thought that if the young Kennedy could go after the presidency, he could go after a seat in the Idaho State Senate, in part because the Republican incumbent was ignoring the needs for a better quality and more equitably funded educational sys-tem in the state. The rest is history. Whatever else is written about JFK’s impact on Idaho, to those who believe Andrus is unquestionably the greatest governor Idaho has ever produced and the person with the greatest transformative impact

in state history, the credit for An-drus taking that first step belongs to Kennedy. As president, Kennedy also influenced Idaho politics in other not so obvious ways. For example, he helped young Sen. Frank Church’s political career by awarding Church the coveted position of Keynoter for the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Church and Kennedy had both entered the Senate in the 1950’s (JFK in 1953, Church in 1957) and their youth as well as their shared World War II experiences (both were awarded medals) created a natural affinity. Kennedy, though actual visits to Idaho were rare, nonethe-less courted the Idaho media as evidenced by a 1962 photo of the cream of Idaho media lunching with the President in the White House. Kennedy also provided political support to the campaigns of First District Congresswoman Gracie Pfost, first elected in 1952, and Second District Congressman Ralph Harding, first elected in 1960. Thus, for two years three members of Idaho’s congressional delegation were Democrats.

The fourth, Sen. Henry Dwor-shak, died in office in 1962. The ensuing election to fill the Sen-ate seat saw Pfost narrowly lose to former Gov. Len B. Jordan. Incredible to believe even today was Ralph Harding losing the sec-ond district seat in 1964 to then Alameda Mayor George Hansen, the year of the Johnson landslide and the last time a Democrat won Idaho’s four electoral votes. As a consolation prize, Presi-dent Kennedy handed Ms. Pfost a position in the Federal Housing Administration, which she held until prematurely dying at age 59 in 1965. Bottom line is President Ken-nedy had a profound impact upon Idaho’s political history. A native of Kellogg, journalist Chris Carlson pens his column from his retirement home near Medimont in Northern Idaho. He is a former teacher and was press secretary to Gov. Cecil Andrus.

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1962 Pocatello High School graduate Dave Stevenson remembers shaking hands with John F. Kennedy when Kennedy was a U.S. senator and visited Pocatello in September 1960 just before Kennedy was elected president.

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Photo courteSy of al kuta Jr.JFK is shown arriving in Pocatello on Sept. 6, 1960. Next to him is Detective Al Kuta Sr.


CHUBBUCK — In October of 1962 Chubbuck resident Al Weishaar was a 24-year-old Army photographer about to be deployed to Cuba. Little did he know that the images he captured of President John F. Kennedy were docu-menting history in the making. Serving with the 1st Armored, 141st Headquarter Company out of Fort Hood Texas, Weishaar and his unit were on standby at Fort Stewart, Ga., waiting for the word that an invasion of Cuba was underway. “Most Americans don’t understand that,” Weishaar said. “We were going to Cuba and I would have been one of the first ones on the beach because I had to photograph the rest of them landing.” In May 1962 — after the U.S. placed missiles aimed at Moscow in Turkey and a failed attempt to overthrow the Fidel Castro regime — Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev proposed placing missiles in Cuba to deter another invasion. In July a secret meeting was held be-tween Khrushchev and Castro and con-struction of several missile sites began

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By Jimmy [email protected]

POCATELLO — Installation of the refurbished Chief Theater sign should be completed by the end of the week in plenty of time for its of-ficial relighting during next week’s holiday festivities, one official said on Monday. Stephanie Palagi, executive di-rector of Old Town Pocatello Inc., said the installation began on Mon-day. “They are supposed to have the

head up (on Tues-day),” Palagi said. “They are supposed to be finished install-ing it by Friday when

we do the raffle.” The relighting

of the sign that once identified

the location of the historic Chief

Theater in Old Town will be done at the end of the Night of 1,000 Santas Festival & Night Lights Parade on Nov. 29. Festivities in Old Town get started at 3 p.m. that day and run through 9 p.m. The parade is slated to start at 6:30 p.m. and the lighting of the Chief Theater Light is scheduled for 8 p.m. The raffle Palagi referred to is one that is being held to determine just who will get to flip the switch on that historic sign. Tickets for the raffle are $5 each and can be purchased at the Old Town Pocatello offices, located at 420 North Main St., or the Pocatello Co-op, located at 515 N. Main St. The proceeds from the raffle will go toward funding the continued lighting and maintenance of the Chief Theater sign. Palagi said the drawing will be held at 5 p.m. on Nov. 22 and lighting the sign is the top prize. Three other prizes will be doled out during the

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Chubbuck resident saved pictures from when he was Army photographer

Installation of Chief Theater sign to be done soon By Journal Staff

Idaho State Police troopers seized a total of 13.8 pounds of suspected marijuana during a traffic stop along Interstate 86 near Power County Sunday. In all, 95.55 pounds of mari-juana has been seized by ISP troopers over the last two weeks in our region. The most recent stop was made in the eastbound lane of travel on I-86 around 11:15 a.m. on Nov. 17 where authorities say the driver was identified as 25-year-old Jadd Shammas, of Mi Wuk Village, Calif. His pas-senger was Jedediah Bright, 24, of Grass Valley, Calif. Both are being charged with trafficking a controlled substance and felony possession of marijuana. The two men were taken to the Power County Jail. ISP troopers were assisted by a Bannock County Sheriff’s Of-fice K9 unit. A Blackfoot K9 unit assisted ISP in searching a vehicle last Monday along Interstate 86 near American Falls. The ISP drug bust yielded the largest amount brought in during the two week time frame — 38.7 pounds of suspected marijuana.

Marijuana seized after traffic stop along I-86Police: 13.8 pounds found inside auto

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Chubbuck resident Al Weishaar took this photo of President John F. Kennedy in Fort Stewart, Ga., in October 1962. Kennedy is riding in the back seat of the midnight blue 1961 Lincoln that he was shot and killed in just one year later in Dallas. Weishaar was a 24-year-old Army photographer with the 1st Armored, 141st Headquarter Company at the time the photo was taken.

Local man proud of his JFK photos

Kennedy remembrance

TWIN FALLS (AP) — About a third of Idaho hunters who made written comments on the Idaho Fish and Game Commission’s draft elk-management plan say they want more wolves killed to increase the elk population. The Times-News reports that the commission at its quarterly

meeting Thursday received the first report on the 442 com-ments. About 150 hunters say

they want increased measures to

control wolf populations. Only 19 people making comments wanted no wolf-control mea-sures. The elk management plan was last updated in 1999. Fish and Game officials hope to have a new plan in place by early 2014. Plan coordinator Craig White said the proposal will have to take into consideration prob-lems faced in various parts of

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head up (on Tuesday),” Palagi said. “They are supposed to be finished installing it by Friday when

we do the raffle.”

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This is part two of the Journal’s series marking the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death. The six-part series will continue in Wednesday’s print edition and conclude in Saturday’s newspaper.


u To find a photo gallery of Al Weishaar’s John F. Kennedy photos visit idahostatejournal.com.

u Visit yesteryear.idahostatejournal.com for this online only story: Pocatellans Doris and Dell Smellie have a personal connection to the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. They were on their way to Kansas to get married.

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Al Weishaar holds a photo of President John F. Kennedy giving a speech at Fort Stewart, Ga., in October 1962.

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Al Weishaar was a 24-year-old Army photographer with the 1st Armored, 141st Headquarter Company when this photo was taken.

POllDo you think it is OK to kill more wolves to increase the elk population? Take the poll at idahostatejournal.com.

meeting Thursday received the first report on the 442 comments.

hunters say

Highland quarterback Tommy Jewell looks to finish what his

brother Neil started as the Rams play for a state title Friday. SEE B1

A Weston man who died in a rollover near Preston was one of two recent vehicle crash fatalities in East Idaho. SEE A9

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later that summer in Cuba, just 93 miles from the East Coast of the United States. The operation was de-tected by the Defense Intel-ligence Agency on Oct. 14. An Air Force operated U-2 obtained photographic evi-dence of medium-range and intermediate–range ballis-tic nuclear missiles on the ground. The United States con-sidered attacking Cuba by air and sea, but opted for a military blockade instead, calling it a “quarantine” and announced that it would not permit offensive weapons to be delivered to Cuba, while demanding that the Soviets dismantle and remove the weapons. President Kennedy ad-dressed the troops and met with chiefs of staff during a one-day visit to Fort Stew-art. Weishaar’s photographs portray a serious and com-mitted Kennedy, poised in his decision to send soldiers into battle. “Kennedy was very thin and he had a bad back. He was injured in a PT-109 wreck in the Navy,” Weishaar noted. “But he was very comfortable and positive, he knew what he was doing.” However Weishaar said the decision to go to war was not one that Kennedy took lightly. In a letter from Kennedy to U.S. Army Gen. Ralph Haines Jr., which was passed along to the troops, Kennedy expressed appreciation for the sacrifice and proficiency of the U.S. military. “The U.S. is guarantor of independence for a dozen countries,” Kennedy wrote. “The reason we are able to guarantee the freedom of those countries is because of U.S. troops. While negotiations were taking place, several Soviet ships tried to run the U.S. blockade and orders were sent out to U.S. Navy ships to fire warning shots and then open fire on the Soviets. Ken-nedy stayed his hand and negotiations continued. “This was real,” Weishaar said. “I was in the war room and saw exactly how we were going to invade Cuba.” Under orders not to talk to the president, Weishaar obeyed the directive while

he traced Kennedy’s activi-ties following his arrival at Fort Stewart via Army he-licopter. “I just wanted to take pic-tures and not be stuck in the photo lab,” Weishaar said. Weishaar’s favorite photo from that collection shows Kennedy addressing the troops at Fort Stewart. Be-hind him are Air Force Gen. Curtis Lemay, U.S. Marine Corps Commander David L. Shoup, Chief of Naval Op-erations Admiral George W. Anderson, Gen. Gaines and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Weishaar has an en-larged, framed copy of the shot in his den. “I like it because every-body is in it. All branches are represented,” Weishaar said. During that visit, Weishaar also photo-graphed Kennedy riding in the back seat of the mid-night blue 1961 Lincoln that he was shot and killed in just one year later in Dallas, Texas. The Cuban Missile Crisis ended on October 28, 1962, when Kennedy and United Nations Secretary-General U Thant reached an agree-ment with Khrushchev. Publicly, the Soviets agreed to dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the So-

viet Union in exchange for a U.S. public declaration nev-er to invade Cuba. Secretly, the U.S. also agreed to dis-mantle all American-built Jupiter IRBMs armed with nuclear warheads, which were deployed in Turkey and Italy. Weishaar recently leafed through two large photo albums recounting those events which set the stage for the Cold War. “No one has ever seen these photos before,” Weishaar said. “Well, except the people that were there. Weishaar describes him-self as an Independent and said that he did not vote for Kennedy in 1960 — instead he cast his vote for Vice President Richard Nixon, a Republican. But Weishaar said if Kennedy had lived to seek a second term, he would have voted for him four years later. “He was very popu-lar with the military,” Weishaar said. “I like him. I believe he would have been a great president.” After the president’s visit to Fort Stewart, some of the soldiers asked if they could send Weishaar’s photos to the White House to be auto-graphed by Kennedy and of course, he agreed. “I was the only guy that didn’t get a signed photo and I took the pictures,”

Weishaar said. “The guys sent $3 for return postage, too, and Kennedy sent it back and said the government would cover the postage.” Originally from Missoula, Mont., Weishaar left the Army the next year and was working as a photographer at the Daily Interlake in Kalispell, Mont., when he learned that President Ken-nedy had been killed. “I was in the news-room and headed into the ad department when the news came over the wire,” Weishaar said. “I had to rush back to the newsroom to get the Fairfax running and get his picture in the paper. We couldn’t believe it, this just couldn’t happen in America.” Weishaar said it’s hard to believe that 50 years have passed since those events took place and he believes Kennedy’s assassination set the stage for the turbulent decade that followed — na-tionwide protests against deployment of troops to Viet-nam, civil rights riots — hip-pies and of course the Beatles all came about in the 1960s. “The world seemed to just switch then,” Weishaar said. “I’m not always sure it’s for the better.” Weishaar said he’s proud of the photos he shot of President Kennedy. “Who would have guessed that a guy from a little Mon-tana newspaper would have covered a piece of history,” Weishaar said. Kennedy’s death remains controversial and Weishaar said he’s not sure he buys the final one-shooter deter-mination. “Kennedy made a lot of en-emies, organized crime and J. Edgar Hoover hated him too,” Weishaar said. “I don’t think we’ll ever know for sure what really happened, maybe in 50 years they’ll know more, but I’ll never know.” Weishaar noted the ac-count of the shooting by an artist friend from Texas, Lolita Irby. Irby was 14 years old when she witnessed the shooting from the famed grassy knoll in Dallas, Texas. She also served as a consultant for the Kevin Costner film, “JFK.” “She told us that when the shooting started they hit the ground,” Weishaar said. “But she said they definitely heard a shot from the knoll.”

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drawing as well, including a handmade quilt featuring the sign for second place, a portrait of the Chief The-ater for third place and a yellow quartz necklace from Molinelli’s Jewelers for third place. Palagi said Old Town has been busy with changes this fall and Molinelli’s Jewelers is among those changes. The long-time Old Town retailer recently complet-ed a portion of a lengthy renovation that will sub-stantially increase the store’s size. With that completion, the store’s operations have moved into the renovated portion of the building. Also under renovation is the old Scott’s Ski & Sports building, also known as the former Petersen Fur-niture Building, which will now be The Gallery Auc-tion House and Event Cen-ter. During the holidays,

Palagi said it will feature specialty retailers. Also renovating a space with the intention of moving is The Vape Shop, which specialize in electronic smoking devices. Palagi said the store renovated

a larger space on the 200 block of North Main Street where it will move from its current location at 119 S. Main St. Strand Salon, located at 928 N. Main St., also re-cently began a renovation to

its space. Old Town has also seen a couple of new restaurants and a lounge open their doors in the past few weeks, including Yoshida, Villano’s Italian and Roundhouse Lounge.

Yoshida, which opened in Station Square, located at 200 S. Main St., features rice bowls with fresh meats and vegetables and is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. Villano’s Italian, which

opened last Friday at 165 N. Main St., features fresh Ital-ian fare and is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The Roadhouse Lounge is located at 237 S. Union Pa-cific Ave., behind the Chop-sticks Cafe, and will feature a lady’s night from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays. It if appears there is a lot going in Old Town right now, Palagi says that’s be-cause there is. But she also said it’s typical for this time of years. “It really is cyclical,” she said. “We will see business-es open this time of year and in the spring. We have a fall boost and a spring boost.”

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the state. He said wolves have cut elk populations in rugged parts of northern Idaho, but in other areas, declining numbers might be due to overharvest or other factors. He also noted that some areas have too many elk. Aggressive wolf man-agement in southern Ida-ho zones is unnecessary, White said, except to en-sure cow and sheep opera-tions aren’t damaged. “Our problem here is that we have so many elk that they are causing prob-lems on the fields,” he said. The final plan also has

to reflect hunters’ prefer-ences. Fish and Game asked hunters whether they preferred hunting elk every year or restricting it so there is an opportunity to bag a trophy bull elk every 10 years. “People still want (those trophies), but by and large, it is being able to hunt with family and friends and having over-the-counter tags,” he said. The plan also addresses elk habitat and damage the animal causes to crops. “Even though we’ve lost elk in the backcountry, we’ve gained them in other areas and could potentially gain more,” White said. “But we need to work with landowners because they support a lot of elk and we want their support.”

A YESCO employee works on removing a bracket that was to hold the base of the Chief Theater sign in Old Town Monday afternoon. The base was erected and the main part of the Chief sign will go up this week. The emblem on the side of the base was a bird that was believed to be a phoenix and decorated the front of the theater.

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Chubbuck resident Al Weishaar took this photo of President John F. Kennedy in Fort Stewart, Ga., in October 1962. Weishaar was a 24-year-old Army photographer with the 1st Armored, 141st Headquarter Company at the time the photo was taken.

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Just weeks before John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, Ron Francis had an opportunity to help protect the president during his stop in Salt Lake City. Francis, now a Pocatello resident, was a junior at West High School in Salt Lake City when the president came to town in late September of that year. When school let out, the students rushed to North Temple Street to wait for Kennedy’s motorcade as it drove towards Hotel Utah, Francis said. “Everyone at my school was wildly excit-ed at the thought of seeing President Kenne-dy in person. My friends and I weren’t into the politics of whether he was a Democrat or Republican as much as we were just thrilled that the president would come to visit our hometown,” he said. “And of course, all the girls swooned at the thought of President Kennedy and called him a ‘dreamboat.’” The high school students and thousands of others turned out to see the president that day, Francis said, adding that he was late get-ting there and had to walk around for awhile to find a place to stand. Even then, he had to squeeze his way through the crowd to see. When Francis spotted the president, he started smiling and waving frantically.

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By Journal staff POCATELLO — A recent court decision could mean an annual $3 million hit to the City of Pocatello’s general fund. According to a release from the Build-ing Contractors Association of South East Idaho, Sixth District Judge Stephen Dunn recently ruled that several of the city’s fee programs are “impermissible taxes.” These include the “franchise fee,” the “rate of return,” the “return on equity,” and the “payment in lieu of taxes.” The Building Contractors Association filed suit against the city in state court in 2011. According to the union’s release, the fees implemented in 2006 have led to a nearly $3 million annual transfer of funds from the city’s water and waste water ac-counts to Pocatello’s general fund. The release says Dunn ordered the city to stop collecting the fees and to stop trans-fers from those departments to the general fund account. “The decision will help ensure that ‘fees’ charged by Pocatello and other municipal-ities in the state are used for their intended purposes rather than as a ‘disguised tax,’” Al Tetz, member of the Building Contrac-tors Association’s board of directors, said in the release.

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POCATELLO — As former Pocatello High School girls’ basketball coach Laraine Cook continues to fight her dismissal through Dis-trict 25’s grievance process, team members recently learned that they had lost another coach. Natalie Lewis, who served as the assistant coach under Cook, is no longer working with the district in that capacity. Lewis did not want to comment on her de-parture when contacted by the Idaho State Journal on Tuesday, but she did verify that she lost her post. She said she was offered a chance to coach the freshman girls’ basketball team, but declined the job. Although she did not comment on her depar-

ture, Lewis did offer her support for her team. “I wish the girls the best of luck with the sea-son,” Lewis said. She continued: “I have really enjoyed the experience I have had to work with Laraine over the past four years and appreciate that opportunity.” Efforts to reach district spokeswoman Shel-ley Allen for comment on Lewis’ departure, and the grievance process that Cook is going through, failed on Tuesday.

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POCATELLO — Plans for a new, shared health center are in the works, but Portneuf Health Care Foundation CEO Shaun Menchaca released few details about the project Tuesday. According to a press release Tuesday, the Portneuf Health Care Foundation is partnering with Bannock County, the cit-ies of Pocatello and Chubbuck and Idaho Fish and Game to create the Ban-nock County Wellness Complex. Menchaca said previously published illustrations of the complex are not accurate, and he said final plans for the project are not yet available. A public unveiling and an-nouncement regarding the wellness center is set for Dec. 4, in the Commission-ers Chambers at the Bannock County Courthouse – the event starts at 11 a.m. “I’m not going to say anything about it until the public an-nouncement,” Menchaca said. “We want all of the partners to be there and to be honored, but I will tell you it’s big and it’s awe-some. You’ll just have to wait and see.” Commissioner Steve Hadley said the Bannock County Well-ness Complex will be built at the fairgrounds at the intersec-tion of East Chubbuck Road and Olympus Drive and will include a walking park and a ball field.

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Wellness center’s appearance a mysteryBannock officials not talking just yet

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President John F. Kennedy speaks at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City on Sept. 26, 1963.

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Portneuf Valley Audubon Society will present a “pho-tographer’s tour” slide show and talk on Kruger Na-tional Park in South Africa by Idaho State University professor Chuck Peterson at 7 p.m. Thursday in the ISU Continuing Education Building in Pocatello. In August of 2013, Pe-terson joined a group of photographers on a Perfect Light photo tour to Kruger National Park, which is about twice the size of Yel-lowstone National Park, with 114 species of reptiles, 517 species of birds, and 147 species of mammals. In addition to showing pho-

tographs of the landscapes, plants, and animals, Peter-son will also try to describe traveling to Africa, lodging, transportation, how he took and processed the photo-graphs, and some of the conservation issues there. Refreshments will be served at this free presenta-tion. The ISU Continuing Education Building is lo-cated across from Pocatello City Hall near Uncle Jim’s Restaurant. On Nov. 23, ISU emeri-tus professor Chuck Trost will lead a “Loons and Scoters on the American Falls Reservoir” field trip. Participants will do a trip around the reservoir. There have already been loons and scoters spotted, on the reservoir. Participants should dress appropriately and bring some snacks and a friend. To carpool, meet at 9 a.m. in the lower ISU campus park-

ing lot by the bison sculp-ture behind the ISU Idaho Museum of Natural History Building Fifth and Dillon, Pocatello. For more informa-tion, contact PVAS Presi-dent Barb North at [email protected] or visit http://pvaudubon.org.

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Hadley said the group is working with Fish and Game to build a fishing pond at the sight as well. “We’re still in the talking stage for all this,” Hadley said. Menchaca said the Portneuf Health Care Foundation will pay for con-struction of the complex, but it will be owned by the county. Part of LHP Hospital Group, the Portneuf Health

Care Foundation was incor-porated as a supporting orga-nization in 2002 and charged with improving health care at PMC. In 2009, the non-profit group formed a joint venture with LHP to own and operate the hospital and the founda-tion now works to enhance and improve heath in South-east Idaho.

According to its website, LHP Hospital Group owns six hospitals. To date, the Portneuf Health Care Foundation has funded a dozen projects in Pocatello and Chubbuck, including construction of a new ice-skating rink built by the Chubbuck Po-catello Hockey Association, Brooklyn’s Playground, the Suicide Prevention Action Network of Idaho, as well as grants to the Pocatello Fire Department, Health West and Bright Tomorrows. The foundation only funds projects aimed at im-proving the health of resi-dents in Southeast Idaho.

fundraiser on you-caring.com. (Nikky Prause, who started an online petition on Cook’s behalf at change.org, which has garnered 2,875 signatures, is also a member of the group.) They hope to raise $10,000, DenHartog said, adding that they already have their first $100. Those who want to con-tribute to the cause can visit youcaring.com and search for “Helping Coach Cook Fight Back.”

DenHartog said Cook worked one-on-one with her daughter to help her regain her basketball skills following an illness that took her out of the game. And she helped many others as well.

“I would like to see her get her job back and the assistant coach get her job back (so the team members could continue) the suc-cessful path they were on,” DenHartog said.

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Cook was dismissed from her coaching post on Oct. 23 over a Facebook photo that showed her fiancé, Tom Harrison, touching her clothed chest. She met with district officials and attorneys on Friday as part of the grievance process she’s going through, and she said she’s expecting to receive more information sometime this week. In the meantime, many people continue to ral-ly around Cook. Cher-yl DenHartog, whose daughter Jordyn plays on the girls’ basketball team, said she and others are raising money to help Cook with legal and living expenses in hopes that she can get her job back. DenHartog and roughly 20 other people who call themselves Advocates for Coach Cook have launched a

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“The motorcade passed by and I was within 6 feet of him,” he said. “He looked at me and waved and then he went on.” Kennedy stopped at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ admin-istration building to meet with officials there, Fran-cis said, adding that a short time later he headed to the hotel, this time on foot. “The crowd got a little unruly,” he said, adding that people were excited to see Kennedy and started pushing their way toward him. That’s when a police officer suddenly grabbed Francis’ arm, turning him away from Kennedy in the process, and another po-lice officer took hold of his other arm. “I was pressed into duty,” Francis said, adding that the three of them cre-ated a 6-foot human shield, holding the crowd back as the president walked by. Francis said he missed seeing Kennedy that time because his back was turned, but one of the police officers later ap-proached him and asked for his name. The officer then told him that he had done a great job and might make a good Secret Service agent one day. (Francis did actually go into secu-rity later in life, although he worked for the LDS Church rather than the Se-cret Service.) Even back in 1963, Fran-

cis knew the opportunity to see and help protect the president was an experi-ence that would stay with him for the rest of his life. But the memory became even more concrete when he learned of Kennedy’s assassination just weeks later. “I was in class when they made the announce-ment. I went into shock; I couldn’t hardly speak,” he said. “(After just) seeing him weeks before — it was quite an experience.” Pocatello resident Patti Farrell, who also grew up in Salt Lake City and at-tended St. Ann’s Elemen-tary School, was at recess, wondering why the bell hadn’t yet rung, when an-other student told her that the nuns were inside pray-ing because the president had been shot. “It was a dark time in my family and at my Catholic school in Salt Lake City,” Farrell said. “It was a big deal to us; the Catholic com-munity really mourned.” Like Francis, she had

seen the president just weeks before, during his stop in Salt Lake City on Sept. 26, 1963 — one of a few visits Kennedy made to Utah over the years. Farrell was 9 years old at that time. “My mom checked us out of school early, which was unheard of,” she said, adding that she and her three sisters went with their mom, Marilyn Cro-nin, to see the president that day. They had to wait for hours. “My mom adored him,” Farrell said, adding that her brother was named John Kelly so that he would have the same ini-tials as John Kennedy. But her mother wasn’t the only one who felt strongly about the president. “As Catholic children in 1960, my classmates and I were very proud that John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, was the Democratic can-didate for the president of the United States. Our teachers, who were nuns, were also very proud of the

presidential candidate and many rosaries were said to pray for his election,” Far-rell said. Similar prayers were of-fered at home. “My mom was pregnant with her fifth child, and I was the third of four daughters. Many nights, after supper, we would say the rosary to pray for the birth of a son and brother into our family and the election of John F. Ken-nedy,” Farrell said. The day that Kennedy came to Salt Lake City, Farrell and her family ended up on the wrong side of the street and almost missed their chance to shake his hand as he start-ed to enter the hotel. She remembers her mother hollering, “You can’t go in yet, we have been wait-ing here for hours! Please come to our side of the street!” The president did just that. Kennedy walked to-ward her mother and shook her hand, Farrell said, add-ing that she didn’t get the same opportunity, but she did reach out and touch his pant leg. With that memory still fresh in her mind, it was hard to understand the president’s death a short time later. “As a 9 year old you think, ‘This can’t really be true, it can’t really be hap-pening,’” she said, adding that she remembers watch-ing his funeral on their black and white TV. Soda Springs resident Nola Shuler was also in Salt Lake City the day that Kennedy’s motorcade rolled through. She had traveled to the area to at-

tend a funeral, but didn’t want to miss the opportu-nity to see the president while she was there. Shuler said she doesn’t normally vote for the Democratic candidate, but in Kennedy’s case, she did. “I liked President Ken-nedy,” she said. “I just liked what he stood for.” Shuler and her mother waited on North Temple Street for their chance to see Kennedy. “He was the president and we were excited to see him,” she said, adding that she can still remember him driving by, not far from where she stood. “We waved at him and he waved to us.” She was vacuuming the floor in her home when she learned of Kennedy’s death soon after. “It was a shock to think anyone would shoot the president,” she said. Even 50 years later, people are still asking questions about Kennedy’s death and who was behind it. Some believe Lee Har-vey Oswald acted alone in the shooting, while others hold with any number of conspiracy theories that are out there. Francis said he has read several books about Ken-nedy and his death, and he thinks there is evidence to support a few different beliefs. But nobody seems to know what really hap-pened, and new theories emerge regularly. Although there are still many questions about Ken-nedy’s death, there’s no doubt that a lot of people were touched by his life. Francis remembers how much charisma the presi-

dent had, and the role he played in the Cuban Mis-sile Crisis. He recalls his history teacher talking about the ramifications of a nuclear war, and how “our blood would boil, our skin would burn off our bodies and our eyeballs would pop out,” Francis said. He also remembers Ken-nedy striking a deal with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, which led to the dismantling of nuclear missile sites in Cuba. “As we discussed the ending of the crisis in class, I witnessed big and tough Mr. Padgen cry as he told us what a hero President Kennedy was in defense of our country,” Francis said. “President Kennedy was everyone’s hero. The Cuban Missile Crisis was my introduction to the cold war, along with the start of my admiration and respect for the man who was our president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.” Farrell admires every-thing Kennedy did for equality. “He contributed a lot for civil rights,” she said. When she entered her fourth-grade classroom af-ter the long recess on Nov. 22, 1963, she and the other children were told to move their chairs so they could place the statue of the Blessed Mother in the cen-ter of the room and then pray for the assassinated president, his family and the citizens of the United States. “We all began tearing up as we pushed chairs around, and for the first time, I saw a nun cry,” she said.

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It was a normal Friday morning in the newsroom of the Idaho State Journal

and city editor Lyle Olson was putting the finishing touches on page one for Nov. 22, 1963. As was the practice for the afternoon daily, it would go to the press room about 12:30 p.m. Bells ringing on the Associated Press printer alerting the newsroom to a break-ing story changed all that. President John F. Kennedy had been shot. “The bells rang on urgent stories,” Olson said. “That’s what happened on the Ken-nedy shooting.” Churning through the AP printer in the newsroom at 66 words per minute, the wire service information on what had happened in Dealey Plaza began to appear on the con-tinuous feeding paper. Shots had been fired at the presidential motorcade at 11:30 a.m. “At first it just said the president had been shot in Dallas,” Olson recalled. “Then it was a torrent of information.” Olson said the newsroom was just putting the finishing touches on a “normal” Friday edition of the Journal. The pressroom was anxiously awaiting the final plates so the run of 12,000 to 14,000 newspapers could begin. They would have to wait. “We remade page one three times that day,” Olson said. And that was no small feat. In the days of letterpress, each line of copy had to be

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AMERICAN FALLS — In spite of icy temperatures, strong winds and rain, a crowd gathered in front of the Katherine Winter Davis Little Theatre on Idaho Street to celebrate completion of the city’s downtown beautification project. Jonathan Ortez, 14, and Eduardo San-chez, 15, both freshmen at American Falls High School, volunteered to plant bushes, spread gravel and help install the sprin-kler system as part of the new landscaping along Idaho Street. “It looks nice,” Ortez said. “It looks more like a city.” Sanchez agreed that the new facade was a huge improvement. “It used to be all broken and old, now it looks great,” Sanchez said. American Falls Mayor Marc Beitia greeted the crowd and thanked them for braving the cold to take part in the down-town ribbon-cutting.

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POCATELLO — Forget about a lengthy two-day auction that in-cludes hundreds of individual lots. When the Hoku Materials facility goes up for auction next month, it will be live and in person at the Pocatello plant, and bidders will be vying to purchase the entire facility. Bidding will start at $5 million and a decision on the bids will fol-low the same day, Dec. 17.

According to a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Pocatello, that’s the new plan put in place by Gary Rainsdon, trustee of the Hoku bankruptcy proceedings. It is the second attempt to sell off the failed company’s assets. The first auction was held Oct. 23-24 with an auction for the en-tire facility starting on Oct. 23 and closing that day. The piecemeal auction also began that first day but lasted through the second day. It included 1,364 individual lots. The top bid for the entire auc-

tion was $3.7 million while the totality of the piecemeal auction came in at $4.8 million. According to the trustee’s mo-tion to sell the entire facility to JH Kelly, multiple parties contacted him after the conclusion of the piecemeal auction, requesting the auction be reopened to allow over-bids for the entire facility. JH Kelly came out at the top of that overbid process with a bid of $5.273 million. Citing a bid in excess of the piecemeal auction

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By JOurnal Staff POCATELLO — With a masked individual knocking on doors in the area of South Second Avenue and Ross Park recently, authori-ties warn residents to always see who is knocking on your door before opening it. Pocatello Police Department officials say they have received calls the past three nights in reference to a masked person dressed in black and wearing a black ski mask who knocks on doors between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. One citizen told police the individual was possibly carrying a handgun. A police K-9 unit was brought in to search for tracks. The dog led them to the Ross Park area, where the person possibly en-tered into a vehicle or an apart-ment complex from there. Anyone with information on the identity of this suspicious individual is urged to contact the PPD dispatch center at 208-234-6142.

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Hoku to go back on blockWhen the hoku materials facility goes up for auction next month, it will be live and in person at the Pocatello plant, and bidders will be vying to purchase the entire facility.

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This is part four of the Journal’s series marking the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death. The six-part series will continue in Friday’s print edition and conclude in Saturday’s newspaper.


u Find photo galleries of President Kennedy at idahostatejournal.com.

u To find the text from Kennedy’s speeches in Salt Lake City and Pocatello, go to idahostatejournal.com and yesteryear.idahostatejournal.com.

u Visit yesteryear.idahostatejournal.com for this online only story: Bruce Lind and Gene Wiggers, currently living in Soda Springs and Pocatello, respectively, were in New York City when the president was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Both were stunned by the news, and both recalled decades later how the normally loud streets of New York were deathly quiet, nearly devoid of people.

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POCATELLO — A scam that seemingly targets Ve-rizon Wireless customers is currently making its way around town. Citizens Community Bank officials indicated Wednesday that they start-ed to receive calls Monday concerning questionable texts that were sent out over the weekend. “I don’t think this is nec-essarily associated with our bank only. I received the text, but my husband didn’t and we both have a Verizon plan,” said Amy Rhoads, senior vice president of the bank and branch administrator. “These types of scams are so common place these days. Fortunately, we only had 3-4 people who pro-vided personal information and their debit card num-bers were not used to make any purchases.” The text message is presented to the telephone subscriber as an important notification, and a number is listed for the viewer to call. “When you call, they ask

for your debit card number so they can make a fake card to use,” Rhoads said. “We try to educate our customers to let them know that fraud is everywhere. For the most part, though, I think we’ve all grown accustomed to ignoring such inquiries.” Rhoads assures custom-ers they would never send out a text or have someone call to ask for a debit card number. After all, they have the number on file. “They (thieves) can be very persistent on the phone,” Rhoads said. “If

anyone ever has a ques-tion, they are always wel-come to give us a call.” There are three Citizens Community Bank branches in Eastern Idaho, two of which are based in Pocatello. The other branch is located in Idaho Falls. For more in-formation, dial 208-238-8378. If you think you may have been scammed, you can file a complaint with the Fed-eral Trade Commission by visiting www.econsumer.gov. Scams can also be reported to the Idaho Attor-ney General’s office.

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set by linotype operators on slugs of lead. Those lead lines of copy were locked into a frame and the type was inked and a gal-ley proof of the story went back to the editor’s desk. Once any changes were made, new lines had to be produced on the linotype machines. It was hot work with lead bars being melted to make the process happen. Back in the pressroom, 19-year-old Kerry Johnson was taking a lunch break with the rest of the crew and anxiously awaiting the press run. “They had just gotten ready to load page one,” Johnson said. “That’s when Shirley came back from the front office and told us President Kennedy had been shot.” As the AP printer contin-ued to provide updates from Texas, Olson and other members of the editorial staff scrambled to make changes. A few blocks away, Bill Ryan had finished making the normal reporter rounds for KSEI Radio and was beginning to write a story about the Bannock County commissioners when the UPI wire printer in the ra-dio station began to ring. “I heard 10 bells which was extremely unusual,” Ryan said. Ryan stopped typing his story and went to investi-

gate. To muffle the noise cre-ated by the printer, it was inside a wooden box with a hinged door to provide access. When Ryan opened the door and looked at the copy coming off the ma-chine, the first bulletin said, “Shots fired on motorcade route in Dallas, Texas.” He looked at the clock and it said 11:35 a.m. Inside the radio studio’s broadcast booth, the an-nouncer was reading infor-mation for a segment called “A matter of record.” The information included mar-riage licenses, divorces, births and obituaries. “I ran to the studio and tried to get his attention to turn on my mike,” Ryan said. “I couldn’t get that sucker’s attention.” With the printer still churning out updates, Ryan said he ran back to the newsroom and pulled the latest news off the wire, which said President Ken-nedy had been shot. He knew he had to get the news on the air. He returned to the studio and began rapping on the glass window of the broad-cast booth with his class

ring and pointing at his mi-crophone. The announcer finally spotted him and turned Ryan’s microphone on. “I took over and all I could do was read the UPI reports,” Ryan said. United Press Internation-al and the Associated Press were competing news wire agencies at the time. Both were scrambling to provide updates from Dallas to the nation’s news media. It was the AP feeding the breaking events to the Jour-nal and city editor Olson. Unlike the radio station, the Journal also had to deal with photos from the unfolding tragedy. Those images came in via wire and were converted using a Scangraver so they could be added to page plates. Decisions had to be made quickly about which photos to run and which updates to include before the Journal would be forced to make a final decision and go to press. “That printer never stopped,” Olson said.“The wire did a damn good job on that story.” Helping to piece together the story were Joy Morri-son, the society editor, and her husband, Tom, who was the Journal’s wire editor. Linotype operator Boyd Jorgensen was busy reset-ting copy for the front page and the jump page. Olson said it became a huge team effort with the urgency of letting Southeast Idaho know a major tragedy had taken place. Finally, the final plates went to the press, where

they were converted to large cylinders and mount-ed. “It was just crazy,” John-son said. “We were all kind of in shock.” “Everyone became news people that day,” Olson said. Back at the radio station, Ryan kept reading updates to listeners. It wasn’t until NBC radio’s national broad-cast took over that he could take a break. But Ryan didn’t rest. He began calling ministers and pastors in the Gate City and asking them to write a brief prayer that could be read on the air during one- to two-minute clips of space between news updates. “By God I heard from a dozen of them,” Ryan said, pausing to compose himself. “We played those prayers during the breaks.” With the final decisions made at the Journal, page

one had the banner head-line, “President Is Killed.” Under that headline were a series of stories about the assassination, wounding of Texas Gov. John Con-nally and the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald. There was a story about the shock and anger of area residents. It wasn’t until their jobs were done that Olson and Ryan had time to stop and

reflect on the gravity of the news they brought to their readers and listeners. “I ate my lunch at 5 o’clock in the afternoon with tears streaming down my face,” Olson said. “I just couldn’t believe it,” Ryan said. “Here our handsome, energetic presi-dent was gone and there was nothing we could do about it.”

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Nov. 12, and U.S. Bankrupt-cy Judge Jim Pappas denied Rainsdon’s motion to sell the facility to JH Kelly. Documents filed with the court on Tuesday show that the new auction is slated for Dec. 17 at 11 a.m. and will be conducted at the Hoku Materials facility, located at One Hoku Way. Those documents show that the bidding will start at $5 million and continue at

a “minimum increments of $25,000, with the increment amount at trustee’s and his auctioneer’s discretion.” The documents place a fair market estimated value on the property at between $6.25 million and $35 mil-lion. Of the sale, 12 percent is slated to go toward the unsecured creditors. Conducting the auction will again be Heritage Global Partners, according

to the court fillings. Once the auction is com-plete, there will not be days of waiting to see just what the trustee will recommend regarding the sale of the Hoku facility. In fact, it will be just a couple of hours. Another court filing shows that hearing will be conducted on Dec. 17 at 1:30 p.m., just two and a half hours after the auction gets under way.

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“I ordered blue skies for this, but we know how that works,” Beitia joked. Parks and Recreation Supervisor Jeremy Peirsol said the students were brought on board by Beitia and Peirsol said the project was successful because of the hard work of city work-ers and the volunteers. Former American Falls Mayor Amy Manning said the project was helped along by U.S. Congress-man Mike Simpson and his assistant Steve Brown, who delivered a strong letter of support for the project with very short notice. Manning said the project was set in motion eight years ago when as the city’s mayor, she and the City Council composed a list of goals for the city. “We knew that downtown could look like this,” Man-ning said. “Please come downtown, shop, invest and support local merchants.” The city contributed $500,000 to the $3.8 mil-lion dollar project and the rest was funded by federal grants. Upgrades to nine blocks of downtown American Falls include new water lines, new sidewalks and curbs, a storm drain system, lighting and landscaping. Gus Shanine with the Federal Highway Admin-istration said Congress appropriated $500 million for projects like the Amer-ican Falls beautification plan. JUB Engineers Alan Giesbrechtect said the eight-year project was completed through col-laboration between the city and government agencies, as well as local businesses.

Jason Giard with the U.S. Department of Trans-portation helped design the project. Chad Rushton with St. Anthony–based DePatco, the general con-tractor for the beatification project, said the project was unique because work was completed from store front to store front. Rushton said work on the project started in July and the downtown project came together quickly. American Falls City Councilman Dan Ham-mond said the city worked with local businesses to complete the beautifica-tion project on time. “I love American Falls,” Hammond said. “This is a great place to raise a fam-ily.” Beitia said city officials did a walkthrough of the downtown area Wednesday and there are a few small repairs that need to be done, but for the most part, the project is complete. The mayor also thanked a long list of dignitaries, some of whom could not make the dedication Wednesday, including Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter, Rep. Mike Simpson R-Idaho, and his aide Steve Brown, U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and his aide Farhana Hibbert, U.S. Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, and Power County com-missioners Vicki Meadows, Ron Funk, Ken Estep and Delane Anderson. “Thanks for your ongo-ing and continued support of the city’s vision,” Beitia said. Under the glow of new street lamps, about 50 people lined up to cut the ribbon across Idaho Street. Brett Crompton, owner of the Power County Press, said the city had planted the seed, now it was up to residents and local busi-nesses to grow downtown American Falls.

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It was a chilling shock wave that froze moments in

time. News of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy, followed shortly by the an-nouncement of his death, still rings in the minds of everyone old enough to form memories from Nov. 22, 1963. “I remember my feelings and emotions as vividly as I did 50 years ago,” said U.S. Dis-trict Judge Larry Boyle. “It’s like the blink of an eye.”

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By JOurnal Staff A man with ties to Power County was taken into custody in Wyoming on Monday and faces five counts of injury to a child, along with a great bodily harm enhance-ment, all felonies. Power County Sheriff’s Office officials say Cody Sellers is the one who caused injuries that re-sulted in a 2-year-old’s visit to Portneuf Medical Center on May 4, 2012. She was then transported to Pri-mary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City with life-threatening brain injuries. The girl lived but is se-verely brain damaged. She currently lives with her biological father, according to authorities. Power County Sheriff Jim Jeffries requested the assistance of the Canyon County Child Fatality Team to help peer-review the investigation before the pros-ecutor’s office filed the charges. Power County prosecuting attorney, Ryan Peter-son, also requested assistance from the Canyon County Prosecutor’s Office. In addition, officers with the U.S. Mar-shals Service served the arrest warrant. Sellers was transported to the Power County Jail. He was arraigned in the Power County Magistrate Court on Thursday after-noon and released on his own recognizance. Other charges may be pending, officials say. The man’s next scheduled court date is on Dec. 4 for a preliminary hearing. The proceeding follows the filing of a criminal complaint to determine whether there is enough evidence to require a trial.


BLACKFOOT — A 23-year-old woman has been charged with sec-ond degree murder in the stabbing death of a Blackfoot man Wednes-day. An arrest warrant for Sheree Amanda Moreno was issued Thursday just after 5 p.m., accord-ing to a Blackfoot Police press re-lease. Moreno, also known as, Sheree

Amanda Wadsworth and Amanda Wadsworth, was charged in the stabbing death of Salvador Vele-rio. She is being held at the Fort Hall Justice Center awaiting ex-tradition to Bingham County with bail set at $500,000. Capt. Scott Gay said officers

responded to reports of a stabbing at 788 S. Broadway just before 11 p.m. Wednesday. Gay said officer responded to the residence and found Velerio dead when they arrived. The stabbing is being investi-gated by the Blackfoot/Bingham County Detective Team. During a press conference Thursday, Gay, Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland and Prosecutor Cleve Colson declined to comment on whether Valerio was killed inside

or outside the mobile home, if a weapon was found at the scene or if a possible motive for the killing had been determined. The Broadway trailer park was the scene of a similar killing five years ago. A neighbor, Hector Arzate, said he did not know the victim and was at work when the incident oc-curred, but his family members reported that they heard “girls fighting” shortly before the inci-dent Wednesday night.

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BLACKFOOT — In a forum designed to explore the political philosophies of mayoral runoff candidates Dan Cravens and Paul Loomis, the candidates shared view-points on many issues Thursday night. The forum held in Blackfoot City Hall by the Freedom First Society featured questions on government privatization, LGBT ordinanc-es, reaching out to the Hispanic community and property rights. The two candi-dates will face off in a Dec. 3 elec-tion. Differences between the can-didates surfaced on efforts to get members of the Latino com-munity more involved in city government and privatizing city services. “The Hispanic community is a vital part of our commu-nity,” Cravens said. He said the

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u Visit yesteryear.idahostatejournal.com for this online-only story: The Idaho State Journal asked a few of its staff members about their thoughts on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.

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Top left: Seen through the foreground convertible’s windshield, President John F. Kennedy’s hand reaches toward his head within seconds of being fatally shot as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy holds his forearm as the motorcade proceeds along Elm Street past the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas.

Above: Jacqueline Kennedy, with bloodstains on her clothes, holds hands with her brother-in-law, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, as the coffin carrying the body of President John F. Kennedy is placed in an ambulance after arriving at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., near Washington. President Kennedy was assassinated earlier that afternoon in Dallas.

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Just 19 years old at the time, Boyle was working as a fireman for the Union Pa-cific Railroad in Pocatello. His father was a claims in-vestigator of the UPRR and Boyle, who had started as a “red cap” luggage handler and janitor, had moved up to a train crew. He was at the crew shack near Ross Park in Pocatello awaiting the departure of a freight train headed to Lava Hot Springs and back, when the news broke of the shoot-ing in Dallas, Texas. “Before we left, someone came in and said the presi-dent had been shot,” Boyle recalled. As the train made its way south, Boyle said he discussed the breaking news with the conductor and engineer on board. They would be in the dark about further developments until their train returned to the Pocatello yards. Boyle talked to the other members of the crew about how he had stood within feet of Kennedy when he made a campaign visit to Pocatello High School during a campaign stop in 1960. Back in the crew shack, Boyle got the news — the president was dead. “I was heartsick,” he said. “That was my genera-tion’s 9/11.” Another Pocatellan who had met JFK during that stop at Pocatello High was Steve Millward, who had volunteered as a junior to set up chairs on the stage inside the auditorium for Kenne-dy’s speech. As the students finished the task, Kennedy walked onto the stage. “A man walked on the stage and shook our hands,” Millward said. “I recog-

nized it was John Kennedy. He said, ‘Are you the son of a ‘farma.’” He said his Massachusetts accent was thick. “He was taller than I thought he was and he had a good, strong handshake,” Millward recalled. Three years later on Nov. 22, 1963, Millward was serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Peru, when he and fellow mis-sionaries were surrounded by Peruvians who told them how sorry they were to hear about the president. The missionaries scrambled to get a newspaper to find out what had happened. “I was devastated,” Mill-ward said. “I was afraid for the country.” Pocatello railroader and former boxing champion for Idaho State College, Bobby McCollum, was also devastated by the news. The 29-year-old was working as a janitor in the new yard offices of Union Pacific when someone told him the news about the Kennedy shooting. “I had some hope he’d still be alive,” McCollum said. When he went home for lunch and turned on the television, the news was grim. “I was shocked,” McCol-lum said. “I really liked that president.” American Falls mayor at the time, Ralph “Moon” Wheeler, thought it was a bad joke when he first heard the news. “I was working in the drug store and Mert Fer-guson came in and said very loudly, ‘the president’s been shot,’” Wheeler said. “I thought it was a prank.” He quickly realized it wasn’t and immediately turned on a small television in his pharmacy to watch the news unfold. “‘What kind of nut would

do this?’ came to my mind,” Wheeler said. “I was deeply moved by the loss.” Wheeler, a Catholic, had been happy to see Kennedy break “the Catholic bar-rier” of serving as president. Wheeler was still grieving from the death of his first wife 11 days earlier when the murder of the president hit. “I just spent the rest of the day in a fog,” Wheeler said, adding that a national TV crew from ABC came to American Falls to in-terview people within two days because of the name of the town, but he can’t remember many details of that because of the emo-tional toll. Idaho Rep. Ken Andrus, R-Lava Hot Springs, re-members the day of the assassination clearly. The impact of the news was am-plified because Andrus had attended President Ken-nedy’s inauguration three years earlier as a soldier in the U.S. Army. He remembered looking down at the convertible containing the president and his wife, Jackie, as it made its way along the in-

augural parade route. “President Kennedy had such a magnetic personal-ity that your eyes were locked on the president and Jackie until they went out of sight,” Andrus said. Andrus and his father were filling in a ravine on their ranch early in the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, when his sister drove up in a car and told them the news of the shooting. “We didn’t have a televi-sion back then, so I listened to the news on the radio,” Andrus said. “It was almost unbelievable that that could happen.” Even people who were just youngsters at the time remember the moment the news broke as if it was yes-terday. Idaho State University President Arthur Vailas was in eighth grade when his teacher informed the class about the tragedy. “I was the son of an im-migrant family and John Kennedy was very revered by Greek immigrants,” Vai-las said. “My parents were very upset. They felt Ken-

nedy did a lot to help the under-served do better.” Former Idaho legislator and Century High govern-ment teacher, Evan Fra-sure, said it was Kennedy who sparked his desire to go into politics. Frasure, who was a sev-enth grader at Irving Junior High that fateful day, said students were across the

street from the school buying candy at a snack bar when news of the shooting started coming over the radio inside. “All of a sudden

it got real quiet in there,” Frasure said. “We were kind of in shock.” Frasure said he became a “Kennedy Democrat” on the spot and continued to pursue an interest in poli-tics. “That’s the only event that froze time for me,” Frasure said.

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u Visit yesteryear.idahostatejournal.com for this online-only story: Kathie Strand, currently living in American Falls, was residing in Japan at a military base when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated Nov. 22, 1963. Although the family did not have access to television, they heard quite a bit listening to the radio.

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As the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President

John F. Kennedy arrived, Gate City resident Marilyn Bullock decided she had something special to share — a Time magazine cover featuring the Kennedy family that was au-tographed by JFK when he visited here in September 1960. She put a sweater on her little rescue dog, Sadie, and made the trek to the Journal offices with that now framed magazine cover tucked inside a cloth shopping bag. “I didn’t know if anyone would be interested, but it seemed special

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FORT HALL – A preliminary hearing for a woman charged with second degree murder in Bingham County was set for Dec. 5 at 8:30 a.m. in front of Magistrate Charles L. Roos. The suspect, Sheree Amanda Moreno waived extradition Friday in Fort Hall and was transported to Bingham County to face the charge against her. Moreno, 23, was ar-rested Thursday evening and held at the Shoshone Bannock Justice Center in lieu of $500,000 bond. A warrant for second-degree murder was issued for Moreno earlier Thursday. She is accused in the stabbing death of 21-year old Salvador Valerio, of Blackfoot.

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By JOsh [email protected]

MOSCOW — The streak started and ended at one, but Highland’s Christian Atkinson came awful close to making it two. Atkinson’s father, Brian, won a state championship with the Pocatello Indians football team in 1990. Christian nearly made it a father-son, state-title tandem, but his Highland Rams fell just short 31-28 to the Coeur d’Alene Vikings Friday evening in Mos-cow. Though the duo played at differ-ent schools, that’s where the differ-ences end.

Both teams had perfect records, both Atkinsons were offensive speedsters and both were seniors. “It’s exciting for us,” Brian said. “It’s kind of cool that he’s getting to do the same thing I got to do 20-plus years ago.” Brian caught three touchdown passes and a two-point conversion in Pocatello’s win against Centen-nial and held Idaho’s record for the most receiving yards in a state title game. With his championship, Brian was able to impart some wis-dom to his son. “I told him to just have fun,” he said. Christian must have taken that advice to heart. After Highland

was held scoreless in the first quarter, he got the Rams on the board. From the Highland 30-yard line, Christian took a short shovel pass from Tommy Jewell just past the line of scrimmage, sprinted and juked his way for a 70-yard, catch-and-run to put Highland on the scoreboard. He ended the game with eight catches for 110 yards and two touchdowns. “It’s his senior year,” said Christian’s stepmother, Tracey. “It will probably be his last football game.” Brian was eager at the prospect of having two state champions

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President’s death still topical

Highland suffers 31-28 loss in high school football state title game

JFK-signed magazine cover revered

Woman charged in killing has court date

By TaMMy [email protected]

POCATELLO — According to a poll the Jour-nal conducted recently at www.idahostatejour-nal.com, more Eastern Idahoans side with the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in the assassi-nation of President John F. Ken-nedy compared with those who believe he did act alone. A total of 171 people partici-pated in the poll that has been posted online at idahostatejour-nal.com for approximately one week. In all, 10 people were un-decided. Percentage wise, 69.1 percent voted that Oswald did not act alone and 25.1 percent said he was the lone gun-man. “Historical moments like these come back,” said Dr. Kevin Marsh, Idaho State University

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Marilyn Bullock of Pocatello cherishes a Time magazine cover of the Kennedy family that was signed by John F. Kennedy when he visited Pocatello in 1960. It was given to her by a good friend, Patricia Reilly, before Reilly died in 1999. The cover is also shown below.

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One dies, others hurt in Bear Lake County wrecksSlick roads and snowy driving conditions have brought a series of accidents to Bear Lake County in the past couple of weeks, including one resulting in a fatality. SEE A4

The Gem State’s economy continues to trend toward strengthening, according

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Highland defensive players Danny Rasmussen (45), Kyler Manu (35), and Kaigan Young (57) cause Coeur d’Alene quarterback Austin Lee to fumble in the second quarter of the Idaho State 5A Football championship game Friday night in Moscow. See a photo gallery at idahostatejournal.com.

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in the family. He’s been to every Highland football game this year, and he has enjoyed watching the team evolve from the start of the season to the end. “It’s been fun to watch these kids and watch them progress,” he said. “(They’ve)

gotten better every single week and com-peted, and it’s been fun to watch the com-petition.” Though Brian tried to get his son to attend his alma mater, Pocatello High School, he has still rooted for Highland. His other son, Connor, a sophomore, is Highland’s backup kicker. Even during the Black and Blue Bowl, Brian still finds himself cheering for his sons and the Rams. “It’ll probably switch back to Poky at

some point,” he said with a smile. “But right now, it’s Highland.” Though Brian has only one state title on his resume, Christian has the potential to get his by the end of his high school ca-reer. Christian is a member of Highland’s baseball team, and Brian is confident those Rams have the ability and talent to go far into the postseason. “Their baseball team this year has the potential to do very well, so we’re excited about that as well,” Brian said.

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associate professor of history and department chair. “I am not surprised that conspiracy theories exist on this topic. He was well liked. Of course his as-sassination is going to receive a lot of attention.” Kennedy is a symbol associ-ated with a dramatic transition-al period in American history, Marsh said. “He is more remarkable for his ability to inspire people more than anything. He is not as notable for his accomplish-ments,” Marsh commented. “He set up such high expecta-tions for America following the Cold War. Those expectations went out the window when he died.” He continued: “Social con-flicts erupted in the 1960s after his death. People were angry they were let down. We experienced exaggerated opti-mism in the 1950s followed by exaggerated pessimism in the 1970s.” Marsh provides ISU stu-dents with an overview con-cerning Kennedy’s three-year presidency, but does not go into depth on conspiracy theories surrounding his death. He hypothesizes that conspiracy theories formed out of a need to cope with the loss. “We’re back to expectations. There had to be a reason he was taken from us,” he said. The chairman of the history department did not offer an opinion as to whether or not he believes Oswald acted alone. What stands out most to him is that Kennedy formed the Peace Corps and inspired the youngest generation to get in-volved in their communities.

“People were starting to come around in supporting civil rights and Kennedy en-couraged greater participa-tion and democracy,” Marsh said. “There are countless examples of people who were coming of age (during this time frame) whom he un-doubtedly inspired to contrib-ute to society.” The Peace Corps can be traced back to 1960 when then-Sen. John F. Kennedy

challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country by living and working in developing coun-tries. From that inspiration grew an agency of the federal government devoted to world peace and friendship. Since that time, over 210,000 Peace Corps volunteers have served in 139 host countries to work on issues ranging from AIDS education to information technology and environmental

preservation. “Anyone who participates in this program today is a living product of Kennedy’s legacy,” Marsh pointed out. “His global vision was strong. Creating the Peace Corps is a good example of this.” In 1960, Marsh recalls that Americans’ confidence had reached a high point, for the most part due to Kennedy’s influence. “Kennedy represents ideal-ism. He named the New Fron-tier,” Marsh said. “He gave young Americans a place in society.” Idealism is a philosophy that emphasizes how human ideas, especially beliefs and values, shape society. “It’s hard to say what Ken-nedy would think about our society today,” Marsh said. “He would probably side with most people from his generation who are currently concerned about the fracturing of society. He wanted to bring people to-gether.” The young president left a lasting impression on America and beyond in a variety of different ways. According to Marsh, Kennedy also set the tone for the modern presidency in the United States. “Television has just come into play,” Marsh said. “He may not have created this idea of imagery, but he understood it very well.” Official documents relating to Kennedy’s death remain classified to this day. Marsh indicated that non-essential documents will be made avail-able for public viewing in 2017. “The story is not over,” he said. Marsh has been a faculty member at ISU for 10 years. He teaches U.S. history and culture, environmental history and Idaho history.

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By Journal StaffABERDEEN — Two peo-

ple were taken by emergen-cy helicopter to Portneuf Medical Center for treat-ment of non-life threatening injuries Friday evening fol-lowing a collision between a pickup truck and a farm implement on Highway 39 about four miles north of Aberdeen. The accident occurred near the intersection of Highway 39 and 2600 West, accord-ing to the Bingham County Sheriff’s office. The sheriff’s office also said it appeared the pickup came around a curve in the road about 6:30 p.m. and ran into the rear of the farm equipment. Names of those involved were unavail-able at press time. The accident shut down Highway 39 while the helicopter landed and the debris from the wreck was cleared from the roadway. The accident remains under investigation and no charg-es have been filed yet.

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According to a press release from the Blackfoot police, officers responded to the report of a stabbing at 788 South Broadway No. 18 just before 11 p.m. Wednes-day. Officers arrived to find Valerio already deceased. Bingham County Coro-ner Michael Gardner said an autopsy would be per-formed, but he released no further information about the killing. The stabbing was inves-tigated by members of the Blackfoot-Bingham County Detective Team. In a press release from Bingham County Prosecutor Clive Colson on Friday, a charge

of second-degree murder, a felony, carries a penalty of 10 years to life in prison and/or a $50,000 fine. Moreno appeared in front of Tribal Court Judge Ma-rina Fast Horse Friday. Fast Horse said in order to grant extradition, the court had to be provided a letter of demand and proof of a warrant — Bingham County would have also had to show probable cause for the charge and Moreno would have to be identified as a person wanted in an-other jurisdiction. However, the hearing was brief after Moreno an-nounced she would waive

extradition. Her voice cracked when Moreno said that she did not have any choice when the judge asked if she understood the proceedings. “It will prejudice Bing-ham County against me if I don’t,” Moreno said. Following the short hear-ing, Moreno was escorted out of the courtroom and then transported to Bing-ham County where she made an initial appearance in Bingham County in front of Magistrate Ryan Boyer. Moreno’s arrest record includes a half dozen misde-meanor charges, including drug paraphernalia and possession, driving under the influence and petit theft. She has never been charged with a felony prior to the pending second-degree murder charge.

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today,” Bullock said about Friday’s anni-versary of the killing of a president. Bullock was just 20 years old when John Kennedy visited Pocatello as a candidate. She said she wasn’t very political at the time, but a friend, Patricia Reilly, was and she made the trip to the Pocatello Regional Airport with her family to greet the presi-dent when he arrived. Even though that flight was delayed for several hours, the Reilly family stayed and Patricia asked the Democratic candidate for president to sign her copy of that Time magazine. On the cover was an artist’s rendition of John Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, seated in front of John’s parents, Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. The cover had “The Kennedy Family” as the only print on the page. It was published on Feb. 11, 1960. “Her family was very political here in Pocatello,” Bullock said about Patricia Reilly. “Her mother was a children’s li-brarian here in town.” It would not be until years later that Bullock would find out her friend Reilly had a magazine with JFK’s autograph. The 1960 election was the first year Bullock could vote and she cast hers for the handsome Catholic candidate from Massachusetts. “I was just in awe,” Bullock said. Like many Americans, Bullock was devastated on Nov. 22, 1963, when she got news of the tragedy in Dallas. She was at work as an administrative secretary for Bannock Memorial Hospital and was downstairs doing filing when a woman came in and told her about the shooting. “They brought in a TV and put it in the office and we had it running all day long,” Bullock recalled. “It was just heartbreak-ing.” Years later, Bullock and Reilly shared a house and that is when the signed Time magazine was shared for the first time. “She was a real collector and a real political person,” Bullock said about her friend. “We both loved Kennedy.” When Reilly died in 1999, Bullock took possession of that Time cover and had it framed. It’s one of two reminders of the fallen president that’s kept in the Bullock home. She also has a framed portrait of the former president hanging on the wall of her stairwell. “I see it every day, coming and going,” Bullock said. On Friday the Time magazine cover had special meaning and strengthened her resolve to never sell it — even though she thinks it might be worth some money. “I think it is a treasure and I still do,” Bullock said. “And I think Kennedy was a treasure too.”

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The U.S. Naval Academy Men’s Glee Club performs during the ceremony to mark 50 years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Friday at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. President Kennedy’s motorcade was passing through Dealey Plaza when shots rang out on Nov. 22, 1963.

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