[Catfishjeff]

I was stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base, a SAC base, in Wichita Falls TX about 90 miles from Dallas. On Nov. 22, 1963 we had a practice red alert where we all double timed to a pre-determined location. I had not been there long so I asked someone who had been there for a long time how often these practice red alerts happen. He said in his four years there they had never had one. The next day President Kennedy was shot and we were on a real red alert which we had just practiced the previous day. Every B52 took off nose to tail and it’s the loudest noise I had ever heard. So, of course, for the past 60 years I’ve always wondered if it was a coincidence that we had a practice red alert the day before Kennedy’s assassination.