Eyewitnesses recount JFK assassination memories

JAMES Tague was stuck in traffic in downtown Dallas around noon on Nov 22, 1963 when he became an eyewitness to history.

Then a 27-year-old car salesman, Tague was waiting for John F Kennedy’s motorcade to sweep by.

Riding in an open-top Lincoln Continental, the president, flanked by Secret Service bodyguards, waved to the lunchtime crowd, his wife, Jacqueline, at his side along with Texas Governor John Connally and his spouse. “I noticed a car with flags on the front fender, coming through the crowd,” Tague told AFP ahead of the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination.