I'm not sure why this has been published so late since the actual 60th anniversary was weeks ago, but The Buffalo News contains a piece from an old radio newsman named Peter Nolan, who was just getting started on his career in the medium back in 1963, when the shots rang out in Dallas. He'd finished his shift at WHLD, Niagara Falls, N.Y. and had gone home, when the phone rang.

"On Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, I finished a five-minute newscast at 12:30 p.m. and drove to my home about 15 minutes away. I had something to eat and headed to my bed for a nap. I must have dozed off because the ringing of the phone awoke me. And then my wife’s voice calling from the kitchen: “Peter, you have to go to the station right away. Somebody shot President Kennedy in Dallas.”

I can slightly relate - I remember on September 11, 2001, when I saw the second plane hit the Twin Towers in NYC, and we all knew then it was deliberate. I was still at home and my shift didn't start until 11 AM, but I rushed downtown and got there by 10 in the morning. 

What happened after that, I couldn't tell you. The whole day was so busy, it's become a blur in my memory and when I looked up from my computer in the station, it was just after 11 at night. Although the stories I did that day on this non-stop developing disaster were all accurate, I barely remember writing them. It was just that kind of day. 

The same with John Lennon's murder in 1980, when I was at CFTR and the story and reactions went on and on and on. 

I wonder if Mr. Nolan experienced the same thing.

My View: A young newsman reads the bulletins from Dallas that day in 1963