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OF ABSENCE FROM CONGRESS AND
DISORDER.
ALSO TONIGHT --- THIS WEEK MARKS
KENNEDY CAME TO BUFFALO --- AND
RECEIVED AN URGENT PHONE CALL
RICHERT TAKES A LOOK BACK AT THE
HISTORIC MOMENT.
((KEVIN GAUGHAN-SON OF JFK
ADVISOR-"HERE IN NIAGARA SQUARE,
WHO CAME OUT TO SEE PRESIDENT
KENNEDY AND CELEBRATE PULASKI
((AUDIO FROM JOHN F. KENNEDY IN
BUFFALO-"AND THAT'S WHAT BRINGS
TODAY.")) KEVIN GAUGHAN WAS ONLY
KENNEDY CAME TO BUFFALO. HIS
FATHER VINCENT GAUGHAN WAS AN
ADVISOR AND AND AN AMBASSADOR
((GAUGHAN-"WHEN HE COMPLETED HIS
SPEECH, PRESIDENT KENNEDY WALKED
BACK INSIDE, BACK DOWN IN THE
BASEMENT OF CITY HALL AND THEN
CITY HALL WHERE HE RECEIVED A
CALL AND THAT'S WHERE HE FIRST
LEARNED OF THE NUCLEAR
((GAUGHAN-"MY FATHER DIDN;T KNOW
THE FACTS AT THE TIME, BUT HE
PRESIDENT BECAME VERY QUIET."))
((GAUGHAN-"BECAUSE HE SUDDENLY
KNEW THAT THERE WERE MISSILLES
THAT WERE AIMED AT EVERY
NORTHEASTERN CITY IN AMERICA."))
BACK THEN THERE WAS NO
KENSINGTON EXPRESSWAY, SO ON THE
LIMO RIDE BACK TO THE AIRPORT
ALONG GENESEE STREET, THE
PRESIDENT LEARNED SOMETHING HE
NEVER KNEW ABOUT CHEEKTOWAGA..
((GAUGHAN-"MY FATHER TURNED TO
KNOW, THERE'S A HIGH SCHOOL
NEW YORK' AND LIKE ANY OF US,
THE PRESIDENT SAID 'IS THAT
FATHER SAID ' NO, IT'S THERE',
DON'T WE GO TAKE A LOOK AT IT',
AND PRESIDENT KENNEDY SAID 'I'D
OF THE CRISIS THEY NEVER HAD
TIME TO GO OVER THERE AND SEE IT
THAT HE NEVER SAW THAT
SCHOOL."))
KENNEDY-"WE GIVE OUR HEARTS AND
OUR BODIES TO THE CAUSE OF
STATES, IN