POLITICAL FALLOUT AT HOME ON THE ROAD Florida congressman admits cocaine use, A8 Blazers sweep four-game road trip, B1 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2013 theworldlink.com I 75¢ Bandon land swap ratified BY JOHN GUNTHER AND AMY MOSS STRONG The World SOUTH COAST — The proposed Bandon Links golf complex south of Bandon took another step toward becoming reality Wednesday when the Oregon Parks and Recreation Commission approved, in principal, a land exchange that makes the project possible. Bandon Biota, owned by The Associated Press Photos Bandon Dunes Golf Resort In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, photo, seen through the foreground convertible’s windshield, President John F. Kennedy's hand reaches toward his head within seconds of being fatally owner Mike Keiser, will shot as first ladyJacqueline Kennedy holds his forearm as the motorcade proceeds along Elm Street past the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas.Gov.John Connallywas also shot. receive 280 acres of Bandon State National Area south of town, where Keiser hopes to build a 27-hole champi- onship golf course. In exchange, Bandon Biota The day will transfer 208 acres to the state park system — 111 adjoining the Bandon State Friday is the 50th National Area and 97 adjacent to Bullards Beach State Park. anniversary of the Bandon Biota also will spend everything about $300,000 on gorse assassination control in the Bandon area, and pay as much as $2.95 mil- of President lion to help the state buy a 10- acre parcel known as Whale changed John F.Kennedy Cove in Lincoln County and part of the 6,300-acre Grouse Mountain Ranch in Grant County that will be turned e cannot get past it, If, that is, we were ever truly inno- answer: Baby Boomers. that day and, today, are from 67 into a state park. we Americans. Not a cent in the first place. It is they who have carried this down to, say, 49 — the assassina- Chris Havel of the Oregon half century later. We should move on, maybe. But torch, they who have fueled its tion of John F. Kennedy remains Parks and Recreation Maybe not even ever. we don’t. From that moment in flame. When talk turns to the the watershed event that birthed Department said the WThe president with the easy grin Dallas — that moment scoured and inevitable question — “Where the decade we know as the ’60s in whom so much hope was buffed for so long, visited and were you when you heard the pres- and rippled out, year after year, invested. His wife, forever frozen revisited by so many people with ident had been shot?” — the dom- into politics and science, art and SEE BANDON | A10 in pink and pillbox hat. The so many agendas for so many years inant answer in American culture culture. It has been a singular motorcade. The sunny day. The — from that moment until now, is this one: “I was in school.”It is snowball rolling down a hill, still shadowy man in the window with Americans will not let go of this almost as if no adults were around gathering debris and holding onto a rifle. Even more shadowy, the event that changed so much and, on the Friday of the assassination, momentum as it hurtles through man on the nearby “grassy knoll” just as significantly, was thought except as bit players. This is succeeding generations. Suspect who perhaps existed, perhaps did- to have changed so much more. because Baby Boomers — who “This murder in broad daylight n’t. The flickering, silent color film Even as the world lurched forward, were, indeed, in school that day — ... Everything changed,”says Oliver of a leader’s final moments. And Pause was pressed on that are the ones who have shaped the Stone, the Boomer director who in MP the way it is described, even now, moment, and Play has never really national memories of this event. served in Vietnam and made a by so many Americans: the “loss been pressed again. For this generation — the Amer- movie about it before turning his of innocence” that left us vulnera- Why? Here’s one two-word icans who were 17 and under on distinctively critical lens on the killing ble to so much of the heartache arrested and tumult that was still to come. Story by Ted Anthony, The Associated Press SEE KENNEDY | A7 Memorabilia remembers BY THOMAS MORIARTY The World what people forget MYRTLE POINT — A 54- year-old man suspected of orabilia right before and after his killing his half brother in BY EMILY THORNTON The World death. She was a Democrat, Lawson Myrtle Point on Wednesday said, but not fanatical about it. morning was arrested that COOS BAY — Julie Fallwell-Law- She now wants to sell the collec- night in Springfield. son has difficulty remembering it tion she inherited when her mother According to Coos County now, but it was 50 years ago. passed in 1982. It includes collectors’ District Attorney Paul Frasi- “I have a vague memory of it,” editions of several items, including er, Ladd Stewart Robson was she said. “My mom and I were lis- The Associated Press’ “The Torch Is wanted in connection with tening to everything that came Passed,” in a plastic cover. She also the death of 61-year-old across the television.” has “Four Dark Days,” “A Thousand Lance Lucero. Nov. 22, 1963 — the day John F. Days” and The World’s special edi- Emergency personnel Kennedy was assassinated — is a tion of the assassination. She has at responding to a 911 call fuzzy memory now for Lawson. least five magazines, eight newspa- By Lou Sennick, The World shortly before 9:45 a.m. She does remember her mother, Julie Fallwell-Lawson shows some of the books, magazines and newspapers talking found Lucero severely injured Marvel Fallwell, collecting JFK mem- about the John F. Kennedy assassination. 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Wednesday afternoon by return from tracking elk in office, the search party that Mark Melnick is a part- Oregon Coast Technology School search and rescue personnel. that area. resumed Wednesday morn- COOS BAY — Flaming time maintenance worker According to the Coos During a debriefing Board — 7 p.m., North Bend Mid- ing had more than 70 SAR peanut brittle prompted a at Tioga, located at 275 N. County Sheriff’s Office,Lloyd Wednesday evening,Sinclair dle School Library, 1500 16th members from Coos, Curry, police investigation Broadway. He said he was Sinclair was found by a search told rescuers he had fallen St., North Bend; regular meet- Wednesday morning at the standing outside cleaning ing. and rescue team at approxi- while following elk signs into Douglas, Josephine, Jackson, Klamath, Siskiyou and Del Tioga Apartments. the sidewalk when he saw mately 11:30 a.m. in the Lost the brush. He blacked out for Coos Bay police officers what appeared to be a flam- Norte County. Creek drainage west of Win- most of the day and woke up responded initially to a ing object being thrown out ston. just as it started to rain. Helicopter pilots from the report of an explosion about the window. Thefts & Sinclair had strained his Sinclair was able to start a Oregon Air National Guard 8 a.m.,according to Officer “It was something shoulder and knee during a fire for warmth both nights. also helped with the search Steve Myers. wrapped in a burning Mischief fall,but had no major injuries. A mushroom picker in the effort. Police Capt. Chris Cha- towel,” Melnick said. “It panar said a fifth-floor sounded like a mini bomb.” COOS BAY POLICE tenant,Joel Fuller,had been Police closed off the DEPARTMENT using a butane torch lighter crosswalk, sidewalk and Nov.