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The AssOCiATed press fiLe phOTO — ike ALTgens

president John f. kennedy slumps down after the shooting in the back seat of the presidential limousine as it speeds along elm street in dallas on nov. 22, 1963. Jacqueline kennedy leans over the president as secret service agent Clinton hill rides on the back of the car.

JFK assassINatIoN 50 yEars latEr

Nov. 22, 1963

Paul Busman must have brought a transis-tor radio to school that Friday, 50 years ago to-day, because he was the first to know — sprinting down the hallway, shout-ing “John Kennedy’s been shot! John Kennedy’s been shot!”

I didn’t believe my classmate. It had to be some kind of dumb

joke.I was an eighth-grader

at Fox Lane High School in Bedford, N.Y. I was on my way to an early after-noon social studies class.

But the rumor was be-ginning to take hold, the details vague in an era long before 24-hour news

DID osWalD aCt aloNE?

After 50 years, an agnostic on conspiracy theory

NEW HaVEN >> Carm Cozza was a mixture of adrenaline and anxi-

ety as he prepared for his first Yale-Harvard game, scheduled for Nov. 23, 1963.

His emotions, like the rest of the nation’s, radically changed by week’s end.

Cozza became Yale’s head coach two years later, but at the time, he was a first-year assistant who was, as he

yalE-HarVarD gamE

Sports world’s eyes were on New Haven after JFK’s death

Randall Beach

The AssOCiATed press fiLe phOTO

president kennedy, harvard ’40, has the hood of an honorary doctor of Laws from Yale University placed at commencement in new haven on June 11, 1962, by marshals frederick W. hilles, left, and richard L. purdy. At right is Yale president A. Whitney griswold.

Online: slideshow of photos from the ken-

nedy era. www.nEwHAvEn-REGistER.cOm

inside: More coverage and photos from that fateful weekend. PAGEs A3, A4, A5

By rich scintorscinto@nhregister.com @rscinto_nhr on Twitter

NEW HaVEN >> Yale School of Med-icine researcher Lawrence Hsieh,

35, had just left work Tuesday and was walking toward his bus stop in front of Gateway Community Col-lege on Church Street.

It was around 5:30 p.m. and it was a route Hsieh had taken many

times without incident for nearly two years. But Tuesday, three hooded males walked in his direc-tion on the sidewalk.

He noticed one of the males split off from the group when they were about 30 feet away from him.

The lone male took two quick steps and took one swing at Hsieh, breaking his nose.

“I did not expect a punch to the face,” he said. “I was caught off guard.”

He fell down, but got back up and prepared for another assault, he said. He thought he was being robbed, but that didn’t turn out to be the case.

The group took nothing from him and quickly ran away.

Hsieh likely had become a victim of the Knockout Game, a disturb-ing trend in which youth attempt to knock out an unsuspecting vic-tim with one punch.

Hsieh isn’t the only reported vic-tim in the city; there have been at least five others between Monday

NEW HaVEN

Violent ‘Knockout Game’ attacks hit Elm CityUnprovoked assaults, seemingly for fun, have been happening nationwide

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Skakel free on $1.2M bail pending new triallocal news >> a12

NEW HaVEN

Bridge named in memory of late officerlocal news >> a7

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