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MALCOLM SUMMERS - Witness to JFK killing, was in - = Zapruder=20 film
Dallas Morning News, The (TX) - =
Saturday,=20
October 16, 2004
Author: JOE =
SIMNACHER and=20
CHRISTY A. ROBINSON, Staff Writers
On Nov. 22, 1963, Malcolm=20
Summers waited at least five minutes near the end of =
the=20
presidential parade route, hoping to see John F. Kennedy ride by. =
He=20 estimated he was 5 feet from the curb on Elm Street with an unobstructed = view=20 when the motorcade rolled by. Instead of catching just a glimpse of the=20 president, Mr. Summers was an eyewitness to history.=20
Mr. Summers , 80, died Oct. 8 of pulmonary = fibrosis at=20 Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. Services were Tuesday in=20 Duncanville. He was buried at Laurel Land Cemetery.
In an = interview for=20 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Mr. Summers = recalled=20 what he believed to be a firecracker as the president's limousine = approached.=20
"Standing beside the curb there, I saw Kennedy get hit," he = said. "I=20 heard [Texas Gov. John] Connally say, 'They're going to kill us all!' or = '...=20 shoot us all!'"
That first shot sounded so benign that Mr.=20 Summers thought it was a prank, said his son Kevin Neal = Summers of Dallas.
"He at first thought, 'Well, = that's=20 a cruel joke.' But the second and the third were deafening, definitely = rifle=20 shots," he said. "He was probably only the width of a traffic lane = away."=20
Mr. Summers , who also heard Jacqueline Kennedy = scream,=20 can be seen falling to the ground in the Abraham Zapruder film of the=20 assassination.
Later that day, Mr. Summers had = another=20 brush with history as he returned to his Oak Cliff home at 405 12th St., = two=20 blocks from where Dallas police Officer J.D. Tippit was shot on 10th = Street.=20
Mr. Summers was born in Dallas, where he was a = graduate=20 of Crozier Tech High School.
He served in the Army Air Forces = during=20 World War II. He later served in the Air Force during the Korean War. =
He=20 operated Summers Mailing Services for 43 years with his = wife,=20 Miriam Summers of Dallas.
He served as = president to the=20 Southwest Mailing Association and was commander of the AmVets Post No. = 22.=20
Mr. Summers was interviewed by the Warren = Commission=20 and has been featured in TV specials, such as one Nova produced as a = scientific=20 approach to the investigation.
Mr. Summers = hadn't=20 always been so public with his historical perspective from that day, his = son=20 said.
But he began opening up after a few years had passed, = speaking at=20 symposiums and retelling his account.
"Anytime someone asked him = about=20 it, he would always tell a story," Kevin Summers said.=20
In addition to his wife and son, Mr. Summers is = survived by another son, Malcolm Lyn = Summers=20 of Red Oak; a daughter, Donna Gail Gibbs of Corinth; six grandchildren; = and=20 eight great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to the building = fund of=20 the First Baptist Church of Dallas or the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. =
E-mail jsimnacher@dallasnews.com and crobinson@dallasnews.com=20
He=20 estimated he was 5 feet from the curb on Elm Street with an unobstructed = view=20 when the motorcade rolled by. Instead of catching just a glimpse of the=20 president, Mr. Summers was an eyewitness to history.=20
Mr. Summers , 80, died Oct. 8 of pulmonary = fibrosis at=20 Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. Services were Tuesday in=20 Duncanville. He was buried at Laurel Land Cemetery.
In an = interview for=20 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Mr. Summers = recalled=20 what he believed to be a firecracker as the president's limousine = approached.=20
"Standing beside the curb there, I saw Kennedy get hit," he = said. "I=20 heard [Texas Gov. John] Connally say, 'They're going to kill us all!' or = '...=20 shoot us all!'"
That first shot sounded so benign that Mr.=20 Summers thought it was a prank, said his son Kevin Neal = Summers of Dallas.
"He at first thought, 'Well, = that's=20 a cruel joke.' But the second and the third were deafening, definitely = rifle=20 shots," he said. "He was probably only the width of a traffic lane = away."=20
Mr. Summers , who also heard Jacqueline Kennedy = scream,=20 can be seen falling to the ground in the Abraham Zapruder film of the=20 assassination.
Later that day, Mr. Summers had = another=20 brush with history as he returned to his Oak Cliff home at 405 12th St., = two=20 blocks from where Dallas police Officer J.D. Tippit was shot on 10th = Street.=20
Mr. Summers was born in Dallas, where he was a = graduate=20 of Crozier Tech High School.
He served in the Army Air Forces = during=20 World War II. He later served in the Air Force during the Korean War. =
He=20 operated Summers Mailing Services for 43 years with his = wife,=20 Miriam Summers of Dallas.
He served as = president to the=20 Southwest Mailing Association and was commander of the AmVets Post No. = 22.=20
Mr. Summers was interviewed by the Warren = Commission=20 and has been featured in TV specials, such as one Nova produced as a = scientific=20 approach to the investigation.
Mr. Summers = hadn't=20 always been so public with his historical perspective from that day, his = son=20 said.
But he began opening up after a few years had passed, = speaking at=20 symposiums and retelling his account.
"Anytime someone asked him = about=20 it, he would always tell a story," Kevin Summers said.=20
In addition to his wife and son, Mr. Summers is = survived by another son, Malcolm Lyn = Summers=20 of Red Oak; a daughter, Donna Gail Gibbs of Corinth; six grandchildren; = and=20 eight great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to the building = fund of=20 the First Baptist Church of Dallas or the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. =
E-mail jsimnacher@dallasnews.com and crobinson@dallasnews.com=20
Memo: A shorter =
version of this=20
story appeared on Pg. 6B in the SECOND Edition.
Edition: =
FIRST
Section: METRO
Page:=20 6B
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Record Number: 219059689
Copyright 2004 The = Dallas=20 Morning News
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