50years ago today ...Where were you

[MOTOR51]

I wasn’t born yet but read the book. I was laid up from a work related MC crash and sent my wife to the library to grab a few books and she came back with that one. It was a very interesting read. I’m sure a lot to Louisiana residents have never heard of the incident.


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[Fordfella]

I was watching cartoons!

 

[Kraut]

About five weeks from being born. For the last 23 years, though, I've worked with a fellow officer who is the son of one of the officers killed that day.

 

[La26]

There was a book written about it and all that lead up to it, including the New Year's Eve attack on Police HQ (CLU), that left Police Cadet Alfred Harrel dead. Essex fled from there and broke into a business not far away, setting off the alarm. Two K-9 Officers responded, Eddie Hosli, and Harold Blappert. Upon exiting their Police Units they were fired upon by Essex, and Hosli was gravely wounded. He would succumb to his injuries a few weeks later. I was in the Police Academy (which was delayed a week due to the Howard Johnson incident) at the time of his death. The name of the book is "A Terrible Thunder" by Peter Hernon.

 

[Bam Bam]

I was in 3rd grade being a little hellion that I was. I never heard about that until I was much older. But I did see a show about it once, crazy.

 

[XD-GEM]

I was in High School. My bus trasfer stop was at the Saratoga Building next door to the HoJo.

I remember watching it on live TV. They opened an AC unit to see if anyone was hiding in it (I don't know where there would have been room inside). I also remember that a group went out onto the roof after Essex was dead. They fired straight at the cinder block wall and took hits from ricochets, making them think at first that someone was shooting back.

Every day afterward on my bus ride home, I looked at the hole in the side of that building that had been blown through the HoJo logo.

 

[Abby Normal]

I remember my Dad saying the Cops on the roof were getting hit by ricochets when it happened live. In the videos you can see people dropping when they charge the block house.

 

[Jstudz220]

50 years ago I don’t even think I was in my Paws sack yet considering I’m 32 going on 33 lol but I do remember hearing about this event years after the fact.

 

[drill sgt]

US Army / Ft. Sill, Oklahoma (Drill Sgt. / Field Artillery). ............................. drill sgt.

 

[BOSS351]

I was 11 living on Terry Parkway watching TV. Wan to say a channel 8 Sunday morning movie which were monster movies we kids loved. They cut in and covered the story. I hauled ass to a neighbors to tell my mom because she was a nurse and thought they may need her. Dad was working at his hospital already. Man it was a wild day and following week. There was no news from outside NOLA it seemed for days.

 

[La26]

I still laugh when I think about Alec Gifford doing a live broadcast from the Emergency ramp at Charity Hospital while this was going on. He was wearing an old army helmet (steel pot) and an old Viet Nam era flak vest at the time. I wish I could find the picture. You would enjoy it.

 

[T-boy]

I was 6 months old and this is the first time I've ever heard of this event.