Moreland 1Ryan MorelandProf. Matthew Ware CoulterHistory 1302November 1 2016Baby Boom Interview PaperI interviewed my father, Thomas Moreland. He was born in Dallas Texas on September ninth nineteen fifty-nine. He grew up in Richardson Texas his whole childhood and part of his young adult years before making the short journey to Plano. He attended some college at the various community colleges in the area but never finished. He had also never served in the military. My dad dies engineer style of work. More infoMy dad had connections with the all but one of the events that had happened. the assassination of JFK he remembers well even though he was very young at the time. Living in Richardson he lived very close to Dallas. He remembers that his mom was planning on taking him and his cousin down to Dallas and watch the president. They ended up not going down. After he was shot he said my parents were very upset and everyone was confused. His brother and sister come home early from school and wanted explanations. The whole world was just in shock really. He said since he was young he didn’t understand what exactly had just happened.The moon landing happened while he was in school. The class watched it live in class as well as all the other launches that had happened. he said as young boy he remembered it being exciting and interesting. It made him want to become an astronaut at the time because of cool it looked.
