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Gary Sward's avatar

I was at that game with my father. As a young kid I didnt think much of the incident. But what nobody has mentioned is that the quick witted Vin Scully said "that is the 1st foul I've seen in fair territory " broadcast out of my transistor radio held tightly against my right ear

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John Gersch's avatar

I attended that game with my Dad! I was almost 11 1/2 yrs. Old. I remember it well! Sounded like a cannon went off. Lotta confusion, lotta flour dust. I remember everyone had turned up their portable radios so they could hear Vinny report everything that was going on. 1st reports were that LAPD was chasing the suspects with their helicopter and the suspects were also in a helicopter. I remember hearing nothing until the impact. Whoever they were, they knew what they were doing. They had to have been gliding. I guarantee anybody who says they heard a plane or a helicopter leaving the stadium was full of it. Because there was way too much noise down on the field and in the stadium. We were on the loge level , press box level off of the third base line I had a perfect view what happened. There's a lot of speculation. But we were all told that the LAPD was chasing the helicopter. Then we never heard another thing about it. I thought it was kind of weird because my father was a film editor at channel 7 KABC TV at the time. It's like they never spoke of it. It's almost like they were all told to keep it under their hat. I don't know why but it was kind of weird very mysterious. I thought it'd interesting that I came across this article. I've had a lot of strange things happen to me at dodger stadium as a kid.??? I don't know.

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