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Remembering J.F.K.

Alecia Orsini

JFK's assassination is still a clear memory for many Americans, including residents of Cape Cod. In collaboration with the Cape Cod Times, WCAI producer Elsa Partan recorded the memories of Cape Cod residents of that day. The voices are of the following people: Dean Troxell of Centerville, Lucy Tanneyhill Cromwell of Mashpee, Christine Collins Crane of Bourne, Daniel Farren Jr. of Forestdale, and Michael Robbins of East Sandwich.

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Elsa Partan is a producer and newscaster with CAI. She first came to the station in 2002 as an intern and fell in love with radio. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. From 2006 to 2009, she covered the state of Wyoming for the NPR member station Wyoming Public Media in Laramie. She was a newspaper reporter at The Mashpee Enterprise from 2010 to 2013. She lives in Falmouth with her husband and two daughters.