Folks in Lancaster County needed some good news back in 1963, and just after 3 p.m. Dec. 1, they got it.
Just like much of the nation, citizens here were mourning the loss of a president.
Nine days earlier, John F. Kennedy had been killed in Dallas by an assassin's bullet.
But for a short time that afternoon, there was plenty of promise in the air on the oft-neglected side of town when Leonard George handed a key to teenager John Reed.