In my case, I was sitting in geometry class, in the obsessive alphabetical order Mrs. Perry insisted upon, and all of us, like you, heard it over those ancient loudspeakers. (TV? in the classroom? The first I saw of those was on the occasion of one of the very early space flights, but there wasn’t much for the TV viewer to see, and the experience was seldom repeated in my school days.)
I idolized Kennedy and was chagrined and grief-stricken that he was to be replaced by Lyndon Johnson, who I later came to appreciate in his own right, but Kennedy’s assassination was at least the beginning of the end of a suitably influential liberal wing of our federal government. Indeed, Bryan, those colors have never again been so bright… <sigh />
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