Too young for me too regarding President Kennedy. I do remember other great similar national tragedies that followed a few years later: Apollo capsule fire, Bobby Kennedy and MLK. The sixties were bewildering for a little kid seeing so nightly Vietnam news body count casualties, cities burning / riots, and the assassinations. However, nothing like what the greatest generation coped with..
It was pretty bewildering for me too, and I was a teenager.
I was really concerned that it involved Russia/Cuba, and we were on the road to mutual nuclear destruction.
Your post pretty much sums up my experience as well. I was about a month shy of three years old when Kennedy was shot, so I don’t really remember it happening. We had two deaths in the family not long after that, and I remember those events well, in addition to all the turmoil of the latter Sixties that you mentioned.