Was 10 and sitting in 5th grade math class when they wheeled in the TV. Too young to grasp the magnitude but will always remember it.
I was 9 in 4th grade. I went to get my teacher’s afternoon coffee and was told to tell her President Kennedy had been shot. I did as instructed. She thought I was clowning around so kind of got the finger pointed at me. I told her to go see on the TV in the student lounge. She ran there and came back crying. I remember it being a quiet weekend sitting in front of the black and white TV and seeing Jack Ruby shoot Oswald. Seeing other parent’s reaction made me scared.
Fast forward to 1991. I worked in Dallas in the same building as Jack Ruby’s lawyer. He showed me Jack Ruby’s hat and suit...which had become a legal battle between the lawyer and JR family!