[Sam Cree]

In my dorm room at boarding school, 9th grade, 14 years old. A kid came running in with the news and we all took off at a run down to a little snack bar the school had for us where we could watch a TV. Mom and Dad called later, to be sure I was OK. Can't remember how they did that, since the kids didn't have phones, but they did.

It hadn't been that long since the Cuban missile crisis had ended, same year, I believe, as I also remember going thru that at the same school.

[Shooter 2.5]

I was twelve and waiting for school to start. Some loud mouthed kid ran through and yelled that the president was shot with a machine gun.

Most of us were bewildered. I didn't come from a political family and policitians were only someone we heard about around election day.

I think the family was more surprised when Ruby killed Oswald.

The only difference was like everyone else we had the TV on continuely for the week and in our family that was unheard of.