I just did a search on Woodmont School and this post came up. I had Mrs. Sherrod as well for third grade, but it was I guess 1970-71. We feared, but never saw, the paddling machine.
Mrs. Sherrod drove a Corvair which became the windmill for Ralph Nader to tilt at.
I sometimes walked home from school or rode my bike. I lived at Bowling and Woodmont and Wimbledon Road.
My Daddy came home from Vanderbilt Hospital and said it was a “bad day” due to the assassination. He had much earlier noted that Kennedy was a very weak man but he was sickened by the assassination. Daddy was friends with another neurosurgeon, Dr. Lowell Davis who was Nancy Reagan’s father.
The Kennedy affairs with Mary Meyer, Marilyn Monroe, Judith Campbell, Mimi Alford, and a host of others were unknown to the American people of the time.