I was in high school drafting class when the announcement came over the intercom in the classroom. I was a sophomore. Classes were dismissed for the rest of the day.
I also remember I was upset because they decided to cancel the last football game of the season, a game I was scheduled to play in with the varsity team for the first time as a sophomore. Funny where your priorities are at that age.
But I was fascinated with the events surrounding the assassination. I rushed home from Sunday School and turned on our B&W TV to watch live as Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the Dallas police station parking garage. I couldn't believe my eyes. I couldn't tell anyone because no one else in my family was home from church yet.
I was doing the same thing on that Sunday...I yelled out to my mom and dad when Ruby shot....