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In school - we were told the President was shot and to prepare to leave school in an orderly manner. A little while later we were told he was dead and to go home.

People were crying openly in the streets and yes I do remember it, but I also vividly remember many things of significance in my life. The day MLK was shot, the day RFK was shot. The attempted assasination of President Reagan and even Moscone/Milk killings.

All in the name of Kennedy mystique and a foggy notion of Camelot there is an almost worshipful way the media discusses Kennedy's murder; it seems an attempt to relegate the others to less importance.

Kennedy memories pale in comparison to the vividness of 9/11. Yes, some will say that is only because not enough time has not passed to put things into perspective. The three thousand people who were murdered that day will always be a vivid memory and truthfully a memory of more significance and pain to me than JFK.

I was 20 and in college when JFK was shot. Students were running through the streets crying telling everyone they could that he had been shot. The Student Union was filled with students in stunned silence who crowded around the television. The silence was punctured by occasional sobbing. Classes were canceled. It was a very sad, depressing day. Many of us just went out and got drunk.