[TigersEye]

I was in the third grade too and like you didn't understand the magnitude of it. My teacher told us nothing but an older friend told me about it when school let out. He was upset but I still didn't get it.

When I got home my Goldwater Republican mother was sitting in front of the TV crying her eyes out. I asked her "Why are you crying? You didn't even vote for him." She replied "Because he is our President." That is how most people were then. There was no joy anywhere in my neighborhood and it was probably a predominately Republican area.

The author is just one more liberal lying sack of dog feces.

[Moonmad27]

I was in Houston in elementary school at lunch and a kid who was often in the principal’s office rushed in to tell us. There was NO cheering but shock and sadness. When I got home I was surprised that my right wing mother was very sad because she had disliked JFK so much that she gave me anti-New Frontier coloring books! Now I understand that at a time like that, politics were forgotten.