I was a still just a mere twinkle in my newlywed mother’s eye.
Far older than you. Was 26 then, had worked at Repub HQ in Grand Rapids, went in as a volunteer and they discovered I was good at raising money. Was at lunch with chairman of state finance committee who had come down from Detroit to ask me to come work at state Hq. Sat at a booth across from the bar, where a big TV was on. And there was Cronkite announcing JFK was dead.
State chairman and I were dismayed. We never wanted him dead. I went home immediately to my pre-schoolers and he went home to his. End of my career in politics. I had worked for a famous photographer at Dem National Convention in Chicago as a teenager, met JFK and Jackie, had good conversation with RFK there too. Beautiful and charming people, far far better Dems than today’s crop of idiot hustlers.