1. Where were you when you heard Kennedy had been assasinated

I remember watching John Fitzgerald Kennedy's inauguration speech when he said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."  Those were very powerful words and although I was just a little girl, I understood those words and thought he was very smart for saying them.  Everyone loved the Kennedys. They were a young couple with young children. They were very much in the spotlight at all times.  Jackie was the epitomy of fashion.  She was soooooo elegant and soooooo beautiful with her wide smile. There were always stories of Caroline and her pony, Macaroni, in the paper and pictures of little John John.

President Kennedy was the last president that the people held in awe.  People used to think the president was a great man, the leader of a great nation.  You never heard people saying bad things about the President like they do now.

On November 22, 1963, I was in school in the 6th grade. I was 11 years old.  Our teacher came into the class with a look of horror on her face. I could tell she was trying not to look that way, but her feelings were showing through. She told us the President had just been shot in Dallas, Texas. We had a black and white television in our classroom, so we turned it on and watched the news coverage.  People everywhere were crying.  The entire nation was in shock. 

I will never forget it.  It was, by far, the most tramatic thing that had ever happened to me.

Later that day, we found out that our president was dead. The news just kept showing Jackie in her stylish pink suit, covered with blood.

Next I remember watching as the horses pulled the flag-draped casket down the street, the family, dressed in black, walking behind it.  Then I remember the famous picture of little John, John saluting as his father's casket went by.  I watched as he actually did this and I cried.