Reply #26: I was at a neighbor kid's house

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and his mother was talking to my mother when the telephone rang, and then neighbor kid's mother answered it and almost immediately shouted "Oh, my god!" and she had such a shocked look on her face Then she said "The President has been shot!" I had no idea what a President was in those days, but I knew that something bad had happened. Later, I remember watching the funeral on TV and seeing little JFK Jr. who was close to my age and hearing the word "caisson".