Reply #169: 9th grade, Hazel Park Junior High, St. Paul Minnesota.

[scarletwoman]

They started playing a radio news broadcast over the P.A. system shortly after the first reports of Kennedy being shot started coming out. We just sat motionless and speachless in our classrooms, listening to the scratchy news coming out of the speakers. When JFK was officially declared dead, our prinicipal came on the P.A. and sent us all home early.

My new boyfriend and I left school together and sat under a tree and talked for awhile. I cried.

Then I went home, and my whole family -- my parents were lifelong Democrats -- cried together. I still cry every year...

:cry:

sw