Reply #90: I was a 20 year-old college student.

[frogmarch]

I had some kind of flu and was at home, recovering. I was watching the soap "The Edge of Night," when all of a sudden Walter Cronkite interrupted the program to announce that JFK had been shot. I called to my mom, who was in in the kitchen, and she came running. I said, "Someone shot President Kennedy!" My mom, who'd been an Eisenhower republican, had also voted for Nixon - mainly because she was afraid that if JFK were president, the pope would run the country. But she'd come to love and respect JFK, and when she heard he'd been shot, she wept in her hands. When it was later announced the president had died, we both cried.

I was also watching TV when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald.

What an awful time it was.