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In reply to the discussion: John Fitzgerald Kennedy 11-22-1963 Where Were You? [View all]mnhtnbb
(31,519 posts)with Mrs. Sprinkle. The intercom started crackling and then the sound of a radio news station came through with the announcement. We were all stunned.
I walked home. My mother and my grandmother who was visiting us from California were sitting in the kitchen having tea. I asked them if they'd heard the news. What news, they answered. I told them JFK had been assassinated in Dallas and my mother said "It's about time." My grandmother was appropriately shocked.
That was a turning point for me. I grew up with very Republican parents. At that moment I knew I didn't like my mother and didn't want to be like her. Cold. So indifferent. I was the only one in my family glued to the TV that weekend watching everything unfold.
I'll never forget it. It was a defining moment in my development.