What were you doing when.....

[BettyO]

I know that this thread may seem somewhat silly....but for those of us who remember the Kennedy Assassination -

What were you doing when you heard the news? Where were you? What do you remember?

I was 10 years old at the time on that cold, overcast day, and I was in the 5th grade....getting ready to take a dreaded math test. Horrid to recount, but I remember feeling a sense of relief that I got out of the test. School closed immediately and we walked home. When my sister and I arrived at my house, my mom was crying as she watched the news reports of Walter Cronkite. We watched for a bit (I was 10; my sister was 7) and then we went out to play with the little boy next door. I can remember that he had a box turtle and we played with the turtle. That night, all three TV channels was full of nothing but news and the radio was the same; alternating between religious music and news reports.