What were you doing when.....

[historybuff22]

I was 15-years-old and living in Logan, Utah at the time JFK was assassinated. The bell rang to end 4th period and we ran to the lunch room to get lunch. Ten minutes or so later, the principal's loud voice came over the public address announcing that president Kennedy had been shot. Despite a loud voice announcement, most of us did not hear it due to the chatter going on in the lunch room. A few minutes later, the principal made an announcement that "President Kennedy is dead" and that school was dismissed. With that, the chattering stopped and left many students asking what had been said. I finished my lunch and went up to the school library. The radio was on there and a group of us listened to the constant news broadcasts. I left about an hour after I arrived at the library. Mom was home but my step-father was still at work. Later in the evening my older brother,his wife and my one-year-old niece watched the Kennedy news. My one-year-old niece, who was alternating between taking a few steps and crawling around the room, did not make a sound for the rest of the night. The look on her face told us that she knew something bad had happened but didn't know what.

Rick Brown
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