President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas. I was in first grade at St Joseph's Elementary School. Mother Superior knocked on the door, Sister Theresa James stepped out and came back in the room crying. She told us the President had been shot and school was being dismissed. As a young child I was happy about early dismissal. My parents kept me in for most of weekend to watch the funeral. Like many here I still have the "Torch Has Passed" book. Might have been a Life Magazine piece documenting the events. My first life experience where I know where I was when it happened.
