I was in music class in the 7th grade. The principal came into the room and whispers to the music teacher who immediately stood up and said, "Our president has been assassinated". Being in the 7th grade, I didn't know what the word assassinated meant, but by his tone I could tell that it wasn't good. Within a few minutes everyone knew what it meant.
We went on with our classes the rest of the day. Many of the kids were upset because we had somehow heard that other schools were dismissing their students.
I did witness Oswald's killing live on television the next day.
Many years ago, I was working as a bartender and I asked a young man for his ID. His birthday was Nov 22, 1963. I asked him if he knew the significance of that and he told me that his mother was in the process of giving birth at the time of the assassination. So even though he doesn't remember, he knows exactly where he was at the time.
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The Beatlemaniacs of The Villages meet every Friday 10:00am at the O'Dell Recreation Center.
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson to William Hamilton, April 22, 1800.
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