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Originally Posted by krys
I was a high school senior (Chamberlain High School, Tampa, Florida) in Mr. Little's technical drafting class. The 'class' for seniors was really 3 afternoon classes, all taught by Mr. Little, that included technical drafting, technical math and technical writing. Since all of us had spent our junior year together learning 'basic' drafting and would now spend our senior year together, Mr. Little allowed us to listen to the radio. I remember I was leaning over a drafting table thinking about what present/s might be waiting when I got home, because it was my 17th birthday, when the music on the radio stopped and the announcer said the president had been shot.
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Sorry to hear that you have November 22 as a birthday. I had a similar experience with a very well known murder in Reno, Nevada occurring on my birthday of February 24 in 1976. That of my then high school English teacher's daughter Michelle Mitchell. I thought it was a sick joke when the other students told me why we were having a substitute teacher in place of Mrs. Mitchell. Believe all the students of Mrs. Mitchell and her husband who taught English at a different Reno High School looked at life quite differently over the three years it took the police to solve Michelle's murder. This murder was in the press in Northern Nevada for about a decade as it went through the various phases of commitment, investigation, solution, arrest, trial, appeal, etc.