Mini baby boom ...
 

I was born 9 months after the JFK assassination in what I label a mini baby boom caused by the president's death. I believe the boom to be the result of many husbands "comforting" their wives in the aftermath of the tragedy. (other mini booms have occurred ... after the NYC black out, after the Cub world series victory)

A visit to the Mob Museum in Las Vegas (highly recommended) and great read called I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt which turned into the movie The Irishman implicate the mafia in JFKs death.

I was sitting in my 7th grade class when my teacher came into the classroom, sat down and told us. He was crying and I will never forget it.

I was in 9th grade math class. It was my 14 th birthday. The intercom had the news report that our president had been shot.

Kennedy
 

Sitting in 5th grade history class in Southington, CT.

When I was working on a project at our distribution center in Dallas, I got to know one of the guys who, when he was a teenager, was working at the Texas School Book Depository and he was there when Oswald shot Kennedy. He never spoke much about the incident unless you really asked. He even was called before the Warren Commission and his testimony is in the official record. So I then had to drive into downtown Dallas and I've stood at the spot. It is surprising how close the window and the car were. Not a long shot at all. And the grassy knoll and the railroad overpass where the suspected 2nd shooter might have been is really close as well.

Freshman in high school. I recall the first announcement over that PA that Kennedy had been shot. Then, a short time later that he had died. How could this happen in America?? We were sent home from school. The following days were numbing. The funeral was numbing. My childhood ended.

My dad marched in his funeral. Here's an article that came out in our local newspaper this week. Johnson City man recalls being in JFK's funeral procession | Local News | johnsoncitypress.com