The Kennedy Assasination

Fifty years ago (Yesterday)

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Well, since we are all (maybe) going to live forever here in cyberspace, what I remember, and why.

It was my Birthday (4th Grade?) We were munching my Birthday treat I had brought in (Ice Cream);  Someone came in from another class and told us the President had Been Shot.  Kind of put a damper on the rest of the day, I recall lying in front of the console stereo listening to the Radio during what was supposed to have been my party.

And I few days later, I may have seen the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald live on the second (Old, B&W) TV in the Basement.  Not that I had a clue what it meant at the time, most interesting at this remove of  how limited our choices of TV were even in a "Major" market like Detroit (we lived in Birmingham).  No cable, MTV or DVD player, you watched one of the Network channels or the couple of independents there might have been in the market.