Was in 3th period 7th Grade PE class, was playing basketball, The school loudspeaker came on, first time I had heard it, did not know it existed, first annoucement was of his shooting, ten minutes later was of his death. Everyone was stunned, all the girls cried. The family was scheduled to go out of town to my moms' Aunt for Thanksgiving, my father picked me up a hour later. Spent the rest week with a the Aunt, who was a goldwater repubilican who hated the Kennedy's. She was a sweet lady that had a real hard time not acting delighted.
My parents had both worked on Kennedy's election campaign, I meet the President when he visited our county 6 months before and had shaken his hand, I remember it being very warm and soft, was very suprised to see that he was a pinked skinned redhead. He was very striking, I had never seen a color picture of him, we a black and white TV.
Remember it being quite tense at my aunts home. Rained all the time. Nothing on TV except Kennedy coverage. Remembered it as gray, gray, gray.
