Reply #39: Sophomore in HS, age 15 year, in Trig class after lunch.... [View All]

[Hepburn]

...and I can even tell you what I was wearing...a matching yellow, Villager sweater and skirt. Black velvet head band in my Jackie boufant page-boy hair-do. Woven natural brown leather, wood stack heeled loafters. The moment is caught like a picture in my mind. I can even see the math teacher ~~ who was an elder in the Mormon church across the street from my HS ~~ sitting in stunned silence, wearing a dark blue and white plaid shirt, removing his eyeglasses, tears running down his face.

There is about 10 minutes of time in kind of a frozen loop that has run in my head since November 23, 1963, and I don't think there is anything I can do that will ever make that go away. Anytime I think about the JFK assassination, that loop starts to run.

I can still hear the voice coming over the PA system ~~ the principal had turned on the radio and I can still hear the announcement about President Kennedy being dead. I also will never forget watching TV live when Ruby shot Oswald.