Where were you when President Kennedy was killed? [View All]

[Clinton Crusader]

I was in my mother's house, sitting on the floor, watching TV when the screen changed to 'BULLETIN" and stayed that way for a long time. I called to my mom, and told her there was a bulletin, she was on the phone and said "I'll be right there". When Walter Cronkite's voice came on he said, "Three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade today in downtown Dallas . First reports say the President has been seriously wounded by this shooting".

And it spiraled from there. Launching into a continuous non stop news cycle - what we know now as cable news, for four days. I understood, but didn't grasp it all. It was the first time I saw my father cry, remembered I had met President Kennedy on Park Ave., in Manhattan in October, 1963, and thought of Caroline who was close to my age and now her father was dead.

The most eloquent and true words I ever heard of this horrific event were spoken by Adlai Stevenson.

"We will mourn his death until the day of our own"