Reply #132: Sixth grade.....my teacher was Mrs. Balla [View All]

[livetohike]

The PA system came on with no prior announcement just a radio broadcast that the President had been shot. A little while later, our Principal came to the door and Mrs. Balla went out into the hall. She was crying when she came back into our classroom. She said, "Our President has died." We were all crying and then school was dismissed early.

When I got home, my Mom had the tv on and she was nursing my youngest brother who was eight months old. I remember it like it was yesterday. Kind of frozen in time. My Mom in the living room as I walked in the door. When my Dad got home from work, he had tears in his eyes. We had the tv on all day/ all weekend and watched in horror as Jack Ruby shot Oswald.