Reply #156: It was on the car radio when I left school to go out to lunch [View All]

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We were allowed off campus to go to lunch. I was in the car with three or four friends and we heard the news. For some reason it didn't sound like he was going to die at first. So we heard the very first snippets of the report. By the time we got back to school it was all over the PA system.

We had just seen Kennedy drive by our school two days prior to that. All 1600 of us were on the school lawn. A person in English class remarked that it would be so easy to shoot him. Yes he was in a convertible. Our English teacher said Secret Service was everywhere and that couldn't happen.

In English class the day he died nobody said a single word about that, but we were all thinking it. Basically nobody said anything. We were just stunned. It was just stunned silence in school. It was hard to get through the day. We all just wanted to go home.