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In reply to the discussion: Generation JKF About to Re-Live the 60's in Their 60's: Are You Experienced? [View all]N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,667 posts)I was 11 years old. We were a house full of raging Democrats. My parents were in a battle with the "Birchers". Political engagements were just another course filling the table at dinner time. Learned much that stayed with me theses many years.
The funeral, all that could or would be shown on tv or talked about on radio, was a constant companion the following days. My mom and dad were crying it seemed to me all day. I remember that was the first and only time I saw my dad cry.
It was the first time I saw a person get murdered in front of my eyes. The Oswald "perp walk" was on the tube. My mom was fixing dinner in the kitchen, I was alone watching tv. Saw Ruby lunge forward and shoot Oswald. I screamed to my mom, "They shot him", that vision is as clear to me today as it was then.
Changed my life.