Speaking of the JFK news...I was in the fifth grade and I'll never forget when another teacher ran into our classroom and walked up in front of the classroom where our teacher was conducting lessons and whispered into her ear this news. She gave out a yelp, and then ran over to the little AM radio sitting on this one desk against the wall, and as she turned it on said to our class with tears in her eyes, "Children, our President is dead. You unfortunately will remember this day for the rest of your lives." And then we all listened to the news reports coming over that radio.
(and, I was the "flag-monitor" that week in November, and so it was my duty to go lower the school's Stars and Stripes to half-staff)
