But I wanted to remember a sad day.
I remember some parts. I was only 13. I saw a lot on TV afterwards. But my most specific image is the loudskeaker above the teacher's desk. The Principal broadcast news that we were all to go home as school was dismissed for the day. Those who could would. Those who couldn't would stay in class and wait for their parents.
Because the President had been shot and killed. I biked to school, so I left. But the image that remains with me is not the event itself (though that was important)). What is strongest in my memory is the speaker box. Because that was all we had to see at the time.
It was about 12" square and about 6" deep. It was pale wood. The front was covered in a square or a circle of brown cloth (somehow, I can't remember that part well). I picture screws in each corner of the front of the box.
As events sometimes occur, my family visited the Grandparents for weeklong Thanksgiving Day visit. It was a quiet dinner. Grandad had the TV on all day, which in 1963 was a bit unusual. Everything onair was about the funeral.
I may be slightly off on sone details. It was 61 years ago. But that is what my memory says...
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I remember being outside standing in the lunch line when we heard the news. They brought a TV into the classroom, and that was about all we did was watch the news and the funeral for the next few school days. It was sad and scary to a fourth-grader.
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