16-08-2013, 07:04 PM
I was two or three years younger than you, Marlene and Steve (8 in 1963), and to be honest, much of that weekend is a blur. I too, at a parochial school, remembering the PA announcement, and my third-grade teacher, a nun, breaking out in tears (she was rather old). Of course, being in Catholic school, I also remember the immediate comment was, "First Pope John XXIII (Pope Roncalli), now the other John." What I do remember clearly from the PA announcement, because it struck me as peculiar that anyone would do this, was a report that the assassin was firing from a sewer and had possibly escaped through it. I swear on scout's honor (OK, I never was a scout) that I am not projecting backward here. It was very much a bizarre image in my mind at the time.
However, most of that weekend passed without my taking much notice of anything. My father ran out onto the porch where I was playing on Sunday morning and grabbed me so that I could at least witness the replay of Oswald and Ruby in the DPD basement. And then of course we watched the funeral.
When I finally came to realize, four years later, what all of this was about, I greatly regretted having been too young or perhaps silly-hearted to have paid enough attention at the time.
However, most of that weekend passed without my taking much notice of anything. My father ran out onto the porch where I was playing on Sunday morning and grabbed me so that I could at least witness the replay of Oswald and Ruby in the DPD basement. And then of course we watched the funeral.
When I finally came to realize, four years later, what all of this was about, I greatly regretted having been too young or perhaps silly-hearted to have paid enough attention at the time.