Re: [IRCA] [Amdx] OT: Anniversary of President Kennedy murder

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Mark Durenberger <Mark4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was in the Army in France; just back from a movie (it was after
> dinner there).  The French radio said "The world was held together by
> the counter-balancing of two leaders, Kennedy and Khrushchev. 
> Kennedy is dead."
> 

*** I was in last period high school physics class, when an
announcement was made over the loudspeaker announcing that the
President had been shot and rushed to the hospital, and that we were to
return immediately to our homerooms and be dismissed.

I also recall that ( as is recalled in Don McLean's "American Pie" )
the music did die - for the better part of two weeks there was nothing
but talk and the most somber music imaginable. I remember thinking at
the time that two weeks was a very long time....

Russ Edmunds
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