I've been listening to the radio and feeling very sad...

I, too, was in high school and I remember being sent home early and walking (a long walk!) to the bus stop with friends and trying to grasp what it meant.   

I have to say that his election was my political awakening. My dad had taken me to see JFK at a campaign stop at the Staten Island ferry during the election and I had gotten his scribble on a piece of paper. Somehow that always made me feel so attached to him. I remember  watching the debates on TV (both my parents voted for Nixon), and the inauguration and the funeral, and going to the Dallas book repository when ALSB was in Dallas some years ago.  Growing up, I lived in a fairly Catholic neighborhood, and my neighborhood friends (as opposed to my school friends) were largely Irish Catholic so there was a strong Kennedy-connection in the air.


Elaine Ingulli

Professor of Business Law
Coordinator of PLAW Track
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Local Negotiator, Stockton Federation of Teachers (SFT)
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I was 15, Nim, and it is probably the most vivid recollection I have from my early years. There weren't enough courses for me to take at the high school where I was in central Texas, so I was in study hall talking to a girly named Donna who was in the class just ahead of me. The intercom came on, and the principal didn't say anything but just put the radio speaker next to his mike. We could hear it clearly.

I also remember a negative comment by a stupid kid as school let out that Friday, and it was repulsive. My family sat around the house all weekend, morose, as though a family member had died. We were heartsick. I watched Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald--actually, I don't recall whether I saw that live or shortly after it happened. It was all so confusing.

John

John R. Allison
The Spence Centennial Professor of Business, and
Professor of Intellectual Property
McCombs School of Business
University of Texas at Austin
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Hi Everyone - I guess I'm a little surprised that no one has said anything today  about JFK.  He was an amazingly popular president, especially to young people - even to kids in Cherokee, Oklahoma (1963 pop. = 2500).  I was 14 and in class when Principal Frank Cuzalina announced via the intercom that President Kennedy had been assassinated.  I was heartbroken.  One of my best friends made things even worse when he said out loud that he wouldn't have voted for Kennedy anyhow.  I can honestly say that my relationship was never the same with that friend.  It sounds pretty petty now, but it's also true.  Nim