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Message: [QUOTE="Lynx23, post: 3739371, member: 309"] I was sitting in an 8th grade classroom, Our Lady of Mount Carmel parochial school, when a nun came in and informed us that the President had been shot. She turned on an overhead TV so we could watch the coverage. I can't recall when I heard that he had passed away. Perhaps it was then and there, or maybe when I arrived home. Naturally we were all stunned. We would sit through the funeral procession seen live on TV (Monday) in several days, but not before witnessing (also on live TV) Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald a few days after the assassination (Sunday). I recall my normally very passive uncle screaming at the black and white TV set, his pleasure that Oswald was shot and further exclaiming that if he had been there he would have done it himself! Obviously this was an incredibly dark time for the nation. A few months later The Beatles would arrive on our shores and bring a much needed distraction and perhaps hope to a nation that was reeling. The Beatles were (are) great in their own rite, but I always felt their timing couldn't have been better. The assassinations that would come later in the decade would spawn music of a much different darker and deeper nature. [/QUOTE]