How You Heard the News About JFK?

[Auburnwine]

Allow me a small, non-wine indulgence, but I was just reminded that Saturday will be the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of JFK. It is a defining historical experience for many people of my generation.

I was sitting in the left front corner of Miss Sadie Thompson’s 7th grade English class at Belle Glade Junior High. Stanley McWhorter, sitting in the back, suddenly announced: “President Kennedy’s been shot.” Stanley had been listening to his transistor radio through an ear piece. He brought the radio to the front of the class and we all listened to the news.

It is hard to imagine that that was forty years ago – and it is even harder to realize how much the world has changed since then.