How You Heard the News About JFK?

[wondersofwine]

I was in college at the University of Nebraska. Heard about it at a beauty shop and went home and had a good cry. I had written my senior paper in high school about Kennedy as a candidate for President. The administration didn't cancel the Nebraska U-Oklahoma game that weekend and I was torn about whether to attend or not. I thought the game should have been rescheduled after the President's funeral. But I knew if I stayed home from the game I would probably listen to it on the radio, so I went. ROTC guys had black drapes on the flag staffs as they marched in. Also, the day after the assassination I went to interview a professor for a yearbook item, and found him in tears in his office listening to the radio. (Nebraska won the game--I think their first win over Oklahoma in football in years!) My sorority had sponsored a semi-official rally for the football team a few days before the assassination (with some NU band members leading a parade through campus and downtown Lincoln). The regular bonfire/pep rally was canceled out of respect for the tragedy, so our informal one was the only pep buildup to the game.