'In My Teacher's Tears': Remembering the Kennedy Assassination. What Are Your Memories of November 22, 1963?
Here's a video clip of the first television bulletin of Kennedy
assassination, as reported by Walter Cronkite of CBS News, November 22,
1968:
Here's also a fine column by Dan Barkin, "In My Teacher's Tears," in The News and Observer on what happened 45 years ago, November 22, 1963. Dan's experience was very much like my own experience. My mother captured that momentous occasion in a letter to her daughters away at college.
What were your memories of Nov. 22, 1963? Add your comments here.
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