WHERE WERE YOU 50 YEARS AGO ?

[Bill Gulley]

If you're old enough like my generation, we remember exactly where we were when President Kennedy was slain. I was standing in school in a hallway, a bridge walkover going to lunch. They turned on the PA and heard it from Walter Cronkite. I just stood there stunned looking out the window listening to the news. There was nothing but silence at first and then I heard the crying of teachers and students alike. I can clearly see the school yard between the two buildings, a small rolling knoll with shrubs. What I had stared at while listening to the news at school, I later saw in that very similar grassy knoll in Dallas watching TV.

It was a different time, a nation of Americans horrified, all with a sense of a some personal loss. It was much like 9/11.

There was immediate talk of conspiracies, Castro, organized crime, was there a political take over, rumors were passed in the news and there were concerns of going to war.

Today, over 60% believe Oswald did not act alone and the conspiracies continue.

What's your story? For those younger, did your parents tell you of those times?