I was at school when the news got announced, and I think I was in the cafeteria at the time. The thing that most shocked me about it was that the majority of the students around me didn't seem to care all that much. Some of the teachers and staff were certainly upset about it. The thing is, I was in rural upstate New York at the time, an intensely conservative area, and most people around there hated John Kennedy. I think many of them were secretly pleased that he was dead, but they weren't going to say it out loud.

The ensuing days of mourning were traumatic for the whole nation, in fact the whole world, and will never be forgotten by those who lived through them...but the USA was sharply divided. Many loved John Kennedy. Many hated him and wished him dead. I will not forget the coldness of many of the Republicans in that town on that day and in the ensuing days. It was the beginning of a very disturbing trend in American politics, a secret war in my opinion, and it's still happening today.