50 years later ... Kennedy Assassination

[Roy Hersh]

Hard to believe it has been 5 decades since Lee Harvey Oswald and possible collaborators were successful in murdering the President of the USA. I will never forget that day in first grade. Over the speakers in every room in our elementary school, an announcement was made that we would be all released from school as soon as buses arrived, because the President of the United States had been shot.

I took my bus home and walked in the house, (yes, even in NY back in those days, we never locked our door unless we were going on vacation). I found my mother face down on the couch in the living room with the black and white TV on and she had been watching events unfold on the news. All regular programming on all TV networks stopped and there was literally days of non-stop coverage.

My mother was crying her eyes out and had mascara all over her face. It was the first time in my life that I had ever seen my own mother cry. I'll never forget that scene.

For those of you who do facebook, look at my page where I have posted a photo of my brother and I holding the newspaper early the next morning, taken by my father. Worst day in American history since the Japanese invaded Hawaii on Dec. 7th 1941. Innocence lost, applied to Nov. 22nd 1963. Some things would and could never be the same ever again. It took 38 more years for the USA to have a day that insane and historic, in a terrible way.