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What Were You Doing When JFK Was Shot? The 50th Anniversary of the assassination of JFK is November 22, and everyone is asking “Where were you when JFK was shot?” In this case I was too young to remember and our family didn’t watch that fuzzy 19” black and white portable TV that...

Fifty years ago on Friday the country was in shock. Americans were in mourning. Nov. 22 marks the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. For many, the memory is still vivid. “It’s one of those things you never forget,” said Marian Bergeson, longtime Newport Beach...

At certain moments we lock onto the details, ever after keeping them near the surface of memory. On November 22, 1963, I was an Army wife, living in Lawton, Oklahoma, about 200 miles north of Dallas, where President John F. Kennedy was touring. As the news that Kennedy had been...