48 YEARS AGO-NOV 22, 1963

Hi everyone;

Some of you receiving this were not even born when this occurred on Nov. 22, 1963.

I had just finished 11th grade classes at my high school. I had decided to get a haircut. I walked from my house to the barber shop. It was very noisy in that barber shop where I was getting my haircut. There was a radio blaring in the shop but with all the noise I could hardly hear what was coming out of the radio's speaker. Something caught my ear that President Kennedy had been shot. I do not think anyone else was paying enough attention due to the noise to hear what was said. I paid for my haircut. I was walking back home where I was getting ready to cross Braddock Avenue at Hillside Avenue. A car stopped by me and the driver asked me if I had heard whether the president had been shot. I told him what I heard in the barber shop. I think I told him that when I get home I would find out more. I do not know if the gentlemen had a car radio. When I got home, I found out the truth. This happened on a Friday.

It became a rather morbid weekend for the country. Oddly enough my parents,brother and I had to attend a wedding in New Jersey of my cousin Gloria that Saturday night. After the wedding, my father was thinking of driving to Washington D.C. since we were a quarter of the way there but we came home.

That Sunday, we had enough of the morbidity so we sent to the movies. The theater was completely filled showing DEAR BRIGETTE with Jimmy Stewart. Apparently, others had to get away from the morbidity too.

My mother worked as a clerk typist during World War 2 in Wash. D.C. while my father was overseas in Europe. She witnessed the funeral of Franklin Roosevelt.