There's been much typed about JFK's assassination over the past several days. I was just over a year old when it happened, so I have no memories of that tragic event. However, I think a memory that I do have is a fitting commentary on the 'sixties.
I was seven years old in 1969, and living in Knoxville TN, where my father taught at the Webb School. Dwight Eisenhower had died. School was cancelled on the Monday following his death. When I asked my father why there was no school, he told me it was because a great man had died.
I then asked, "Who shot him?"