I was sitting on a school bus waiting to go home when someone came onto the bus with the news. I was in the 9th grade, had just turned 14.

My parents didn't like Kennedy, they were Republicans. I remember thinking that they might like Johnson better as he was a Texan too.

I have lots of memories of Jack Kennedy, he seemed much smarter and less nervous than Dick Nixon in the TV debates (black & white TV) before the 1960 elections.

He started the space program, he was the youngest president...I really grew to appreciate his idealism more after his death.