I was eight years old then and I was deeply in love with Jackie Kennedy. I had called my doll Caroline (in English pronounciation). I loved her dresses, her smiles.

The Kennedys were the first politicians I ever noticed and they were so much more beautiful like any others I'd heard before.

I knew that all other politicians had similar names like Eisenhower and Adenauer and Ollenhauer (a SPD politician which is now forgotten). The Kennedys were different

So it was a great shock for me and I remember that I heard it in the news (maybe radio?) in the evening. My parents were somehow shocked but not as much as I. I was wondering why Caroline and John John were allowed to wear blue grey coats as here they would have worn black.