School was dismissed on the spot. We all went home and turned on television sets, games were cancelled for the evening and events just didn't happen. I still have my tickets for a Saturday night dance, November 23 in my scrapbook.
It seems odd to think that it was so long ago. My father was born in 1910 and he was as close in time - actually closer - to Lincoln's assassination than we are now to Kennedy's. Anyway, it was very sad. The big discussion in government class the following week centered around how America could have someone in its midst who would just shoot a president - such an act of violence and non-caring.
Anyway, I was sorry then as I am now that killing someone is thought to be a solution to anything.