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[Error: unknown template qotd]The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. I don't remember news of the actual shooting, but I did watch part of the funeral on TV. My folks were Republicans, but we had a copy of Four Days, the commemorative book about the assassination of the President and the murder of his assassin, and when I was seven my mother shamed me into going back into class with a bandage on my face from a cut by telling me that if little John Jr. could salute his father's coffin, I could take being stared at for a few minutes.

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I suspect most folks our age would answer with the same event. And the gazillion books we cleared out of Mom's condo 2 years ago included the 2-volume hardback set of the Warren Commission reports.

I remember the big New York blackout of '63 as well, but not the coverage. No power, no TV or radio stations.