More than a few wondered what Johnson's role might be. It's my understanding that he begged Chief Justice Earl Warren to head the investigating commission, saying "Everyone will think I did it!" So that was in his mind, too.

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I remember being 6 yrs old and sitting under my mom’s ironing board when the news came on. I remember her just stopping, sitting down and crying. Which of course, made me cry. Her intense sadness has stuck wth me all these years. 😔🥺💔

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Shocking, no doubt. Reagan was giving it special attention because of the teacher, Christa McAuliffe, was a payload specialist. An ambitious program, the space shuttle. 135 launches between 1981 to 2011. 2 lost with the crews.

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We're told we'll remember where we were when it happened. 1st grade, bushy-tailed, ignorant Let us go home before reading group. Teachers crying in the hall. Curt, on the bus, said the president was shot. Can they do that? Lots of TV news, on & on. Mom baking bread hugs me

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Over the years (I'm 70) there must have been 100 events that commentators said, "we will always remember where we were ..." Few are THAT notable for someone with a hit-&-miss memory like mine. The moon landing. Nixon resigning. 9/11 (I'm told I got shit-faced drunk, so I remember PART of it). Few.

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