If you really really want to feel old

I was in 7th grade, the vice principle came running by, stopping at each room, saying "the president has been shot", about an hour later comes running by saying "the president is dead". All further activities cancelled for the day.

My wife was a sophomore in high school at the time, said her English teacher laid his head down and started crying.

I grew up in the Chicago area, we had five TV channels, the three main networks, an independent (WGN) and one PBS. It was all about this the next three days. I don't remember my parents saying much about it, but that's the way they were, keep things to themselves.