JFK

What major historical events do you remember?

I remember the night President Kennedy was assassinated. I was on my way from church ( it was a Catholic thing) when someone came out of a nearby shop visibly upset and crying that Kennedy had been shot. By the time I reached home he was dead and my dad was in tears.

We were terrified that it was going to lead to a world war as at that stage we were guessing it was the Russians who had assassinated him.

I also remember the Cuban Missile crisis. We sat at our school desks waiting for a huge explosion ( probably not what would have happened) but our teacher had a transistor radio on and there was great relief when it was announced that Russia had backed down.