Writer's Block: News development

[kanders07]

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The first major new event I remember was JFK's assassination. My dad was stationed in France, so we were living there. I was six and in first grade. My mother came into my bedroom and told me there was no school because someone had killed the president. She was crying.

It didn't really have an impact on my world view because I don't think, at six, I really had a world view. Other things had more impact as I got older and started to understand more. Things like the Viet Nam War, The Cold War, other assassinations. Most of those things turned me into a complete pacifist.

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[msscorpioct.livejournal.com]

I remember things like "the day the music died"- the deaths of Richie Valenz, Buddy Holly, and the Big Bopper- at my age- I was born in 1952- that was a major event. But I would say the real major event had to be the assassination of John F. Kennedy- just 2 days after my 11th birthday. It was a Friday afternoon, and I was sitting in my sixth grade classroom. A teacher in another room had a television on for her class, and Walter Cronkite broke in with the news from Dallas. She called my teacher and told him, and then he broke the news to us. They sent us all home early, and it was just like the entire world came to an awful stop. What a terrible weekend that was. Some things you just do not forget.