John F. Kennedy

Notable events from our shared experience

We started this summer, asking our readers what they remember about the day in November when our president was shot in Dallas.

by Tom Stachelek

by Dennis Stiffler, 69, Port Orchard, Wash.

Timothy Kelley, Age 64

by Donna Wilson, Ed. D., Durham, N.C.

Some journalists, as the saying goes, speak truth to power. Helen Thomas made power squirm.

Get ready. For the next five months, those of us of a certain age will be returned to the Friday afternoon in 1963 when we heard the most shocking news of our young lives. The president had been shot. We'll tell each other stories about where we were, what we felt and how it changed our world.

Two books with the same title?