I was a freshman at UC in Boulder, Colorado, walking back to my dorm after class when I noticed students huddling in small groups. The usual noise and bustle of campus between classes seemed eerily disrupted. Approaching a group and hearing sobbing, I was hit with a wave of foreboding Someone blurted, "The President's been shot!" The sho…
I was a freshman at UC in Boulder, Colorado, walking back to my dorm after class when I noticed students huddling in small groups. The usual noise and bustle of campus between classes seemed eerily disrupted. Approaching a group and hearing sobbing, I was hit with a wave of foreboding Someone blurted, "The President's been shot!" The shock was just overwhelming. I rushed to my dorm where a horrified crowd had gathered around the TV and our worst fears were confirmed. Later that day I gratefully went to the Denver home of my best friend, where her lovely family embraced me and we comforted each other in our collective grief. We hardly stirred from the TV for days, and all witnessed the additional horror of Jack Ruby shooting Oswald. We all immediately realized the enormity of that act -- that Oswald was being silenced so we might never know WHO or WHY.
I was a freshman at UC in Boulder, Colorado, walking back to my dorm after class when I noticed students huddling in small groups. The usual noise and bustle of campus between classes seemed eerily disrupted. Approaching a group and hearing sobbing, I was hit with a wave of foreboding Someone blurted, "The President's been shot!" The shock was just overwhelming. I rushed to my dorm where a horrified crowd had gathered around the TV and our worst fears were confirmed. Later that day I gratefully went to the Denver home of my best friend, where her lovely family embraced me and we comforted each other in our collective grief. We hardly stirred from the TV for days, and all witnessed the additional horror of Jack Ruby shooting Oswald. We all immediately realized the enormity of that act -- that Oswald was being silenced so we might never know WHO or WHY.