I'd just been picked up from morning kindergarten...

Mom dropped by her best friend's house uptown, and the news broke into the daytime pap. Went to my grandmother's, where I saw a bunch of adults cry for the first time in my young life. An odd weekend followed, and two days later, the family saw Oswald shot on live TV.

Yes, it was like the Challenger disaster and 9/11. No, you never forget.

Monsterkid since the Kennedy Era