22 November 2021 at 06:37
New Yorkers gobbled up hastily printed extra editions as they gathered in shock on the city streets. November 22 . For the members of a couple of generations, at least, I don’t have to say or writeanything else. You know. The date and the eventare etched in your mind. If you were sentient in 1963the moment when you heard the news is so solidly etched in your memorythat you can recall every detail—the cast of the light through the window, the muffled sobs or wails, even the smell of that autumn day 58 years ago. November 22, 1963 was, of course, the day President John F. Kennedy was shot while passing the Texas School Book Depository Building in Dallas, Texasin an open car with his young wife, resplendent in pink, sitting besi...