I had my head stuck in my 9th grade locker having just come in from lunch—they made the announcement over the schools PA. I had just moved from South Missouri to West Central Minnesota. I was not surprised that someone had shot him. He wasn’t well thought of in the circles of my aquaintces in South Missouri. I was totally shocked by how upset all my Minnesota classmates were. The town kids all went home and they brought in a couple of Ministers and a priest to hold a prayer vigil in the school auditorium. We had to pray some waiting on the bus to take us home.
The election between Nixon and Kennedy of 1960 I remember as a pretty divisive election.
I’ll bet the public schools in Granite Falls, MN no longer hold prayer vigils.
