I was in fourth grade. The teacher from room across the hall ran in and said, "they've shot the president." Our teacher ran out of the room with her, without a word to the students. I can't imagine what would happen in a class room today under these circumstances, but things were different then. Thirtyone fourth graders sat at our desks and discussed what we had just heard. A boy expressed the opinion it must have been the Russians. A girl expressed concern for the president's children.
