Just finished Basic Training when the Cuban Mille Crisis came along. Was later stationed in SoCal then and after having to “Standby” for hours on-end in the hot sun at Palm Springs while JFK and Jackie meandered around did bring out a cheer from me when hearing the news.
He was a pompass ass who almost got us all nuked. Piss on him and every kennedy.
We lived in NYC, and I went to a catholic elementary school. The nuns were freaking out, and us kids didn’t know what to think. That week-end the city was about the most quiet I had ever known it to be. All this was followed by Oswald getting whacked on nationwide TV, and then the riots soon thereafter. The world had changed, and not in a good way. I doubt JFK would have gotten re-elected; there was too much unrest, especially in the South. His demise in the fashion that defined it was not, however, constuctive or beneficial. Personally, I blame RFK for a whole lot of the assassination that ensued, and also LBJ. Both were dirty in this.