>>>>They do cover British History, but that is in another year in school. It is covered in World History. My daughter is taking that now in the 9th grade. They cover the Kennedy years as well as the assassination in American History, but I was so young that I don't remember it personally. I was listing the things that they cover that I lived through and remember from personal experience or knowledge (watching it on the news).
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>>>I remember it well. I was writing an exam in high school when the teacher took a phone call and then announced to us (right in the middle of the exam) that Kennedy had been shot.
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>>Seems like a daft time to announce it. "Now carry on as if nothing's happened and don't let this affect your perofrmance"
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>I was in a similar position and I guess that's why the teacher held the news until the exam was finished.


And Kennedy was more dead, and the world would change even more because you got the news a bit later, right?

Yeah, like my mother used to wait till I'd finished, say, my holiday, to give me bad news that could wait. Why spoil someone's holiday as well as life thereafter? Always stuck to this myself too.