>For those of you who are old enough to remember this date it is one, which you will not soon forget. It is amazing how people can remember exactly where and what they were doing at this time.

I bet I was sleeping as it was the late night in Moscow. I was 7 then. The news came next day, and I remember the funeral - it was shown in Soviet Union too.
But I know where I was May 7th 2004 at 12:30 PM CST - a that same place in Dallas. Who would have thought...

Russians somehow always had some close ties with the President Kennedy - mostly because of the Caribbean crisis a year earlier, which I also remember. That was a scary week. We did not know much details, but there was a feeling...