I can't forget it, the non-stop playing of it over and over again on my mother's old radio with the dial on it in the kitchen.
We had just the one radio and that was it. It would briefly stop being played to "update" on the situation, but they kept playing it over and over again until the funeral was over.
I don't like the song because of the horrible memories that emerge when I hear it.
Why I remember the song and the name of it is beyond me. I was all of not even 8 years old at that time. I suppose that should tell you something about the effect this horrific event had on people and also young children as well.
It was a horrible time. Between the assassination and the fact that we were doing the "duck and cover" thing at school, I began to seriously wonder about what sort of a country I was living in I must admit. I knew it was not a good time, that was for certain. 
still to this day.
My father admired JFK greatly. He told me that JFK's biggest fear in life is that he would go blind and not be able to read anymore. He knew all sorts of "facts" about JFK because JFK was indeed his hero; a man that America needed and waited for for far too long.
To me, the assassination of JFK was the beginning of the end of the America that some of us remember. We'll never see that America the Beautiful again IMO.
It was a done deal already when JFK was shot in the head and killed. Why did this happen? We'll never know I am convinced.
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