Jfk Personal Narrative

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Once again I am sitting on the couch watching another News Report on the president, so much has happened since his speech only a few days ago. It all started November 22 in my home city of Dallas. That day I woke up early to watch a news report for the new presidential campaign John F. Kennedy was talking about starting. I got all dressed up to go see the motorcade, and put on a nice hat to cover my head from the sun. It was a fair day, may I say. I picked a nice grassy spot to watch from. I felt like the motorcade took ages to reach my view point. Then it happened, three gun shots rang out. I saw the motorcade stop, and people seemed panicked. I decided to go home, before things got worse.
There I was again sitting in front of the television watching the news, with a cup of hot tea in my lap. It was about thirty minutes since I witnessed the horror
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I walked past several shops, and buildings. Then I walked through a vacant park. It was kind of cold and I wish I brought a sweater. After I went through the park I rounded a corner, and saw a man being dragged out of the cinema. I didn’t think anything of it at the time and decided to go home. Before bed I decided to watch t.v. . I flipped through a couple of channels, but all that was on was news. The news wasn’t something that interested me at the moment, so I went to bed.
That was all a few days ago though. Since then its been a very crazy world on the news. There was a lot on who would take over the role of president, and JFK's funeral. A new character showed up on the news, his first name was Lee. He was the man whom I saw get arrested at the movie theatre, and was said to killed the president. He was arrested after killing a police man who questioned him. Fair enough we know he killed a police man for certain. No one knew why on earth he even did that, and no one ever got a chance to hear about it. Again on the news another

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