“I have bad news,” said Mr. Bannon. He continued and said, “Our president was shot and killed.” This is what Nancy’s high school teacher said in the middle of class on the day John F. Kennedy was killed. John F. Kennedy's assassination was traumatic around the whole country, if not the whole world. Nancy Zuber was willing to be interviewed on what she thought of the situation. At the time Nancy was a student in eleventh grade at reading high school in 1963.
Nancy Zuber was sitting in her book keeping class. “We were taking a test. As we were taking the test, the teacher named Mr. Bannon walked in the door and said, “I have very bad news, our president was shot and killed “ said Nancy Zuber. “Everyone in the class was crying. Everyone liked the president,” said Nancy Zuber. When Nancy was asked how the teacher knew about the assassination she said, “The principal sent messengers to each of the classrooms to notify the teachers, the teachers then notified the students.” She was asked what was the first thing she said. She replied “Who will be our president?” “Why would anyone want to shoot our president?” Nancy commented. Many people thought the same thing. Nancy continued and said “ many people came up to me and asked the same thing, why would someone shoot the president”. “When school was let out all of the teachers and students …show more content…
“ Everyone was sad and confused on what just happened. The day was very long and the teachers had trouble teaching classes.” Did your history teacher say anything about the event? “No he didn't really say anything besides it was a very tragic event.” After the assassination did you think that another president would be assassinated again? “Some people did some people didn't.” What did you think? “ I thought that it was a flukey thing that was never going to happen again.” Did you have any news papers from this event? “Yes” Did you save them? “We did but we lost them over the
Nancy Zuber was sitting in her book keeping class. “We were taking a test. As we were taking the test, the teacher named Mr. Bannon walked in the door and said, “I have very bad news, our president was shot and killed “ said Nancy Zuber. “Everyone in the class was crying. Everyone liked the president,” said Nancy Zuber. When Nancy was asked how the teacher knew about the assassination she said, “The principal sent messengers to each of the classrooms to notify the teachers, the teachers then notified the students.” She was asked what was the first thing she said. She replied “Who will be our president?” “Why would anyone want to shoot our president?” Nancy commented. Many people thought the same thing. Nancy continued and said “ many people came up to me and asked the same thing, why would someone shoot the president”. “When school was let out all of the teachers and students …show more content…
“ Everyone was sad and confused on what just happened. The day was very long and the teachers had trouble teaching classes.” Did your history teacher say anything about the event? “No he didn't really say anything besides it was a very tragic event.” After the assassination did you think that another president would be assassinated again? “Some people did some people didn't.” What did you think? “ I thought that it was a flukey thing that was never going to happen again.” Did you have any news papers from this event? “Yes” Did you save them? “We did but we lost them over the