The assassination of US president John F Kennedy was one of those rare events that people who live through them will remember for the rest of their days. In November 1988, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, I contacted an eclectic range of people to get their memory of that day for an article in Magill magazine. TragedyJack Kaarama, minister for culture in the Estonian Soviet Social Republic, whom I collared at an event in Dublin, was at university at the time of the assassination. He remembered thinking it a tragedy. There was then RTÉ personality Bibi Baskin who had no recollection of the assassination at all, which she found “quite remarkable really.” Indeed, she was not alone.

Source: The Irish Times November 21, 2020 00:22 UTC