just watched the dramatization of the assassination of JFK, in the film Parkland.
a time when I was growing up, 12 years old and living in my own playful world.
got home from the Christmas toy fair at my former junior school where I had been helping on a stall and had taken fancy to a Colt Navy pattern revolver and holster, so bought it.
got home to find my mother weeping and crying uncontrollably and when I asked my dad what was wrong he told me that the president of the USA had been assassinated, and that mum was very upset.
in a world of my own and not really knowing what "assassinated" meant, I thought I'd cheer my mum up by showing her what I'd bought, which only worsened the problem..............I was told to go to bed.
the Colt Navy toy was never seen again, but the thought of that night and the sadness it brought to so many will always be in the thoughts of those who lived through it.
A very good programme tonight, very poignant and thought provoking and one which I can understand is not to all tastes, but one which I am glad I watched.