No idea where I was when the news about Kennedy came through [I was 12] presumably at home if it was evening, but it made no impact on me, a foreign president being killed [not like a neighbour.]There seemed to be a lot of idolatory about the Kennedy clan...... hmmmmn.He was no Nelson Mandela, and may have gone on to be a good President [or maybe not.] the tragedy at Aberfan did have an impact on me though, so many children lost.When the planes went into the towers in NY I had just come back from doing a Tesco shop, and my daughter came running out of the house in tears, saying 'are we at war?' I rushed in and was just in time to see the footage on tv, very shocking indeed. years before, at primary school in the 1950's, I remember being in the playground one lunchtime and a child rushing about shouting about the death [I think! memory is a dodgy thing] of Gilbert Harding, I knew the name but nothing about him but pretended to look sad as others did.If Gilbert Harding did NOT die in the 50's then this is a totally odd memory!