From 11/22 to 9/11

An educator on the lifelong influence of his junior high teacher's reaction to the JFK assassination

[This is part of a continuing series of recollections of Nov. 22, 1963. Submit your JFK story in the comments sections here: “Where Were You When?”]

(Credit: ardiyansah.com)

Tobe Berkovitz

3 pm, Friday November 22, 1963

It was time for Mr. Marshall’s American Civics class to begin at Long Lots Junior High School in Westport, Connecticut. Our teacher Mr. Ma…