'The Town Was Draped In Profound Sadness'

A Massachusetts family drove to Hyannis after the president's murder

[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?”]

Richard Walega

I was a freshman at our local Catholic high school when … our principal announced that the President had been shot and everyone was bring dismissed. Kennedy was considered by our nuns as practi…