Th CNN documentary of the shooting of Reagan is sponsored in large part by

[PCIntern]

Tena...that of the Tena Twist.

Somewhat ironic and vaguely weird....

Sure remember exactly where I was that day, teaching Dental Students. I made the announcement to 160 students and about 20 faculty. The Kennedy assassination had only been 17+ years before and was still relatively fresh in our minds. Complicated day and night.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. I was heading to a Chinese restaurant w/ my Mom...

...when I heard the news on the car radio. The TV at the restaurant was on CBS - Dan Rather was filling in for Uncle Walter (before his eventual takeover a few months later).

The whole event seemed, at the time, not very serious. It took a few years for the truth to come out (that he was more seriously wounded than what was reported at the time).

[Warpy]

4. And that mentally, he was never the same.

My mother spotted the mental changes immediately. I was working odd hours and managed to either avoid the news or avoid him on it.

[indepat]

2. I remember where I was on the day President Reagan was shot; the airplane hit the 14th Street

bridge; and the Challenger exploded: eerily each time on a teaching assignment in Washington, D.C.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. The rest of us would be OK with you staying the hell out of DC.

[indepat]

5. Agreed. Spent numerous one-and two-week periods in D.C. throughout the '80s and certainly no cause

and effect, and am not superstitious. But stay away I will.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. I watched the last half of this last night

As you said, the memory of the JFK assassination was still clear to many people and the news about President Reagan being shot brought that awful fear right back. I was working at my first job, hadn't been there all that long and went in late in the afternoon, so I'd seen the news bulletin with Frank Reynolds on ABC. We had a brand new head of the company and he was waiting by the door when I walked in. He asked me if James Brady was dead, the first time I'd ever spoken with him, and I said "yes," because I'd just heard it on TV.