Where Were You When Kennedy Died?

Where were you when Kennedy died? Watching Hitchcock's film 'The Birds'? Did you hear the news from a TV screen Could you take in the words? Did you sit by the radio all night long As the news bulletins rolled on 'Assassination... hospital', Surgery... Hope all gone.... Did you hear them playing the dead march On evening BBC? Would November, month of bitter cold Bring a nuclear tragedy? At the funeral service, Dimbleby said, 'The drums were the beat of a heart, ' It's easy to judge a dead man's faults Slice the good and the bad apart.