“Faculty and students of Lafayette Park — the President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, has been shot and killed by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, Texas. You are dismissed for the remainder of the day.”

Less than a thousand miles away . . . Camelot had died.

We who lived through it are destined to remember. Here, in a long way around, is my memory of that day . . . and America of 1963.