Abstract
On that fateful day of November 22, 1963, I was placidly sitting in a classroom listening to my professor of physical geology expound upon the wonders of our earth. Suddenly the classroom door opened, the chairman of the department walked in and conferred briefly with my professor who then informed us that the President of the United States had been shot. Class was dismissed. Within a few minutes I was listening to the news as reporters tried to piece together the disjointed bits of information associated with this terrible incident. President John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead, and the suspected assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested in a theater and charged with the assassination of the President of the United States.