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In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'

— Marisha Pessl

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

— Libba Bray

I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

— Kesha

The pilot came back and said he had just heard that Kennedy was shot.

— George Smathers

My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.

— Frank Rich

I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have.

— Rob Lowe

The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

— Lorna Luft

'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.

— Paul Wesley

I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.

— Vincent Bugliosi

✗Opposing Perspectives

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

— Sam Neill

People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.

— Emo Philips