Sorry, but I was one and a half when JFK was shot. I do remember the first shuttle explosion in 1986. I was at home, recovering from surgery (a seemingly common occurence in my household ) and I saw it happen live. The second shuttle explosion, I was at my best friend's mother's funeral.

When John Lennon was shot, I was still in college. We all went to a friend's house and turned on the radio to listen to the reports (why not the TV? Not sure). Then we smoked pot and ordered Chinese food.

As for September 11th, I was at a marketing committee meeting of my local United Way when the first reports came in. We broke up the meeting and I was listening to the radio as I drove back to my office. That's when the first tower fell. When I got back to my office, we watched the skyline from our conference room. I just remember thinking that the horrible plume of smoke looked like someone had nuked Manhattan. I was never quite able to look out that conference room window again.