Seventh grade in Catholic school. The principal first announced he had been shot. The entire school knelt on the linoleum floor and prayed for 10 minutes. She then announced that he had died. We were all sent home.
Harriet Nelson once explained that the producers had her wear pearls because she had a pronounced cleft under her adam’s apple at the base of her throat. Others seem to have copied her.
I think Obama fits that bill also.