Where Were You When Kennedy Died? Poem by Sheena Blackhall

Where were you when Kennedy died?
Watching Hitchcock's film 'The Birds'?
Did you hear the news from a TV screen
Could you take in the words?

Did you sit by the radio all night long
As the news bulletins rolled on
'Assassination... hospital',
Surgery... Hope all gone....

Did you hear them playing the dead march
On evening BBC?
Would November, month of bitter cold
Bring a nuclear tragedy?

At the funeral service, Dimbleby said,
'The drums were the beat of a heart, '
It's easy to judge a dead man's faults
Slice the good and the bad apart.