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Caught up in the moment?

- Christina Aguilera improvises at the Super Bowl, February 8, 2011, MusicTalkers.com.

3. Fifty years ago, Bonnie Morley of Buffalo was a newlywed living in Australia. Life was good — her husband Shelby had a great job, they’d just had their first child, and they loved where they lived.

But on Nov. 22, 1963, she’d receive news that would turn everything upside down: President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated.

Morley, who had been sitting under the hair dryer at the local hairdresser’s earlier that day, noticed the beauticians glancing worriedly in her direction and whispering to each other.

“When I came out of the dryer, my hairdresser said, ‘Oh Mrs. Morley, I’m so sorry to tell you your president has been shot,’” Morley said.

It took a moment for those words to sink in.

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She remembered the time, three years earlier, when she got to shake the hand of the man who would become one of the most celebrated presidents in American history.

In October 1960, Morley was a sophomore at Marycrest College in Davenport, Iowa, a “starry-eyed, 20-year-old apolitical idealist,” as she described herself.

“I was not a political person at all,” she said.

Her college, a private, all-girls Catholic college, received a call from Kennedy’s campaign team telling them that he was stopping at the Rock Island high school field house. They wanted 16 students from the college to make an entry corridor for Kennedy to walk through and then surround the raised platform he spoke from. Morley was one of those chosen.