My mom's BFF turned 17 that day and she has said the same thing to me!
I never had an overwhelming interest in the Kennedy assassination or its accompanying conspiracy theories, but now that all of this 50th anniversary stuff is going on, I suddenly find myself taking interest in it. I even looked up a bunch of his autopsy photos last night.
It's interesting to think how different things would be if this happened now. There would be a ton of video documentation, I'm sure; undoubtedly a local TV affiliate would be filming the motorcade and half the folks in the crowd would be filming it or taking photos with their cell phones. And the news would spread instantaneously via social media. There'd be a "RIP John Kennedy" Facebook memorial page with a thousand members before his car even made it to the hospital.