I don't have my own memory of the Day Kennedy was Shot ... although the family legend version is that my Mother and Aunt learned of it when I came to them to ask why Sally Star wasn't on the TV anymore.
I loved Sally Star. I do have memories of watching her while wearing my cowboy hat and sixguns from atop my trusty rocking horse (the molded platic/rubber type with the springs suspended from the metal framework) who was named "Uncle Roy" in honor of my pediatrician. I do not recall why I chose to honor Dr. Ellison in that manner. Neither does my mother.
It may have been the lollypops.
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