60 years later, Bozo Show contestant remembers the moment President Kennedy was shot.

Everyone of a certain age remembers exactly where they were when they heard President John F. Kennedy had been shot, Friday, Nov. 22, 1963.

But few have a story like Mary Jane Joyce-Byrne, who was at the WGN TV studios when the news broke. WGN’s Dean Richards helps deliver the memory, 60 years to the day.



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