(Photo: AP) A high school girl who would go on to become a first lady and a senator, Hillary Clinton was living outside Chicago on the day the president was shot. She was "living in a very Republican community with my very Republican father who was a fan of Richard Nixon and President Eisenhower," Clinton recalls. "So I found myself on the other side of the political divide back then. "We were all just stunned. We were then told to gather in the auditorium. You know, usually when teenagers go into an auditorium or a field house it's filled with noise and jostling and pushing and jokes. It was just totally quiet." Not for decades was the country, and a new generation, tested in quite the same way. Clinton sees parallels between the Kennedy assassination and the Sept. 11 attacks. "In both instances, we face a choice as a nation. We can either go inward, become fatalistic, fearful, feel as though America's best days are behind us, or we can summon our resolve and our resilience and go forward. I think many of the advances that were made in the 1960s made this country a much better place."