The world had gone quiet.
That’s what then-14-year-old Sharon Vines noticed on her walk home from Peeples Middle School on Thursday, March 3, 1966. The deafening silence stopped Vines in her tracks. She remembered there was “no wind, there was not a bird, no dog barking.”
“I thought, what is that sound?” Vines recalled in a recent interview six decades later. “It was nothing. I’d never heard nothing before.”…