BLACKHAWKNJ
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...seems like the 50th Anniversary was only yesterday. For those us of who remember where we were and what happened, that day is seared in our memories like 9-11.
56 years ago...
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I was only two, so I'll bite...what happened?
DWalt
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Not only that, I was there when it happened (but not at the actual event site). So I won't forget it.
ParadiseRoad
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...I was 10 and attending Lincoln Elementary School in Denver...
...the news broke right before lunch...
...I went home for lunch and found my mother crying...so I knew it was serious...
...went back to school after lunch and watched television coverage the rest of the school day...
...the news broke right before lunch...
...I went home for lunch and found my mother crying...so I knew it was serious...
...went back to school after lunch and watched television coverage the rest of the school day...
Tomorrow, 5th grade, looking at books in the "Bookmobile.". Joe
I was in the fourth grade. I remember how shaken the teachers were. There was a lot of crying. As the school filled up with parents picking up kids I remember people, including my mother, sobbing and hugging one another.
Dad was stationed at Hurlburt Field which went on alert.
It was a lot for a ten year old to absorb.
Dad was stationed at Hurlburt Field which went on alert.
It was a lot for a ten year old to absorb.
I was in junior civics class that day and watched my teacher, a hard man, Mr Charles Carr openly weep. I then knew we had a problem.
terry
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I was in 11th grade. Classes were interrupted. Kids just walked out of class. Rumors were everywhere.
29aholic
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Jumped the gun by a day. 11-22-1963
This answers my question...thought it might be about this.
Ivan the Butcher
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I'll run on the theme of 56 years ago tomorrow. I was in second grade at Marburn Elementary School in Columbus, Ohio. School was let out an hour and a half early. Classes were canceled for the rest of the week. The school janitor (a WWII vet) had the flag at half mast before we left, that was the first time I ever saw a half mast flag!
Ivan
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Grayfox
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I was in 3rd grade. I remember the teacher rolling one of the few TV sets they had into our room and several other classes cramming in the room to join us while we watched the news coverage.
I was 32 then. Heard the news on at resistor radio on my dash. I will never forget that day. A jokester on my crew said there is a job opening in Washington. The rest of the crew walked out & left him alone.
I was in 7th grade history class. An announcement was made on the PA system, and then radio news broadcasts followed.
When I think of this, it seems like last week.
...... how our lives have changed since then .....
When I think of this, it seems like last week.
...... how our lives have changed since then .....
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See, that confirms my theory that american schooling really sucks. "A day that will live in infamy" and Lincoln's assassination certainly are up on top. November 1963 is right up there with them.
My wife is a history teacher and she laments the **** they want her to teach, and worse, the stuff she can't teach...
I was a senior in HS, government class. My then boyfriend who was out of school heard it on his car radio and came running into the classroom to tell us. Everything after that is a blur until the funeral procession, will never forget the riderless horse.
hoosierone
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I was coming back from lunch to my job with Household Finance in the loop. We were told about the shooting and after few minutes the boss came out and said he's dead. The weekend was spent watching it on tv. Saw Oswald get shot on live TV.
I remember some of the funeral but not much else I was 5 years old.
blues7
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6th grade, Mrs. Hamburg's class. "Joe the janitor" addressed us in the hallway to tell us what happened and we were dismissed from school.
Third grade.....
Principle came over the intercom saying that the President had been shot, but there was no further word and he would monitor and report later. About 15 minutes later he came back on and said, "He is dead." Then they dismissed school. I remember walking out in shock and some of the kids were crying. The next few days the TV was all about the assassination and I remember watching the funeral. Of course there was the Oswald/Ruby thing and it seemed like the world had really gone nuts.
Principle came over the intercom saying that the President had been shot, but there was no further word and he would monitor and report later. About 15 minutes later he came back on and said, "He is dead." Then they dismissed school. I remember walking out in shock and some of the kids were crying. The next few days the TV was all about the assassination and I remember watching the funeral. Of course there was the Oswald/Ruby thing and it seemed like the world had really gone nuts.
DWalt
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So did I. At least I think it was live. I remember I was just getting out of the shower and my roommate called for me to come out and see what was on TV about moving Oswald, which I did. Got there in time to see the shooting.
UncleEd
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I was driving Military Police Journal's staff car
back from Augusta to Fort Gordon.
back from Augusta to Fort Gordon.
Aggie1906
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Nov 22
Sitting in my RA's room in the dorm chatting of things I do not recall. Excited buzz in the hallway came our way. Things changed. Radios came on.
I'd been at one of those football log pile burning rallies the night before. Boy did the mood plummet. They put up a black trimmed photo in the student union. The game was cancelled, and everybody who could fled for home. The game was rescheduled.
Similar to my parent's retelling of their hearing of Pearl Harbor.
Sitting in my RA's room in the dorm chatting of things I do not recall. Excited buzz in the hallway came our way. Things changed. Radios came on.
I'd been at one of those football log pile burning rallies the night before. Boy did the mood plummet. They put up a black trimmed photo in the student union. The game was cancelled, and everybody who could fled for home. The game was rescheduled.
Similar to my parent's retelling of their hearing of Pearl Harbor.
ancient-one
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On 11-22-44 my daughter was born. She never forgets that such a horrible event happened on her birthday.
Yep. It was November 22nd, not today, November 21st. Another famous (or infamous) person died on the 21st, but more on that later.
I was a sophomore in high school. Our coach called us over and told us what had happened. You could've heard a pin drop out on that field.
My Scoutmaster, Mr. Bob Walker, a tough old army veteran, had planned an overnight camp and hike that weekend for all those in troop leadership positions to check out some potential places for future troop campouts. I was serving as Senior Patrol Leader at the time, so I was one of the ones who went. I remember that a mother of one of the boys kept him home because of the tragedy. Mr. Walker's reply was, "The world still needs to go on."
I remember a couple of things. First, I remember stopping at a small town diner on the way for supper. We sat up at the counter and there on the front page of yesterday's newspaper were the headlines announcing the death of Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz, who had died that day on November 21st. I'd never heard of him before, so our Scoutmaster explained who he was.
I also remember Mr. Walker showing us his Colt parkerized 1911, explaining that he always carried it on campouts, usually in his pack, in case of emergency. He also taught us how to use it. That would probably be frowned on in today's world, but there was a time when he did have to use it when a couple of horseback riders came through our camp late at night knocking things over. But, that's completely off topic.
Anyway...yep, I remember the day well.
I was a sophomore in high school. Our coach called us over and told us what had happened. You could've heard a pin drop out on that field.
My Scoutmaster, Mr. Bob Walker, a tough old army veteran, had planned an overnight camp and hike that weekend for all those in troop leadership positions to check out some potential places for future troop campouts. I was serving as Senior Patrol Leader at the time, so I was one of the ones who went. I remember that a mother of one of the boys kept him home because of the tragedy. Mr. Walker's reply was, "The world still needs to go on."
I remember a couple of things. First, I remember stopping at a small town diner on the way for supper. We sat up at the counter and there on the front page of yesterday's newspaper were the headlines announcing the death of Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz, who had died that day on November 21st. I'd never heard of him before, so our Scoutmaster explained who he was.
I also remember Mr. Walker showing us his Colt parkerized 1911, explaining that he always carried it on campouts, usually in his pack, in case of emergency. He also taught us how to use it. That would probably be frowned on in today's world, but there was a time when he did have to use it when a couple of horseback riders came through our camp late at night knocking things over. But, that's completely off topic.
Anyway...yep, I remember the day well.
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I was a senior in high school and remember it well
LittleCooner
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Well, I was cleaning an old military surplus rifle for a dude in Texas by the name of Lee and he said he had a date for hunting tomorrow. What were you guys doing. I never did like those surplus rifles from Klens.
