John Kennedy Shot In Dallas

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48 years ago today. Do you remember where you were ?

I was in the 4th grade and school was let out for the rest of the day. I remember watching Chet Huntley of Huntley & Brinkley having to wipe away tears as he spoke about it.Two days later, we saw Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV.
 
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My soon to be wife & I were coming out of the courthouse where we bought our marriage license. Got hitched the next day & have been blessed ever since!!!
 
Sitting next to Roseanne B. and Laura C. in Sister Reparata's 8th grade class in Sacred Heart School in Cambria Heights Queens.

......moon
 
I was in sophomore year in high school and I had just finished giving a speech in which I quoted President Kennedy when the news came over the PA. I won't soon forget that day and moment.
 
I was at ROTC drill at the U of Wyoming. We were dumbfounded when we returned to the armory and were informed of what had happened.
I lived in an off campus apartment with no TV
I spent every free hour glued to the TV in the Union until JFK was buried.

He had been to the campus and gave a speech not long before and I served on an honor guard at the event. He came over spoke to us and shook our hands.

The world changed in many ways when he was killed.
 
I was a junior in high school. My buddy and I lowered the flag to half mast. There's a photo in the yearbook of us.

Charlie
 
I am just a bit younger than a few of you....I was supposed to be taking a nap in kindergarten in Jefferson Parrish, LA, when the teachers started crying and we all went home early.....I remember everyone being upset that the President had been killed, including my folks...
 
I was in the 7th grade at Oley Jr. High in Huntington, WV. I remember the teacher brought a radio into the room so we could listen to the news reports. I remember her crying the whole time.
 
Home in Dallas, during my first year in the USAF. My mother's high school students cried at the announcement, but the Yankee press just said that some Dallas students cheered.

I bet that some did. Kennedy wasn't popular there. But the city as a whole was pretty somber.

When I returned to base a couple of weeks later, many of the other airmen let me know that they blamed all of Dallas for the assasination. This was largely along ethnic lines, given JFK's policies.

This is a little ironic since I had been on a Presidential escort assignment that summer, helping Secret Service and OSI protect the President. He passed within a few feet of me, en route to deliver the commencement address at the USAF Academy. I was as concerned for his safety as anyone else there. It was the second time I had seen him, having been once to visit the Senate as a boy.

BTW, the dining hall at the Academy had three strengths of coffee and several dessert selections, better than my own base in Denver. (Lowry AFB.)

I think JFK was overrated as a President, but deeply disapprove of the assasination. I used to think it was done by either LBJ or the Soviets, maybe Castro. Now, I think it was the Mob, due to his involvement with some of them and one's girlfriend. We'll probably never know for sure.

Oswald was a jerk, but I doubt that he acted alone.
 
November 22, 1963 is to some of us what September 11, 2001 is to those born later and December 7, 1941 was to our parents and grandparents.
I was a Freshman in High School. Word started to spread, then ALL the teachers were called down at once to the principal's office, my Latin teacher gave the Official Word. They set up TVs in the auditorium and the lunch room. School really wasn't dismissed, rather we just sort of drifted away. I recall my mother and I spent the weekend stunned and numb, on Monday there was a special service at church.
 
I was a sophomore at McKinley HS in St Louis. We heard about the assasination while in PE class. I sneaked a transister radio into study hall. The teacher heard it and asked me to turn it up so we all could hear.
 
3rd grade at Holy Name of Jesus in New Orleans. Main thing I remember is that I was PO'ed because the news coverage pre empted the cartoons for what seemed like forever. Seein' as though I was in a catholic school, I would suppose we said a prayer as well.
Absolutely amazing that this event seems to have been throst into the dustbin of history. Perhaps something on the 50th, but let's face it, the Kennedy clan is yesterday's news. Talk about a Karma Train :eek:
 
CAJUNLAWYER said:
3rd grade at Holy Name of Jesus in New Orleans. Main thing I remember is that I was PO'ed because the news coverage pre empted the cartoons for what seemed like forever. Seein' as though I was in a catholic school, I would suppose we said a prayer as well.
Absolutely amazing that this event seems to have been throst into the dustbin of history. Perhaps something on the 50th, but let's face it, the Kennedy clan is yesterday's news. Talk about a Karma Train :eek:
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I'll tell you more, what I REALLY remember was the Cuban Missle Crisis. The duck and cover drills, we had to bring a blanket a water jug and three cans of some diet food in a can. Never will forget, my dad pulled us all out of school and we went across the lake to my grandparents farm in case they blasted New Orleans.
 
I was in the 5th grade at Cox Junior High School in Plano, TX. I remember the principal coming on the PA and making the announcement of the shooting. There seemed to be a lot of almost panic and many of the girls were crying. School was dismissed for the day. The ride home on the bus was very somber.
 
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