Where were you on Nov 22, 1963?

[tripledipper]

Working as a Sales Rep. for McLean Trucking Co. in NYC and walking on W.33rd St. outside the Empire State Building. The streets were crowded with people who were looking through the glass windows of restaurants and bars trying to see the television screens inside. No one could believe what they were hearing. Also was watching live TV when Ruby shot Oswald. One of the 3 days in my life which I remember and never will forget, the other two being VJ Day and 9/11.

 

[4011]

Senior in High School in Hurst, Texas. Art class with Mr. Williams. Got a ticket that day after school for anti noise. Still don't think the Warren Commission is correct. Checker at the Worth Food Mart where I worked over heard a man on the pay phone say we got him................ Oswalds family were underwraps here in town for a few days. A sad day for our country.

 

[Duffy]

Nov. 22, 1963

I was on the Wash., D.C. Police Dept. working mid-nite tour, first I heard was when I got a call to report back..I stayed on duty in my patrol car but most uniform officers were on various details, mostly at the Capitol bld.

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

I was in third grade and was out in front of the old elementary school building playing. Don't remember if it was morning recess or just after lunch time. I lived in town and like most of my friends would walk home for lunch. Suddenly a large group of older students came out though the front doors along with several teachers. The teachers were all older women and were very upset. Some were crying. They stood on the porch and waved their arms as if to shoo us away , telling us to "go home, go home". One of the students was chanting " the president is dead, he's shot through the head" over and over (I still remember his name, he was always an obnoxious twit). I went home and watched Walter Cronkite on TV.
John

 

[judge]

Walker AFB, Rosewell, N.M. - on my way to the duty station. Passed some other Airmen who filled me in on the news. Never believed in conspiracy plots until Jack Ruby stepped up and silenced the witness. If that wasn't a set up, I've never seen one. Much more than Oswald involved, however we will never get the full story. Most are dead now.

 

[Tam 3]

Shooting a rifle match at Mercer in Macon, Ga. There were muffled whispers behind the firing line, normally a major breech of custom.
Finished the kneeling position. Shot offhand. Cleared the range and walked past the ROTC orderly room just in time to see Cronkite make his announcement.

Regards,

Tam 3

 

[dkees]

Earth Science class at Ball State Teachers College (now Ball State University) in Muncie, Indiana.

 

[Iggy]

Cadet Colonel in charge of college ROTC drill period. We received the word as we returned to the armory after drill. I had also been in charge of ROTC honor guard the day JFK gave a speech at the university and he had come over and shaken my hand a few weeks before he was killed.

Didn't agree with all he stood for, but I admired the man for what he had done. .

 

[DCWilson]

I was a college freshman in Connecticut. In those days I figured my future lay with the State Department, and I was studying Russian because that looked like the necessary language. I had just wrapped up the first of two hours of conversational drill with a native speaker when another of the Russian training staff stepped through the door of our basement classroom with a stunned expression on his face and said the only words I ever heard him say in English: "President Kennedy just been shot." The six or seven other people in the discussion group and I rushed out of the room, up a flight of stairs to street level, and out an exit door. Half way down the street in front of us a red convertible was parked at the curb in front of the nearby Law School, and a flood of people was rushing up to it, obviously to hear what was coming over the radio. That was all the confirmation I needed. I walked back to my rooms on a part of the campus about three blocks away, and by the time I got there Kennedy's death had been announced.

I never did get to the State Department, but I still remember a little Russian.

 

[ASA335]

Third grade in Milwaukie, OR. Teacher in tears as the news was announced over the PA system. Released from school early. Mom crying as she watched the TV. Dad watching also. He was wondering if his Navy Reserve unit would be activated - they had been activated during the Cuban missile crises. Most folks I knew were either in tears or wondering what was next (Russian attack, Cuban attack, riots, whatever) and I was worried my dad would be gone again.

Peace,

 

[OFT II]

Camp Kaiser, Korea. By the way, it was November 23rd, at least where I was as we were west of the dateline. The First Sergeant came through about four in the morning blowing a whistle and yelling that we were going on full alert because someone had shot the president. We thought that he was drunk until he started turning over some cots with the sleepers still in them.

 

[ltcdoty]

8th grade , announced over the PA system in school. Everybody crying and in shock. What scared me the most was the fact that all the adults were so rattled.

Also watching Oswald getting whacked on live tv was surreal.

 

[PALADIN85020]

I was then working as a college placement counselor at the job placement office at Arizona State University. One of the secretaries hung up her phone and announced that Kennedy had been shot. We all thought it was some kind of joke at first, but she assured us it was serious. Later that day we were all glued to our TV sets and heard the gruesome details.

And to think that even today, 47 years later, we still don't know the truth about who was involved and why.

John

 

[oliver507]

I was 13 at the time. We went to my paternal grand mothers funeral and returned to my aunts house. When we turned on the TV Walter Cronkite was detailing the Dallas shooting and he then broke the hospital report that the President was dead. That was one heck of a 5 minute segment in TV history.
Wheather or not you liked JFK and his politics, that was a tough way to end a presidency. I always felt badly for his wife and kids.
Oliver507

 

[ACP230]

I was also across the dateline on a small island in the East Carolines.
My brother and I were playing pool at "The Club" which was empty except for us and the barman that morning. The guy had the jukebox top open and was playing rock and roll records one after another. No TV on the island and the radio wasn't on because the jukebox was.

After several games of rotation we walked home for lunch. The adults were just sitting around and I asked, "Hey! How come there's no lunch."

 

[Forester]

I was -9.5 years old.

 

[kraigwy]

Where was I on Nov 22, 1963?????????????

Do I need an alibi??

 

[JcMack]

I was in 3rd year of high school, English class. The teacher announced what had happened and retreated to the teachers lounge to watch the news on TV. Meantime my buddy Mike (who was 19 and dropped out of school long ago) was wandering the halls looking for me. I remember he spotted me and walked into class. He talked me into cutting class and we drank beer the rest of the afternoon. Ask the OP's question of pretty much any "boomer" and they'll remember where they were. I do not think much of the Kennedy family or their politics, or morals.

 

[cass]

I was a freshman at North Texas State at Denton, Texas. The afternoon before his Texas visit, we drove to Ft Worth to see him and Jackie arrive from Carswell AFB. We were on the parking lot of the Texas Hotel that evening when they arrived. We elected to stay the night ,so we could hear his speech the next morning. That night, we spent most of out time in a beatnick spot called the Cellar, along with several SS agents. The next morning we were there when he, Johnson, and Connley came out for his brief speech. Afterward, we returned to Denton, just in time to hear he had been shot in Dallas. It was no surprise to us at all because he was VERY unpopular in Texas. So, I had the opportunity to hear his last speech in person.

 

[H Richard]

I had just started a job, having dropped out of college after my discharge from 4 years in the USAF, and still "looking for myself". It was in a men's clothing store (I quit in Feb, 4 months later). The bookkeeper came out and announced the President had been shot. Not a sole came in for the next hour, and cars weren't moving on the street. The owner said we were closing for the rest of the day and we all left.

That day and 9/11 will never be forgotten.