Where were you on Nov 22, 1963?

[Eagle 477]

9th grade english class PS 142 in the Bronx NY ... It came over the PA system ....

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

3rd Grade. The thing I most remember is they pre-empted Captian Kangaroo and the cartoons in the morning and on Saturday and I'm thinking "What's up with this?????? " Looking back I realize it was probably because my parents didn't like the Kennedys.
I just hope they catch the guy who did it

 

[Old cop]

I was a junior in high school, in Public Speaking Class, when the announcement came over the PA System. I was 17 at the time and recall being quite stunned.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

9th Grade/Freshman Year of HS here in NJ. 1st Year Latin class, Mr. Carman. I recall the rumors started flying then ALL the teachers were called down to the principal's office at once. They set up TVs in the auditorium. Don't recall our being formally dismissed from school, it seems we just drifted away. Don't recall anyone crying, rather we were all stunned and numb.

 

[sheriffoconee]

I was in kindergarten in Jefferson Parrish (Marraro) Lousiana.....
It was naptime.....all the teachers were crying and our parents came to get us early.....

 

[perrazi]

in 7th grade. we had just went to lunch when it was announced. remember someone dropped a loaded lunchtray.

 

[LHS]

I was home from the hospital with my twin brother for less than a month after birth.

 

[speedshooter]

Second Grade..Miss. Wood's class.......i dont even think anyone even mentioned it today....

 

[vico512]

I was in a hotel outside of Atsugi NAS, Japan. We were based there as members of a Marine F8E squadron. I can still recall the Japanese coming up to me in the street, with tears in their eyes, expressing their sorrow. I still have the 1st edition of the Stars & Stripes newspaper that reported the event.

 

[jeffsmith]

Its one of my earliest memories, I was about 4 1/2 and lived in MA

I was visiting a neighbor friend of my mother's
and she started to cry

I wondered what I had done to make her upset
and when mom came to get me she told me what happened

My mother recently recalled I spent the next few days glued to the TV

 

[Old 44 Guy]

I was driving my phone truck about 11 AM or so. Had a tranistor radio on the dash. News came that JFK & Gov. Conneley had been shot in Dallas. Heard later JFK was dead & Lyndon Johnson was our President. Connely was OK. I voted for JFK but had reservations about doing so again. I was 32 at the time.

 

[IkenI]

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.

I left Camp Kaiser in May 63, went home, got married and was working in an office at Fort Sill, OK. Seems like I get most of my news by phone:

Nov 22 - my wife called and said "Kennedy's been shot"

Apr 19 - in Houston TDY, my son called and said "Dad, Someone blew up your building"

Sep 11 - getting off a plane in Chicago on a staff visit. My Opn Officers wife called and said "Someone just flew a plane into a building in NYC"

 

[Bat Guano]

I was a junior at Michigan State, having just transferred in. Walked into the department office to see people not doing anything, just listening to the radio and the news.

Being a history buff the Lincoln assassination came to mind. That night I typed up my thoughts and the impressions of the day on two pages. still have it, and every few years I reread it. It brings back that hollow feeling. The end of an era, at least for me.

 

[Cyrano]

I was an Army Captain working at an Air Force radar squadron at Cape Charles VA. We were running an air defense exercise in the operations room. One of the plotters (writes backwards on the plexiglas chart) had a headset on, and had contact with Ft Lee, VA. He suddenly said, real loud, "The President's been shot!". We really didn' believe it, but soon after we got 'fadeout' (end of exercise) and the official announcement from higher headquarters.

One of the officers was having a party that night. The party was cancelled, but we all went over there and watched TV. It was terribly gloomy.

I think we went up a notch on DEFCON for a couple of days, too, and nobody could leave the base.

 

[Davwingman]

We were coming out of the courthouse, after getting our marriage license, when we heard the news.

 

[galena]

I was a sophomore in college in Colorado. Walking down the hallway in an academic building I heard somesay ".....and they don't expect him to live." I assumed they were talking about a Prof who had some health problems. I went back to my apartment for lunch and my roommates were glued to the radio, that's when I realized JFK had been shot. We sat there all afternoon listening to the radio coverage as we didn't have a TV.

 

[firearmsunlimited]

I was in 6th grade at the time and had obtained permission to leave school at lunch time and go across the street to the barber shop. I distinctly remember when the first announcement on the radio was made that Kennedy had been shot the barber said to another gentleman, "Man old LBJ is going to get into that white house one way or another." Shortly after I returned to school the priest made an announcement that Kennedy was in fact dead and asked that we all pray for the president, his family and our nation.

 

[reddogge]

Walking to class at the University of MD. Later I watched Oswald getting shot at my girlfriend's house.

 

[feralmerril]

I notice at least a good 95% of replys are where everyone was in school! That makes me feel old!
I already replyed as to where I was. I will now add the first reactions I heard, but frankly they were disrespectful. A redneck I worked with heard it when I did and immediately commented, "Well, he wanted to be just like lincoln, so he ended up like him!" The old woman who told us owned the dumpy old hotel I was staying in then wringed her hands and wondered what the world would think of texas now! After that I went to a cafe and kept hearing mostly the same line, "What will people think of texas now?!

 

[Mr Pokeyman]

12th grade in Catholic H.S. The principle, who was a priest, made the announcement over the classroom P.A.system and we all went to the gym for a mass. I never got over the outpouring of grief thruout the country. The next time there was anything like it was Elvis Presley's death in Aug 1977.