Where were you when JFK was shot?

Rifle range at Mercer University in Macon, Ga. Traveled that afternoon through Columbus Ga. to Auburn, Al. for another match Sat. AM. First and only time that I actually saw a newspaper "EXTRA" for sale.

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Tam 3
 
10th grade math class. Can't recall which one. Think we got out early, the only other time we did so was when the Pirates won the World Series in 1960.
 
JFK

On my way from the ADMIN. building to the Girls' School. Kept hearing about shots......and I did not want one. Found out what it was all about when I went upstairs to my History class of all things. Had just been to a pep rally......of course, the game was cancelled that night.

The man I am writing a book about was fired for lowering the flag to half staff at the building in Washington DC where he was running things while his boss was in Miami awaiting trial. His boss......James R. Hoffa! Keith

 
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I was in junior high school history class. The teacher was very upset
A SAD day for America.
 
In my 6th grade classroom. The teacher was also the principal and the janitor came in and told her. The rest of the afternoon we watch a little black and white TV turned to the news.
 
I was in 3rd grade. The school janitor called the teachers out into the hallway. They all came back looking shocked. They let us out of school early that day. The tv was on all day and we watched everything they reported.
 
5th Grade Classroom...

They tried to make the announcement over the school speaker system, it came out so garbled it was impossible to understand.

Our teacher called the office, and got the news. I turned to a classmate and told him this was "Khrushchev's first move". I though for sure the assassination was a prelude to nuclear war!!!!
 
Germany. Watched the procession on our grainy B&W TV on AFN Kaiserslautern. Sad day, I remember it even though I was only about five.
 
I was driving my phone truck in Walnut Creek, Ca. with a transistor radio on the dash, news came on that JFK was shot along with the Governor of Texas. We stayed at work but went to church the next day.Think I was 32 then.
 
I was in Kindergarten that year. Came home at noon and saw that my mother had been crying. She told me the news. I remember it like yesterday.
 
I had graduated from high school in June and was still working at the job I held during my senior year, sacking groceries at a local store.
Customers coming to the store told us they had just heard about the
shooting on their car radios.
 
Junior High School, prior to the death announcment a friend of mine came over and told us the President had been shot rabbit hunting in Texas. We all told him he was full of it. Next class we heard the President was dead. When I got home I tried to tell my Mother but she was watching it on the news...
 
Coincidentally, I just read where the majority of people learned of Kennedy's death not from the media, but from another person. These posts bear this out--as does my own experience. I was stationed at Ft Bliss and was returning to the missile park after noon chow when a soldier from Tennessee told me Kennedy had been 'ambushed.'

I suppose if a similar event occurred today, the majority would read about it in their Facebook or hear it on their Tweeter.
 
High school Latin class (10th grade) Leavenworth KS. It was announced over the PA system and afternoon classes canceled.
They did have drivers ed on the day of funeral even though no classes
While I remember that day - I can vividly recall stepfather screaming at the tv when Lee Harvey O was shot in police dept
 
Moron AFB(Spain)at the base theater watching Jason and the Argonauts . The movie was stopped, lights went on, JFK's death was announced, everyone went home.
 
I was in a one room country school in south west Kansas. There were about 18-20 students total for the eight grades. I think I was in the 7th grade.
The phone rang, which very seldom happened.
The teacher answered, didn't say a word and after listening for a minute, hung up.
If I recall correctly, she did not tell us, but let our parents tell us.
 
I was in Mrs. Tessmer's 5th grade geography class at Benfield Elementary School. They stopped classes and piped the radio newscast over the school's PA system.
 
I was on campus at Mississippi State. At that time many welded cow bells to pipes to ring at football games and for use in fights after the game. I heard cow bells ringing all over campus. There were parts of the country that did not like JFK.
 
In jr. high, just finishing lunch when a bunch of teachers ushered us back to class. Told us the news and sent us home, not many dry eyes that day.
 
Sir, I was stationed at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base just south of Kansas City, Missouri when John F Kennedy's plane landed while he was campaigning for president, stationed at RAF Wethersfield in SE England when he successfully made Kruschev back down and return home with his tail between his legs during the Bay of Pigs and was washing my recently purchased 1955 Oldsmobile in my driveway when he was shot. I felt like he was a member of my family.

I enjoyed most his questioning of daughter Caroline about some candy that had disappeared from the candy jar.........."Caroline, did you take the candy? You can answer yes, no or maybe". Best diplomat we've ever had as president
 
We were stationed in Misawa,Japan. I was in 3RD. grade we lived in off Base housing and I still can remember the Klaxon trucks coming through the neighborhood sounding the alerts to report to duty stations
 
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