Where were you when you heard?

[bgrafsr]

I was on a post in the Nuclear bomb dump at Clark Air Base, PI.

 

[Jinglebob]

I was a senior in high school. The principal walked into the room and made the announcement and then he excused us for the remainder of the day. I took my girlfriend home where we found her mother sitting on the couch in front of the TV sobbing. That's when I truly realized the significance of what had just happened.

 

[caliperman]

USAF @ Cigli AFB, Izmir,Turkey,

 

[jj2am44]

I was failing Geometry in 10 th grade here in Pittsburgh. I was in German class (failing that too) when I heard he was gone.

 

[Wyo]

I was in the 5th grade at Eastside Elementary School in Worland, WY I was eating lunch in the cafeteria. Quite a shock.

 

[sheepdawg]

I was in the 3rd grade at Colonial Elementary in Memphis, TN. I can remember was being let out of school early and my mother crying as I got into the car. I also remember Oswald getting shot and the funeral on T.V. It was all that was on, remember three channels back then.

 

[REM 3200]

New Orleans was a hot bed of conspiracy theories and conjecture then that included the local DA, Jim Morrison, IFIRC.

Jim Garrison was the DA's name.

 

[gdnagle]

High school they didn't tell us until the afternoon announcements at end of school day at 3:00. Guess they were afraid we would want to go home early.

 

[Old Seabee]

JFK

Naval Air station in ElCentro Calif working in public works waiting for SeaBee A school

 

[cavsix]

I was a high-school sophomore at Torrejon AFB, Madrid, Spain. I was going to catch a ride home with my Dad to the Royal Oaks Dependent Housing Area (about 30 miles away). He was NCOIC of the 16th Air Force's Comm Center, and had been the one to notify the Commanding General about the assassination. He was from Ft. Worth, and highly disturbed that the incident had occurred in Texas. It was also hid birthday....

The Spanish people had not been happy about hosting an American military unit in their Capitol city, but for days, the Madrilenos took special efforts to convey their sincere empathy to us.

 

[Wes Smith]

I was 5 years old and I can't remember if it was when he got shot or the funneral but I remember getting a hair cut and my father was burning leaves when all this news was on TV. I guess i was to young to remember many details.

 

[Stevens]

I was a freshman at Mississippi State. When it was announced, I heard several students ringing their cowbells in celebration. JFK was not very popular in Mississippi then.

I was a sophomore in a high school military academy in Georgia, there was no crying there either.
Steve W

 

[Walter Rego]

I was in 3rd grade getting ready to go home when a kid came up and told a bunch of us that Kennedy had been shot. All weekend all my favorite cartoons were pre-empted with coverage of the event. Made me mad. I haven't liked Democrats ever since.

 

[tom turner]

For all of us over 60 . . . this day began nearly five days like America has never experienced before, and it affected most of us in a lot of ways . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i2bq3F6a0I

 

[rburg]

I was in Miss Vertel's sophomore english class. I didn't really like Kennedy, and dad said his kin were bootleggers. I wasn't so upset he was dead, but I did like all the breaks in studying. We didn't get homework for a few days and were said to watch TV instead. It was a tough one to pull because I distrusted the media even then.

 

[Bat Guano]

Junior year at Michigan State; heard it on the radio in a campus building. Everything got very quiet and stayed that way all weekend.

There was a ceremony at the state capitol grounds. I don't remember much about it except for a line of 105s firing a salute with blank rounds. If I think back I can still hearing those 105s slamming away.

Our world got changed a lot that day, and not for the better.

 

[Robotech]

4th grade, Mrs. Roberts class. I remember the unusual quiet the rest of the day and on the bus trip home.

By coincidence, I'd toured one of the Kennedy vacation homes about a year and a half before, and somehow felt just a little closer to them as 'real people'. Later still, I married a distant cousin of his...

 

[TAROMAN]

Mr. Moerr's 10th grade geometry in Grand Island, NE.
As they unfolded, events were broadcast on the school's PA system

 

[cockerpoodle2]

I was in Medical School at UCLA. I was driving North on the 405, heading from Manhattan Beach (my place) to Westwood. I had an Austin-Healey Sprite that didn't have a radio (or much else as I remember). People were pulling off the freeway and parking on the shoulder (on an LA freeway !). Those folks had radios and knew what was going on. To me, it seemed like I was watching the world coming to the end. The Cuban Missile crisis was fresh in my mind and I figured that nuclear missiles would appear shortly. I was supposed to be going to a conferance at the Wadsworth Veteran's Hospital but I thought that if I was going to be vaporized, I would like to be among friends with a beer in my hand. I went to my favorite bar, the El Torito. The bartender told me what was happening and gave me a free beer. I was relieved to think I might just make my 22nd birthday. (I just had my 75th).

 

[snake803]

Machinist mate "A" school, Great Lakes Naval Training Center.... A sad day...
JIM..................