Where were you?

[Bozz10mm]

Where were you on November 22, 1963, when you heard the news of Kennedy's assassination? I was sitting on the steps after lunch, waiting for the next class to start. Sophomore in High School. A group of girls were standing together and crying. Then I over heard what had happened.

 

[kozmic]

I was 4 years old and I remember my mother getting a phone call from my grandmother and crying. She turned on the TV and continued to cry for most of the day. I sat on the couch with her trying to understand and console her. I only remember bits and pieces of the events that followed, but some remain very vivid.

 

[Watchdog]

High school chemistry class.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I was in second grade at Marburne Elementary School in Columbus, Ohio. The school didn't have a TV, so they gathered all 14 classrooms in the gym and played the news on a radio. We stood there in the gym until they could get buses to take us home about 45 minutes early.

 

[NYlakesider]

High school, study hall. We had heard rumors for about a hour that he was shot but dismissed them. Then the PA systen came on told us and a few minuets later we were dismissed from school!

 

[Arik]

My dad was about 9 years old an my mom was about 4



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[loknload]

I was in the 4th grade. Our teacher got called to the office and then she came back and explained to us what was happening. We then went to another classroom which had a television to watch as things unfolded, we were then excused for early dismissal.
Sad day....

 

[Muss Muggins]

About to be born . . .

 

[g-dad]

4th grade in Brunswick Elem. Gary, Ind. It was a new school and had televisions in most of the classes. I still remember how quite everyone was trying to understand what was happening.

 

[armorer951]

Sixth grade study hall.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I was on a slow airplane (C-123) between Bermuda and South Carolina.
Didn't hear actually hear about it until later that day.

 

[SC_Mike]

Was in school, then dismissed. Hard to believe until I saw Walter Cronkite say it.

 

[Comrad]

In school, they dragged a black and white (that's all there was pretty much in those days) into the auditorium and we watched the news for a short time and I think they let us out early. I remember that for the next 4 days that's all there was on TV.

 

[retiredbadge8091]

I was in the 1st grade, and Mrs. Staples got called out of the room and came back crying. She told us that President Kennedy had been shot and we were to be sent home early.

My friend's mom picked us up and was crying. When I got home my mom was watching the events unfolding in black and white on our television set. She was crying as well.

Even as a young child I was a bit of a news junkie and I sat and watched the special reports with my parents. As I recall it, my dad and I was watching when Ruby Shot Oswald in the Dallas Police Station.

I was very impressed with the horse drawn caisson with the casket and the symbolic riderless horse. There were a lot of tears that November.

 

[kimporter]

home,had one of the childhood illness's and was watching the telly when the news came on,i went into the kitchen and told my mom what was going on and we went back to watch the telly,we lived real close to the big GE plant in louisville ky and i remember a siren or something like that going off at the plant

 

[ben_g1]

Math class, our teacher had tears in his eye's when he informed us.

 

[Skeptic 9c]

I was in the stairwell going between classes, when I heard the news. I was in Jr. High School. At first I didn't believe it as I had just read an article in Popular Mechanics on the Presidents bullet-proof limo.
Geoff
Who remembers his Mom was very upset.

 

[pharmer]

In the 5th grade, in the bookmobile (traveling library). "Big Larry" came bounding up the steps and announced it. Whole different world then. Joe

 

[joeintexas]

At lunch in 9th grade. Several of us kids were in line at the Spudnut Shop to order burgers or hot dogs when the lady at the window announced the shop was now closed and told us why. Not a dry eye that day. I think we all grew up fairly quickly after that.

 

[chief38]

I was in third grade class wondering why my Teacher was crying. Soon after they let us go home early.

 

[Tom Beavert]

I was sitting in my '53 Chevy in the school parking lot, heard the news on the radio.
A very sad day.
tb

 

[jmace57]

I was 6 years old. In class at school. We had one of those drinking fountain/sinks in the room. I went to get a drink and someone "dunked me" to try and push my face in the water. When they did, I smacked my face into the drinking fountain and started crying. The teacher thought I was upset about Kennedy and asked if I wanted to go home. Frankly, at that age I didn't really care or wasn't aware...but I still remember it now.

 

[amazingflapjack]

High School-11th grade (second time) in French class. A kid came back from the can-or someplace-and just dumped the news on the class with no emotion at all. The teacher was a woman, and she did not believe the report, and scolded this kid, but he persevered until she went and confirmed the news herself, and came back very emotional. I would learn many years later that President Diam (sp) of south Viet Nam had been assassinated by the CIA only a week or so earlier, and that he and President Kennedy were in talks about ending or changing the American involvement in Viet Nam. It was the beginning of a darkness that continues.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Mr. Bass's 5th grade class. Moms were pulling their kids out of school. Dad went on base alert and we didn't see him until the next evening.

Mom had the tv on, the radio in one ear and the party line in the other.

I didn't really know how to process what was happening but I had never seen my mother so shaken.

Those kind of memories stick with a kid.

 

[blues7]

Mrs. Hamburg's 6th grade class. We were called out into the hallway and "Joe" the school custodian gave us the news following which we were dismissed. A day forever etched into my memory.

 

[Tinhack]

I was in 8th grade science class. The news came over the school PA system and school let out early with few dry eyes. I spent the rest of day watching the news still in disbelief.

 

[pawngal]

Senior in high school, government class. Was right after lunch, my boyfriend was out of school, couple of years older, he burst into the classroom and told us and then he went to the principals office and told them so then the announcement was made over the PA system. We were dismissed about an hour later. One of the days and times that will never be forgotten.

 

[deadin]

I had just gotten married 20 days earlier....
Where do you think I was??

(It apparently worked as I'm still married to the same woman.)

 

[bgrafsr]

I was in a guard tower in the nuclear weapons area at Clark Air Base, PI. Had to work over as the entire base went on alert status.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...10 years old...5th grade at Lincoln Elementary School in south Denver...we heard something was going on right as lunch hour started...I lived less than two blocks from the school...so I got to go home for lunch...Mom had the B/W TV on...she was crying...and told me what happened...I had never seen my Mom cry before...and it was upsetting for me...I ran back to school after lunch and Mrs. Tepley had a TV in the room and we watched the events unfold the rest of the school day...again upsetting seeing all the teachers crying...really drove home how important the events of that day were...