Where were you?

Just turned 10 years old and was sitting in Mr. Dunbar's 5th grade class...... when it was announced over the PA system that "The President has been shot..............."

We were all sent home early after we were told the President was dead.

He had ridden in an motorcade the summer before in our town.... a busy week for my Dad......... everyone lined the main drag too catch a glimpse...
 
I was not even an idea in my parents thoughts . They didn't even know each other yet.
 
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In the 7th grade. We were at recess playing basketball. brought us all inside. we had educational TV in the classrooms, and got to watch news till school let out. I ran all the way home to continue watch it, and that ran for 3 more days. All that was on. I was 12 years old.
 
I was watching some graduate school classmates play cards when someone ran in and said, "Turn on the radio, Kennedy's been shot!"

Turned the radio on and heard a reporter say that witnesses had said "the president's head exploded in blood."

We all knew then, well before the official announcement, that he was dead.

I was watching live TV when Oswald was shot.
 
I recall one very hectic day........I was 18 pushing 19, worked nights in a machine shop in order to attend jr. college classes during the day, however 11-22-63 was first day of deer season and we had a tracking snow....so....off at 7:00 am, in the woods with my buddy by 7:30.....he then proceeded to remind me of this really sharp gal I had met at a dance the previous week (2-1/2 years later...my wife), and the fact that today was her birthday and stores would not be open long (rolled up the sidewalks at 5:00 pm in those days).....so.....got, our buck, field dressed and hiked out, probably in the old 1952 Dodge about late noonish....got to the one main street by probably 1:30 - 2:00 and people that should be at work in stores and factories were crowding around the front of Newberry's (remember that one if you can) where about the only TV in town was on display in a window. That was it....everyone so shocked that stores were not selling, just wide open, even the bar had cleaned out. Colder than heck out but everyone glued to that TV or radios (1 AM station in town was all).

Every year since we remember at wife's birthday.....Happy for my wife.........sad for the country that lost a great leader (and yes....I do vote the other side.....but he was still great in my opinion).
 
I was in Charles Carr's seventh grade civics class. The public address system was pumping out a news cast concerning the events that were occurring all the while I watched as Mr. Carr, a brute of a man, openly wept. A sight that I will never forget nor fully understand.

terry
 
I was 13 yrs old, and in Jr. High School. Not all the class rooms had TV's so the principle made an announcement over the PA system. Don't remember much of the day after that. Parents had friends visiting for the weekend so that was all they talked about. Vividly recall on Sunday morning watching the B&W console TV and seeing Ruby shoot Oswald.
 
I was in high school. My coach called us all together and broke the news. A very somber moment. I don't remember school being let out early.

I do remember watching the live coverage as they brought Oswald out in cuffs and Jack Ruby shooting him. Didn't think I could be shocked anymore than I already had been, but I was wrong.
 
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I was at a Naval Air Station in El Centro Calif working in public works waiting A school for construction mechanic in the Seabees
 
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I was in Jr High PE class==called us into the gym for the news.
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Very similar. I was in the boys locker room after class, getting dressed. Came over the PA, and the boy next to me cheered. I weighed whether it would be worth getting expelled for punching out his lights, and decided it wasn't. I've always regretted that decision. I've lived under a lot of presidents but never disliked one so much I would want him to be assassinated. I consider that to be an affront to the office, and an attack on the country and it's citizens. :mad:
 
I was in high school just before lunch walking down the hall to class announcement over the school PA system that the president had been shot
I became so upset l skipped outta school and drove home to watch the tv

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3rd Grade. I remember them crowding several classes together in one room so we could watch the news coverage on one of the few TVs they had.
 
I was in the 6th grade and having lunch at my Gandma's. Stunned is the word the comes to mind. Stuff like that just didn't happen, not then and not at my innocence level.
 
I was in Viet Nam as a 2nd LT.,, cleaning out tunnels the Hmong had located, but were too scared to go down in them.
The Cong were there and using them.
The Hmong would help pull the deceased out at the spider hole opening.
As a Dallas resident, I was shocked, because I had met Jack Ruby at the door of one of his clubs on Harry Hines Blvd. I was in High School then as he rejected my phony ID I was trying to use to get in. Jack Ruby later hired me and a friend to clean his club when I worked under a "Junior Achievement" Program.
Jack also sent $ to Texas A&M so I could continue my education.
It did not really surprise me that he did it, because I had witnessed his temper many years before.
 
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I watched the inauguration of John F. Kennedy on 1-20-61 when I was a Junior in high school. It was his speech that inspired me to join the Navy 5 days out of high school. I was working in the Avionics shop at NAS North Island in San Diego when the news came over the radio. It was a shock to learn my Commander in Chief had just died. A truly sad day for America.

"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." John F. Kennedy
 
A freshman in high school, in high school in my Latin class. Word started to go around, my school did not have a PA system, ALL the teachers were called to the principal's office, we knew something was up. They set up TVs in the auditorium and cafeteria. School wasn't really dismissed, we just sort of drifted away.
 
I was at MIAMI DADE JR.COLLEGE...walked in the EMT classroom & spmeone had written on the board Pres.was shot! I got mad,thought it was a sick joke! Then I found out it was for real!
Jim
 
Shopping with My Mom at K-mart in Rapid City. Guy ran in yelling They killed Kennedy. SG locked down the store and grabbed the guy. When the radio reports came in the store was reopened and the guy was released. I was waiting to go in the military after graduation.
 
I was a Jr in HS, the Principle announced it at the end of a class just before the bell. It was surreal just like 9-11, folks were crying and in shock. I don't remember any of the classes after that.
 
I was in PE class in Jr. High School. Lots of incorrect info going around so everyone was looking for a radio or TV to get the news. Students that walked or rode their bikes were allowed to skip last period and go home early. The local evening news had stories about the Nike and Hawk missile sites that had been set up around Miami and Homestead after the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis going on highest alert - also Homestead AFB. Lots of press hanging out around the Kennedy "compound" in Palm Beach looking for a story from the local perspective.
 
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