Where were you?

[raisedin99]

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

 

[mike from st pete]

Home from school sick. Mom was ironing cloths when the radio announcer broke the news.
WIP 610 in Philly PA

 

[hardcase60]

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.

 

[Mule Packer]

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.

 

[BearBio]

I was in Jr High PE class==called us into the gym for the news.

 

[Old Seabee]

Seabee

I was at a Naval Air Station in El Centro Calif working in public works waiting A school for construction mechanic in the Seabees

 

[Tom S.]

I was in Jr High PE class==called us into the gym for the news.

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.

 

[STCM(SW)]

At sea on DD 734 in the North Atlantic.

 

[phantomcycle]

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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[rwsmith]

Mrs. McCant's....

....third grade class.

 

[Grayfox]

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.

 

[steelslaver]

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.

 

[mrchuck]

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.

 

[Lee in Quartzsite]

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

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

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.

 

[Tradewind36]

Junior in high school, lived near DC in Northern Virginia.

 

[Sayoc01]

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

 

[dave1918a2]

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.

 

[model70hunter]

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.

 

[tndrfttom]

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.