Where were you?

[Bro. Dave]

I was sitting in Jr. high band class at Hurst Jr. HS (which is a suburb between Ft. Worth and Dallas). I remember being deeply moved at the level of sadness the adults showed and mortified that this had to happen in Texas.

My mom was manager of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram's credit union (the Star-Telegram was the newspaper) and brought home copies of all the Extra Editions put out that day. We had them for years and there is an outside chance they are still in my Dad's attic. If so, they are probably yellow crumbles by now.

 

[walkin jack]

I was an FMF corpsman stationed at Camp Hansen on Okinawa with the 3rd Marine Division. I was amazed at the reaction from the Okinawan people. All recreational facilities on the base observed a 2 week period of mourning and were closed for that time period. All the bars and restaurants in the ville observed a 30 day period and you couldn't buy a drink or a plate of fried rice. It was a strange time for all.

 

[timjake]

I was three, so I was either taking a nap or playing with my brother and sister.

 

[Gamecock]

I was in the library at Minnie B. Kennedy Jr. High in Aiken, SC.

Some 25 years later, I was in Dallas on business, and made a point to drive thru Dealy Plaza. If you get the chance, do it. I saw the films a thousand times, but it wasn't until I actually went there that I understood.

 

[daniel lawecki]

I was almost 7 years old going to McGregor school. That was 4 days before my birthday kinda hard to forget.

 

[Deuce Caboose]

An 8 year old second grader. With the power of television fully realized, even at that age, one knew that this was an event that effected everyone I knew. Everyone, period.
"... and the saddest of these is what might have been..."

 

[sheepdawg]

In the third grade at Colonial Elementary School in Memphis. I remember getting let out of class early and my mother, crying, picking me up in our 56 Buick.

 

[Drm50]

8th grade, American History class. The quietest I ever remember when
they let school out early. The whole town was stunned

 

[deanodog]

In Martin Ky. I was making a delivery of soft drinks to a store and heard it on the radio.

 

[RioShooter]

I was in my 7th grade English class. The principal made the announcement that Kennedy had been shot. I did not find out that he had died until I got home. I remember sitting in the living room, staring out the window trying to comprehend what had happened.

 

[bgrafsr]

wheelus airbase Tripoli Libya in an SAC plane hanger .

I'll bet a retirement check you went on "high alert" status immediately.

 

[MCorps0311]

I'll never forget where I was,I was in 9th grade in class when the principal voice came over the imtercom speaker and said the POTUS,has been shot and passed.

 

[TAROMAN]

I'll never forget where I was,I was in 9th grade in class when the principal voice came over the imtercom speaker and said the POTUS,has been shot and passed.

Similar experience except it was Mr. Moerr's 10th grade geometry class when the principal came on the PA.

 

[Carolina_Boostin]

I wasn't thought of lol my mom would have been 2 months old lol

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[JH1951]

Marty Benkovic's seventh grade history class..... Some moments cannot be forgotten.

 

[Cyrano]

I was a captain and was taking part in an exercise in the operations room at the Cape Charles Air Force Station in Virginia. One of the guys who wrote backwards on the plexiglass and had a feed from Ft Lee, said "Hey, the president's been shot'. Nobody believed him until the official word came down a few minutes later. We immeditely did a 'fade out' on the exercise. We went to DEFCON 3 for a few days and I heard that SAC went to DEFCON 2. We all sat around TVs for a few days while everything unfolded.

 

[GRIZZLYBEAR]

Drafted in early '63 finished my training in the US and Panama and was on route to Nam---found out from an announcement by flight crew before the plane touched down at Anderson AFB, Guam [

 

[brigeton]

I was in 5th or 6th grade & heard about it at school in rural Michigan. After school I walked the couple blocks down to the tavern where my dad & friends always were and they hadn't heard about it yet.

 

[Donn]

Jr. High, 9th grade, mechanical drawing.

 

[Muley Gil]

I was walking home from school, 4th grade. The mother of one of the girls who also walked told us. Everybody knows that kids are bad to repeat what they hear their parents say. Well, a few days before the shooting, my mom had talked about something Kennedy had said or done and was unhappy about it.

Well, when I was told the president had been shot, my response was, "Good!" Mrs Ray was shocked, to say the least. Of course, I was ashamed of myself for blurting that out.

My folks mourned like everyone else. My great aunt Irene's birthday was November 22 and she expressed the thought that her birthday would always be connected with that sad day.