61 Years Ago This Friday-JFK Assassination

[MrWowWow]

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If you were around then, where were you, and what were you doing just before it happened?
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****This was our President****

[Ocelot II]

1. Home from school with flu.

Mom's soaps got interrupted with the news.

[murielm99]

2. I was a sophomore in high school,

in typing class. Typewriters made a lot of clatter in those days. One of the students noticed that the classroom intercom was bonging. Everyone stopped typing. The principal was on the intercom, telling us that the President had just been shot. After a while, he told us to resume our classroom activities. He would come back with updates. The next time he came on, the principal left the radio on for everyone to hear as the news developed.

One of the meanest boys in the school sat in front of me. He shook his head when he heard the President had been shot in the head. When Kennedy's death was announced, that boy cried.

When the bell rang, I went to my geometry class silently. Everyone was silent. I heard only the sound of lockers opening and closing. No one was speaking. Our geometry teacher spoke to us about the death of good men, the death of leaders, and how our government was designed to go on. We continued to be stunned and subdued. Before the end of the hour, everyone was sent home.

I will never forget that day, and the days that followed.

[whathehell]

3. I was sitting in my eighth grade class..

listening to our principle over the PA give us the shocking news before sending everyone home. It was a terrible, heart crushing day.

[Meowmee]

4. I was too young to be aware etc.

I don’t remember my mother saying very much about it in later years. We weren’t in this country at the time either but I have some memory of her talking about it later. I can’t remember what she said, of course I knew about it learning about it in school, etc.

[Ping Tung]

5. I was 19 and home on leave after 1 year in Japan.

I spent the next few days glued to the TV.

[elleng]

6. ;-(

Sophomore year of college.

History or Political Science prof informed the class.

[H2O Man]

7. School.

Likely not paying attention until we were sent home. I learned the president had been killed on the bus ride.

[nitpicked]

8. I was so young they hid the newspapers from me

This was in England.

They let me watch the funeral for Churchill.

When I got taken out to Runnymede later that year, it was "memorial to a past president".

Only when I got to the states did I understand the trauma.

[John1956PA]

9. The memories of that terrible Friday afternoon are seared into my memory.

The routine of my Catholic School second grade classroom was jarred by the abrupt radio news feed blaring from the room's public address speaker. President Kennedy had been shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, and was rushed to a hospital. After a bit, the speaker went quiet. The class had its restroom break. After we returned, the speaker abruptly resumed the radio news feed. President Kennedy had died.