Do you remember....

killdeer43 · Nov 22, 2015

....where you were and what you were doing when you heard the heartbreaking news on November 22, 1963? I do, vividly.
:sorrow:

Joe

fronobulax · Nov 22, 2015

I do but I also remember when someone asked that question (in a classroom, not last year on LTG) and got a bunch of blank looks because the audience had not even been born.

killdeer43 · Nov 22, 2015

Just wanted to put it out there for those who might have been around, milestone that it was.

Joe

JimmyD · Nov 22, 2015

High school....we were let go for the day. Watched TV all weekend, ending with Oswald getting shot live. Earlier in the year it was the Buddhist monk in Saigon setting himself on fire, and then Medgar Evers being shot. Lot of upheaval going on and somehow, at the time, reading Animal Farm and 1984 made a lot of sense.

wileypickett · Nov 22, 2015

Fourth grade, Capehart, Nebraska. Our teacher, Mrs Cunningham, wheeled in a television set and we watched news updates for the rest of the day. We may not have completely inderstood, but we knew it was a big deal. Only time I've ever seen one of my teachers cry.

silverfox103 · Nov 22, 2015

If you were alive then, you definitely remember. I was a freshman in high school. I remember the announcement from my home room nun.

It's probably the same for 9 / 11. People will never forget where they were, I won't.

Tom C.

Quantum Strummer · Nov 22, 2015

I remember watching the funeral on TV. I was 3 years old and understood only that someone important had died (whatever that meant to my young self) and that my parents were upset about it. The following summer my folks & I visited Washington, DC and saw an early version of the Kennedy memorial (eternal flame) at Arlington. By then I had a better grasp of who that important person was.

My folks weren't religious but while in DC we attended a church service also attended by the President & Mrs. Johnson. Lady Bird patted me on the head as they walked past our pew…not sure if this was entering or leaving. My mom was, as the Brits say (she was a native-born Scot), well chuffed.

-Dave-

12 string · Nov 22, 2015

High school biology lab.

MLBob · Nov 22, 2015

Sitting in my high school's locker room before practice.

Brad Little · Nov 22, 2015

Biology class, third period I think. Sophomore in HS.
Brad

bobouz · Nov 23, 2015

Junior High School, 7th grade.

I can picture that classroom like it was yesterday.

Bikerdoc · Nov 23, 2015

I was in H.S. in East Rochester, N.Y. Mrs. Harry's homeroom. We were sent home immediately.

The Guilds of Grot · Nov 23, 2015

Four years old. Blissfully ignorant.

Default · Nov 23, 2015

I do a site search and read the answers that were posted every year that you post this.

AcornHouse · Nov 23, 2015

1 year old. Don't remember much of anything.

richardp69 · Nov 23, 2015

7th grade. It was a cold, rainy day in Wisconsin where I was born and raised. We were called in from recess. It was explained to us but I'm not sure many of us could really comprehend what had happened and what it was truly all about. We were sent home. I think it's the only time I ever saw my Father shed a tear.

mavuser · Nov 23, 2015

I was born in 77. I vividly remember details as a 3 year old in 1980, when John *Lennon* was shot, although I didn't really understand who he was.

A few years later, early in elementary school, we learned about JFK, and I thought it was the same guy. I was pretty confused for quite some time. After all they had the same name, and were both in a car. And both world reknown. And I was very very young. At some point it just all fell into place.

Bill Ashton · Nov 23, 2015

5th grade...school had just ended for the day...a bunch of teachers were in their lounge crying, one old battleaxe flushed us out
the front door. No one would tell us what was going on, eventually while we were waiting for the bus rumour came around that
the president had been shot. We all wondered if the Russians were going to invade.

gjmalcyon · Nov 23, 2015

Almost 6 years old, playing in front of our house in Rancho Cordova, CA. Couldn't understand why I had to come in, and why my mom was crying.

For folks my age, it hit our parents really hard - he was the first president born in the 20th century, served in WWII like so many of our parents, and had young kids, like our parents did.

killdeer43 · Nov 23, 2015

Default said:
I do a site search and read the answers that were posted every year that you post this.

Always looking for new perspectives. :single_eye:

Joe

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