JFK assassination
JFK assassination
I'm doing a project for school, and for one part I have to interview people. I thought I'd ask here. So if you are able and willing to answer the question, please do!
Question: Where were you and how did you feel when you learned that JFK was shot?
EDIT: If you could include your age as well, that'd be perfect.
Question: Where were you and how did you feel when you learned that JFK was shot?
EDIT: If you could include your age as well, that'd be perfect.
Last edited by VullNoid on Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Where below me ol' Nick grins,
Then laughs through the chaos of it all,
Gets up off his chair,
Spins a jig to my despair,
He can't wait to count the times where I went wrong.
-Flogging Molly
Where below me ol' Nick grins,
Then laughs through the chaos of it all,
Gets up off his chair,
Spins a jig to my despair,
He can't wait to count the times where I went wrong.
-Flogging Molly
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I was in school, home room, eighth grade. I was shocked. I just couldn`t believe it. The Kennedy Nixon debates were my awakening to politics. I even skipped school to watch them. I figure this one insadent had a huge effect on how I looked at things from then on.
Take care;
Tom
PS: Might even be the reason I still can`t spell
Take care;
Tom
PS: Might even be the reason I still can`t spell
I was in school, shop class, eight grade. I was shocked. I just couldn't believe it.Blackbeer wrote:I was in school, home room, eighth grade. I was shocked. I just couldn`t believe it.
A friend of mine had just finished telling be that he had woken up from a dream the night before,
where the president had been killed.
I like it! So I can use the same excuse...Blackbeer wrote:PS: Might even be the reason I still can`t spell
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I was 5, and I don't remember the news of it but I do remember that they pre-empted all my cartoons for days. I'm 48.
I remember RFK though. I was getting dressed for school and heard the news on the clock radio.
I remember RFK though. I was getting dressed for school and heard the news on the clock radio.
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I was 13 and in the 9th grade in CA. We were in Spanish class and some girls were running down the hall saying something. We couldn't understand them but it was very strange for students to be out in the hall during classes so we thought something weird was happening. Next was lunch and by then everyone knew what had happened. I just remember crying a lot. People were very upset and scared. I'm 56 now.
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I was 10 years old, in PE, it was Friday and we were doing folk dancing.
The PA suddenly came on broadcasting the radio coverage of the assasination. I remember we were let out of school early and no one was really excited about it. We just went home. The next few days we watched TV coverage at home. The horse following the casket with the boots in the stirrups backwards and Oswalds killing stand out in my mind from the television coverage. Since my grandfather who lived with us was a staunch Democrat our house was very somber during this time.
I was old enough to realize that this was an important historical event.
Same with the later Martin Luther King and RFK assasinations.
The PA suddenly came on broadcasting the radio coverage of the assasination. I remember we were let out of school early and no one was really excited about it. We just went home. The next few days we watched TV coverage at home. The horse following the casket with the boots in the stirrups backwards and Oswalds killing stand out in my mind from the television coverage. Since my grandfather who lived with us was a staunch Democrat our house was very somber during this time.
I was old enough to realize that this was an important historical event.
Same with the later Martin Luther King and RFK assasinations.
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I was at a surplus depot in Huntsville, Alabama buying electrical equipment (relays, stepping switches, etc.) previously used by the space program. They had a ratty little black and white TV and I watched on that. I was shocked and depressed. I was also wondering what the reaction of the locals was as Kennedy wasn't popular in Alabama. One of the people working at the depot kept saying "It's a sad day."
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My recollection is of being at an interstate cricket match at the M.C.G. when I heard the news. I'm not sure if that is possible though. There was indeed a match on on that day but the incident would have occurred early in the morning of the following day (Melbourne time.) Although it wouldn't have been mentioned in the morning papers, it would have been on the radio before the start of play and that's not how I recollect it. I would have been in year 8 at school. I do recall finding it depressing.