JFK assassination

VullNoid · Post by **VullNoid** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:30 pm

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.

Blackbeer · Post by **Blackbeer** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:39 pm

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

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:43 pm

I'm 48.
I was watching the news when I heard.

Slan,
D.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:27 pm

Blackbeer wrote:I was in school, home room, eighth grade. I was shocked. I just couldn`t believe it.

I was in school, shop class, eight 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.

Blackbeer wrote:PS: Might even be the reason I still can`t spell

I like it! So I can use the same excuse...

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:57 pm

What???? JFK is dead????? When did this happen???????

djm

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:36 pm

I was in High school; sophomore year, in Latin class;. It was a Catholic high school so we all trooped to chapel. I'm 58

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:57 pm

I was crawling around on the living room floor in front of the TV, when I noticed my mother gasp and sit down on the sofa. I am 43.

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:43 pm

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.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:44 pm

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.

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:00 pm

How low will y'alls stoop in your nefarious quest to find out my age?

I'm six, I tell you! SIX!

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:56 pm

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.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:20 am

Lambchop wrote:How low will y'alls stoop in your nefarious quest to find out my age?

I'm six, I tell you! SIX!

Yes, but you don't look a day over 5.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:34 am

All I can say about the Kennedy assassination is that I didn't do it.

My mother was in elementary school, and one of the parents came to the school and talked to the students about how the president's death made the USA vulnerable to the Soviets.

SteveK · Post by **SteveK** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:11 am

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."

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:54 am

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.