Older guys - remember where you were on this date 42 years ago?

[TR Custom Parts]

11/22/63 President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas TX.

Man, I remember it like it was yesterday. Was in the 3rd grade and all the teachers were crying. Funny, read the paper today and nothing was even mentioned about it.

 

[SFITurbo]

Probably filling up a diaper, I was only 1 1/2 years old.

 

[Reaper]

Today is my mother's bithday, she was 4 when he was shot. I dont even know if she has memories of that.


there was nothing mentioned in todays local paper either.

 

[87LtdT]

8th Grade...in a Catholic School....all nuns who were super happy w/JFK the first Catholic president. Principle, Sister Pauline, with tears in her eys, called our teacher into the hallway. Our teacher, Sister Susan, came back in with tears in her eyes to tell us what happened.

Not mentioned in our local paper either.

Bob

 

[Gary Wells]

3rd year of a 4 year hitch with the Navy, some week long Navy training seminar/school in San Diego, we got the balance of the day off, walked around in a daze.

 

[JoyOf6]

That was the day my family and I drove home in a new 1964 Impala (Palomar Red).

 

[FlyinGN]

I was 2 years old and do not remember it at all..

 

[Evans Ward]

I was 5 yrs old and remember as the breaking news interrupted my mother's soap opera. I can remember her being upset and crying. I ran out of the house, grabbed my little red wagon, and ran around the yard screaming "the president has been shot". One of my very early strong memories.

 

[wbrophy]

That was one of the few things or a single event that I remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard the news which at first was that the president was shot and his condition was not known at that time. I remember the national news person that night looked like he was going to break out in tears at any moment. I remember JFK, to bad his living bother is about as 180 as you can get, IMO.

 

[opeltwinturbo]

I remember JFK, to bad his living bother is about as 180 as you can get, IMO.

10th grade health class. Hasn't Teddy killed as many people as Lee Harvey Oswald?

MJK: Teddy, I'm pregnant. What are we going to do?
Teddy: Don't worry, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

 

[Pronto]

I was 4 years old. I remember my Mom listening to the TV. Back then they always televised any time the president went around the country to visit. Everything seemed normal and then I remember all kinds of comotion and my Mother getting all upset. She called my Dad at work which in those days was a no-no. The thing that sticks most in my mind was seeing the funeral procession and the horse with the boots turned backwards.

 

[TurboJoe3.8]

Nothing about it in my local newspaper today either- how sad we forget! :frown:

 

[bruce]

Just after lunch (Jr High), they said the school was closing, and that something serious had happened. Once the word starting going around alot of folks were really shaken. It really did seem like the end of Camalot. Jackie having lost a child, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and then his assassination. America, just never seemed to have gotten it's positive attitude back after that.

 

[WLDWST]

Came home for lunch from school. Grade 4. Heard it on the television. At the time we only had black and white TV. My mom and sisters were crying and my school had a special gymnasium memorial when I got back. It was a sad moment, and I remember it well to this day. The interesting thing is that I am Canadian, and this was a Canadian school. He was a great man and was well thought of up here.

 

[1ARUNM]

I was in 5th grade at Cleveland elementary school in Oklahoma City. I had just returned from lunch and was sitting in the classroom waiting for class to resume when a classmate, Skippy (Walter) Larsen, came in and said the president had been shot. The teacher turned on the TV and I remember Walter Cronkite taking off his glasses and saying very sadly that the president was dead.

Eerie coincidence that I heard it from two guys named Walter

I also remember Skippy told us when Krushchev was removed from office.
Bet not many of you remember that! I can't tell you the date, but I remember it!!!

There was an article in the Dallas Morning News today, but go figure.

My wife is down there now at the assasination conference. They are still trying to figure out who did it

I think the conspiracy theories are interesting but I would rather spent my time messing around on cars, etc. I'm not like my wife. I don't have someone else to work on my car like she does.

 

[GN87Mike]

I was in the 10th grade sitting on the school bus to go home and I could tell something was wrong the way the bus drivers were standing around. Then they told us. Today on XM radio they replayed the news broadcasts from that day on the 60's channel. That was good they did that.

Thanks,
Mike

 

[fighterjet gn]

chicago, 2nd grade, i was in front of the school after lunch & someone yelled out the president got shot, everyone stopped what they were doing & no one said a word. older family members were always laughing from watching ART LINKLETTER & those kids he would have on his show, but on that day nobody had a grin on their faces.

 

[Bad Boyz]

Brooklyn NY Shipyard 1year left Remember it like it just happened Came home for a weekend pass Came home to a ghost town Its like everyone moved out Nothing in our paper this morning either

 

[Little6pack]

Lets see I was 3 & I was riding my Tricycle with installed baseball cards for that cool sound if it was a nice november day or I was playing with my AMERICAN FLYER train set

 

[odell4o8]

older guys, huh

i was stationed at maxwell AFB montgomery alabama , i got put on guard duty, guarding a hanger with a old peace bird inside, oh yea i was 23 years old. and im not old its just like i was born a long time ago,