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Discussion Boards => Off-Topic => Topic started by: jtrask on November 17, 2012, 03:13:50 pm
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John Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963. If you were alive that day do you remember where you were? I know people who were 3 years at the time and can still remember what happened. :heart:
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John John Salutes the Coffin of His Father
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz5waH25x4U
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I remember exactly where I was. I was a 7-year old in Elementary School in Brooklyn, New York. When we found out that JFK was shot dead, they sent all the students home.
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I was on the way home with my new born son who was born Nov. 20th 1963.
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I was not even born yet.
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I was in my home with an ill daughter who was watching TV in her bedroom. She sent her little brother out of her bedroom with a note to ask me "what fatal meant" and I was like what is she talking about. I found out when I went into her bedroom.
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My grandfather had just died, and my parents were getting ready to go out of town to be with my grandmother - then the news came on about JFK. My parents took me to some friends to stay for a couple of days, and I can remember sitting on the floor with their Scottish Terrier, watching t.v. with them, them emotional, and me crying for my grandfather and for JFK. That was a sad time.
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I was just a few days short of my first birthday....so I'd guess I was in a crib, high chair, stroller....
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I was at work at my first full-time job. My husband called me to tell me, and I didn't believe it. When I found out it was really true, I tried to call him back and the phones were so busy, you were able to get anything.
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I was in my mother's womb. Born in March of 64 - one of those national moments that most of us have made note of.
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I was in Elementary school and they sent us home that day, it was so sad.
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I was not even born yet
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Was not born yet.
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I wasn't even thought of by my mom an dad
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I wasn't born yet, but my mother was in school at the time.
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I was not even a fleeting thought at that point in time. Wouldn't be for several years.
Although I do recall where I was when Pres. Reagan was shot, when the space shuttle Challenger blew up on launch, and when the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry. And not to mention where I was on 9/11/2001...
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i was not born yet but i have heard stories from my mom about how she cried and it was like the whole world cried too-she said it was like the world stood still --and mourned as one
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John John was the only baby to live in the white house in the 20th Century and also the last baby to live in the white house. :heart:
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I remember watching it on televesion and hearing the reaction of the grown ups around me and knew that it was very very bad :icon_rr:
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I was in Mrs. Underwood's fourth grade classroom. it was a gorgeous, sunny November afternoon. Friday, as you know. I remember another teacher standing with a transistor radio in her hands and two other teachers (including mine) standing next to her and leaning in to hear the news. At that time the rest of us were taking advantage of the lack of attention being paid to us and just goofing and clowning around. Eventually we all got back to our desks and the big television on a high rack at the front of the classroom was turned on so we could watch until school let out at 3:30. We were out of school the following Monday for the funeral (I remember the drum cadence of the funeral procession to this day), then we went back Tuesday and Wednesday--and then got out that week for Thanksgiving.
It was the quietest Thanksgiving I've ever known.
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i was born 22 years after
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where was I? Not alive yet. My mom was only 4 so she doesn't remember much about it either.
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@ Dauna--thanks for sharing that --i can't imagine what that must have been like as a child growing up to see the teachers and parents so sad --the world was a different place --people respected the president then and JFK was loved by so many --i can get a sense of what the teachers felt and how thanksgiving was so sad from your post--again thanks
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I was out playing with some friends. When I got home, I was devastated to learn what happended to JFK. It was a sad day for me.
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Noooooooo, I was born in 1987 so I don't remember anything about it but my mom was in elementary school and it was announced in her school so she remembers.
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Absolutely, I was freshly released from active duty in the US Army and at that moment I was in school. It was announced over the PA System and many students thought it was a prank.
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I wasn't even in my parent mind yet! :angel12:
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I was not even born yet.
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No I was born in 1966.
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I wasnt even born.
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I was six years old and remember watching Walter Chronkite on the tv, (black and white), and everyone crying and just the shock that seemed to fill the air. It was a terrible time in American history. It just seems like America was so "innocent" at the time. :( :peace:
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I was in primary school back in South Africa. The country did not have TV yet (only started in the mid 70s), but I heard it over the radio news and then we saw it at the movies. The first half of the movie (before interval) was all about world news in black and white. The footage was pretty shocking!