Where were you 11/22/63?

Where were you on November 22, 1963?

Sitting in class when the announcement came over the PA system that President Kennedy was shot, and had died.

On a stage in a downtown Richmond, VA hotel in the middle of a campaign speech for my candidate for FTA (Future Teachers of America) state president. My speech was interrupted so that some official could take over the mike...which was just as well. I wouldn't have been able to continue anyway.

I was a Junior in High School.

Judy

With a bunch of fraternity brothers playing touch football in a school yard.

Another of the brothers came to get us with the news from Dallas. We stayed glued to the TV for several days. I audio taped many hours of the TV broadcasts.

I was at work,the Driver's License Bureau, here in Phoenix, AZ...They actually closed the place down and sent everyone home. I was pregnant with my Son Jim. I remember watching TV in disbelief and crying a lot. A very very sad day.

"Good friends are like stars.......You don't always see them, but you know they are always there."
Ruthie

I don't even want to think about this. I'd campaigned for JFK as a college student and was in one of several Peace Corps groups who trained in the DC area. He invited us all to the Rose Garden one afternoon. That was such an exciting time and then for him to die in such a horrible and untimely way was really unbearable.

I was only 5 years old and don't have any memory at all, although I sure it was on TV.

Chemistry class in HS, and the school turned on the live news radio broadcast on the PA system.

It was nearing the end of my school day and I was getting ready for football practice in preparation for our big Turkey Day game against archrival Attleboro HS.

I don't know why but some adult non-school faculty started saying the President has been shot and killed and we will be going to war. Kind of a scary thing to say to a junior in high school.

It was a very sad day for America. I remember most everything about the funeral. I even saved the front pages off the Boston papers and still have them somewhere in my home.

Bob M.

I was in Portsmouth, VA going to a Navy Class "C" Advanced Electronics School. I had volunteered for the 2nd shift class and was playing cards in the barracks. Needless to say they cancelled school that night.

Man, are you people OLD! I was proably lying in my CRIB taking a nap like most 5 month olds would !

Mike

Returning from shopping with my 5-month-old first-born. Spent the following week glued to the TV.

Being woken up by my Dad to watch the announecment etc. on TV. The - then - unthinkable had happened.

My Mum was sitting on the living room table (!!) and was crying. That event even stirred the German hearts!

Jeez, we really date ourselves in some of these posts! And here I was trying to keep my age a secret!

Not a chance Grace, the cat is out of the bag.

I was sitting in a barbers chair getting a haircut as I was to be the Best Man at a wedding that weekend. You should have seen the end result. Neither I nor the barber were able to sit still. Kept turning to watch the coverage on TV.

Naval Hospital JAX FLA working on a down X-Ray
unit.

Four years, two months and one week from being in existence.

I almost feel like one of the youngest again. I was 7 and remeber everyone crying at the store.

Hey Grace your really racking up those posts.

Fran, you were just a baby back then! I told you I can't take a dare lying down. Still have a long way to go, but the fun is in the trip, not the destination, right?

We lived in Fairfax County VA, just outside DC at the time. I was in class when they made the announcement. Several days later I was at Arlington for the funeral. Don't remember a whole lot, but do remember the people around us putting all the kids up front so they could see as much as possible.

Grace YOU GO GIRL

In my barracks at Camp Hansen,Okinawa.

Walt

Boy, this is an old bunch! (LOL) I was 2 1/2 years old at the time.

The local radio still had the debate on Tuesday - one shooter or two?

Will we ever know?

Okay, okay, you don't need to rub it in. We are obviously very young at heart. I feel decades younger than I am and I'm probably one of the oldest here. No, we probably will never know exactly what happened. Whether or not it was one or more shooters, the tragic outcome remains the same.

To me the OFFICIAL story just does not add up. I really believe it was more than one person, that Lee Harvey Oswald was the "Fall Guy" and would not be surprised it there was help from inside the government.

That's my opinion, I could be wrong.

While furthering my education, I received an Associates Degree from Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts. One of the Deans there was Harry Krespane. He had studied the assasination for decades and would do a wonderful presentation on his findings at least a couple of times a year.

If my memory serves me correctly, Dean Krespane determined there wasn't a second shooter, and Oswald probably acted alone. I say probably because Krespane could not find any hard evidence to authenticate the second shooter theory.

:rolleyes: Bob :rolleyes:

Just asked Stan if he knew... Wow he is one of the very few people I know that can't say exactly where they were.
It is astonishing how many people know the exact moment. Even people that had nothing to do with anything or anyone in the USA.
I had just turned eight and knew VERY little about this country on the other side of the world from me (I am German and grew up in Germany), but I knew something iportant had happened and have remembered ever since.
I guess my Mother sitting ON the living room table made an impression and my Dad calling us to come watch TV, because this was an important piece of history, also made the event unforgettable!

Eric, I agree with you that Oswald was the "fall guy" and that government was involved, whether ours or another country's. Since then, we have learned a great deal about the complicity of the CIA in shady dealings (to put it mildly) here and elsewhere. I think there is a shadow of a doubt that Oswald was the only shooter.

High school English class studying MacBeth (an old cousin of mine). Having spent some time with the intel community, I find it most likely that Oswald acted alone. This is the hardest type of "conspiracy" to detect before hand. Government conspiracy is the easiest, the government being full of big mouths wanting to rake credit for anything or to brag on their importance. For example, see how easy it's been to figure out Syria was behind the Lebanese leader's assassination or our own Iraqi prison scandals.

As for the CIA, you only hear about their failures nothing about successes. Gripers proliferate in the government and are always sure they could have done "it" better. They usually become TV news commentators.

By the way, the weather was wonderful in Florida last week. Shorts and t-shirts at 10 PM.

3 years and 2 months before I was a twinkle in my daddy's eye. :p

I was probably taking a nap in my crib, too.

I was still 26 years, 2 months, and 7 days away.

Though I have done a bit of research on the subject...not on the conspiracy stuff, etc., but just the assassination in general.

I was in school - 6th grade (was still part of elementary school at that time), when the principal announced over the school intercom that Kennedy had been shot. At the time it had no affect on me, as I guess I really led a sheltered life as far as politics/world events were concerned and really didn't think too hard about the situation. My parents never discussed with kids (when we were young) anything to do with the current events of the world.... There were other students in class that started crying though.

I don't remember ever talking in elementary school about Presidential elections or other current events either.

I do remember the funeral being broadcast on TV, school had been cancelled the day of the funeral, and seeing the rider-less horse with the boots backwards in the stirrups. and little John saluting as the coffin went past him.

I was in the quad in my high school during lunch in my senior year in high school. I can still remember how sick to my stomach I got when I heard the news. It was a very trying time in our history. One that didn't get any better with all the cover-up about who was responsible. It is hard to believe that was 42 years ago. I must be getting old!

Scott

Yes, it's hard to believe that it was so very long ago. For those of us who were old enough to really understand the historical ramifications, it just doesn't seem that long ago; it's still so vivid in one's memory.

Going to class at a college in Ohio....the impact of that moment framed my thinking about war, politics, justice and opportunity for the rest of my life.

Like Bob earlier I was in High School sitting in Chemistry class. Everyone sat around basically stunned for the rest of the period. What's interesting is that I can't remember a thing about what happened after we left that classroom.

I was in a clothing store attempting to purchase a white shirt. The announcement came over the radio. The owner immediately closed the store and told me to take the shirt and go home. I never paid for that shirt and I never wore that shirt. Amaziing what one remenbers.

bobo

At Southeast High School, in Mr. Strickland's English class for seniors. We had barely gotten into the session when the intercom came on, garbled at first, with no announcement but just what was coming over the radio at that time. It took us a few moments to figure out that something terrible had happened. As with 9-11, we were glued to the television for the next few days.

As an aside, I find it disconcerting that any replaying of all the footage of the time now looks so archaic in quality. I'm beginning to feel more like a relic of the Silent Era!

Danny

Danny, just because we are "older" doesn't make us relics. It's not that it was so long ago, it's that electronics have come such a long way in a very, very, very short time. Right?

Eh? EH? I dropped my gol-durn ear trumpet and can't make out a thing!

I was in Math 10 when the news of President Kennedys' death was announced. A loud mouth in back of the room stated " it must have been a Canadian who shot him." (After the ensuing fisticuffs we were both suspended for the day.)President Kennedy was beloved by Canadians' and his death was heart felt through out our Country. I do not agree that Oswald did this alone but we will never who was behind the conspiracy or the cover up.

I was also in school when the principal came in to the cafeteria to tell us the President had been shot. It's something you never forget, just like we'll always remember where we were on 9-11.