JFK's assassination goes unnoticed!

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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Here and everywhere no mention of it was made, and yesterday was the day that rocked history. I'll never forget where I was when I heard that he had been shot. How about you?
 

Over here it was raised at the evening church service and the couple of us who were old enough shared our feelings about that day with the young twentysomethings.
Where I was I don't remember. I suspect I was at home. I do remember bursting into tears.
 
I was in school and they put the news on the PA system.......I remember our teacher crying.
 

It was remembered by my FB friends. I was in 6th grade. Remember it like yesterday. Husband remembers very well. He was in Glasgow and had his 15th birthday the day before.
 
I was in Germany...participating in a barracks poker game when one of the guys came thru with a radio broadcasting the news that JFK had been shot. We got up from the table, put on our fatigues, and headed for the shop. Shortly thereafter, the base went on full alert, and we all stood by waiting for news on what was happening. We all stayed at the shop for about 24-36 hours, and ate/slept in shifts, until we got word that this was the act of a single shooter, and not some sort of Russian plot. When the base came off alert, we went back to the barracks, and picked up the poker game where we left off...chips/money still on the table where we had left them....one Helluva 2 days.
 
I was in 8[SUP]th[/SUP] grade. One of the other teachers ran into the classroom and whispered in our teacher’s ear. I recall the shocked expression. Teacher told us the President had been shot. Few minutes later the other teacher came back and said he was dead. We were sent home. Lee Harvey Oswald was killed two days later.

It was a rough week for my family. The next day my grandmother died, and as soon as we got home from that funeral an aunt who was in the hospital died in her 40s.
 
I was on the Oakland San Francisco Bay Bridge driving a hearse back from the National Cemetary in San Bruno & heard the news on the radio. Many people stopped on the bridge.
 
I was just coming back from the Cafeteria at General Dynamics in San Diego and saw a large group of employees gathered around a company car. They were listening to the news bulletins about it. When I got home that day I watched the live (not taped) tv broadcast when Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby. It was shock upon shock.
 
I was at work in California at that time. The plant manager opened a full speaker announcement to the plant at that time. He announced the shooting. I don't remember much else but do know that I felt somehow angry and defeated that such an act could happen. Now, no more convertibles for the President and others. Large bullet proof sedans. Still having problems protecting the leaders.
 
I was in 3rd grade at the time and recall the teacher being called out into the hallway. We could hear that something terrible had happened, but then she came in to tell us. We were assigned homework to learn learn what had happened and then report on it the following week. I remember running the entire way home and telling my mother, who hadn't yet heard the news.
 
I was sitting in my US History class. I was 13, in 8th grade and the news was delivered via PA system. School was dismissed and it was a long walk home. It was a blur of events and I saw Oswald and Ruby shot live. It was just so unreal and after a while I just felt numb. I would plug in the earphones to my transistor radio and listen to music til I fell asleep.
 
I was 17 and working at a savings and loan. A family member of one of the employees called and told her the president had been shot. There was a TV down in the lobby of a nearby building and some employees went over to see if there was news, and came back and told us. For a while, we didn't know whether the president was dead or only wounded. Then we saw the flag on the post office across the street go to half staff and we knew he was dead. We just sort of spontaneously closed up and went down to the TV, where a crowd was gathered around silently watching the news.

It was a terrible day -- I remember how dumbfounded and shocked we all were as we drifted away; everything downtown closed down and people just went home. It was all very surreal, like something out of a Twilight Zone episode. Everyone pretty much stayed glued to their TVs watching the news the rest of the weekend and offices were closed the next few days, until after the funeral.

It was one of those days I've always had a very vivid memory of, exactly where I was, what I was wearing, etc. It was almost as though time stood still.
 
Correction, I was a toddler when Kennedy was assassinated. For we later boomers 9/11 was the event that we remember exactly where we were. Then so it goes, my younger son is an adult now and all he remembers of 9/11 was that they got out of school early which was good but the parents were all freaking out which was bad...he was young enough that he really had no idea what was going on.
 
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fureverywhere said:
Correction, I was a toddler when Kennedy was assassinated. For we later boomers 9/11 was the event that we remember exactly where we were. Then so it goes, my younger son is an adult now and all he remembers of 9/11 was that they got out of school early which was good but the parents were all freaking out which was bad...he was young enough that he really had no idea what was going on.
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For my mother, it was Pearl Harbor. I was and utterly transfixed by 9-11 also and had a similar feeling as I did when Kennedy was assassinated.
 
I was in grade school. The teachers acted crestfallen, like it was the end of everything, which of course, it was. I remember at home we watched television for the next 4 days straight. The assassination of Oswald and the funeral. What a tragic moment to live through.

I remember and understood RFK's death much better and the ramifications of it politically because '68 was an election year and he was the hope of the democrats. I often wonder how the world might have been different if he had lived and become president instead of Nixon.
 
chic said:
I was in grade school. The teachers acted crestfallen, like it was the end of everything, which of course, it was. I remember at home we watched television for the next 4 days straight. The assassination of Oswald and the funeral. What a tragic moment to live through.

I remember and understood RFK's death much better and the ramifications of it politically because '68 was an election year and he was the hope of the democrats. I often wonder how the world might have been different if he had lived and become president instead of Nixon.
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Robert Kennedy instead of Nixon, that's something to think about. Maybe in a parallel universe, huh?
 

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