Tomorrow is November 22nd Do you remember?

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On that date in 1963 I was in the 4th grade. We were in an assembly, watching a film about plants. The principal came in and turned on the TV set in the assembly room. Later he left, and made an announcement that the President had been shot. He dismissed school for the day. I remember as we were going back to our classrooms, looking into one and seeing one of the other 4th grade teachers, Mrs. Donohue, standing by the window with her hands over her face crying. It is really the first major event that I can remember
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Yes. I remember. I was in 5th grade. Teacher came in and said our President was shot..and is dead. Class was dismissed. All teachers were in the hallways, crying. I didn't know what was going on..I just knew everyone was sad. Only after I grew and became adult did I realize just what we lost.

Camelot died that day. Or rather..as soon as Robert followed John. That's when it truly died.
 

I was in High school but I was home that day because my older sister had just gotten out of the hospital with her new baby. As soon as it came on television I froze. I watched every minute of what happened and cried most of the time.It was a very sad time for all of us.
 
4th grade,Catholic school,principal came in,said he was shot,we prayed the rosary,came in a few minutes later told us he was passed and we were dismissed.
My family was in shock,irish- catholic,it seemed like a death in our own family...
I wonder if anything will be learned from the files being released,so much controversy
 
A group of us were playing poker in the barracks, in Germany, that evening. Suddenly, one of the guys came running in and said Kennedy had been shot. We turned on the radio, and listened to the news for a few minutes, and then we put on our fatigues and headed for the shop....just as the base went on full alert. No one knew what was happening, and whether or not this was the start of something worse, but after a couple of hours, the base downed the alert to full standby, and told everyone to stay on base and be ready if needed. This was on a Friday, as I recall, and it was Monday before things began to wind down, when it appeared that the assassination was the act of one person.
 
I was at work when we heard about it. We knew it was true when we saw the flag go to half staff on the federal building we could see out the windows. I was shocked and very shaken, as was everyone else. I just couldn't believe such a thing could happen in America. People just quietly started going home and of course our office closed for the rest of the day. I'll always remember that day very clearly, and those that followed.
 
I was just a couple of months away from being fourteen.....the photo of young JFK Jr.
saluting his father's casket as it passes always gets to me.

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I was 13. When JFK was assassinated my father was a Commander in the Navy (Lieutenant Commander at the time I think). The only thing I remember him saying (that whole day when JFK was shot) was that, because of the "Bay of Pigs (JFK oversaw a failed attempt by the CIA to overthrow the Cuban government), we never came closer to a nuclear global war than ever before." He looked so serious and solemn and it scared me. I didn't ask questions for some reason. It looked too serious I guess. I wondered quietly if that's why someone wanted to kill JFK.

It wasn't until later that I found out that in 1962 (Kennedy was shot in 1963) tensions were high with the Communist states and U.S. spy planes found Soviet Missile Bases in Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis)...further validating my fears. So for me it was a combination of sadness, confusion, and a little fear about our world's situations.

Maybe the recent release of the files will sort this out. I know they have "found information that could jeopardize national security" so they are holding off on letting the public know but the President says eventually we will see that too. They also found some damaging info on MLK (I think that was infidelity and sexual misconduct according to the journalist but didn't mention any relationship to JFK's incident).
 
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I was at work and the man who owned the business next door rushed in and said Kennedy had been shot. He always loved to tell me the latest joke, so I asked him what the punchline was.
 
Aunt Bea, you beat me to it. I was going to come in and post the Cronkite announcement. It must have been so hard, as reporters are supposed to keep their emotions in check, but it was obvious that he just could not hold back his grief.
 
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