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I was in 8th grade at Cross Keys High School in Atlanta. It was a bright sunny day.
We were coming in from gym class when someone told me that the President had been shot.
I will never forget it, it seemed impossible to believe, the handsome, energetic young President was dead.
I do think he would have been a good President, he had realized that Vietnam was a mistake and would have gotten us out after the election. I do think he would have been re elected.
BAton Rouge La
Picked my son up from day care because he was sick.
It was near A friends bar(The Lagoon Lounge) on Florida Blvd that the bar owner Rusty Melton had let me stay in a room he had when wife and I were going thru a ruff time.
When I walked in he had the TV on
and said WE got The buzzard he is dead.
I always thought he was in carlos Marcellos group. .
About ten 10 years later He was shot in the back of his head on his porch before sunrise and had about 1,000.00 in his pocket..
I was a freshman in high school in '63. I was at my Grandpa's restaurant that day when my Mom came in and told us the president had been shot. I went outside and sat in my Dad's '60 Thunderbird and listened to the news report on the radio.
I was in kindergarten, but we went every other day. That day I was home watching 'Wagon Train' on TV when the program was interrupted and a picture of Kennedy went across the screen. I hollered to my mother that the president was on TV. We sat glued to the set the rest of the day.Dave
It was a different time Was 2nd or 3rd grade. Remember that the teacher would not even tell us why we were being sent home. Not like now where the teacher would just say the President is dead.
....since I voted for Nixon....always will believe LBJ had something to do with it.....Ruby was paying a debt...saw it all...too many questions unanswered...never thought it was a single killer...
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
It was a different time Was 2nd or 3rd grade. Remember that the teacher would not even tell us why we were being sent home. Not like now where the teacher would just say the President is dead.
Today, depending on who was assassinated, after the announcement there will be "Cheers" or
I was a junior in high school. Someone from the office came into class and told us what had happened. We were all in shock. If I recall school was over for the day after that.
I was in 7th grade middle school. The thing i remember most was our bus driver who was also named Kennedy telling all of us on the bus to shut the F*%# up and sit the F*^% down.
quote:Originally posted by droptop
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
It was a different time Was 2nd or 3rd grade. Remember that the teacher would not even tell us why we were being sent home. Not like now where the teacher would just say the President is dead.
Today, depending on who was assassinated, after the announcement there will be "Cheers" or Actually, in that regard, 1963 probably wasn't too much different than today based on opinions around our small college campus in Southwest Arkansas. When I arrived at the dorm and joined the group in the dorm's lounge watching the news on the TV, I thought a fight might break out because the group was pretty evenly divided for and against JFK; mainly because of strong feelings about the Bay of Pigs debacle. It was a pretty tense environment with both cheers and tears!!!!!!
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
On my way to work. Went 1/2 day to school, 1/2 day to work at my Dad's shop. I heard it on the radio, and went to tell Dad about it. My mom was pretty upset, but the rest of us just went about our business.
quote:Originally posted by Old-Colts
quote:Originally posted by droptop
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
It was a different time Was 2nd or 3rd grade. Remember that the teacher would not even tell us why we were being sent home. Not like now where the teacher would just say the President is dead.
Today, depending on who was assassinated, after the announcement there will be "Cheers" or Actually, in that regard, 1963 probably wasn't too much different than today based on opinions around our small college campus in Southwest Arkansas. When I arrived at the dorm and joined the group in the dorm's lounge watching the news on the TV, I thought a fight might break out because the group was pretty evenly divided for and against JFK; mainly because of strong feelings about the Bay of Pigs debacle. It was a pretty tense environment with both cheers and tears!!!!!!
It seemed like everyone where I was working was pretty happy. Those who weren't at least didn't let on. I went out & celebrated that night with plenty of others. By the next day it began to change & by the second day the people that had been cheering with me swore they never did. I have never changed my mind. Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, murder of President Diem plus many other things. He was a disaster always looking for a place to happen & he always found it. That was in less than three years. Even the peanut farmer did a better job than him. The worst president of my lifetime.
Being just a kid in second grade, I remember quite well the events of that day. A group of teary eyed teachers came to the door of my classroom, getting the attention of my home room teacher Miss Hibma.
I overheard someone say that the president had been shot and a TV set mounted on a high roller stand was brought into the room and we started watching the news.
This was all before anyone knew that he had died as it took what seemed like a long time before that news was reported.
I can remember being glued to the TV along with my family for the long week or so ahead, and seeing Oswald's murder by Jack Ruby as it happened live as if it were a play or soap opera. Then watching that flag draped casket in the Capitol rotunda with Mrs. Kennedy and her two kids kneeling beside it and lifting up under the flag.
The funeral with the horse drawn carriage and the lone horse following and the drums beating.
This was a time when I was drawn to the television set for each and every space launch and had dreams of someday going into space myself. A time when my impressionable mind was forming and will admit that I have always put JFK high up on a pedestal, as did all of my young brothers and class mates.
Remember going to the movies that summer before and seeing PT 109 with Cliff Robertson portraying our president as a war hero. Having to have a model kit of that famous PT boat.
Well, that is what it was like for me and you asked.
I was 13 years old on my way to my first deer camp with my Dad. The old car we had then didn't have a radio and we were on the road for 4 hours. News was 3 hours old when we heard it at a gas station in northern Wisconsin. Everyone there was huddled around a little black/white tv with rabbit ears. Temperature was about 15 degrees and the news put a damper on the deer season opener.
quote:Originally posted by gruntled
quote:Originally posted by Old-Colts
quote:Originally posted by droptop
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
It was a different time Was 2nd or 3rd grade. Remember that the teacher would not even tell us why we were being sent home. Not like now where the teacher would just say the President is dead.
Today, depending on who was assassinated, after the announcement there will be "Cheers" or Actually, in that regard, 1963 probably wasn't too much different than today based on opinions around our small college campus in Southwest Arkansas. When I arrived at the dorm and joined the group in the dorm's lounge watching the news on the TV, I thought a fight might break out because the group was pretty evenly divided for and against JFK; mainly because of strong feelings about the Bay of Pigs debacle. It was a pretty tense environment with both cheers and tears!!!!!!
It seemed like everyone where I was working was pretty happy. Those who weren't at least didn't let on. I went out & celebrated that night with plenty of others. By the next day it began to change & by the second day the people that had been cheering with me swore they never did. I have never changed my mind. Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, murder of President Diem plus many other things. He was a disaster always looking for a place to happen & he always found it. That was in less than three years. Even the peanut farmer did a better job than him. The worst president of my lifetime.
Thanks for sharing that. I really appreciate your perspective. Nice to hear from guys like you that knew what was going on.
Some will die in hot pursuit
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
quote:Originally posted by Mr. Perfect
quote:Originally posted by gruntled
quote:Originally posted by Old-Colts
quote:Originally posted by droptop
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
It was a different time Was 2nd or 3rd grade. Remember that the teacher would not even tell us why we were being sent home. Not like now where the teacher would just say the President is dead.
Today, depending on who was assassinated, after the announcement there will be "Cheers" or Actually, in that regard, 1963 probably wasn't too much different than today based on opinions around our small college campus in Southwest Arkansas. When I arrived at the dorm and joined the group in the dorm's lounge watching the news on the TV, I thought a fight might break out because the group was pretty evenly divided for and against JFK; mainly because of strong feelings about the Bay of Pigs debacle. It was a pretty tense environment with both cheers and tears!!!!!!
It seemed like everyone where I was working was pretty happy. Those who weren't at least didn't let on. I went out & celebrated that night with plenty of others. By the next day it began to change & by the second day the people that had been cheering with me swore they never did. I have never changed my mind. Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, murder of President Diem plus many other things. He was a disaster always looking for a place to happen & he always found it. That was in less than three years. Even the peanut farmer did a better job than him. The worst president of my lifetime.
Thanks for sharing that. I really appreciate your perspective. Nice to hear from guys like you that knew what was going on.
I agree Mr. P. Being a young Marine at the time and the son of a mother who voted for him, and living in the south where reconstruction was a continuing problem...I fell for all of the propaganda too. What can I say. Looking back, JFK was just another race hustling disaster figure for America like most establishment politicians are...and the thing is, many of them don't veen know it.
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We were sitting in band and director stopped us because he heard the PA system on.
It was the radio coverage of the events in Dallas.
We all knew the world had changed, but weren't sure how it would change our lives.
We were coming in from gym class when someone told me that the President had been shot.
I will never forget it, it seemed impossible to believe, the handsome, energetic young President was dead.
I do think he would have been a good President, he had realized that Vietnam was a mistake and would have gotten us out after the election. I do think he would have been re elected.
Picked my son up from day care because he was sick.
It was near A friends bar(The Lagoon Lounge) on Florida Blvd that the bar owner Rusty Melton had let me stay in a room he had when wife and I were going thru a ruff time.
When I walked in he had the TV on
and said WE got The buzzard he is dead.
I always thought he was in carlos Marcellos group. .
About ten 10 years later He was shot in the back of his head on his porch before sunrise and had about 1,000.00 in his pocket..
swimming with millions of other just like me [8D]
...and you,as it turns out,was the fastest,,[;)][;)]
It was a different time Was 2nd or 3rd grade. Remember that the teacher would not even tell us why we were being sent home. Not like now where the teacher would just say the President is dead.
Today, depending on who was assassinated, after the announcement there will be "Cheers" or
A very sad day I remember. EVERYONE was crying.
School let out early and I walked home to find my Dad consoling my Mom.
The next week was eerily quiet in our household.
Juan Tonabondo.
I was 2 1/2 at the time.
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
It was a different time Was 2nd or 3rd grade. Remember that the teacher would not even tell us why we were being sent home. Not like now where the teacher would just say the President is dead.
Today, depending on who was assassinated, after the announcement there will be "Cheers" or
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
I was 2 years old, and knew nothing about the events of the day until years later.
Same here.
I had seen JFK the day before when my Dad took us kids down to see his motorcade drive by.
He was in Houston Texas that day to visit NASA.
Trinity +++
quote:Originally posted by droptop
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
It was a different time Was 2nd or 3rd grade. Remember that the teacher would not even tell us why we were being sent home. Not like now where the teacher would just say the President is dead.
Today, depending on who was assassinated, after the announcement there will be "Cheers" or
It seemed like everyone where I was working was pretty happy. Those who weren't at least didn't let on. I went out & celebrated that night with plenty of others. By the next day it began to change & by the second day the people that had been cheering with me swore they never did. I have never changed my mind. Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, murder of President Diem plus many other things. He was a disaster always looking for a place to happen & he always found it. That was in less than three years. Even the peanut farmer did a better job than him. The worst president of my lifetime.
I overheard someone say that the president had been shot and a TV set mounted on a high roller stand was brought into the room and we started watching the news.
This was all before anyone knew that he had died as it took what seemed like a long time before that news was reported.
I can remember being glued to the TV along with my family for the long week or so ahead, and seeing Oswald's murder by Jack Ruby as it happened live as if it were a play or soap opera. Then watching that flag draped casket in the Capitol rotunda with Mrs. Kennedy and her two kids kneeling beside it and lifting up under the flag.
The funeral with the horse drawn carriage and the lone horse following and the drums beating.
This was a time when I was drawn to the television set for each and every space launch and had dreams of someday going into space myself. A time when my impressionable mind was forming and will admit that I have always put JFK high up on a pedestal, as did all of my young brothers and class mates.
Remember going to the movies that summer before and seeing PT 109 with Cliff Robertson portraying our president as a war hero. Having to have a model kit of that famous PT boat.
Well, that is what it was like for me and you asked.
I was @ my Great GrandParents house ( they was babysitting me w-mom worked) ....
Was watching ( LIVE ) black & white T.V. , no idea what was really going on !
My Grand mother had to call an Uncle to take my GrandFather to the hospital case she thought he was having a Heart Attack case of this !!!
Will Never forget that mess !!!
Thanks !!!
I Grew Old Too Fast (And Smart Too damn Slow !!!) !!!
quote:Originally posted by Old-Colts
quote:Originally posted by droptop
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
It was a different time Was 2nd or 3rd grade. Remember that the teacher would not even tell us why we were being sent home. Not like now where the teacher would just say the President is dead.
Today, depending on who was assassinated, after the announcement there will be "Cheers" or
It seemed like everyone where I was working was pretty happy. Those who weren't at least didn't let on. I went out & celebrated that night with plenty of others. By the next day it began to change & by the second day the people that had been cheering with me swore they never did. I have never changed my mind. Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, murder of President Diem plus many other things. He was a disaster always looking for a place to happen & he always found it. That was in less than three years. Even the peanut farmer did a better job than him. The worst president of my lifetime.
Thanks for sharing that. I really appreciate your perspective. Nice to hear from guys like you that knew what was going on.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
quote:Originally posted by gruntled
quote:Originally posted by Old-Colts
quote:Originally posted by droptop
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
It was a different time Was 2nd or 3rd grade. Remember that the teacher would not even tell us why we were being sent home. Not like now where the teacher would just say the President is dead.
Today, depending on who was assassinated, after the announcement there will be "Cheers" or
It seemed like everyone where I was working was pretty happy. Those who weren't at least didn't let on. I went out & celebrated that night with plenty of others. By the next day it began to change & by the second day the people that had been cheering with me swore they never did. I have never changed my mind. Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, murder of President Diem plus many other things. He was a disaster always looking for a place to happen & he always found it. That was in less than three years. Even the peanut farmer did a better job than him. The worst president of my lifetime.
Thanks for sharing that. I really appreciate your perspective. Nice to hear from guys like you that knew what was going on.
I agree Mr. P. Being a young Marine at the time and the son of a mother who voted for him, and living in the south where reconstruction was a continuing problem...I fell for all of the propaganda too. What can I say. Looking back, JFK was just another race hustling disaster figure for America like most establishment politicians are...and the thing is, many of them don't veen know it.