Bender 4 Life Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I won't mind , or be surprised if this thread gets locked or deleted, but, for those that were alive on that"fateful day" in '63.......where were you when Kennedy left the living? what were you doing? I was a month and a half yr old baby with colic......my Mother was rocking me to sleep when the news interrupted her favorite radio show (they didn't have a TV yet). It took several days before she believed it had REALLY happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I was 11 years old, in 6th grade out on the school playground when one of the teachers came out and told us the news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman5293 Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I was 30 years away from being born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shnate McDuanus Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I can't say where I was... Alls I gotta say is that Ruby got the wrong guy. OK, in all seriousness (and not to fuel the overactive imaginations of the conspiracy nuts,) I wasn't born yet. It would be roughly 29 years before I would come into this world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 Just a distant thought in my future parents' brains... Not to go off topic... .... but did anyone see the Seinfeld with the baseball player that spits at Kramer? And they recreate it like the Kennedy thing? that's the first thing that comes to mind when people mention Kennedy for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daryl M Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I wasn't born yet, but being a history major in college, I did a lot of research on it, and still find it interesteing. I've been to Dealy Plaza and it's creepy just being there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete c Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 7yrs before my time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chengin Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 Anyone believe Woody Harrelsons father might have shot him? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1626531.ece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I was in the first grade but I remember our teacher, Miss Stanton (the witch), giving us the news.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 Messing my diaper. I think I had the Gerber's Corn that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I was in 2nd grade and out of school - sick I guess - and was at mt Grandmother's house. Thats' all I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidl Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I was about 16 months old and probably soiling myself. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I was a month and a half yr old baby with colic......my Mother was rocking me to sleep when the news interrupted her ... Funny, my mom tells pretty much the same story. I too was about a month and a half old (having been born 10-14) and she says she was rocking me when she got the news. I think my dad came home and told her though - not TV or radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonkers Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 Just a distant thought in my future parents' brains... Not to go off topic... .... but did anyone see the Seinfeld with the baseball player that spits at Kramer? And they recreate it like the Kennedy thing? that's the first thing that comes to mind when people mention Kennedy for me... That's one magic loogie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I was a senior in high school in English class. The class president came into our room and told Mrs. Davidson and she told us. I would like to add that I still don't buy the single gunman theory and that Oswald acted alone but that might take this thread to a point where it gets cut off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigh Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I was 5 years old & the only thing I remember is that my mom said I was complaining about all my cartoons being interrupted. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I remember sitting on the floor at my grandparents house Sunday morning after JFK was shot. The were moving Oswald from the Dallas PD jail. First time I ever saw anyone on live TV get shot and killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 My Dad will go to his grave KNOWING one thing for sure - the mob was heavily involved. He was lucky enough to overhear an offhand comment while working in a Houston bar the night before. Some shady "business" men ran it, sorta like a mob thing in the South. Unions, investors, longshoremen, etc. Anyway, we all know Kennedy wasn't highly regarded in the South - explains LBJ on the ticket. The television was all JFK, all the time, people were sick of it that evening. But it was like the Beatles were in Houston according to the positive spin on the news coverage. Anyway, the comment was something like; "They didn't do it today, but it'll be taken care of tomorrow in Dallas..." The next day, Dad was driving with his brother to conduct an "errand" for the "business" men. The radio broke the news as they were on the road. They had to pull over, and sit staring at each other until it sunk in. Neither was sure who had said what the night before, but it was definitely people associated with the owner. My Dad decided to go back in the Army, suddenly realizing that simply quitting might not be so simple... Since the Cold War was so hot at the time, the boss agreed that it was reasonable for a patriotic young man. The boss knew that Dad's security clearance and nuke duties would take him out of the country. And that he wouldn't talk.... They cut him a nice fat separation check, shook his hand, and wished him well. Told him to come back to work for them anytime after he got out of the Army. I was two years away yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windmills Optional Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I was in third grade. They made an announcement over the intercom and sent us home. Pretty atypical long weekend for a third grader--I remember the very somber vibe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 That's one magic loogie! There we go. that's awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 Seven months old toddling around the house I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 Seven months old toddling around the house I suppose. I think you may be my long lost twin brother!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 22 months old, in an oxygen tent at Vanderbilt Hospital, fighting for my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPguitarman Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 Nice story Neo. I was almost two years old. 12/2/61. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I was 10. The news broke at school. Even at that young age, you knew it was shockingly tragic and a very big deal. So big infact, we were dismissed early from school. We (my brother and me) went home and watched the news unfold on black and white TV. Then, two days later the whole nightmare was replayed when Ruby killed Oswald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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