2.4 years old, didn’t learn about it until a little later in life. I was born and raised in Atlanta. When I moved here 24 years ago I was downtown looking at a job site and ended up driving right where it happened, and a very eerie feeling hit me. I had seen the footage a million times but suddenly I was exactly where it happened.

I was in second grade. They let the school out early. When I walked in the house, my mom was about to beat the snot out of me for skipping school. She didn't know what was going on. When I told her, she became enraged because she thought I was making the story up. Before the beatings began, I told her to turn the TV or radio on. She then found out I was telling the truth.

I was also only 2 years old

Very sad day in American history.

9 years old and remember being sent home from school.

7th grade here. All there was on the news, 24/7, in black and white, was that story. Cartoons, 3 stooges, and other "good" stuff were pre-empted. I do remember watching Lee Harvey Oswald get shot though.

Same here. 4th grade. The Principal walked around to each classroom and gave the announcement and a bowing of heads in silence.

If you have never gone to Dallas and gone to the school book depository, Dealey Plaza and the grassy knoll and stood where it all went down, you should. I have taken hundreds of students there and it is very humbling. I would also suggest adding the Holocaust Museum to the list while there.

The JFK shooting would make an excellent thread.

1st grade here. Recall being VERY disappointed that they preempted cartoons over the weekend. Kids these days can get cartoons anytime they want then, but back then it was weekends only,

JR

I was in the first grade in Muskogee Ok.

I was in 6th grade in Ft.Worth. He and Jackie had spent the night at the Hotel Texas in downtown the night before.
Came in from after lunch recess. Teacher sent a boy home on his bike to quickly return with a transistor radio.
Heartbreaking news.
For what it’s worth, history would report that all the big feds.just happened to be in town for the “big event”.
Then Oswald was shot on Sunday.
The country would never be the same again.
Riots ,Vietnam, Robert Kennedy, MLK assasinations.
Our days of Camelot were over.

I was 4 and the only thing I really remember was being mad on Saturday morning because all of my cartoons got preempted by news coverage.

The country has never been the same for many reasons. JFK was a Democrat, but he was a bona fide war hero who understood the role of U.S. military power in the world. He stared down the Soviet Union and basically made Khrushchev wet his pants. He announced to the world on live TV that any missile, any missile launched anywhere in the Western Hemisphere, would be met with the U.S. launching a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. If Cuba "accidentally" launched a missile at Nicaragua, Kennedy was going to incinerate Moscow. He meant it and they believed he meant it.

Kennedy was also a fiscal conservative. He pushed through large tax cuts. He was a patriot.

He ran against Nixon, also a WWII veteran who had probably the highest IQ of any President ever. Nixon was probably cheated out of Illinois and Texas during the election, but he refused to challenge in court because he said that above all Americans had to believe that their elections were fair and on the up and up. He was a statesman. So was Kennedy. Both had their personal flaws, but in terms of love of country and freedom under the Constitution they were a cut above what we have now.

I was three years old when it happened. I don't remember the assassination, but I do remember my dad saying as cameras showed the area into which Oswald would be brought to be transferred, "They will kill that man if they bring him into that crowd." That was botched beyond belief. How do you allow a man with known gang ties to enter the area with a .38 in his coat? Every cop there knew Jack Ruby and his history. It makes you think it was done on purpose.

Our family was on Congress Ave in Austin waiting for the presidential parade. My younger brother had to use the restroom so we into Woolworths and had to go through the TV section and saw it on one of their TVs.

Yep, same for me.