Nov. 22, 1963

Do you remember? I do I was 13.

I was two months old.

I was in 2nd grade all the teachers were crying then they sent us home.

I was 18 and a freshman at UT. I heard the news when I went to eat lunch at the frat house, and then I stayed there for the rest of the day watching Walter Kronkite report on CBS.

LHO acted alone. When people just can’t come to terms with something so terrible yet so simple, you get all these conspiracies.

It would be another 3+ years before I would float down the fallopian tube and get bombarded by incoming friendly fire...

Lmao. I was still 12 years away from carpet bombing

I was only 2 so... Not too much... I did learn about it though... Dan

So was I. It was a sad day!

I was incubating at the time.

4th grade classroom

1 year old

I was still in the womb

I was 11, 4th grade. I still remember well. Teachers were crying everywhere in the halls.

I was in my junior year of high school, in homeroom period. Someone knocked on the door and gave our teacher the news.
She came back in with tears in her eyes and told us.
I’ll never forget that day!

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.

I was 7. I remember getting out of school and my dad loaded up the old 59 ford and we headed to Johnson City deer hunting. Later in hit me what really happened that day.

Today is my wife’s birthday. I should go get something real quick.

Biology class ....10th grade

2n grade DISD school teachers running and crying thru the hallways, we were let out early, A day I'll never forget.

Too soon?

If you have never listened to LBJ's mistress, give a listen. Interesting stuff.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rywYKMK-Hk4

Dad was buying minnows at the bait shop in Kingston, OK when we heard the news. Did not interrupt the trip.

Mo

I do. Third grade. We were in the film room and the older kids were walking by saying "Kennedy has been shot".

It was a very sad time for the nation and for Dallas.

The upside was that for many years NOBODY wanted to move to Dallas.

I was 4 years old.

I was in grammar school also and remember most peoples reactions to the shooting. My brother and I were too young.

I wasn’t born yet but was always interested in the events leading up to that day. No body will ever convince me of the one shooter BS

I watched about 20 minutes of it talk about one wild tale. Pretty hard to believe but she seems to be able to recall the events in detail pretty convincingly. The names she is throwing out is pretty much who’s who of the 1960’s with involvement to the assasination.

I was 4, I don't remember JFK being shot but I do remember my dad jumping off the couch when Jack Ruby shot LHO. I remember watching the funeral procession though.

I was 2 years old . Don't remember it . My mother was a giant JFK fan , kept all the news clippings from that event . In a more interesting spin on JFK --- he is the reason my dad is now 88 .
When JFK debated Nixon the first time , JFK looked really sickly . They had no idea what was happening to him --- he was thin , no energy , pale and sickly . Dr's decided to pump him up on Cortisone for the second debate --- he looked like a new man ---won the election . My father came down with the same disease --- Addisons Disease . If untreated -- it's fatal . My fathers Dr read how they were treating JFK and decided to treat my dad the same --- ended up saving his life .

we were watching it on tv in class, I was 9. walter cronkite was the narrator for the procession and it was the only time I ever remember him being emotional while reporting. he was the go to news guy back then and very well respected.

weird day at that age.

I was in calculus class, Regis College, Denver, CO.

I only watched the 1st 45 minutes (will watch’s rest soon) but she names so many people that you hear about in history, it makes you wonder.

I was at Minlow Park Elementary School, Washington State. Second Grade.

I was a junior in high school in NM running through the parking to peel out and head to lunch....came back to school and it was a truly sad day. We still tap about it at our annual gathering of friends at the Old Timers Reunion. Watching LHO get shot was unnerving.

4th grade

I was 4 years and 11 months old. I remember all the stuff on TV about it and people walking by the casket for hours. No cartoons were on any channel was not a good thing. I remember my dad going out in the country to his friend's house because no one was working, and I got to ride with him. It`s funny how you can remember some things and not others.

I was around. The people she names were probably involved. I never considered HL Hunt. One thing it does point out - our government has always been corrupt. I knew JFK was corrupt and LBJ too, you can go on from there.

"History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new." Ecc 1