[ARCHIVED THREAD] - November 22, 1963 (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 11/17/2003 6:14:14 PM EDT
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Where were you? What were you doing? |
| I was in the 8th grade. The teachers were instructed to gather all of the students in the quad area for a very important announcement. I think it was around 11:30 PST. The principal had tears in her eyes when she made the announcement that John Kennedy died from gun shot wounds. |
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I was in the Fourth Grade at Chillicothe Elementary School in Mrs. Foster's class! The principal, Mr. Goad, who was a John Birch Society member, as were my folks, came on the PA system and announced that the President had been shot in Dallas, about 200 miles away from our school. He sounded like he had been crying. Later he came on and announced that the President was dead. We all went home early that day. A week later, my Dad drove us to Dallas to see all the places we had heard about on the news - Dealey Plaza, the Texas School Book Depository, and Parkland Hopsital. It was a very moving experience to see Dealey Plaza at night with all the flowers and candlelights, and people moving around trying to make some sense out of that past week of events! I still take visitors to Dallas down there to see it! I had one of my first civil trials in Texas in the same Dallas County Courtroom where Jack Ruby's murder trial was held! There was a picture of the prosecution and defense teams, along with Jack Ruby, sitting at their respective tables, on the wall of the courtroom! Eric The(Historical)Hun 
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OT: The Dallas Morning News the local paper has special internet site with pics and other info that maybe of interest: www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/graphics/11-03/112203jfk.html use signon/password [email protected]/password if the system prompts for signon id. |
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I was in 9th grade detention, (Boston area, Needham, actually), and the principal announced it on the PA around 2:30-2:45, (I think), anyway, we got out of detention early. Geez, I remember it real good... Blew us away, me and the guys walked home, (we were regulars in detention..  A lot of people were crying, we figgered the ruskies did it..(ya, we had boogy-men back then too..  )Ya, thanks for the memory.......I think. 
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(Great Society, 'War on Poverty', etc)???
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I was only 5 but I remember it well. My parents loaded up the car and got us out of the city to my grandparents place. We all stayed there while my Dad went back to work. They were pretty shook up as was everyone and nobody really knew what to expect. The next year we moved out of the city and the following year the riots started there IIRC. They played the funeral procession on TV every morning for what seemed weeks on the local TV station. It was an awakening for me in a way as being only 5 I couldn't conceive that someone as important as the President could be killed so easily if at all. |
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I was in 8th grade. It was announced over the PA, during class. A lot of the other kids started crying.I remained dry-eyed, throughout. My family hated the Kennedys with a passion and living in the Chicago burbs, were convinced that the election had been stolen by the Daley machine and Nixon had been robbed. My biggest complaint at the time, was the pre-empting of regular programming. As a side note, I could never find the beauty of Jackie-O that everyone raved about. |
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I was in the seventh grade in Junior High School and at lunch. The Principal announced it over the loud speaker. The lunch room broke into cheers. That's right. Cheers. We were in the deep south and Kennedy was roundly hated. His policies were against everything we believed in. In retrospect, I am saddened by our response. But you can't re-write history (unless you're a liberal). That's what happened in Port Arthur, Texas on that day. |
| I was in room 13 at public school #49 in Indianapolis. The school had recently installed intercoms. The principal came on and said that President Kennedy had been shot. We couldn't believe it and we thought it was a joke. A little later they sent us all home. There were only four channels on TV and they carried the assassination for a month. All day, every day. |
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like many of the above posters, i was in grade school. word came around that the president had been shot. a short time later our teacher was called into the hallway. she re-entered the room crying and announced the death of john f. kenndy. a few minutes later all classes were dismissed. i had a short walk home and remember feeling badly for the bus riders. they had to wait in the school untill the bus drivers could be summoned back to their buses early. in our livingroom the black & white television was providing details, live, from various locations in dallas. |
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I was 9 months old and have no recollection of the event. However, with the countless times my mom has vividly recalled exactly where she was when she heard the news I know exactly where I was and what I was doing. We were living near Lansing, MI and she had my grandmother (her mother-in-law) over for lunch. They had just put me down for a nap when the news came over the T.V. that President Kennedy had been shot. My dad was a bank manager at the time and she called him immediatly to inform him and prepare for a possible run on the bank (remember, at the time, they didn't know what had happened - was it the Cubans?, the Ruskies?, are we at war?). She said it was the saddest day and the weekend that followed it was worse. |