53 years ago

lenray · Nov 22, 2016

53 years ago today-was a very sad day in our Republic. JFK

Greenpully · Nov 22, 2016

Yes indeed,very sad time.I was at work,truck driver making delivery with radio on.First we knew,we all seem to be in a fog.Boss did not seem to care.GP

wjytexas · Nov 22, 2016

I was in a high school biology class. School was let out until after the funeral. We sat glued to the black and white TV thru it all. In line with the current political divide there were those when he was originally elected who had said if Kennedy got elected they would leave the country. The reason - the Pope would rule the U.S. America got past that but I am still waiting for Kayne West to pack up and go.

dgasper · Nov 22, 2016

I was writing a calculus test when the announcement came over the intercom. Clueless instructor wouldn't cancel class. We all failed the test. Instructor eventually came to his senses and threw the results out.

Steve in VA · Nov 22, 2016

I was only 7 but I remember getting home from grade school and sitting in front of the TV for hours.

Pair-a-dice farm · Nov 22, 2016

(quoted from post at 15:45:13 11/22/16) 53 years ago today-was a very sad day in our Republic. JFK

That is probably the 1st memory that I retained from my early childhood. I was 5 years old and at the feed store with my dad. Dad didn't have a radio in his truck and we didn't have TV. The guy that owned the feed store told him. Dad didn't like JFK but he was visibly shaken by the news.

Crazy Horse · Nov 22, 2016

Leaving school at noon in grade 12 ..... I remember it well. Absolutely shocking and nothing since has had that effect on me. I guess we all get hardened to tragic news, there's been enough of it since the JFK tragedy. Sometimes I wonder if something similar happened today if it would have the same effect on people. Likely not ......

old-9 · Nov 22, 2016

I remember it well only thing on TV or radio---- except on Saturday night the grand old opery still was on the radio. joe

Philip d · Nov 22, 2016

Funny we were just watching the Walter Cronkite cbs report on Jfk last night,was a very sad day worldwide

PaGlenn · Nov 22, 2016

I was in detention hall in high school in my sophomore year. The news came over the intercom system.

john in la · Nov 22, 2016

I was in kindergarten.
I was more worried why mom kept dumping me off at this place and leaving than I was about who shot who.

C. Amick · Nov 22, 2016

I was in the 2nd. grade. I remember coming home from school and my mom telling me as she was in the living room watching the TV that sat in the corner.

Hammer house · Nov 22, 2016

I well remember it. I was driving A delivery grocery truck. I had stop to make A delivery. The people in the story told me about it. It was on my oldest Son s Birthday. 11 /22 .
I sent him an email today. He is 62 now.
That was A sad thing.

Hammer Man

farmerwithmutt · Nov 22, 2016

Remember getting ready to go to church it was also my folks wedding anniversary. I have people ask me about that day and then I ask them what they remember about 9/11 it's sad but the feeling is the same

J. Schwiebert · Nov 22, 2016

I just came back from a service call on a corn picker to an older farmer(he was close to 80!) When I got to the shop they told me about it.

730virgil · Nov 22, 2016

freshman in high school industrial arts class. mrs 730 was in latin class she got out of school she said school let out within 20 minutes.
i think we got out of school early too.

Steve@Advance · Nov 22, 2016

I remember I was at school, 3rd grade. The principal came over the intercom and said he had been shot.

Some time later she came back on the intercom, said he was pronounced dead.

I recall the room being very quiet, the teachers were moving around in small huddles outside the rooms, crying and holding each other.

Not a lot was said by the teacher, a few of the girls were starting to cry. We pretty much just sat and did nothing he rest of the day.

El Toro · Nov 23, 2016

A lot of grown men had tears in their eyes. Hal

Steamboat · Nov 23, 2016

My sub, USS Atule SS403 was in drydock, Portsmouth VA. Not much we could do, as we had 3 more month to go. This, coupled with the Cuban Missile crises, were the beginning of perhaps the worst decade in American History since WWII.

Married2Allis · Nov 23, 2016

Was about 4 years old playing underneath the dining room table when I heard my mother start crying.

LAA · Nov 23, 2016

The saddest day was when he was elected and brought his brothers along on his coat tails.

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