"Everyone remembers where they were when they heard of the assassination of JFK"

I can't say I remember that.

I was too young.

What I remember is the Saturday morning cartoons were messed up.

Now THAT was a tragedy!

I was in second grade. My school was a residential house donated by HL Hunt since my town was growing faster than they could build a new school. My classroom was one of the bedrooms.

A woman in a simple cotton housedress and hair in curlers was standing in the doorway of the bedroom/classroom and sobbing uncontrollably. The teacher met her in the hall then she (the teacher) came in crying. She said the president had been killed in Dallas -- just 20 miles away. She said she couldn't continue with lessons that day and we were all dismissed and told to go home. The class erupted in cheers since we got out of school early. She screamed at us that it was a day of mourning, not celebration, and that we would remember this very moment the rest of our lives.

She was right.

My dad saw Kennedy a few blocks away several minutes before he was shot.

Gotten away with since 1963. I wonder how many other Warren Commission members survived their cancers?

I was in Mrs. Bedford's 3rd Grade Class at High Street School in Lansing Michigan-watching that Science show on PBS-with Mr. Wizard-when the show was interrupted-and the announcement was made that he had been shot. Our teacher literally RAN from the room to get to the Office to find out what was going on.
It was a little freaky in that room until she got back...

BTW-that building is now a Latino Cultural Center......

Advanced biology class. Warren High School, Warren, Michigan.

The Junior play was scheduled for that evening. I was a cast member. The play was postponed.

I have no recollection of this at all.

I was only 3.

Sixth grade. I was in the hallway at the library cart when the nuns called us all back to the classroom. They were in tears. We were sent home at lunch time and I walked in the door and told my mother the president was shot. "The president of what" she asked.

Since we didn't have a TV we got the news from the radio.

How much longer is the US Government going to keep the truth from being told. Unknown to John and Robert Kennedy who where working on getting rid of organized crime the CIA was working with organized crime the get rid of Castro. Organized crime had made 17 unsuccessful attempts on Castro's life up to November 2, 1963. My take is that organized crime got rid of John Kennedy. You dont cut off the tail to solve the problem as then the head will turn around and bite you so you cut the head off. That was the logic used by organized crime as to whom they should hit as Bobby Kennedy was causing them problems but John was the head. In 1968 organized crime finally completed there mission and got even.

last night on discovery channel or one like it

they had program and linked all of the assasination to

THE MOB....

Didn't exist yet, but have watched the Zapruder (sp?) film many times.

#8 | POSTED BY JOELABEY

That's probably about right. What surprised me was Hoover assured LBJ 'no doubt' it was Oswald - the same day as per recently released LBJ phone conversations. Something stunk about that whole scenario.

I cried the day JFK was assasinated. I cried the day after, the day of the funeral. I woke my parents up in the middle of night because I was crying.

I even cried the day before he was shot.

I was a newborn.

#6 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-11-23 08:25 AM | Reply | Flag: Class of 77 Lisa???

I lived in MIssissippi and was in seventh grade. Some kids started cheering. Most people though were shocked and sad. We all cried for the next few days at my house.

Lived on the Mexican border. That got sealed up, pronto, and folks who'd gone to the other side of the line for lunch found themselves stranded for hours.

In terms of shock, likely the 9/11 of its time.

was in science class...

watch ANOTHER Special last night
it was films RARELY seen in chronilogical order
had several mins of tape of oswald talking to reporters in the hallway in dallas......was REALLY interesting.