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November 22, 1963

kaydee50 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:39:30 GMT

Hard to believe it's 62 years since JFK was assassinated. I was in a freshman year civics class when the announcement was made by the principal.

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I am still oxox — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:42:46 GMT

I was 8 years old and home sick from school

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Stray — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:46:37 GMT

I was doing a pediatric affiliation for nursing school in DC at the time. I went to the rotunda. I remember the child I was caring for at the time I heard the announcement.

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Puzzle Piece — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:50:17 GMT

I remember. The housewives were in tears and we had the neighborhood moms show up at our house to watch the goings on.

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Mombo1 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:52:35 GMT

@kaydee50 wrote:
Hard to believe it's 62 years since JFK was assassinated. I was in a freshman year civics class when the announcement was made by the principal.

@kaydee50 I remember it as well. I was also in civics class..freshman year. We were dismissed early....

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meallen616 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:12:14 GMT

I was 12 years old...

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50Mickey — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:13:33 GMT

I was in the 8th grade. What a horrible day that was. The entire weekend was spent watching the events at the capitol and on Monday the funeral. Our nation was in mourning. Who can forget the funeral with John saluting his Dad's casket and Jackie and Caroline kneeling at the casket in the rotunda?

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Linda0215 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:54:45 GMT

I was 8 years old in the second grade. I remember we were lined up at the door waiting for the bell to ring to go home when the announcement came over the PA system that the President was assasinated. Our little brains couldn't really comprehend what that meant but I knew it was bad because our teacher was crying. She told us to go straight home to our families. Don't stop anywhere, just go home.

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Shelbelle — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:59:59 GMT

6th grade for me, I remember it well, got sent home from school early.

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kaydee50 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:22:05 GMT

@Mombo1 wrote:
@kaydee50 wrote:
Hard to believe it's 62 years since JFK was assassinated. I was in a freshman year civics class when the announcement was made by the principal.
@kaydee50 I remember it as well. I was also in civics class..freshman year. We were dismissed early....

Maybe we were in the same class???!!

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Biftu — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:36:11 GMT

This was the first time I saw my father cry.

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reiki604 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:39:04 GMT

It's also a fantastic book by Steven King. Highly reccommended.

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felixmom — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:55:44 GMT

Just read in The New Yorker that JFK's granddaughter (Tatiana Schlossberg) has been given a diagnosis of terminal leukemia...to read it on 11/22...! My heart..

Another Class of '66 present.

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SoCal Bred — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:23:57 GMT

I just read this on a newsfeed, this is just devastating news, Tatiana is a mother of two and diagnosed with less than a year to live. My thoughts and prayers are with her family and the Kennedy/Schlossberg families.

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Fifi1 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:13:54 GMT

I was the same age as Caroline, in first grade.
i was sad for her and her little John John.
probably first time I realized your parents could die.
it had a profound effect on me, always worried about losing a parent.

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50Mickey — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:04:47 GMT

@SoCal Bred What devastating news. Hoping that some new treatment can help slow the disease. Jackie died from lymphoma at age 64. It seems like this family has one tragedy after another.

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TexasMom1 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:05:44 GMT

I was 13 years old and in the 8th grade. My father was a Postal Inspector and was called to Dallas where he was part of the team that tracked the purchase order used by Oswald to buy the rifle used in the shooting, which he left in the Texas School Book Depository, where he worked.

Many years later I was able to visit the Arlington National Cemetery and was able to pay my respects at the President's grave site, where Jacqueline and nearby, Robert F. Kennedy were buried as well. To this day, I truly believe none of my generation will ever forget the shock and trauma.

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JudyL — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:11:31 GMT

I was in 3rd grade and the Principal made the announcement that President Kennedy had died over the intercom in each classroom. There was one boy, I'll never forget him, who stood up and cried out "NO!" Can't remember if we all went home early or not.

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QVCkitty1 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:37:38 GMT

I was in 9th grade French class. When I walked home it was so quiet, it was eerie.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:48:08 GMT

I had just graduated from college in August and was working in a department store awaiting the start of my USAF Officer Traing School class to start January 2nd.

The news came over a TV in an adjacent department of the store.