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[ALRATIBA]

I was working out at the World's Fair grounds - prep for the 1964 opening.

[Jazzycat1]

I was also a twenty one year old first year teacher. I remember the shock of another teacher talking about the President being shot and then a note coming around not to tell the children . I had no idea what had happened.  By 3 PM word was out and I was so anxious to get home to see the news. Somehow my class made it through the day and I had prepared lots of art activities for Thanksgiving.  This kept us busy and the hard work of coming to grips with the assasination began the next day.We had nothing to guide us except our own common sense. I will never forget that day or that time in America.

[meallen616]

@Malcontent, 

My friend,

[Shelbelle]

Isnt it amazing how vividly we all remember it, this type of memory is something that remains etched in our hearts for as long as we live. 

[meallen616]

@Shelbelle, 

I was in the 6th grade also. I remember early dismissal and going home where my parents had the tv on and my two older brothers were on their way home also. 

So much time has gone by...

[geezerette]

We didn't have a PA system in my school at that time.  The school secretary came into our room, talked to our teacher a minute who then motioned to me to come up to them.  She gave me a handwritten note with just a few sentences on it and told me to take it around to each classroom and show it to every teacher in our school.

I didn't think much about it since this wasn't a unique situation, but as I went from room to room the teachers would be shocked and often ask me, "Is this true?!"  I wasn't supposed to read these notes, but I tried to decipher it.  I thought it said the President had been shot, but I just knew I must be misreading because that just couldn't be true.  

By the time I got back to my own room, the secretary was back with another note for me to take around.  It had only one clear sentence, "The President is dead."  That second trip around the school was one I'll not forget.

[LavernLuvsShoes]

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@Shelbelle wrote:

Isnt it amazing how vividly we all remember it, this type of memory is something that remains etched in our hearts for as long as we live. 

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I'm a little surprised that I still feel the same sense of pain, loss and sadness, whenever it is brought up. 

[Malcontent]

@meallen616 

Pops and I both Thank You!

[LTT1]

@Shelbelle 

@meallen616 @Jazzycat1 @ALRATIBA @qualitygal 

My FAVORITE teacher of all time and I saw her go out in the hall and receive some news, then catch herself against the lockers as if she were about to faint!

I lived only one block from my elementary school (the one I accidentally flung my "LODEN GREEN SUEDE PENNY LOAFER" up on the rooftop of)

so yes, we were released early and they said our parents would explain.

Reminds me of the day in my classroom of 9/11. We were not supposed to tell the kids...well, of course, they already knew (word of mouth). 

So baffling for children! I was in 6th grade too. I believe it was this year also that the Beatles were introduced to America on the Ed Sullivan show.

[Skyegirl21]

Awful- Today they played the song " Abraham, Martin and John " by Dion. Always brings me to tears. All the best, kindest, most highly evolved souls- murdered. Sad beyond words for this world.