Community Chat

[willdob3]

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@luvmybeetle wrote:

For those of you around in 1963.  Do you remember  what you were doing or where you were when JFK was assassinated?  

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@luvmybeetle 

I was in school. They sent us home - my teacher did not tell us why. A kid from a different class said what had happened as we were leaving.

[Cakers3]

I was in Glee Club.  The principal announced for us to return to our classrooms without giving a reason.  When we returned, the rest of the class was crying and the nun told us what had happened.

I was a "walker", living close to the school, and the atmosphere was heavy and unreal.  It felt like walking in a daze. 

[sandy53]

I was in 5th grade.  My teacher cried.  A few days later during the funeral broadcast was the first time I saw my mother cry.

[Burnsite]

I was in high school, and there was an announcement that President Kennedy was shot and gravely wounded. We learned the truth by the time we got home.

It was the first time I absorbed a national news story (I was 13 or 14). I commuited to high school--we were all sent home and there wasn't a word said on the municipal bus.  Adults were crying. 

The younger teens were in shock.  Total TV coverage for across that week.  I was watching TV when Lee Harvey Oswald was shot.  It was a terrible time and a rite of passage for me.

[alliswell]

French class, Junior in H.S.