11-22-1963

[Jacobm]

Sitting at the kitchen table eating a PBJ. Mom dropped a cup and dish towel as it was announced. Cartoons were out for the rest of the day while we watched the TV coverage.

 

[Jay]

I was taking a test in my 10th grade geometry class. That was a long day.

 

[Ricnzak]

I was 24 days old.

 

[k12lts]

I was in second grade. They told us when we came in from the playground.

 

[AllenM]

I was 3 years old. I remember it well, seems like just yesterday

 

[steve666]

I was in 8th grade.

 

[schafe]

I was in a Catholic high school Freshman history class. Guess we added a line in the book that day! I was stunned, many of the girls were crying, and a couple ran out of the classroom. I remember the silence and sobbing. We lost a helping of naivete that day.

 

[JetGirl]

Wasn't around yet in '63, but if the beginning hours were like March 30, 1981...I think I get it.

 

[ArmedProgrammer]

I'm just waiting for the Uncle BS reference...

And no - I didn't show up on the planet until about 3 years later.

 

[4x4]

My parents werent even born yet.

 

[indiucky]

Being concieved. I was born 9 months to the day of the assasination. That ranks as one of the most interesting conversations my mother and I ever had. I guess I owe that Democrat some thanks for being so loved by young people of that generation.

 

[possum_128]

I was in school, 3rd grade. We when home early.

 

[Birds Away]

I was 3.

 

[strahd71]

i was born in 71' but if i had been born? i dont think i would have cared. from what ive read he wasnt that good of a president................

jake

 

[nailknocker]

Jr. High. The media loved him, a playboy with the morals of a buck rabbit and some good speech writers. I always thought Jackie or J. Edgar Hoover probably had him whacked, Jackie as his wife, well he had it comin from her, J edgar, just trying to protect the country from a mob takeover.

 

[halfmileharry]

Freshman English Class. The school broadcast the newscasts throughout the school immediately after it happened.
Some of the teachers and students were crying. My teacher had us get under our desks to "Duck and Cover".(IF you're old enough to remember Atomic Bomb Drills).
Ever see or hear of one of those?

 

[Redskinsfan]

I was on a train headed to Kansas. I recall seeing nuns on-board crying and itstruck me as very odd. I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school and believed at that time that nuns were far too tough to ever display emotion.

 

[96firephoenix]

my parents were 5... even they barely remember it. My grandparents saved the newspaper from the day it happened and the following week. Was a very interesting read.

 

[sepe]

grassy knoll...won't say much else.

 

[flagtag]

I was in Jr. High. Announcement over the PA. Teacher started crying. We were let out early. My mother was parked outside the school, waiting for me - that never happened before! (I walked to & from school in all kinds of weather).

I still have some of the newspapers from that period. (And a magazine)