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| I was in the Student Union building studying for a math exam my freshman year in college when the news that JFK was shot. We did go to the class. About halfway through the exam, another professor walked in as just said "the President is dead" and walked out. Our Prof said to continue a large group of us closed our exam books and walked out, we all failed the exam Watched TV the entire week through the burial Times are sure different. Moderator cut: Political remarks removed. Last edited by mensaguy; 11-22-2020 at 01:43 PM.. |
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| Sophomore in High School. Walking through the hallway between classes. Saw a couple of female students agitated and crying. Wondered why. Arrived in our next classroom. As we settled in the teacher announced Kennedy had been shot and died. And so began the early 60's. A decade of violence and turmoil. The assassination of the President, his brother and Martin Luther King. The Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War. The innocence of 1950's America was gone forever. |
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| Too young to understand the significance of an assassination, but I do have a very specific visual memory of where I was...in which classroom, which desk, the weather, what I was wearing. Someone from the school office came into the room and spoke to the teacher. She looked very strange, stopped the lesson, and told us something terrible had happened and that we were all going home for the rest of the day. At first everyone looked excited, but we were all told to be quiet; no running, talking, playing while waiting for our parents to drive us home. Usually the front of the school was a happy noisy place after classes ended for the day. It was very strange to see everyone so silent. Last edited by Parnassia; 11-22-2020 at 02:10 PM.. |
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| I think you are less interested in history than calling Democrats "dumbocrats". What does that have to do with JFK? Quote: Originally Posted by mike1003 I was in the Student Union building studying for a math exam my freshman year in college when the news that JFK was shot. We did go to the class. About halfway through the exam, another professor walked in as just said "the President is dead" and walked out. Our Prof said to continue a large group of us closed our exam books and walked out, we all failed the exam Watched TV the entire week through the burial Times are sure different. Moderator cut: Political remarks removed. Last edited by mensaguy; 11-22-2020 at 02:46 PM.. Reason: Quotted post edited. |
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| I was in 5th grade and was a school crossing guard. School had just ended for the day and I had just taken up my post near the playground. Suddenly all the girls were crying, so I knew something was wrong. Got home and everyone was glued to the TV. |
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| Health class in HS taught by our macho, burly football coach. He was close to tears and that effected all of us equally. We had a classroom intercom system so they put the news on over the intercom and told everyone to stay in their same classroom all afternoon. You could almost hear a pin drop - everyone was in shock. |
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| Quote: Originally Posted by bobspez I think you are less interested in history than calling Democrats "dumbocrats". What does that have to do with JFK? Anybody posting stupid stuff like that bolded part can expect to earn an infraction. This is the History forum and we are not dealing with Politics or stupidity; I removed it from the quoted post. Last edited by mensaguy; 11-22-2020 at 03:16 PM.. |
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| Quote: Originally Posted by mensaguy Anybody posting stupid stuff like that bolded part can expect to earn an infraction. This is the History forum and we are not dealing with Politics or stupidity; I removed it from the quoted post. I replied to the OP before you removed it from the original post. |
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| I didn't exist. Why do people tend to assume that everyone knows where they were or that they were even born when talking about an event almost 60 years ago? And the word is assassinated. Not whatever this is: assasanated. |
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| I was in elementary school. The teacher in the classroom next to ours opened the door to our classroom and said "The president has been shot. Say a prayer for him." Then our teacher asked if anyone had a transistor radio. One boy had one and she told him to put it on so we could listen to the news. We listened for a while until we heard "John Fitzgerald Kennedy is dead." One girl started crying and the rest of us were in shock. At the end of the school day, I went home and wondered if my mother had heard. She did hear about it, too, and she was crying. The next day, since my Dad had bought the tickets well in advance, my siblings and I went with him to see our first (and only) opera "Madame Butterfly". Even though the show had been sold out, less than half of the theater was occupied. To this day, I remember the name of the theater, which ended up being torn down... |
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