In Memory Of John F. Kennedy

[RadishRose]

(1917 - 1963)​

 

[ManjaroKDE]

Everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing, I was home between bootcamp/tech school and my first overseas USAF assignment - sad day.

 

[Pepper]

Thank you Rose. I've been thinking of this day all day. Tomorrow my dad died 39 years ago and these two dates have become connected in my mind.

 

[Chet]

I was in the service taking a class, and when we came out for a break, we heard the news.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

It was about 2:15 in the afternoon. I was finishing up the day, in class, in high school. A nun came to the door, and said, "Children, the President has been shot." She was in her late 80s, so we all figured she misheard something. We went down to the cafeteria, where there was a TV. Walter Cronkite was on. I don't think I slept much for the next three days. I remember everyone in my house had gone to bed, and I was up watching tyhe feed from the Capitol, where Kennedy laid in state. Jackie came in and kissed the coffin. And even to this day, I cry, like hell, when I see
John-john salute his dad.

 

[JustBonee]

 

[Ceege]

I was 15 yrs.old and in 10th grade Social Science class. It's true that most people remember where we were when the President was shot. I have to recall to remember how old I was when each of my parents died. But yet, I remember John Kennedy's death. Perhaps it's because the whole nation went into shock and grief at the same time.

 

[Pecos]

I was in a Teletype Maintenance Class on the Norfolk Naval Base when a Chief Petty Officer came into the room and gave us the word. It was shocking to say the least.

 

[Pepper]

Thanks, @Bonnie, for that clip. Their faces were so open and when they were joyful I could feel it. They were not grouchy people. They smiled from their hearts.

 

[PamfromTx]

A very sad day for many. I was in elementary school when President Kennedy was assasinated. I can still remember that day.

 

[applecruncher]

My grandmother had died the previous week. Then President Kennedy - everyone was stunned. I was in 8th grade, we were sent home from school. A few days later an aunt age 48 died. It was an awful time.

 

[Sassycakes]

I remember that day like it was yesterday. I was at my older sister's house. She had just come home from the hospital with her brand new baby. I was fixing his bottle when the news came on saying the President had been shot. From that moment I didn't leave the TV. I sat there and cried for the longest time.

 

[twinkles]

i was just picking my 2 kids up from school

 

[Pink Biz]

Good grief...almost 60 years ago. The memories are still so vivid after all that time. Such a momentous event in history!

 

[Pepper]

Camelot.

 

[Butterfly]

I was working at my first real job, at a bank. I remember that day like it was yesterday. I even remember what I was wearing.

 

[Geezerette]

I was in my father’s room at the Albany Hospital. A nurse came in and told me. Dad was in a coma and died 2 days later. On of the worst days in my young life then.

 

[Irwin]

I was only six at the time and don't remember experiencing it real time. Bleh. Those were bad days, lots of fighting and screaming in the house. The assassination would have only been background noise.

 

[fmdog44]

I was 15 and in my world history class. My teacher was Ms. Delthea Payne a black woman. We watched her weep as she struggled to compose her self so she could continue with the lesson of the day. She addressed all of her students as "Mr." or "Miss". She was my favorite teacher of all.

 

[Irwin]

This song always chokes me up a bit... the part about JFK.

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[dobielvr]

I was in 4th grade. Someone in the office announced it over the classroom intercom.

That was the 1st time that it really registered that someone important that I knew had died.

 

[Don M.]

I was playing poker in the barracks when one of the guys came rushing through with a radio tuned into Armed Forces News station. We were all speechless for a few moments, then put on our uniforms and headed for the shop. A few minutes later, the base went on full alert, and stayed that way for about 3 days. When we finally "stood down", we went back to the barracks, our cards and chips were right where we left them, but somehow we just weren't in the mood for games.

 

[old medic]

I was in my father’s room at the Albany Hospital

NY?.... I was in Amsterdam NY... sitting on the kitchen floor watching my Mom mop.
well thats what she said

 

[Fyrefox]

I was in elementary school when the teacher was called out into the hallway; she returned a few minutes later, visibly fighting back tears and trying to maintain her composure. We were all sent home a short time later, where I saw Walter Cronkite, himself visibly distressed, announce on TV that Kennedy had died...