In Memory Of John F. Kennedy

I don't really remember, but a friend says he & I , and a few other guys were throwing around a football @ the time it was announced.

Never was a Kennedy fan.
 

applecruncher said:
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. 😰
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OMG Applecruncher...that was an awful time for your family! I was sweeping the floor and when it came on the news I had to put the broom down and sit down, I was so hurt. I still have the next day's New York Daily News with that terrible headline. May he R.I.P.
 
There's an excellent PBS American Experience documentary about JFK available through Kanopy.com. My wife and I watched part 1 of 2 this evening. Tomorrow night, we find out what happens. It's a cliffhanger!
 
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I was a clinical instructor at a major NY hospital and my students had gone home for the Thanksgiving Holiday. So I was over here in Jersey helping my mom with her holiday baking. The phone rang and I said I'd pick it up in the den and it was my dad who told me the president had been shot. I said, "Oh no," and my mom panicked thinking something was wrong with a family member. I dropped the phone and was busily turning on a t.v. and told her that the President had been shot. Her response? What president? I couldn't believe my ears, but it occurred to me that shock denies the processing of actual events. She realized at once what she said and then asked if he was alive. When it was said he was in moribund condition at Parkland Hospital, I told her, no, he's dead. What a weekend that was. Nothing else was on TV at all. All we could think of was those two little children left without a dad.
 
I was in elementary school. I don't remember if the nuns let us go home or not, but it was near the end of the school day anyway. When I did go home we just all watched TV for the next three days straight. I felt more stunned than anything else. 😮
 
I had a 3-year-old and a toddler at home, and was pregnant with baby #3, I had just gone outside to sit and chat with some neighbors, and one of them asked if I had heard the news. She said, "Did you hear? The President was assassined!"

I thought, "Assassined? What kind of word is that? Then it hit me what she was saying." I thought, "Oh boy, she's such a dummy, who knows what she's really talking about? That's ridiculous!" (Pure denial.)

I grabbed the little ones and ran back into the house, turned on the TV, and didn't turn it off for at least 3 days.
 
I was in 6th grade at the time. I remember a fellow student coming in the classroom and announcing President Kennedy had been shot. We all laughed, not believing him. When I got home from school, my mom was watching the news on TV. Nobody was laughing then.

There's always a few history buffs that show up in Dealey Plaza on this day. There's a live Web cam of that area which can be viewed here:

https://www.earthcam.com/usa/texas/dallas/dealeyplaza/?cam=dealeyplaza
 
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As with the Challenger explosion years later, people remember the sad day. Buzz words....Grassy Knoll, The babuska lady and the man with the umbrella.
The movie depiction of S Kings book 11/22/63 was quite good.
 


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