My, How We Forget........

[Norm]

Kennedy assassinated 51 years ago today. I know you younger folks won't identify, but I was in the 10th grade, principal announced over the PA, sent us all home. Sad day. :halfmast:

[JRD77VET]

I was 3 at the time. Changed our country.

[DukeAllen]

I was minus 5, but my family was very conservative, no tears were shed, so I'm told.

[snide]

I was about 7 weeks old, so i dont remember anything.

[RED-85-Z51]

My parents were both from conservative families, and are conservative themselves..my mom was 12, my dad was 13...both vividly remember it as one of those events in your life that you never forget where you were..like 9/11, the Challenger explosion, Discovery breaking up..., Kennedy Assassination, MLK Assassination, Nixons speech, CLintons "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" speech...

[LATB]

I was 4. I wasn't old enough to know what was up. But I remember the mood. I can remember thinking Santa Claus wasn't gonna come. And that's why people were sad. I'm serious.

[Aerovette]

I was 2 so no memory of it but it has been a fascination of mine for years.

I do remember when Bobby was killed though.

[Marc]

I was 7 and remember it well. I knew something had happened when my mother met me walking home from the bus stop, I could see it in her face. It was a long slow walk home that day.

[Frizlefrak]

I was alive....just starting to crawl....

[island14]

Kennedy assassinated 51 years ago today. I know you younger folks won't identify, but I was in the 10th grade, principal announced over the PA, sent us all home. Sad day. :halfmast:

Same story here..

But I was in the 1st grade, principal announced over the PA, sent us all home. Sad day.

I cried and didn't even know the man.. At 6 years old I just knew it was something terrible for our President to be killed.

I also remember seeing this photo in the news, and felt so sorry for John John having to loose his father, and grow up without him.

http://www.wusa9.com/images/640/360/2/assetpool/photogallery/283436/1384984108001-JFKsalute.jpg


http://www.maxrambod.com/_images/catalog/Presidents/kennedy7681.JPG

[Olustee bus]

i was still in Highschool. It was a terrible time.

[SQUIRMIN VERMIN 84]

I was in my college parking lot replacing my starter when I heard it on the car radio (6 volt)...

[Dan Dlabay]

I remember well were I was and what I was doing. A sad day for America.:sadangel:

[LATB]

You have to wonder, what would 1960's American politics been, had he not been killed?

[mrvette]

You have to wonder, what would 1960's American politics been, had he not been killed?

JFK was set up from word GO, they carefully built up this Camelot crap around him and family, and so his proposals were going nowhere in conngress, and they were the basis of the great society crap that LBJ got through conngress because he paid off so many of them....and blackmailed the rest....LBJ makes NObama look honest....seriously....Bobby was killed on a Mafia hit, but to note the islam name of the shooter....makes me wonder....Bobby was going after too much of the Mafia, and so they wanted him dead, but could not do that and leave John in office, but John's shooter was a communist....makes me wonder about that one too.....

At any rate, all those 60's feel good crap great society shit is now proving to be a total waste of time and money, rapidly leading to BK for the nation....as if it wasn't known at the time.....

:issues:

[island14]

Where were you that day Mr? :island14:

[mrvette]

Where were you that day Mr? :island14:

I was walking out of that useless sociology class at univ/Md. about 2 pm and a bunch of kids standing in the hallway, block passage, I noted a radio and figgered it was music, but I had another class to get to and they in my way....needless to say that class was cancelled....went back to the dorm/trailers and watched it all on TV

I grew older right across the golf course from Navy Medical Center in Bethesda Md, easy to see from the street corner back in them daze, today it's all NIH/NLM buildings, it was all open access back then, today, not so much, unless you know things like I do.....

:rofl:

[VITE1]

I was 8 and home from school when the news broke. I was a sad time in our history.

[73sbVert]

I was 17 days old.

[OddBall]

I was two and my dad was stationed in Guam, so I was probably playing with a coconut crab or some old Jap munitions something.

[Skia]

I was 5, I vaguely remember watching all the coverage on TV.

[aj]

Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, NJ. Parachute Rigger school.

We know that the plane I was in was in the air. Calculated that 7 of us were getting ready to go out the back door or were in the air when he was shot. We learned of it about 2 hours later as we were hanging our chutes and the Marine
Capt. that ran our school came in and told us.

We secured till Monday and the biggest gripe was that they were broadcasting news all weekend and we didn't get to watch the Saturday morning cartoons.

So my memory of Nov. 22, 1963 is different than most. Called home to tell them I had jumped, not as common then as now, and all they cared about was Kennedy. :slap:

[Calif Vetteman]

I had been in a serious auto accident returning from a hunting trip in Utah, so I was home on disability. I watched the television non stop. I saw Jack Ruby get shot on live Television.

It was a sad time in our history.:sadangel:

[Chuck A]

very insane, indeed

[Fasglas]

I had been in a serious auto accident returning from a hunting trip in Utah, so I was home on disability. I watched the television non stop. I saw Jack Ruby get shot on live Television.

It was a sad time in our history.:sadangel:

Jack Ruby?

Was 15. Remember it well.

Huntley/Brinkley on TV, nonstop...

[onedef92]

Three years before my time. My older brother was 7 months old at the time.

[C5SilverBullet]

I was 35, I vaguely remember watching all the coverage on TV.

:sadangel::sadangel:

[erickpl]

My parents were both from conservative families, and are conservative themselves..my mom was 12, my dad was 13...both vividly remember it as one of those events in your life that you never forget where you were..like 9/11, the Challenger explosion, Discovery breaking up..., Kennedy Assassination, MLK Assassination, Nixons speech, CLintons "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" speech...

You may not forget the event, but you forgot the shuttle. :)

It was Columbia.

I wasn't born until 69, so don't remember Kennedy's assassination either, but the other events stick in my head, as does the attempted assassination of Reagan (we were on vacation at the time).

[johnnyvettes]

I was 10 remember sitting in school watching tv all day . remember there was nothing on tv all weekend . felt sad but not to the point that life stopped for my family .

[Rob]

It is my birthday....so I cannot forget. When people ask me what my birthday is on - I tell them the anniversary of Kennedy's assassination.

If anything, they learn something by having to go look it up :seasix:

[69camfrk]

Before my time....

[Kevin_73]

Two years before I was born.
I have stood on each of the X's that mark the spots where both JFK and RFK were shot though. :sad: