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

[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.

[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.

[Chuck A]

very insane, indeed

[Fasglas]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by Skia

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

[erickpl]

Originally Posted by 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...

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

[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.