Posted on 11/19/2013 7:43:13 AM PST by US Navy Vet
I was but a twinkle in my mother’s eye and a grin on my father’s face.
Bender2,
Good picture. It looks familar, as I was aboard the “Coral Maru” from Oct.,1963 until Feb 1967.
I reported aboard a couple of days before leaving Sasebo, and being ship’s company, I did not see much air ops. The description of the F3H, which you provided, is what I heard from the Air Group. Loud, under powered and unsafe. As was stated, they were removed from service and on our next deployment we had F8’s, Spads and A4’s.
I was a freshman at Utah State University and had just got out of English class to go to lunch. Ran into a friend who told me someone had taken a shot at the President during a motorcade.
When I got to the cafeteria in the student union bldg, the lounge area was packed with students and many girls were bawling. On the TV, “Uncle Walt” had just announced the President was dead. Went and ate lunch with a friend in an almost-deserted cafeteria.
Semi-funny event the next day: USU was playing U of U. for the final game of the season. The football game was not cancelled, but the announcer said that after the National Anthem we would observe a minute of silence for the fallen president. At the end of the NA, some drunk started cheering wildly at the top of his voice in an otherwise totally quiet stadium. Everyone in the stands around me cracked up.
That’s an easy one- I was in Germany, gestating (I was born the following April).
I was about 2 and a half, no memory of the event at all. My mom later told me she’d seen Oswald get shot on live TV.
I was in 2nd grade when I heard the news. Kids around me were saying, “Kennedy was shot!” I was sad but probably too ditsy to deeply comprehend.
I remember watching the funeral at my neighbor’s house — on color TV!
I was a Junior in high school on a school trip. When I came out of the rest room, one of the guys told me “The president has just been shot”. He was a prankster, so I didn’t take him seriously.
I told him that I thought joking about that was in bad taste. Then he said, I’m not joking and gestured toward the TV. I just never thought that such a thing would ever happen in modern day America. It was a real shock back then.
I was watching black and white TV when Oswald was shot too. I turned to my Dad, and said, now we’ll never know, because there won’t be a trial.
I was in 1st grade in Denton, Texas, 35 miles north of Dallas. Cathy Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald’s niece, was in my class. She never came back after that day. Years later I met her father, Robert.
I remember the day as if it had been yesterday. My husband and I had been married just a couple of weeks the year before. He was stationed in Germany and we lived on the economy. It was around 6 PM German time and my husband was listening to AFN (American Forces Network) on his radio, and I was listening to a German variety show from a Stuttgart radio station that I listened to every Friday. Both my husband and I were shocked when we heard it.
I remember the day as if it had been yesterday.
...as do I...freshman year in high school, 7th period algebra class, Mr. DeAndrea, and I nearly flunked over the course of the year...
...a burst of static radio came over the loudspeaker...we were all surprised, and then an exciteable kid started spraying fake machine gun fire all over...the teacher, having gone out of the room, came back in and told us to shut up and sit down...the principal came on and told of Kennedy had been shot...in eighth period biology class, which I nearly flunked as well, we found out the rest of the story...
I just did a search on Woodmont School and this post came up. I had Mrs. Sherrod as well for third grade, but it was I guess 1970-71. We feared, but never saw, the paddling machine.
I was driving Ted Cruz’ father.
Mrs. Sherrod drove a Corvair which became the windmill for Ralph Nader to tilt at.
I sometimes walked home from school or rode my bike. I lived at Bowling and Woodmont and Wimbledon Road.
My Daddy came home from Vanderbilt Hospital and said it was a “bad day” due to the assassination. He had much earlier noted that Kennedy was a very weak man but he was sickened by the assassination. Daddy was friends with another neurosurgeon, Dr. Lowell Davis who was Nancy Reagan’s father.
The Kennedy affairs with Mary Meyer, Marilyn Monroe, Judith Campbell, Mimi Alford, and a host of others were unknown to the American people of the time.
I grew up on Hampton near 23rd. I probably knew some of your contemporaries as the older boys in the neighborhood. brightfristclementsdensonbrooks
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