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Where were you 58 years ago today?
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Posted on 11/22/2021 11:35:08 AM PST by gdzla

I was in third grade. Happy to be a Friday and looking forward to drawing and coloring instead of catechism class after lunch.


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To: gdzla
In my senior year of High School in Bronxville, NY. I was packed in the Senior Lounge watching in utter disbelief the News of JFK's assassination.
41 posted on 11/22/2021 11:47:31 AM PST by ImpBill (America! Has anybody seen her lately?)
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To: Tell It Right

If JFK were alive today the Democrats would denounce him as a fascist.

He was adamantly anti-communist, he was against ending the US moratorium on immigration, he wanted a strong national defense, he supported effective public education, he understood and implemented lower taxes, he opposed the establishment of a permanent welfare class, he opposed abortion, and he supported religious freedom.


42 posted on 11/22/2021 11:47:45 AM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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To: Tell It Right
Yup:”We will support *any* friend,oppose *any* foe...”
And: “Let *them* come to Berlin!”

My Dad had a bust of JFK in his office. But he voted for Nixon,Ford,Reagan...

43 posted on 11/22/2021 11:48:01 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: gdzla
I was in fifth grade and every year our little school took fifth-graders to the circus. We heard from the candy man that the President was riding in a car in the woods with the Veep and was shot. Weird. Then the ring master entered the center of the center ring and said, “May we have a moment of silence for our late President.” He took off his top hat, put it over his heart and bowed his head. The spotlight diminished to a small dot on his hat and then everything went dark. What did “late” mean? Our vocabulary grew that day. I am still there when I think of it.

Seventeen years later, my first son was born on that day. No one ever forgets his birthday.

44 posted on 11/22/2021 11:48:03 AM PST by MHT
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To: gdzla

I was 26 days away from being born, on Interstate 10 near Palm Springs in a 1962 Thunderbird.


45 posted on 11/22/2021 11:48:21 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: gdzla

five weeks old

barely remember the details of that day. :)


46 posted on 11/22/2021 11:48:26 AM PST by QualityMan ( I got nuthin...)
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To: ALASKA

I was 3 1/2 years old and was on my father’s shoulders about two blocks away. The cavalcade had passed us and we were back in our apartment when everybody outside started to scream. That is my first memory as a child.


47 posted on 11/22/2021 11:48:36 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: GraceG

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”

John F. Kennedy

To answer the original question, I wasn’t even born yet. But was around when we reached the moon.


48 posted on 11/22/2021 11:48:41 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: gdzla

Gulf of Tonkin aboard USS Taluga.


49 posted on 11/22/2021 11:48:48 AM PST by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: gdzla

Just turned 2.


50 posted on 11/22/2021 11:49:00 AM PST by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: gdzla

Trimming lettuce in the produce department of a supermarket in my hometown at the time. I will NEVER forget it.

I also remember where I was when Malcom X was killed. I was being shown how to play pool by a group of black guys while I was stationed in Germany. A young black GI slammed open the door and screamed what had happened and said he was going to go kill a white guy. Five seconds after he left the door opened and he said—”sorry Petey”. We all just continued to play pool as if nothing had happened.


51 posted on 11/22/2021 11:49:21 AM PST by PeteyBoy (The wall. Build it and they won't come. (Until they tear it down))
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To: All

I was about a week and a half away from being born.

My grandparents and great-parents were devout Catholics and strong Republicans who lived in rural Wisconsin - but they voted for Kennedy because they were awed at the idea of a Catholic president.


52 posted on 11/22/2021 11:49:26 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: gdzla

In second grade. I clearly remember us boys making bets if Connally would survive or not. Sounds pretty morbid but it’s exactly what happened.


53 posted on 11/22/2021 11:49:30 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

5th grade, playing dodgeball at 12:50 in gym when a lady teacher came down stairs crying. Buses were pulling up to take everybody home way early. They acted as though a war was breaking out. All factories were shut down. I remember my dad telling my mum that they killed our president today. Do you remember Jackie screaming they killed my husband. She knew. All this covid and control reminds me of when they killed JFK.


54 posted on 11/22/2021 11:50:02 AM PST by Eska
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To: gloryblaze
"Sick? Sure. You can come clean now. You played hooky."

I felt nauseous when I woke up, but within an hour or two I felt fine. Later I sometimes wondered if I had a premonition of the assassination, but that's probably BS.
55 posted on 11/22/2021 11:50:07 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: itsahoot

Respect.


56 posted on 11/22/2021 11:50:13 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: gdzla

I was only one year old at the time so the event did not register with me at the time. But I sure heard a lot about it in years to come.


57 posted on 11/22/2021 11:50:21 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 9 days away from outliving Holly Dunn)
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To: gdzla

You mean where was I when a Communist killed the President of the United States.


58 posted on 11/22/2021 11:50:44 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Donnafrflorida

Oops bad math. Just turned 7. Arguing with my family who hated JFK. I had a crush on him.


59 posted on 11/22/2021 11:51:02 AM PST by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: gdzla

Respectfully....FR has to have the oldest base of users in the entire political comment world.

Sometimes its good though, but sometimes its bad. It’s almost like a lot of people spent the last 25 years here, starting in their 40s and 50s, but new people didn’t really come on board in meaningful numbers. So the average age keeps going up. I definitely feel much older than I was in 2001, with my original user name shortly after 9/11.

I still consider this the gold standard of discussion boards though. Even after my Opus a few years ago. LOL.


60 posted on 11/22/2021 11:51:14 AM PST by Codeflier (Please stop calling these violent totalitarian collectivist Democrats, liberals. )
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