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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: Remole

That reninds me of the old Jack Handy bit.

When a little child asks me why is it raining I tell him it’s because God is crying. If he asks me why I tell him it’s probably because of something you did.


81 posted on 11/22/2021 11:56:17 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When we got the news in 3rd grade, some of the girls started crying.

They boys either said or did nothing...................


82 posted on 11/22/2021 11:57:14 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: gdzla

Second grade. I was pi$$ed that TV was screwed up for a week afterwards. I have this reflexive dislike of Democrats( even at that young age) so the event was of little concern to me outside missing my cartoons.


83 posted on 11/22/2021 11:57:32 AM PST by rellic
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To: gdzla

I believe the folks from the series “Gilligan’s Island” were filming the intro to the series in Honolulu the next day, and when you watch them steaming out of the port, there is a flag at half mast in the background.


84 posted on 11/22/2021 11:57:46 AM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: gdzla

I was in 6th period study hall. Had only been there a short time when the principal’s secretary walked in and announced it. We didn’t have an intercom or speaker system back then.


85 posted on 11/22/2021 11:57:49 AM PST by damper99
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To: gdzla; numberonepal

playing with my d!ck in my play-pen in the front room.


86 posted on 11/22/2021 11:58:04 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (This is NOT a pandemic of the unvaxx'd. It is a complete loss of common sense.)
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To: Leaning Right
getting water to wash my homeroom’s blackboards

You didn't have that spray stuff to clean the blackboards? I can still smell that stuff decades later!

87 posted on 11/22/2021 11:58:16 AM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: gdzla

6th grade. Had a male teacher. Another teacher came in and whispered to him. He gave the annoucement. The 2 cut ups in the back of the room stood up. 1 pointed his finger and shot the other one, who fell to the floor. The teacher grabbed both and took them to the hall. Whipped them both, could hear them crying. The whole school went to the flag pole and lowered it to half mast.


88 posted on 11/22/2021 11:59:16 AM PST by stickandrudder (Another Bitter-Clinger! God-Family-Tribe - LGB FJB)
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To: gdzla

In junior high school. Just finishing lunch getting ready for art class


89 posted on 11/22/2021 11:59:30 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: gdzla

Never forget. 1st grade (one of my oldest memories). 2 Room schoolhouse (really!) in Colonie NY (near Schenectady). Elderly teacher comes in an sits at her desk and cries. Someone else comes in and tell us we are going home.

Bus drops us off, and I recall walking up the hill to silence. Quiet. Recall it being a warm day for November. Get home, and a group around the TV watching with horror. Didn’t get it, but knew it was really bad.

Love or hate his politics, was the beginning of one of the darkest several years in our history. MLK, Bobby K, riots, etc. As bad as things are now, 60’s weren’t a cakewalk.


90 posted on 11/22/2021 11:59:51 AM PST by dan on the right ( )
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To: gdzla

Hallway. Elementary school. Some older child told me that the Presdient had been shot and the VIce-Presdient was wounded.


91 posted on 11/22/2021 12:00:03 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: gdzla

In school got dismissed, I was 7


92 posted on 11/22/2021 12:00:14 PM PST by The Mayor (God, take the unremarkable moments of my life and infuse them with Your joy)
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To: gdzla

Waiting for my cartoons to come on over this funeral procession with the incessant drumbeat

RIP JFK


93 posted on 11/22/2021 12:02:09 PM PST by stanne
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Not too soon. Lol


94 posted on 11/22/2021 12:02:36 PM PST by stanne
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To: gdzla

Sophomore year in high school taking a Geometry test. It was our first class after lunch.


95 posted on 11/22/2021 12:04:30 PM PST by murron
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To: gdzla
6 months old, likely in my dear sweet Mother's arms (sheds a tear)
96 posted on 11/22/2021 12:04:43 PM PST by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: Tell It Right
Back in the (pre-internet) time of the early 60s, the conservative newsletter, Human Events, was castigating Kennedy and the Demonicrats, who held the House and Senate majorities, for liberal policies, and, of course, the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban missile crisis. And what liberal programs JFK couldn't ram down America's throats, LBJ finished the job after JFK's asassination.

Back then, the enemedia (including "Uncle Walter") never told the American people about JFK's serious medical problems and the JFK/RFK sex scandals that made Slick Willie look like a rank amateur.

After LBJ, the candidates of both parties (but especially the Demonicrats) selected their VP choices at least partially on the VP's ability to be "assassination insurance."

97 posted on 11/22/2021 12:04:56 PM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: gdzla

4th grade, home for lunch from school around the corner. Between 11:30 and noon AZ time.

Eating Cream Tuna and peas, my personal favorite in those days.

Suddenly the outside door to the kitchen FLEW open with a bang! It was my older sister rushing home from school to tell everyone the news. The TV was on but it had not made it on the air yet. She was out of breath and gasping:

“The president was shot, the president was shot!” She had heard it at the school over a radio.

I almost choked on my meal due to her banging in the door shouting like that.

My mother looked at her in disbelief and said: “Oh, what are you talking about?” At that exact moment Cronkite came on, audio only over the CBS special report screen announcing that shots had been fired in Dallas. I can remember it as if it was this morning. A lightning bolt out of a clear blue sky it was. Most stunning moment in my entire life so far.

2 days later, Sunday morning, I watched Oswald being led out and then shot on live TV. I couldn’t wrap my head around what I had just seen. I went and found my mom and I told her I think they shot Oswald. She looked at me like I had two heads and kind of shrugged me off. I went back to the TV for a few minutes, then went and found my mom again and said: “No mom, I think they really shot him.” This time her face went grey and she rushed over to the TV room. History.


98 posted on 11/22/2021 12:05:58 PM PST by Az Joe ("Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds")
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To: gdzla

Dad and I drove up to deer camp.


99 posted on 11/22/2021 12:06:36 PM PST by Redleg Duke (“I’m not the olny one!”)
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To: gdzla

In diapers on the farm in WNY.


100 posted on 11/22/2021 12:07:03 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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