Posted on 11/22/2021 11:35:08 AM PST by gdzla
I was in Jr High School and a teacher had just come in an told us JFK had been shot...
I was in Jr High School and a teacher had just come in an told us JFK had been shot by the CIA...
I forgot what We were talking about.😎
Our address when JFK was murdered when I got to Skrool age it was imbedded in My Brain.
17 Orchard Dr. Old Bridge, NJ. Phone: 2431248
Best Snow Sledding Street in the neighborhood, high degree of angle made for great speed. Stopping was a priority as the bottom ended at a boulevard. The Parents didn’t like it.
I also lived up in Convent Station (Morristown area) and south in Hillsborough (below Somerville), in late 70s to mid-80s, working in Midtown, before moving back to PA.
I was waddling around in diapers. So I don’t really remember a thing.
I spent 4-5 years there as a Water Treatment Plant Operator. That would have been the only WTP for the City at that time and the supply was and still is Lake Lewisville. IIRC that Plant was built in 1958.
There’s a copy of the Denton Register with the headline “Russia puts Sputnik in orbit.” Also on the front page was a pic and small article of the Plant construction.
First grade. We little ones were not told in class, and the older kids were told to keep their lips zipped about it.
As we were all shuffling down the hallway toward the school buses and waiting moms in cars that afternoon, one 5th grade boy just couldn’t contain himself, looked back over his shoulder at us little kids (I can still see his face) and announced the president had been “shot right in the head and his brains had gone slooshing out all over — splat!” And he held up his hand with all his fingers sticking out to show us what a proper splat looked like.
You know how boys that age are, get a big kick out of gory stuff and grossing out the girls.
I was just a little girl, and yes, duly grossed out, but not sure I believed him. Soon enough I learned it was true. It was all that was on TV. I was not happy when there were no Saturday morning cartoons.
Thanks for posting. It was interesting reading everyone’s recollections!
I was not born for another five years, but my mother - God bless her memory - who was twenty then and a student at a German conservatory, was attending a piano recital when it happened.
The terrible news was whispered from row to row in the audience. There was great consternation - and tears, for JFK was greatly loved by many in West Germany.
I was in my senior year of engineering school and literally working my ass off
No easy shot from 6th floor TSBD.
. . . whoever not whomever.
Abandon "whomever" forever. Never ever whomever.
LHO may or may not have fired a rifle that day.
He was a cutout / patsy / scapegoat / useful idiot.
JFK was first shot in the neck, from the front, possibly by a second [or third] sniper.
Sniper behind fence at back of grassy knoll fired the [very close & straight] fatal head shot.
See [Press Secretary] Malcolm Kilduff's 3+_minute video clip, as he announced Kennedy's death to the world.
At the end, he responds to a reporter's question – [where was the President hit ?] – by pointing to his own right temple.
Yes, perfect triangular kill zone.
The motorcade route was changed at the last minute.
Don't know who gave that order.
LBJ let it all happen.
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