He was??!! I missed that.
I was 6 and in first grade (Mrs Brewers class) remember it like yesterday (we were in Irving just next to Dallas) the school speaker came on and it was the radio station, the teachers all ran into the hallways and started to cry. My Dad worked in Dallas, I was afraid he would be shot too. School let out and we all ran home. I was just telling this story to my wife last night because our son is 6.
The History Channel (Or A&E?) had a great program on prior to them airing "JFK" the movie. It basically debunked all of the conspiracy crap and misinformation in the movie and put forth by conspiracy theorists. It was excellent.
The real conspiracy is that the Warren Commission got it right for the most part. There might have been others behind Oswald, but he acted alone in the assassination.
Here you can see film of Secret Service protection being called off as motorcade leaves Love Field.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8M9GAUUSss
Nov 22, 1975...USS JF Kennedy suffered a collision with the USS Belknap, immediately after the chaplain said the evening prayer in honor of Pres Kennedy!!
I was in my favorite class that year, Sophomore English at Bishop Miege HS in JOCO KS. Our teacher was Mr. Rost. We heard it over the intercom "President Kennedy has been shot and is now dead." and then also over the intercom, the whole school said the rosary.
I don't think school was canceled but I don't remember any other classes. I do remember being at the school after school was out talking with my best friend about whether there was a God. She didn't think so, I did.
I do remember being home with my big brother, my parents were out and I don't know where my grandmother was and watching TV when LHO was shot live on national television. That was rather amazing. I lost of lot of innocence that week.
I was in third grade at H.B. Davis School in Pittsburgh. The teachers decided not to tell us anything and we finished the day at 3:30 EST as usual. I got home just in time to hear on TV that the president had died. I recorded the audio that night of LBJ's speech at the airport and watched the rest of the weekend. We were at my grandfather's when Oswald was shot and I was at a friend's during the actual funeral.
I still have the newspapers from that weekend.
I was in high school in Texas, riding around with buddies on lunch hour. When the radio announced JFK was shot, several of my Texas friends said ''Good!''
JFK was well-hated in TX
I wasnt in school yet. I remember distinctly, though, that I was outside watching my father nailing boards to a fence. My mother called us (older bro and sis) in, made us sit down and say a prayer. She was frantic. I don't remember much more than that. I was about 4 years old.
My mom remembers being in a shopping center with a friend of hers and thier younger children when they announced that the President had been shot and then later died.
I was sent home from school early that day but didn't realize why till I got home.
I was nowhere near Dallas that day.
I was in third grade myself. We were all getting ready for the Thanksgiving vacation; it was near the end of the school day and we were putting our chairs upside down on top of our desks (anyone remember doing that?) when another teacher stuck her head inside the door, looked at our teacher, and over the hubbub in the room said "It's official". That's all she said. Our teacher then told all of us what had happened. A frightening thing for young kids.
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I'm trying to figure out where I heard or saw that.
Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis also died that day. Poor saps.
I was 13 also - at school - they sent us home. Dad (it was his birthday) picked me up and took me home, but left it to my Mom to explain. Then they let me go to a friend's house to watch television. We didn't have TV, Dad really hated them. I happened to be watching TV at that friend's house when the shooting of Oswald took place.
What I remember most was how shook my parents were by those events. I was pretty much lost in my own world in those days - that was the first time I started to pay attention to the outside world.
I was in 4th grade - the priciple came in and announced to the class what had happened and our teacher told us to pray for the president. And that was in a public school! Imagine what would have happened to her if she did that now.
Malcolm X comment: "President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon... Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they always made me glad."
15 months later, Malcolm's chickens came home.