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.
I was one week shy of my first birthday. (Nov. 27th.)
8th Grade. I was a police boy as the job was known back then. A little girl at my school was ill so they had me escort her home. When I got back and walked down the hallway I noticed the kids in all the classrooms were on their knees with stunned looks on their faces and praying.
I assume you mean when we heard of the assassination: I was in a 7th grade science class.
Thank you.
At school, 7th grade, Jr High, Friday afternoon.
High school band room.
Saigon, Viet Nam
I assume you are morning the loss of President Good Hair. The druggie whore monger who got us into Vietnam, lost Cuba, our bases in Turkey and allowed federal "workers" to unionize.
I had just celebrated my sixth birthday. I vividly remember my mother’s reaction as we watched Oswald get shot live on TV a few days later.
‘I was negative 12.’
freshman in high school, 7th period algebra class...Friday afternoon, and a large burst of radio static came over the loudspeaker (which never happened, so we knew something was up), the teacher leaves the room, which of course leads to general commotion...
we were speculating an attack by the Russians (one of our more emotive mates was simulating machine gun fire); then the principal’s voice, informing us of the shooting, caught us all off guard...
I was in 7th grade. We heard about it when the head nun came on the PA and said: “Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated today in Texas.” Our first thoughts, of course, were: “It’s the Russians!” (Recall that just a year earlier we were head-to-head against the USSR re: missiles in Cuba, the closest we have ever come to WWIII.)
At my locker.....a friend told me......I was 15 years old....the world stopped for the next 4 days. Wouldn’t wish this experience on my worst enemy.
Mrs. Godfrey’s 4th grade class. Kind of ironic, she is the maternal grandmother of Jill Biden.
I was in 6th grade. Our school principal came over the loudspeaker and announced the president had been shot. My teacher was a Catholic, she got out her rosary beads and began to pray with tears streaming down her face. A teacher’s aid came in to talk to us, explain how little they knew and to get our things ready for early dismissal.
Shortly the principal announced our president had died and asked the whole school to stop and pray for the president, Mrs. Kennedy and our nation. That’s how life was then. Prayer in public school.
I walked home with friends. We were in shock and confusion. My grandmother was at home with the tv on. My mother had gone to church- all the churches were opening, people wanted to pray and gather. My mom came home and all I remember then is days of tv. Watching Oswald get shot, the voices of Cronkite, Huntley and McGee.
It wasn’t possible for us to understand the impact, but all the grownups I knew were serious, occasionally tearful and stoic. None of them freaked out - they were emotional but strong. We kids needed that. We had no grief counselors or anything like they do now. We had families, churches and synagogues, schools and friends. No one talked about Republicans or Democrats. We were just Americans.
God bless that country.
I was 11. My mom and my brother and I had recently returned to our home on the Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba after being evacuated when Kennedy and Khrushchev got in their little spat.
Stop making excuses, where were you what were you doing? /FIB agent
:)
Dreaming of a new tricycle for Christmas.
Just got back to high school from lunch at Lionels. Heard it on the radio as we pulled in. Ran inside and nobody believed us. About 5 minutes later it was on the school PA.
I was in class in our ole barracks building in GITMO when the announcement was made. A girl broke out screaming and sobbing. We were sent home and we gathered around our radios to get some information from the States.
Amazing and telling how many replies on this thread mention prayer, nuns, Catholic school, etc.
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