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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

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To: gdzla

I was in the garage waxing my car and listening to country music on the radio, they broke in and said the President had been shot.

I hadn’t voted for JFK but it was a shock and like millions in the country I was saddening.


161 posted on 11/22/2021 12:52:49 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running? )
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To: mabarker1

I was a freshman, 13 in HS, in algebra class, when the news came over the PA system. School dismissed for 3-4 days. Mom & Dad came home from work, and my younger sister and M&D watched TV for 3 days, non-stop. I remember it all.


162 posted on 11/22/2021 12:53:56 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: gdzla

On my way home after visiting with the Navy recruiter


163 posted on 11/22/2021 12:55:28 PM PST by small business owner
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To: gdzla

I was a Senior at FSU, and at the time JFK was shot, was drinking coffee in “The Corner,” a combination book store and coffee shop across the street FRom the Psychology Building.

Did not know he had been shot until I joined a group of students listening to a car radio nearby.


164 posted on 11/22/2021 12:55:34 PM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: Campion

We were born very close. I had been three for only 4 weeks. I remember my mom crying as they showed the funeral and she told me the President was dead.


165 posted on 11/22/2021 12:57:45 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: gdzla

Daydreaming in the 4th grade; as I gazed out the classroom window, I noticed the principal lowering the flag to half staff. I remember wondering why he was doing that.........


166 posted on 11/22/2021 12:59:41 PM PST by Zman (Liberals: denying reality since Day One.)
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To: gdzla
5th Grade at Fruitland Elementary, in Mr. Nobel's class.

I learned the word "assassination" that day....

We also lost C.S. Lewis and Hemingway that day.

167 posted on 11/22/2021 1:15:16 PM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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To: MercyFlush

Yep


168 posted on 11/22/2021 1:24:11 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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To: EEGator

I had returned home from the morning kindergarten session. It was a week before my 5th birthday. Later that day, my mother was talking on the phone with a friend and I remember her saying “what about that grassy knoll they were talking about. They aren’t saying anything about the grassy knoll”. Was annoyed when Captain Kangaroo was canceled for the funeral.


169 posted on 11/22/2021 1:27:53 PM PST by CletusVanDamme (Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights...)
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To: gdzla

Second row first seat in Mrs. Plump’s algebra I class (8th grade).

Right under the wall-mounted loudspeaker.


170 posted on 11/22/2021 1:28:18 PM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: gdzla

I was in first year of grad school (still under Korean GI Bill)...


171 posted on 11/22/2021 1:29:38 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: gdzla

I was four years old. It was my sister’s sixth birthday and mother says in spite of the gloom of the day we tried to have a little cheeriness for her special day. Of course, I didn’t understand at the time but I knew something bad had happened.


172 posted on 11/22/2021 1:33:52 PM PST by CFW
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To: RckyRaCoCo

“I was like Joe Biden...pooping in my diapers.”

Yes, but how old were you?


173 posted on 11/22/2021 1:33:57 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: MercyFlush
At the time, he was considered a moderate to moderate liberal. Today, he would be more conservative than Trump. He was for the gold standard too.This is back when Democrats loved America. Joke: If a Democrat from 1963 came forward to today, he would be a Conservative Republican. If a Democrat from today went back to the early 1960’s, they would be put in an asylum.
174 posted on 11/22/2021 1:34:20 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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To: G Larry

“We also lost C.S. Lewis and Hemingway that day.”

Which Hemingway? Ernest Hemingway had been dead for over two years by then.


175 posted on 11/22/2021 1:42:26 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: gdzla

I was in my first grade classroom. Principal came over the intercom and told us the news. Another memory I have is my dad making me watch his funeral. He said..”this is something you will remember the rest of your life”. He was right, of course, but I didn’t grasp the gravity of it at the time. I remember feeling sad for Caroline and John John because they were close to my age.


176 posted on 11/22/2021 1:46:06 PM PST by CheathamCountyTN
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To: gdzla

8th grade…our teacher told us the shocking news after our lunch break. We obtained a radio and spent the afternoon listen to reports before school closed early.


177 posted on 11/22/2021 1:46:36 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: gdzla

Senior in high school, English class, when the announcement came over the intercom….

MPHS “Go Mustangs!” Charlotte, NC


178 posted on 11/22/2021 2:03:57 PM PST by Tommygun99 (I've gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, keep me here!)
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To: gdzla

Pregnant with my 3rd child.

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179 posted on 11/22/2021 2:07:11 PM PST by Mears
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To: jroehl

My Dad was a minister at a small church at the time. About 10 years ago, my brother and I were off on a road trip and we just happened to drop by the church and wandered in the cemetery looking for people we remembered from back then. I found the grave of a man whose wife used to keep me sometimes. I remember very well when this gentleman passed, but I did not remember that he died on 11-22-1963. That made me kind of step back and think. A lot of exposure to death in a short period. I had just turned 7 five days before.


180 posted on 11/22/2021 2:28:24 PM PST by RatRipper (The Biden Adm is leading an attack against US citizens . . . pure evil.)
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