Posted on 11/22/2006 8:19:47 AM PST by don-o
I was in eighth grade in Mrs. Bledsoe's Algebra class, 6th period. She told us. We were sent home. The flag was already at half staff in fron of the school.
I walked home and my younger sisters were already there. Linda was in my mama's arms, weeping. Being the smart-ass, I made some cruel remark. (I must ask he tomorrow of her recollection of that.)
I turned on the television and watched all I could for the next four days. I was just beginning be become interested in our government. In fact, we had Civics class, which was my favorite.
On Sunday (Saturday?), we had to go out of town for a funeral. We were preparing to eat dinner (we call the noon meal dinner) and I was still glued to the TV, when Oswald shot Jack Ruby.
I remember the next week when Life Magazine came - the Zapruder pictures and all. I remember the ensuing months. Warren Commission, and in the ensuing years, more investigations and findings.
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.
http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~dlewis/
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.
woops ....sorry ... the above link is for Jacks brother.
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 a laundr-o-mat in Winooski, VT. watching my clothes tumble around in a dryer when a fellow stuck his head in the door and said, "The President's been shot!" Someone turned on the old console TV in the corner and we watched CBS till closing.
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
LBJ to SS: It's such a nice day, why don't y'all leave that bubble top on the plane.
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.
Kennedy's assassination was before my time (I turn 30 on Fri) but I do want to chime in with a memory of mine from high school. It was my (I think) sophmore or junior year in HS when we studied it, and the history books at the time just didn't have much information on what happened. I told Mom this and she said, "Wait a minute" She goes to the hallway closet and pulls out this stack of newspapers that had to be damn near a foot thick, from the assassination itself to the funeral. She also had a book entitled Four Days: The Historical Record of the Death of President Kennedy'. Thanks to Mom, our class had a treasure trove of information on this subject.
Three observations:
(1) Apply Occam's Razor and see how much of this silliness evaporates.
(2) Most conspiracy theorists surmise that JFK was killed by the "military-industrial complex" or the mob or angry Cuban nationalists.
In reality, the Soviets had real motive to kill him and they definitely were in the business of clandestine assassination.
If one really did buy into the conspiracy mindset, the most logical culprit is the Kremlin.
(3) Most people would prefer to believe in a vast conspiracy than face the scary notion that one disturbed individual can change the course of history.
But my Irish Catholic community was still deeply scarred by it when I was a teen.
There was a woman in my parish whose brain snapped the day Kennedy died.
She would attend Mass every Sunday and holyday and hold a prayerbook with a laminated pictorial JFK memorial card sticking out of it over her head with her arm stretched to the sky for the entire hour of Mass without moving or tiring.
She was not a big woman and in her late 50s when I first started noticing her.
Try holding a 600+ page book fully extended over your head, thumb in front fingers in back, for an hour without twitching, without moving, without adjusting in any way.
To anyone other than a lunatic it's impossible.
It got even weirder than that.
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