[NEWwoman]

I did not see this thread.

I remember my mother crying on this date. I know. It dates me.

[2banana]

JFK -

Largest tax cuts in American history
Pro-gun (NRA Life Member)
Anticommunist and not afraid to use troops for America’s national interest
Bona fide war hero - personally brave and deeply patriotic
Assassinated by a devout Marxist leftist named Lee Harvey Oswald

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”

[GeorgeSaden]

And let it be known that Oswald was a leftist and a communist.

[Islander7]

Everyone who was alive on this date remembers where they were when the news broke.

[digger48]

I remember getting in trouble for playing with my somewhat loud toy pinball game while my mother was watching the coverage.

Funny, the little things that make an permanent impression in ones memory.

[MichaelP]

I remember it all too well. I was in 5th grade. At a little after 1pm the principal came on the pa system and gave us the news. That was the quietest ride home on the bus I've ever experienced. Very sad!

Mike

[I still care]

It’s funny how there are certain historical events everyone remembers, while so many important ones they forget.

My mom remembers Pearl Harbor. It’s burned in her mind.

My kids will never forget 9-11.

I was a young child. I was in school I remember my teacher saying, “Oh no” and putting her head on the desk. It was the afternoon and we were all sent home early (they’d never do that nowadays) They took everything else off the airwaves and played music.

It seems strange to me to know grownups who weren’t alive when JFK was killed. I think it is a dividing line between us and a younger generation.

And to politicize this thread, Obama was one of them. And he didn’t even live in the US when King was shot, or RFK. He is an alien creature.

[billorites]

I was in third grade and we were rehearsing the Thanksgiving pageant in which I played William Bradford. My mother had made buckles for my shoes out of cardboard and tin foil.

"Greetings to you Squanto. Greetings to you Samoset and welcome to our first Thanksgiving."

The rehearsal was over and I was bouncing a basketball on stage behind the closed curtain when someone said Kennedy had been shot. I was confused at first because one of my third grade classmates was named Kennedy.

Anyway, back in the classroom I remember the principal coming on the intercom and speaking at length about it and what it meant.

When I got home I found my mother crying. Again I felt confused knowing that we were Republicans and had supported Nixon.

No cartoons on TV for days, just news, funerals and processions. Seems like yesterday.

[combat_boots]

Arlen Specter and The "Magic" Bullet

5/1/2009

[Exit148]

I was out in the car, with talk radio on, when I heard the stunning news. I had to stop at a store on the way home and the fact that people were chatting and talking amazed me .Didn’t they know??!! When I got home, I raced to the radio to listen ——— and FORGOT to turn the TV on!

[dfwgator]

I work down the street from Dealey Plaza. All of the Conspiracy Kooks are out in full force today.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sitting in Sister Mary Karen's 6th grade class when Sister Elizabeth came on the loudspeaker and said President Kennedy had been shot.

Could hear little girls screaming all over the building.

[dfwgator]

This has the CBS Coverage as it happened, starting with As the World Turns, which started at 12:30, just minutes before the first bulletins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiznn7id7zg&feature=&p=5834EA24A47EB726&index=0&playnext=1

[ShadowAce]

I was alive and thinking all day "Only another month and I'm blowing this joint"

Come Christmas-time and my parents had their first child....

[evets]

“Terror is not a new weapon.
Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail,
either by persuasion or example.
But inevitably they fail,
either because men are not afraid to die for a life worth living,
or because the terrorists themselves came to realize
that free men cannot be frightened by threats,
and that aggression would meet its own response.
And it is in the light of that history that every nation today should know,
be he friend or foe,
that the United States has both the will and the weapons
to join free men in standing up to their responsibilities.”

JFK 9/25/61 (General Assembly of the United Nations)

[GeorgeSaden]

Lee Harvey Oswald circa 1963, holding a Marxist newspaper (LIFE)

[a fool in paradise]

Remembering that fateful day when Dan Rather rose to prominence for jumping the gun and taking a leap of faith to declare that JFK had died.

[tflabo]

That one little murderous communist Rat Lee Harvey Oswald created so much pain and mayhem that we still have to remember his cursed name all throughout USA history.

[Maine Mariner]

9th grade speech class with Mr. Larsen. Our first reaction-we thought he was joking.
Later we learned the faculty not teaching were watching the news on TV in the auditorium. We 9th grades wanted to watch it too. The school principal said no-he thought it would be too much for us.

25 years later-I was teaching at the same college as Mr. Larsen (he moved up). I stop in his office and we chatted for a few minutes about the day.

[N. Theknow]

Remember where I was. 9th Grade. Just got my learner's permit to drive.

Remember nobody I knew liked him.

Remember my friend's Dad saying, "Now they'll make a saint out of the SOB!

[Verginius Rufus]

Two other famous authors died on November 22, 1963--C. S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley.

The other two wrote their own books.