[NEWwoman]

I did not see this thread.

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

[The Wizard]

and we have been lied to every one of these 47 years.....

[Logic n' Reason]

I was walking into History Class in my sophomore year of HS. A friend of mine ran up to me and breathlessly said, "The President's been shot!!!"

I got very angry and told him that was something not to joke about; it wasn't five minutes later, that the Principal made the announcement over the PA system.

The reactions were incredible.

Rightly or wrongly...AT THAT TIME...the man was much loved - at least by myself and most of my classmates and peers.

It was then...and remains....devastating.

[OB1kNOb]

I remember that day clearly. I was in the third grade at school. Principle came into class and told us the President had been shot. You could hear a pin drop. School was let out immediately. We all went home and stayed glued to the TV for the next 48 hours.

My 88 year old mother, whom we currently take care of in our home, swears to this day that LBJ had something to do with the assassination. Funny thing is, I came across the following podcast interview of a now retired 79 year old FBI agent that was involved in following up on threats to JFK, and later involved in the assassination investigation, and lo and behold, who does he finger as behind it?.....LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover. Very interesting interview. Worth listening to with a open mind.

FBI Agent Don Adams - Lee Harvey Oswald Was A Patsy

[Kenton]

I was a senior in high school, in the school library when the first rumor came around. The following period, when I was in Social Studies, there was an official announcements.

The most astounding thing about it was that the black kids were acting happy about it. Hi 5s all around.

[TexasRepublic]

I remember that day vividly. Unaware of Kennedy’s visit, my mom was trying to pass through Dealy Plaza and was stuck in traffic behind the motorcade a mere three blocks away. Meanwhile, I was in school (4th grade) when a girl stuck her head through the classroom door and announced the President had been shot. It was surreal and I scarcely believed it. However, I was later more distraught that regular TV programming was interrupted for three days. It seems hard now to imagine that some people such as my grandparents felt a collective shame that the President had been killed in “their” city. I heard not long afterward that LBJ had said that in 50 years he would be blamed. I hoped over the decades that the truth would gradually emerge, but too much time has passed, along with those that knew what happened.

[chris_bdba]

I was 8 weeks past my 3rd birthday.I remember being very freaked out because I knew what dead was and I thought it only happened to old people who were sick as had happened to both of my grandfathers in the past year prior to this.I remember it was the first time I saw both of my parents cry.I think it was the first time I realized that there were many things they couldn’t fix.

[campaignPete R-CT]