Yours is a good question. But, it was actually 57 years ago.
I was sitting in my HR class when the speaker clicked on and E. J. Bryant, our principal, made an announcement.
Being only 10 we did not fully understand what was happening but we realized that the world was not right.
Well, JB, I’d say you got a lot more mileage out of this one that if you hadn’t made that goof. Good job.
:)
“I know what you’re thinking.
Did he write 75 or only 57? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself.
But being as this is FreeRepublic, the most powerful website in the world, and the responses would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky posting this?” Well, do ya, punk?”
:)
Just got off KP in Frankfurt when another guy told me then they sounded an alert we thought it had started.
11/22/63? Cleaning the spark plugs of my 1960 Saab at the auto shop at Ft Dix NJ. We were worried more about whether the passes would be pulled for the weekend. My thought was a couple of days later, “how the hell did he do it with a Carcano Carbine”? His position should have been given away just from the ring flash from the barrel.
7th grade. Lived in Arlington right across the Potomac from DC. Had schoolmates whose parents worked at the White House and for Robert Kennedy.
I was 11 months old but my memory escapes me what I was doing.
I was in 1st Grade, I remember the Teachers all crying!
75 years? You mean 57? I was in the 4th grade and we got sent home early.
I was 3 and a half years old.
Incidentally, I was born on JFK’s 43rd birthday (May 29, 1960}. a source of great personal pride.
Wish he would be remembered on his date of birth rather than on the tragic day of his assassination.
75 years ago I was but a twinkle in my father’s eye.
November 22, 1945 (Thursday)
British Conservative Deputy Leader Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that the first duty of the United Nations should be to “take the sting out of nationalism.” Eden also said that “the United Nations ought to review their Charter in the light of the discoveries about atomic energy which were not before us when the Charter was drawn up. Nothing showed more clearly the hold that nationalism has upon us all than the decision of that Conference to retain the power of veto. Surely in the light of what has passed since San Francisco the United Nations ought to look at that again, and, having looked at it, I hope they will unanimously decide that the retention of such a provision in the Charter is an anachronism in the modern world.”[20]
The famous Hollywood Canteen, which catered to Allied servicemen and women during the war, shut its doors.
I wasn’t a twinkle in my daddy’s eye.
I wasn’t doing anything. But my dad was returning from Europe with boxes of grabbed Nazi gear and black and white pictures of the death camps.
I wasn’t doing anything yet, but Daddy was thinking Mamma was looking mighty perdy tonight.
That whole weekend was like a bad dream that wouldn't end. Even my father, who was a rock-ribbed Republican, was sad.
I was boxing up books in the 5th floor of the Texas Book Depository.
I was years from even being a gleam in my daddy’s eye.
I was just about to step into a better job than the one I had.