At the time, surplus firearms and ammunition were available by mail order. You could purchase an anti-tank gun or a anti-aircraft gun through the mail as easily as a rifle.
Ad for hanguns pre Gun Control Act of 1968
8 years old, sitting at home here in AZ from school eating lunch with mom, big sister burst through the door yelling “The president’s been shot!”. I almost jumped up and hit the ceiling. My mom was unbelieving and trying to get her to calm down for about 20-30 secs and suddenly Cronkite’s voice broke into the programming on the TV announcing that: “Here is a bulletin from CBS News in Dallas, Texas. Three shots were fired at President Kennedy’s motorcade... the first reports say President Kennedy has been seriously wounded”.
Truly at bolt out of the blue for this then 8 year old. I remember it like it was yesterday
At the time, surplus firearms and ammunition were available by mail order. You could purchase an anti-tank gun or a anti-aircraft gun through the mail as easily as a rifle.
Ad for hanguns pre Gun Control Act of 1968
To quote Mark Twain “Now only the whiteheads remember”.
First grade, 3 months into school and the principle put the radio on over the PA system, teachers ran into the hallway, came back crying. Live in Irving, just next to Dallas, dad worked downtown, our church was one block from the house where Lee Harvey Oswald was holding his rifle in that photo.
Just started Kindergarten at Palm Elementary School in Hacienda Heights, CA. Miss McKinney the teacher. I was already hot for teacher, she was gorgeous. I have my kindergarten class picture. Teachers were lean back then.
Too young to remember anything about Dallas. Was probably too busy thinking about the teacher. Didn’t Van Halen have a song “Hot for Teacher” or something like that.
I was heading to my college after school job listening to the radio when the news of the shooting blared from the radio. Was stunned albeit had I been voting age I would have voted for Nixon. LBJ came into power and the country went on a downslope.
I was in Dallas that day. I rode by the downtown jail that held Oswald an there were many policemen on the streets. I came home and two days later watched Ruby shoot Oswald on live TV. Those were scarry days.
I was about 4.75 years old on November 22, 1963, but I don’t remember what I was doing when the news broke. Many years later, I asked my mom about it, and she told me I was playing in a sandbox when it happened.
I was in the basement of the Cameron Villege Penny’s store when I heard the news.
I hurried back to the House and met the visiting president of the campus Young Republicans club who said “well, we just lost the election”
I was in first grade. They didn’t announce it at school. Most kids walked or took their bikes to school but it was a rainy day and a neighbor lady who had come for her daughter offered me a ride home and she told us. I remember the somber music continuously on TV, and the cadence of the drums as Kennedy’s casket was carried through the streets. I remember the murder of Oswald. It was a huge growing-up moment for me. I followed the news of the aftermath of the assassination for some time on TV and in the magazines my parents bought me. That was also the beginning of my interest in government and politics.
I was seven years old at the time - and I remember my mother running outside where I was playing with a friend and screaming “The President Has Been Shot!!”
I also remember seeing the funeral procession on TV - in black and white, of course.
I was too young at the time to understand the full implications of what had happened.
LHO was a CIA agent (patsy).
Cronkite just *knew* it had to be a Right-Winger that did it.
It was a pro hit don’t believe Oswald was it more of a handy decoy.
The bullet count to the skull faded fast.
Same family but different tragedy.
Just read that Caroline’s daughter, Tatiana, is revealing that she has terminal cancer and given one year left to live.
I will pray for this young mother of 2.
Best I can tell, the only person still alive that was remotely involved with JFK’s assassination is Oswald’s teenage Russian bride, Marina. Now Marina Porter, she’s a naturalized American citizen living in Texas (of all places).
In 2nd grade about 60 miles north of Dallas. They called us in from recess early. Mrs. Moody, in tears, gave us the news.
The movie “Parkland” is on YouTube.
As usual, Billy Bob Thornton was great.
“Yesterday, I lost my man!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTN947b3H
I was in third grade, at Newport Beach Elementary school, and home sick with a cold. I was playing Barbie, watching the Superman episode of I Love Lucy, when the announcement came that the president had been shot. My mom didn’t believe me when I walked in the kitchen and told her. She didn’t believe it until he was pronounced dead. I remember watching when Oswald was shot as we were all sitting on the couch, watching him walk that narrow passage way. I remember it like it was yesterday. No TV but the news, which bummed me out.
Assassinated by a Communist.