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I will share a JFK experience with you. As I recall, I was in 4th grade when JFK was assassinated. I lived in a small town in southern Georgia. Our teacher came to our room in tears and told us that JFK has just been shot in Dallas and was dead. The whole room broke out into loud cheers. The teacher looked shocked. School was dismissed early.

I remember us riding our bikes toward home hollering, "Yea, Old Kennedy is dead!" In those parts Kennedy was not liked in the least. Of course when we reached home and our parents heard us cheering, they stopped us and told us that it was not appropriate to be happy when someone got killed, even if it was someone as bad as Kennedy.

I have never heard anyone else relate a tale like this. All us kids knew was that our parents hated him and reviled him loudly. I remember hushing up because I didn't want a spanking but it seemed hypocritical at the time. It took a while to understand. some oral history from parsy.

That is INCREDIBLE! It sounds as though your town knew the truth, though. I cannot get over such forthrightness, but cheering for his death will take some digestion. On second thought, we do that against evil people quite often.

I was in college, when he was killed. I had been downtown, and was walking up a rather steep hill, to get to my late class. Someoene was coming down the hill, and screamed at me : " THE PRESIDENT'S BEEN SHOT !" Not thinking " politically ", I replied : " SOMEONE SHOT PRESIDENT ....( the name of the college president ) ?" "No ", I was told, " KENNEDY !" I cheered. I loathed him and ALL of hs policies, except for the tax cut.

I had enough wits, to ask if classes had been cancelled, and was told yes. That was about the ONLY good thing , to have come oeut of the assassinaton. They were rewriting history , from the moment the bullet hit JFK !