CowgirlsFan Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 May he continue to rest in peace. Where were you? Living in Fort Worth Texas, I got to skip school for the first and only time. Mostly because my Mother was painting and didn't want to stop and go pick my sister and I up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Not born till 4 years 7 months later. But my sister was 4 months old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 i remember RFK's death, wasn't born yet for JFK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Beard Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 I remember getting dismissed early from first grade. I found out why we were dismissed early after I got home. I remember that it seemed like it was a significant, historic event, but I really didn’t understand. Back then it was a big deal that flags were flown at half mast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 When my first grade teacher hung up the phone and said “Our president is dead”, I had no idea who she meant. School president? I do remember the tv being on in the house for days afterwards, I think it was Sunday morning and we saw in real time Jack Ruby shoot Oswald. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike in Horseheads Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 I was 3 years old and that's the first time I can remember my mother crying for whatever reason. Obviously didn't know why 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
US Egg Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 15 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said: I was 3 years old and that's the first time I can remember my mother crying for whatever reason. Obviously didn't know why Same here. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 That was a few years before me, but I can tell you my mother was doing the ironing. No memories of the 60s here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 I was bothering my sister and her friend in the basement. My parents made me come upstairs and leave them alone. We watched the funeral procession. That was a long, long time ago, and I remember that room, where the TV was and where we all sat. I was four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ExiledInIllinois Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 31 minutes ago, KD in CA said: That was a few years before me, but I can tell you my mother was doing the ironing. No memories of the 60s here. Always seemed like there was never ending ironing back in the day. My grandmother would iron the bed sheets. WTHF! LoL... 25 minutes ago, Augie said: I was bothering my sister and her friend in the basement. My parents made me come upstairs and leave them alone. We watched the funeral procession. That was a long, long time ago, and I remember that room, where the TV was and where we all sat. I was four. You do seem like a guy that would bother people. J/K...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkeerie Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 I was in grade school. They were announcing the buses for the ride home. Then they announced President Kennedy was shot...and a few minutes later, "the President is dead." We were all quiet. I got on the bus and when the bus pulled up at the bus stop at the end of my street, I got off and ran all the way home. I ran into the living room and saw my Mom sitting in front of the TV, crying. I cried with her. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 35 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said: You do seem like a guy that would bother people. J/K...? Good luck now that you're on my list!!! ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 37 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said: Always seemed like there was never ending ironing back in the day. My grandmother would iron the bed sheets. WTHF! LoL... You do seem like a guy that would bother people. J/K...? I think Mom did that too. Bed sheets don't get themselves nice and crisp you know! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebug Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 You ***** are old!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 13 hours ago, Mike in Horseheads said: I was 3 years old and that's the first time I can remember my mother crying for whatever reason. Obviously didn't know why same for me, but for RFK.... and the Life cover with him running with dog on the beach arrived and triggered another session... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 I was in 1st grade (had just turned 6). I came home from school, saw tears in my mom's eyes and asked why she was crying. She told me that the president had been shot. She may as well have said that God had been shot, it was such an overwhelming thing for me to hear at the time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Wacka Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 (edited) In first grade. Remember the phone ringing in the classroom (didn't happen often). The teacher answers and then says i have to go out in the hall. She comes back in and tells us that the president was shot. The school was small (grades 1-5) with maybe 150 kids total. They had the TV on a rack that they could wheel around so the set it ip in the cafagymatorium so we could watch it until the busses came to take us home early. Thats where we heard that JFK had died. Edited November 23, 2019 by Wacka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 I was in HS. At the time it was a big deal because we were just a year past the Cuban missile crisis, and JFK got us through that, just fine. Very sad to see his wife and children. Sadly that was followed by similar killings of MLK & RFK. Also saw Oswald shot, on live TV. Remember hearing that it was the first live televised murder. Horrific events such as that, the Challenger explosion etc. do stay with you, but now 56 years later, the day is barely mentioned. We only had :15-30 minute evening network TV news then but this took up almost 4 days of continuous TV. The AFL (Buffalo) didn't play that Sunday but the NFL did. It was the right call for the AFL to make. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 2 hours ago, Marv's Neighbor said: Also saw Oswald shot, on live TV. Remember hearing that it was the first live televised murder. Remember that also(I was 6). I think it was on a Sunday. I remember my dad sayin "Holy S**t " when it happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 (edited) I remember adults crying and not knowing why but I was 2. Edited November 23, 2019 by Limeaid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 10 minutes ago, Wacka said: Remember that also(I was 6). I think it was on a Sunday. I remember my dad sayin "Holy S**t " when it happened It was a Friday. The death confirmation came out in the 1-2PM time. We got out of school about an hour early but still had to hang around and wait for bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 6 minutes ago, Marv's Neighbor said: It was a Friday. The death confirmation came out in the 1-2PM time. We got out of school about an hour early but still had to hang around and wait for bus. I was talking about Oswald being shot on line TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 M 27 minutes ago, Marv's Neighbor said: It was a Friday. The death confirmation came out in the 1-2PM time. We got out of school about an hour early but still had to hang around and wait for bus. 20 minutes ago, Wacka said: I was talking about Oswald being shot on line TV. I posted same thing about it being on Friday and reread post and realized he was talking about Oswald and deleted that part of post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 21 hours ago, Mike in Horseheads said: I was 3 years old and that's the first time I can remember my mother crying for whatever reason. Obviously didn't know why Same here same age... I remember where I was, by the staircase at our home in Clarence. Had not see my Mom cry like that ever so I stayed mellow, didn't really understand why but instinct told me to just play with toys, stuff like that. Keep quiet. Cronkite headed the news, I do remember that though... love that guy at that age because I used to sit on my Dads lap and watch the news with him. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Would people act like that today. We are extremely divided both sides. JFK was extremely liberal for his day. Was it out of respect... There was a lot of hatred for his policy. He won a very close election in 1960. Funny... See the reactions people talk about, but think differently today. When did the venom kick in? Vietnam? Loss of decent paying industry jobs for low paying service sector economy? Very interesting to say the least. There had to be much venom out there, he was killed with it. Yet... Everybody said they cried. Is that like saying: "I was at Woodstock?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 @Mike in Horseheads this would be part of Cronkites delivery... the news was on all day and night for days it seemed. Cartoons were on the back burner... the ***** black and white ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherpa Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 22 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said: Would people act like that today. We are extremely divided both sides. JFK was extremely liberal for his day. Was it out of respect... There was a lot of hatred for his policy. He won a very close election in 1960. Funny... See the reactions people talk about, but think differently today. When did the venom kick in? Vietnam? Loss of decent paying industry jobs for low paying service sector economy? Very interesting to say the least. There had to be much venom out there, he was killed with it. Yet... Everybody said they cried. Is that like saying: "I was at Woodstock?" Can't compare it to today. It was the shock of the end of innocence. Regardless of political view, people generally didn't hate the other side, and couldn't believe a sitting president could be so boldly assassinated. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 8 minutes ago, sherpa said: Can't compare it to today. It was the shock of the end of innocence. Regardless of political view, people generally didn't hate the other side, and couldn't believe a sitting president could be so boldly assassinated. No some certainly hated other side especially those in Alabama and Mississippi who voted for alternate democrat for president. I have seen some of the videos and they were terribly vicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 4 minutes ago, Limeaid said: No some certainly hated other side especially those in Alabama and Mississippi who voted for alternate democrat for president. I have seen some of the videos and they were terribly vicious. It’s true that that IS “some”, but I think Mississippi and Alabama had their own thing going on. Hard to believe how things have changed, and sometimes how they have not..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RochesterRob Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 44 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said: Would people act like that today. We are extremely divided both sides. JFK was extremely liberal for his day. Was it out of respect... There was a lot of hatred for his policy. He won a very close election in 1960. Funny... See the reactions people talk about, but think differently today. When did the venom kick in? Vietnam? Loss of decent paying industry jobs for low paying service sector economy? Very interesting to say the least. There had to be much venom out there, he was killed with it. Yet... Everybody said they cried. Is that like saying: "I was at Woodstock?" Was he really that Liberal? He was fairly tough on communism but Nixon had the better panache on that. I think that he gets too much credit for his own election when a lot of the Democratic Party including unions voted firmly party line in those days. Nixon went along with the EPA and wage and price controls during his time. JFK might have gone along with that in terms of doing some policy horse trading. A lot of hair splitting has been done as to how much blame Eisenhower and JFK should get for Vietnam but Eisenhower never sent any military advisers over there. Further, Eisenhower met with DeGaulle and pretty much spelled it out that the time for colonialism was over. Quid Pro Quo is the hot expression these days when it comes to Presidents but it has been argued that Kennedy in part agreed to a ramp up in military aid for South Vietnam in exchange for the French to be compliant in terms of basing some ICBM's there. All that said there was still quite a bit to like about JFK. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherpa Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 19 minutes ago, Limeaid said: No some certainly hated other side especially those in Alabama and Mississippi who voted for alternate democrat for president. I have seen some of the videos and they were terribly vicious. It is absolutely nothing like today. Of course the civil rights things was contentious, but you had nothing like what is going on today. If anybody from either party was doing what JFK was doing in the White House under everyone's nose, or a current Attorney General was setting up assassinations of foreign leaders like Bobby Kennedy was, or the Director of the FBI running his own little company wire tapping everyone he didn't like or a host of other things, the hatred of the opposition would assure it was front page every day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 So, instead of just remembering this day we go all shotgun political.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 39 minutes ago, sherpa said: It is absolutely nothing like today. Of course the civil rights things was contentious, but you had nothing like what is going on today. If anybody from either party was doing what JFK was doing in the White House under everyone's nose, or a current Attorney General was setting up assassinations of foreign leaders like Bobby Kennedy was, or the Director of the FBI running his own little company wire tapping everyone he didn't like or a host of other things, the hatred of the opposition would assure it was front page every day. you are going to skip over the Vietnam years, the worst for unrest outside the Civil War? today is all talk, fortunately.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler#81 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherpa Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 1 hour ago, row_33 said: you are going to skip over the Vietnam years, the worst for unrest outside the Civil War? today is all talk, fortunately.... I am not skipping over anything. The Vietnam war was after the assassination, and didn't get to be the divisive event until well after that. There was no shortage of disagreements, but that wasn't one of them at its start. The point is that Congress worked in those days legislative warfare was not waged, as it is now. State Houses weren't fought over like they are now either, nor were Supreme Court nominations the starting gun for incredible sleaze. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LewPort71 Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 I was 10 when this happened. I remember seeing Oswald shot on live TV and racing upstairs to tell my parents. A sad day for America 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 (edited) I was hanging on some grassy knoll. Edited November 24, 2019 by Binghamton Beast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 (edited) 16 hours ago, Binghamton Beast said: I was hanging on some grassy knoll. with your umbrella open On 11/23/2019 at 6:59 PM, sherpa said: I am not skipping over anything. The Vietnam war was after the assassination, and didn't get to be the divisive event until well after that. There was no shortage of disagreements, but that wasn't one of them at its start. The point is that Congress worked in those days legislative warfare was not waged, as it is now. State Houses weren't fought over like they are now either, nor were Supreme Court nominations the starting gun for incredible sleaze. the point is The People were bombing buildings constantly and shutting down Universities and eventually blowing themselves up building another bomb today is pretty thin gruel compared to that Edited November 25, 2019 by row_33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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