No one deserved...
Sister Mary Maggot's wrath with a ruler.
There was a rumor that her and her ruler worked swing-shift at the slaughterhouse...
Tenth grade chemistry class at Meridian Senior High School in Meridian, MS. School was cancelled and we all spent the next several days glued to the TV set watching history unfold. Burned in my memory are the riderless horse ahead of the casket and John-Johm rendering a perfect hand salute.
Kindergarten, Oradell Public School, Oradell, NJ
My Mom told me when I got home from school, being only 5 it didn't really have a large effect on me. Although I do remember the concern of the adults and watching the funeral on TV.
I was a 22 year forethought. Nah, likely a mistake by my parents.
Was at DFW yesterday returning to Utah, and the plane we were about to board was full of Naval Officers coming to town for the ceremony. Many people were lined up to cheer on the group as they off boarded. News stations in Dallas last week were advertising the complete 2-hour uninterrupted reenactment of the day JFK was assassinated. I would like to find out how to view the video online. Anybody know?
I was not born for another 13 1/2 years.
When it happened I was sitting in my Fifth Grade classroom. I have no idea how the principal found out what had happened. All we knew was that they had decided to end school early that day and we were all to get on our school buses as soon as they arrived and we would go home. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get home, walk in the house to find both parents watching TV. That was strange. Asked what was going on. They told me.
By pure chance I happened to stay home from Sunday School the following Sunday and witnessed Jack Ruby stroll into the TV picture and take care of Lee Harvey Oswald as it happened. That really woke up this little country boy.
Sophomore study hall at Sault High in the U.P.
I remember that the study hall monitor was pregnant.
Now that baby is going on 50.
Don
6th grade classroom, Holy Rosary School, Medford, WI. 5th grade teacher (Mrs. Kress) from across the hall knocked on our door. Our teacher (Sister Conrad) went out in the hall for a few seconds, heard what Mrs. Kress had to say, came back into our room with a strange look on her face and annouced "President Kennedy has been shot and has died". She then turned on an old black and white TV that was in the classroom and we watched TV the rest of the day...everyone being very quite. 50 years ago but I remember the moment as if it was yesterday.
I was still a few years away. But that was my dad's 16th birthday. Quite the birthday present.
-G
I was 4 years old and wondered why my morning TV shows were not on (Andy Griffith, Beverly Hillbillys, etc.). I remember the horses pulling the flag-draped casket.
Out of the Navy a couple of months from my first hitch and was splitting wood at the Bar 101 Ranch on the Middle Fork of the John Day River. Found out about it when I came in for dinner and was told, also a bunch about it on the radio, no TV. Old news before I saw some reruns on TV.
jud
I was 5 and as usual I was with my dad and uncles. We (or I should say they, I was probably playing around under the table) were stripping tobacco in the barn about 500' behind our house. The lights were wired to a switch at the house my mom could flip on and off if she wanted something. Lights blinked a few times and my dad stepped out and I remember her yelling that the President had been shot.
JFK assassination-did anybody else have a paper route?
> Sixth grade music class. Hearing the news, our teacher came apart and a couple of us students had to take her to the nurse's office. The School Nurse wasn't in any better shape. The Principal let school out. We all walked home thinking that a nuclear war was fixing to happen (you had to had lived it to understand it).:pinch:
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> My brother and I were the local paperboys. Usually there were fifty daily newspapers in a bundle. I believe that was a Thursday, the papers were so thick there were twenty to a bundle. That Sunday there were only five papers to a bundle. I still have one of the Sunday papers. We worked our butts off and people were waiting outside for us to deliver the 'news'.
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> It was really an axis in American life. None of us realized it at the time, but America was forever changed; much like September 11.
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> Seems like it was yesterday.
5th Grade Music Class.
Sunrise Elementary, Amarillo, Texas.
Probably over 1/2 of those in that school were Air Force Brats. This was one of the closest subdivisions to the Air Force Base there in Amarillo.
Wright Patterson AFB where my dad was wrapping up grad school at the Air Force Institute of Technology. Ten weeks old, so I don't remember too many details.
I must have been in 4th grade. I Remember being in class and the announcement came over the loud speaker. They asked us to take one minute to pray. I don't remember many details except trying to come to grips and understanding of what went on.
10th grade history class. I still remember the expression on the teacher's face.
I was barely just a twinkle in Momma's eye, as she had recently graduated high school and was working at Bank of America. I was -3.5 years old.
Kennedy's Been Shot !???
This can't be good.
8th grade social studies class. They had a TV (B&W of course) in an auditorium and most of the school watched the news coverage for a while. I think we might have gone home early. Our family watched the funeral at the grandparents' house because we didn't have a TV yet.
Side comment: I don't remember it like yesterday, but I don't remember yesterday so well either.
Side comment: It's amazing how tightly clustered in age the responders here are: so many were in elementary or jr hi.
I was just three- I remember My mom and Grandma talking about Kennedy being shot/ dead but we had family friends ( named Kennick) who we saw that night... I was confused....
