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11-17-2013, 12:04 PM
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Biology class--Arlington Heights High School--Fort Worth, Texas---never forget it---Oswald had attended my high school for a year many years before I was there
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11-17-2013, 12:20 PM
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Miss Kaiser's 4th grade class in Shreveport. Another teacher burst through the door shouting that Kennedy had been shot. Most of us kids gasped, but will never forget a couple little girls in the back clapping. What you say in front of your kids might surface anywhere, so be careful what you say. My folks were Goldwater supporters as much of the south was, but I'll always remember the sadness that overwhelmed me when I heard he'd died. At that age it's difficult to grasp the full nature of any disaster, but especially the shooting of your president.
Was probably the saddest day in American history regardless of your party affiliation or political views. Perhaps not for those closely connected to 911, but certainly for the rest of us.
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11-17-2013, 09:46 PM
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7th grade Social Studies, Mr, Cullen's class.
First row on the right, third seat in, behind Joey Bell and in front of Jimmy Daniels. Mr. Cowen come in from across the hall and said he was in the teacher's lounge and he just heard the President has been shot.
About 5 minutes later, the principle came on the loud speakers and told us it was official, and that we should all go home immediately.
Never forget that day.
A year after have the crap scared out of us with the Cuban missile crisis, now we we afraid it was a Russian attack on the horizon.
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11-18-2013, 03:26 AM
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Aboard the USS Comstock in San Diego getting ready to go ashore. The ship had just returned from an 8 month deployment to Westpack - the whole crew was in shock when we heard.
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11-18-2013, 04:01 AM
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Just another Facist
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Quote:
Originally Posted by plainolebill
Aboard the USS Comstock in San Diego getting ready to go ashore. The ship had just returned from an 8 month deployment to Westpack - the whole crew was in shock when we heard.
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Bill, did they cancel shore leave? Just wondering how they reacted........
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11-18-2013, 06:23 AM
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10th grade English class in Hebron, Ne. The superintendent can on the loud speaker and said President Kennedy had been shot. Then they played a radio news broadcast until they announced that he had died. Then they sent us home until after the funeral. At home, we were glued to the TV and was scared to death that this was the beginning of WWIII. I watched Ruby shoot Oswald as it happened on TV and remember thinking that Texas had to be one crazy place.
It is hard to describe how much different thing were then. Even though there probably weren't 50 people who had voted for JFK in that farm town of 2,000, everybody like him. Times were booming. The shooting mark an end of an era. 2 years later we talking about Vietnam and the draft in American Government class and our English teacher was playing Pete Seeger records in class.
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11-18-2013, 07:02 AM
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I was 2nd grader at Pauline South Elementary School near former Forbes Air Force Base, Kansas. Principal called all teachers to meeting over PA system. You could hear crying as they returned to their respective classrooms. School was dismissed early. We were not given any explanation.
Walked home from school and my mother delivered news to me as I came through door. I, too, watched as Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. I remember this as sad, tragic time in United States.
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11-18-2013, 12:55 PM
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I was twenty two years old. I was a student at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. I had been in the library. It was raining when I left, lightly. I walked over to the student activities office to buy a ticket to an upcoming football game. When I walked up to the counter all the workers were gathered around one of the desks listening to a radio, but I could not hear what was being said. I had no idea what was going on. Finally I said, "Excuse me," because I wanted to get my tickets and get on my way. One of the ladies looked at me and said, "The President has been shot." I stood there for over a minute, unable to move. Then I turned and walked away. It was raining harder.
When I got back to my dorm, I turned on KXOK in St. Louis, the areas premiere rock station. At the time they did not know that Kennedy had died and were still holding out hope. One of the DJ's was talking about the events and expressing his hope the President would be all right. Then he paused a second and said. "We have just received word. President Kennedy is dead. He was pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital in Dallas at......" I don't recall the exact time he said and the quote isn't verbatim, but pretty close.
Then he was silent as if trying to gain his composure. At that time, someone in the control room thought it would be a good idea to resume normal programming. A popular song began to play. Immediately the DJ shouted in an emotional voice, "Turn that damn thing off." The song, obviously scheduled long before? The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Outside, the rain had become a downpour.
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11-19-2013, 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
Bill, did they cancel shore leave? Just wondering how they reacted........
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Ralph, They didn't cancel liberty - I don't remember much in the way of details. I know I drove up to Los Angeles that afternoon.
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11-22-2013, 08:21 PM
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11-22-2013, 08:47 PM
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I was in my dormitory room. My roommate came in and said "Hey, they shot Kennedy." My roommate was a died in wool Republican and Kennedy basher, so I just waited for the next line, which did not come. Finally I said, "So what's the punch line?"
"No joke," he said, "they really shot Kennedy."
"Bullshit!" I said.
Then a shout came down the hall, "Hey, someone shot the President!"
I went downstairs to the TV room, which was packed. I could not get in and had to stand on my toes to see the screen. I got there just in time to hear Cronkite say "From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official, President Kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time, 2:00 o'clock eastern standard time, some 38 minutes ago."
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11-22-2013, 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by mostpost
Then he was silent as if trying to gain his composure. At that time, someone in the control room thought it would be a good idea to resume normal programming. A popular song began to play. Immediately the DJ shouted in an emotional voice, "Turn that damn thing off." The song, obviously scheduled long before? The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Outside, the rain had become a downpour.
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11-22-2013, 09:13 PM
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Having 1/2 an A&P root beer, because you did what you were told in those days.
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11-23-2013, 12:22 PM
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I was a 4th grader at a Catholic grammar school in The Bronx. The principal, Sr. Mary Denise, came in and told us to put our heads down on the desk and pray for President Kennedy because he just got shot! There was a gasp in the class and we said our prayers.
Minutes went by when we started hearing the continuous loud slamming of doors. Suddenly another old nun stuck her head in the class and screamed: 'The president is dead'! And of course, she slammed the door.
They sent us home and my father told me they cancelled the races at Aqueduct. (This last line is a joke.)
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11-24-2013, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by cj's dad
Classy response !
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then I'll stay classy and simply say that I was six weeks from being born.
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