Ok, somebody's gotta do it. What were you doing when you heard JFK had been shot?

[raccoon]

I was walking into my 6th period math class (EST) when I heard it from classmates.

[sufrommich]

1. Somebody has already done it....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9605832&mesg_id=9605832

[raccoon]

2. Ha! I shoudl have known. thanks. nt

[muffin1]

3. I was only three at the time,

but I DO remember family member gathered in the living room - all crying hysterically.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. I was sitting in the Auditorum of Washington Elementary School...

in Blackwell, Oklahoma with the entire school, watching the President on TV.

[pipi_k]

27. Wow I almost thought we were classmates or something!

I was in my sixth grade class at Washington Elementary School in Springfield, Mass making papier mache' puppets for a puppet show that never happened.

We got to go home early that day, and that's how I found out. Our teacher was very upset and couldn't talk about it.

[BanzaiBonnie]

5. I was in my 3rd grade classroom

And the teacher told us and everything changed. The world was less safe and sure.

[tularetom]

Somebody's already done it at least once (but not this year)

Walking into my 10AM hydraulic engineering class at Cal.

Sleepy as hell because I'd been up all night witnessing the birth of my daughter.

[Skidmore]

6. My 4th grade classroom

[hlthe2b]

7. Previous post link below

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9605832&mesg_id=9605832

The stories are always poignant. So, a little repetition is not a bad thing. ;)

[GoCubsGo]

8. I don't remember. Probably taking a nap.

I was a couple of months short of thtee years old on that day.

[liberal N proud]

9. My first memory of television is of the JFK funeral

I don't know if my mother turned the TV off the day he was shot or we were just too busy playing to be bothered by the TV at all.

My parents still had a black and white TV and I remember sitting in front of the TV as a family and watching the funeral.

[Little Star]

10. I was home on my lunch break from work.

Back in the day almost everyone I knew worked close to home ( I miss the American Optical Company. They employed most of our town for many years) and there were no fast food places. Most people either brought their lunch or went home for lunch HOUR. I belonged to a neighborhood car pool of sorts because at that time we lived about a mile and a half from work, too far to walk. Our friend and driver came to pick us up. He came running into my house very upset with tears in his eyes. It was a shock. No one could believe it happened. Long afternoon at work that day.

Many shocking events have happened during my life time. I hope to witness no more before I die.

[panader0]

11. 8th grade PE class

The Jfk assassination, the moonwalk, the 911 towers--all are vivid memories.

[niyad]

12. sitting in history class, convinced someone was playing a terrible joke

[ChazII]

13. My kindergarten class

was on a field trip to the zoo. We heard about what happened when we arrived back at the school and saw the other teachers crying.

[ladjf]

14. Walking to orchestra rehearsal. I remember exactly what I thought.

"He's going to be OK". During rehearsal we were listening to a portable radio and heard that he had died. I believe that I could identify the exact parking meter on the sidewalk where I was told that he had been shot.

[Frustratedlady]

15. I was in the drive-thru at the bank and heard it on the radio.

The tellers both started crying and all I could do was sit there in shock. I had three children with me, including a new baby.

When I arrived home, I call the school where my husband taught and told the principal. They still hadn't heard it, so I must have driven pretty quickly to get home. I don't even remember the trip home.

The next days were spent before the TV. There was no traffic, no sounds, nothing. Everyone was before their TV and clustered where it was safe. We had no idea what else might happen.

Then, Oswald was shot and everyone was even more fearful.

I still think Oswald and Ruby were pawns...and that the person responsible still walks this planet.

[HopeHoops]

16. Probably taking a nap or having my diaper changed.

[ixion]

17. Floating in the ether

waiting to be born a couple years later.

[Monique1]

18. I was in the convent at the time

Mother Superior brought us together and gave the news - we never watched TV but during that time TV was on all day - we could come and go and watch the TV - we didn't need to do our chores for a week.

[Arkansas Granny]

19. I was sitting in 5th period English class (CST) when all the teachers

were called to the office and informed. They told us the news when they came back. School let out immediately and we didn't return until after the funeral.

[elfin]

20. On my way to take an exam - heard over store radio

as I was buying the blue book for the exam.

Professor announced half way through that Kennedy had died and that we would be given 15 extra minutes to finish the test.

It was a HISTORY mid term at Michigan.

[Warpy]

21. Sitting in art class. It came over the PA

Snippy blonde at the table, "I hope he dies!" I think the little witch regretted it almost instantly because I wasn't the only one who gave her the hairy eyeball. She'd obviously thought that because it was the south and it was OK to hate Yankees and Catholics that hers was a majority opinion.

[Pathwalker]

22. Sitting in 8th grade class. Announcement came over the PA,

announcing it, and that school was now closing until further notice. We were told to go directly home. Went home and parked my butt in front of the tv for the next 3 days, crying.

[kwassa]

23. Two impossible things happened that day in the 6th grade.

This kid David, not known for his truthfulness, told us in the gym locker room that our macho PE teacher was crying, impossibility #1, because the President had been shot, impossibility #2.

Both things had happened.

We spent the next four days at home in front of the TV. The entire country just stopped.

I also saw Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald on live television, as part of that incredibly shocking process.

[vanbean]

24. I was in the sixth grade. I remember my teacher crying and we all went home.

[oldlib]

25. I was at work

at the Westinghouse Semiconductor plant in Thousand Oaks, California. Following the announcement over the intercom, the company president led us in a brief prayer. I and others drifted away, following that Friday lunch, and the weekend activity was mostly filled with watching the news on TV. They repeatedly recounted the Presidential movement through Dallas, with attempting to establish the direction of the shot that killed JFK. Witnessing the live coverage of Ruby shooting Oswald was a strange event. I am convinced that Oswald was the one and only killer.

[madamesilverspurs]

26. Tenth grade study hall.

After the announcement we were dismissed. The halls were crowded with stunned kids, no conversation, sounds of crying; one of the football jocks was just standing in the middle of the hallway, staring into space with tears streaming down his cheeks.

We watched it all on our black-and-white TV, taking turns to adjust the rabbit ears. The casket had just begun its journey to Arlington when Dad began sobbing. Dad was a staunch Republican who did not like Kennedy, so his tears had a profound effect on all of us.

And I can still hear those muffled drums.

[spin]

28. Typing class. (n/t)

[LynneSin]

29. Hanging out in my mom's ovaries

that was 3 years before my time

[JohnyCanuck]

30. Poppy Bush is still trying hard to remember,

so far no luck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gQbH7V_Il8