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JFK assassinated. How many remember the when/where/how they heard it?
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:06 pm
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:06 pm
11/22/1963 DB56 was in Ms. Meeks 2nd grade classroom and a senior girl student helper came in upset and announced to a group of 2nd graders that president Kennedy had been shot.
She came in later crying to tell us he had died. As a 2nd grade kid I had absolutely no clue what all this meant other than someone important had been shot and died.
Got home and I could tell my mom was very upset and I was really confused on WITH was going on.
Days later I remember seeing the flag draped coffin on the caisson and JFK Jr saluting as it passed and my 7 year old mind not understanding what it meant.
THEN, I remember my dad as he was talking to my uncle on the phone and he was speaking of LBJ with some words I later learned were "ugly".
FYI...we had also been doing the "get under your desk and tuck you head" drill .......... just incase the doomsday missiles were headed our way.
Damn what time to be living.
She came in later crying to tell us he had died. As a 2nd grade kid I had absolutely no clue what all this meant other than someone important had been shot and died.
Got home and I could tell my mom was very upset and I was really confused on WITH was going on.
Days later I remember seeing the flag draped coffin on the caisson and JFK Jr saluting as it passed and my 7 year old mind not understanding what it meant.
THEN, I remember my dad as he was talking to my uncle on the phone and he was speaking of LBJ with some words I later learned were "ugly".
FYI...we had also been doing the "get under your desk and tuck you head" drill .......... just incase the doomsday missiles were headed our way.
Damn what time to be living.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:08 pm to duckblind56
Man, I thought I was old.
I wouldn’t even be alive until about a decade later.
I wouldn’t even be alive until about a decade later.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:09 pm to duckblind56
This will be a cool thread.... even my mama wasn't old enough to know what was going on as she was only about a year and a half old.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:10 pm to duckblind56
My dad said the cia did it
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:16 pm to duckblind56
I was 2 so I don't have any memories of it.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:16 pm to StrongOffer
My mom was in elementary school.
She remembers Oswald’s assassination better, they were all home watching it live.
She remembers Oswald’s assassination better, they were all home watching it live.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:17 pm to duckblind56
I was working a turnaround at Mobil
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:18 pm to KirbySmartass
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Man, I thought I was old.
Hell baw, 69 ain't old unless you let it.
I walk 3 miles at least 4 days a week, keep several "honey do's" going, help all my other baws with their projects, hunt, fish as much as I can and do my best to stay as active as I can.
ssssssshhhhhh I also do my best to get some at least once a week.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:21 pm to duckblind56
Walking up the stairs to get to 7th grade English and it was announced on the loudspeakers.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:22 pm to kywildcatfanone
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My dad said the cia did it
IIR, I remember overhearing the "grown ups" saying it was LBJ. FYI, other than maybe the folks in Texas, LBJ was not well liked in the south due to his giving away "stuff" to get black votes. Now look where we're at.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:23 pm to Higgysmalls
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I was working a turnaround at Mobil
Damn, and I was called OLD.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:24 pm to duckblind56
I remember it. Watching my parents losing it when saw the news on TV.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:25 pm to duckblind56
I was 7 and remember it like it happened yesterday. He was a very likable president.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:26 pm to duckblind56
I was in high school in the middle of exams. They did tell us during study hall.
TV was devoted to the funeral for three days, nothing but the funeral. I remember DeGaulle in his uniform and Emperor Haile Selassie from Ethiopia.
The caisson being pulled by the riderless horse with boots facing backwards.
We lived two hours from D.C. so had heard lots of gossip about his misbehaviors and how Jackie had to buy a farm so she could join a particular hunt in the rich country to our northeast.
TV was devoted to the funeral for three days, nothing but the funeral. I remember DeGaulle in his uniform and Emperor Haile Selassie from Ethiopia.
The caisson being pulled by the riderless horse with boots facing backwards.
We lived two hours from D.C. so had heard lots of gossip about his misbehaviors and how Jackie had to buy a farm so she could join a particular hunt in the rich country to our northeast.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:27 pm to duckblind56
My mom was just a kid at that time.
How fricking old are some of yall?
How fricking old are some of yall?
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:28 pm to duckblind56
20 year later I was born
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:29 pm to duckblind56
I was barely a year old for JFK. But I do remember when MLK was assassinated - not the news event itself, but I remember my dad immediately went out and bought a couple firearms "because the government is about to make them illegal"
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:30 pm to duckblind56
3rd grade, standing in the breezeway of the school cafeteria.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:30 pm to Kashmir
In all seriousness. With the air raid drills, POTUS getting shot, Oswald getting shot, etc. ..... it was some disturbing times for a young redneck kid in south Rapides Parish.
Instead of PTSD, I think it made us stronger or maybe without SM blasting everything out in real time, we were just a bunch of kids not understanding (or caring) while we rode our bikes around with playing cards clipped to the fork of our bikes to make the cool thruthurthur sound as we peddled around the neighborhood unafraid of being molested.
Instead of PTSD, I think it made us stronger or maybe without SM blasting everything out in real time, we were just a bunch of kids not understanding (or caring) while we rode our bikes around with playing cards clipped to the fork of our bikes to make the cool thruthurthur sound as we peddled around the neighborhood unafraid of being molested.
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