re: JFK assassinated. How many remember the when/where/how they heard it?

I was on the LSU campus walking between when a co-ed was crying and saying "they've shot the President." I skipped class and went to the Field House and watched the news on the TV in the day room.

I was working at McDonnell Aircraft in St. Louis when the first announcement was made - everything stopped and people started trying to find out more about it - phone lines were totally tied up - nobody could call in or out.

I had been working on a simulation of the Gemini Docking maneuver in a closed cockpit and didn't hear about it until I noticed the commotion outside and got out. People were stunned - nobody knew what the heck was going on.

Then I noticed a group of people who seemed to be joking with one another - I drifted over to hear what they were saying and found out they were actually happy over the news - will never forget one of them saying "I wish I could have been the one" - I had noticed this group during lunch time talking about politics and had thought of trying to join in if I ever had the time - they were members of the John Birch Society (had never heard of it - and this episode made me think I wanted no part of it.)

It was a sad time - I had not voted for him, but considered him a good POTUS - probably responsible for my being in the space business.

Wasn’t alive but do have a story. My grandfather was a Texas democrat and a mayor. He and my grandmother went to Dallas for the Kennedy luncheon talk.

Once Kennedy motorcade finished up just past the square he was heading over to speak. They were waiting for the president arrive and started hearing rumors. They finally left after rumors were confirmed.

Everyone at that luncheon received about a16” very detailed bronze bust of President Kennedy and a record album made up of 4 records. They were all “radios greatest moments and breaking news”. The Hindenburg disaster broadcast, FDR speech about Pearl Harbor & declaration of war, Bobby Thompson home run, etc.,, as a kid I listened to it dozens of times.

Bronze bust was on display in living room until they both died. Now in the attic at my uncles house.

I was -16

I was home sick from school laying on the couch watching soaps with my mom and g-ma when "uncle" Walter came on the tv somewhat holding back tears. We all started crying.

I was -22 years old, so don’t remember it.

I was sitting in 7th grade class in school watching it on TV with the teacher and other students as part of a Social Studies thing when he was shot and the limo raced off to Parkland Hospital where he was eventually pronounced dead.

At the time there was no Zapruder footage of the actual head shot that killed Kennedy. That came later and it was a long time before that actual footage was shown publicly on TV for the nation to see how violent Kennedy's death really was.

I also saw Oswald killed live on TV as they were transporting him from the county jail when Jack Ruby got off his shot to Oswald's gut. Things sure were different back then when it came to security measures that allowed Ruby to even be in the area, much less to be there with a gun.

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I remember DeGaulle in his uniform and Emperor Haile Selassie from Ethiopia.
The caisson being pulled by the riderless horse with boots facing backwards.

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The thing I remember most was when his little son, John-John was standing next to his mother and when the caisson passes them he snapped tall and saluted his father's coffin. We were at my aunt's house and I can remember her breaking down crying when we saw that little boy salute his dead father.

I was born 10 days later….