It was also a Friday, Nov. 22nd 56 Years Ago

[msslave]

November 22, 1963...many here weren't even around then.  For us old timers it still seems like the day the world changed.

I was a young High School Senior, sitting in study hall, looking forward to the final bell and the weekend ahead.  A classmate came in from a dental appointment and sat at our table.  He breathlessly leaned in and said, "Guys, the President was shot."  Coming back with his mom from his appointment he'd heard the news on the radio.  None of us knew how to respond. Soon the Principal's voice crackled over the intercom.  Yes, it was true. John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed while riding through Dallas in a motorcade.

The rest in history, and for most of you it was something you read about in books. Our generation had a ringside seat as a result of continuing advances in TV coverage.  Those memories as still etched in my mind. What are your memories?

[watcher1]

I was in 8th grade then. I think it was just after lunch and I can remember some girls entering the classroom crying and, when asked, they said the President was just shot. Pretty much everyone was glued to their black and white televisions for the next few days.

[ChirpingGirl]

I watched news coverage on YouTube. Even back then they fuckin' interrupted the President getting killed to run commercials. 

[_priapism]

I was very young when President Kennedy was assassinated. I was old enough, however, to remember the assassination of his brother, Bobby Kennedy, in 1968. I went in the kitchen, and my mother was crying, listening to the radio. I asked her what was wrong. She said, “a very good man was killed today.”

[RopeFiend]

I was 4 years old, and had NO clue what was happening, nor did I care at that age.

[msslave]

Just curious...

For those of you too young or not yet born, what did you feel when you learned of the assassination of a President in modern times?

Those of us who lived through it have vivid memories and remember the exact moment and place when we heard the news.

[ChirpingGirl]

Just curious...

For those of you too young or not yet born, what did you feel when you learned of the assassination of a President in modern times?

Those of us who lived through it have vivid memories and remember the exact moment and place when we heard the news.

Personally it doesn't matter to me. He'd been dead for decades by the time I showed up. My mommy wasn't even alive at the time either.

I hope I didn't make you feel even older. 

[Gunnerman19]

President Kennedy’s association was 17 years before I was born but I remember my parents talking about it once in awhile. I remember my mom saying it was one of those times she will remember exactly where she was and what she was doing when it happened.
Could tell pretty easy that it was a big event in the lives of people alive during that time.

[_priapism]

Growing up in north Texas, there was a sense of collective guilt, as much of the country blamed Dallas bigotry as a second story in the assassination. The “Welcome to Dallas Mr. President” advertisement was dusted off every year.  Then there was the “X” on Elm Street, the Texas School Book Depository, and the conspiracies about the grassy knoll and the Zapruder film.  We were all reminded of it, several times a year, We were just taught that something very bad here happed, and the racists and bigots weren’t too upset by it.

[e_monster]

I was only a month old so, of course, I don't recall it.

Its understandable that noteworthy moments in history we experience get etched into our memories, though.