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Gibbs505
When President Kennedy was shot?

I was chatting to my mum, in the hall of our house, when my sister came in and said "President kennedys been shot!"

Any one else remember?


Proberly a forlorn hope, but lets not have any of the conspiracy theories here, start your own thread!
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  • 1KYDSTR
    I was only 9 months old and unlike several here have no recolection of the event at all. My grandma was the Indiana Democratic Commitee chair at the time. I have several pictures of her with Bobby and John both seperately and together that are signed. Sad day for this country. Keep in mind that there was a good chance after October '62 that NONE of us would remember that day. I was not and am not a huge Kennedy fan (won't open that can of worms) but can tell you that if calmer heads (both American AND Soviet) had not prevailed...well, this thread would not exhist. Sting (of ALL people) said it best,

    " I hope the Russians love their children too".
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  • Hunter Mag
    ooops
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  • mijelo
    I was working for the "Brunswick"
    corporation in Kalamazoo MI. as
    a machine operator when they piped
    it over the P.A. system and shut
    down for a while so all could
    listen to the tragedy.
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  • spasmcreek
    two days before this event i was feeding cattle & fixing fence and came home for a late lunch to find my then wife sitting at the table crying...asked what was wrong & she described this event in the car and jackies pink dress with blood on it at the hospital,told me the whole thing just like a bystander right there watching it all...tried to calm her while thinking geesssshhtt...yeah right!!!!!!....till it actually happened exactly the same two days later...
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  • 41 nut
    In high school and out to recess when someone came running out with the news.
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  • Maxx424
    Home from High School sick in bed.
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  • grdad45
    Driving to my Dad's shop to work, heard it on the radio. I was 17.
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  • savage170
    2 yrs old remeber the funeral on tv
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  • kimi
    Corporal of the Guard duties at Marine Barracks, Lualualei, HI. Just got off shift and had raised the color with a detail while the troop relief were cleaning the barracks when the news came over the radio.
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  • William81
    I was 4 years old and a couple days shy of my 5th birthday. I remember wondering why everyone at my birthday party was talking about the event.
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  • buschmaster
    my mom and dad didn't even know who each other was yet.
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  • rovrman
    I was at the 6 month of hanging out in mommy's belly.
    Made but not born yet
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  • victorlvlb
    Norfolk V.A. in a hanger.
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  • Blade Slinger
    I was in a local mens clothing shop buying a red and white golf shirt (polo) when it came over the tv playing in the back room.
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  • abcguns2
    O.K. , well , I was sitting in the middle of the front room floor of my great-grand-parents house (they kept me while mom worked) watching the while mess on black & white t.v. , just as I was instructed to do as a good little six (6) year old . My great-grand-father was a Big Kennedy fan , matter of fact , when this happened , my grandmother had to call some people & tell them that she thought that my grandfather was so upset that he thought he was having a heart-attack ? So , I do remember this mess ??? My (other) grandfather always told that he had the "second" rifle and knew "details" about this mess ???
    GeeZ !!!!!!!
    d.a.stearns
    Gunsmith / LEO
    Niota , Tn
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  • jwb267
    Mrs Prysocks class sixth grade
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  • cbxjeff
    Ft. Knox basic training. I happened to be walking by the day-room TV in the chow line when Ozwald was shot on live TV.
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  • woodshermit
    11th grade chemistry class. The assistant principal interrupted the class and made the announcement. About a third of the class started crying, another third started cheering, and the rest of us were just stunned.
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  • fideau
    Senior in high school, sitting at home watching TV, when Cronkite came on with the first news. My father had just died a few days before and I hadn't returned to school. I still wonder what the world would be like if it hadn't happened.
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  • JamesRK
    General Mess, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia.
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  • eastbank
    i was at fort sam huston for medical training, having seen him the day before at alamoe plaza in san antonio texas, very sad day. i still think if he had not been killed we would not have had to go through vietnam. i blame L.B. johnson for that. eastbank.
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  • eastbank
    i was at fort sam huston for medical training, having seen him the day before at alamoe plaza in san antonio texas, very sad day. i still think if he had not been killed we would not have had to go through vietnam. i blame L.B. johnson for that. eastbank.
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  • BT3
    Last class in 7th grade.
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  • ripley16
    quote:Where were you ............... ?

    Fishin' whit Jimmy Scar-nosed Calcentrano. Yeah...I was fishin' So was he...Jimmy I mean. Yeah. We wasn't no wheres near dat Plaza place. Da boss says go fishin', so we go fishin'. Didn't catch nuttin. Da fish was all sleeping. Yeah, ha, ha, ha, Da fishes was sleeping whit da fishes. Dats my story an' I'm stickin' to it.
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  • bamafan
    quote:Originally posted by rcrxs old lady
    Not living....just a twinkle in my Daddy's eye...


    Me too.
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