How much do you remember about Nov. 22,1963?

Question

1. What was the name of the airfield where JFK arrived that day in Dallas?
2. The motorcade was en route to what event ?
3. In what building and what FLOOR was at least one of the assassins? (Thought at the time as being the lone assassin.)
4. What was the name of the man who took the famous home movie of this historic event?
5. What hospital was Pres. Kennedy taken to?

(To be continued in my next question)

Answer 1

1. Love Field
2. Annual meeting of the Dallas Citizens Council at the Dallas Trade Mart
3. 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository Company.
4. Abe Zapruder
5. Parkland Memorial

Answer 2

Well, I was 7 that November, I do remember some details from a 7 yr olds point of view..

Love Field I believe he flew in
Book Depository of some sort and I think 2nd or 3rd floor
and Lakeland Hospital? those would be the only three that I would know from memory without googling it.

What I do remember is that I was in school that day, announcement was made on hmm seems like it was a tv near the ceiling from our principal mr mitchell (mean guy)

We all got sent home early from school. I can remember my 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Bowen sobbing..but wasnt really sure what was going on or the significance of it.

As I started walking home, the crossing guard who i do not remember her name but she always wore a uniform and had seamed nylon stockings on and wore white gloves and a hat....when she crossed me over two streets/corner she had a white hankie in her hand, and her eyes were so red from crying.

I walk into my house and my mother and grandmother were watching the news on television (yep black n white) odd how my whole world back then seemed to be in black n white...they were both in tears too..

From then on, I know that we watched that TV from morning till night for days on end it seemed. I can remember Walter Cronkite reporting and remembering very vividly the sound of the click clock of the horses feet carrying his casket down the road to the capitol...and Jackie Kennedy with his brother Bobby walking along with the two kids, Caroline and John jr.

There had to have been thousands upon thousands on the streets there watching that procession.

That's all i remember....oh and my family and I lived in Boston at the time.

Answer 3

I was a research student at a British university, and we had a visiting American researcher, who we were all good friends with.

It was some time in the evening that day when the news broke in the UK. The next morning two or three of us, who knew how much he admired JFK, said to him, "Terrible thing, Hal, very sorry" and he said - bitterly, but quite resignedly - "Yeah, those right-wing bastards would do anything".

For him, it was obvious who must have been behind it, and why.

Answer 4

Others have answered the trivia questions correctly already. My most vivid memory of the day is the seemingly endless line of cars in front of my school. Everyone's parents had come to pick their children up rather than let them walk home or take the bus. The radio stations had abandoned pop music and were broadcasting only news and somber classical music.

Answer 5

Boy it was a sad day i was in the middle of the Atlantic ocean going from Brazil to Italy the way it looked Mr Johnson did a got job !! no body went to jail..

Answer 6

1.love field 2.democratic primary 3.4th floor 4.magruder 5.parkland hospital

Answer 7

I don't remember what happened on that day as I was not yet born.