What were you doing when you heard President Kennedy had been shot?

Question

My youngest "(age 4) was helping me make fudge. He yelled, "mommy look quick some one shot the president".

Answer 1

I was at work and they announced it over the speakers and everyone was sent home except for the emergency crew.

That was all there was on television for three days. It was the saddest time I have ever experienced in my lifetime. Living during that time was very hard of the ones who were in their early 20s on up, because we lost so much. Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, the Viet Nam War. One event following another. Just horrible. I often wonder how we would have been had we not lost all these great leaders and friends and relations in Viet Nam.

Answer 2

I was taking part in an amphibious exercise in the Philippines as a Navy Corpsman with the Second Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment. We had just landed in the first wave of boats. The fourth wave of landing craft started discharging pallets of live ammunition onto the beach. I got on the radio and called back to the command ship, worried that live ammo could get someone hurt. We were supposed to be using practice ammo. The word came back on the radio that the President had been shot and killed and our force's defense conditon of readiness had been raised.

Answer 3

I was in high school. It was the last period of the day, which for me was an art class. I left my desk, table really, to sharpen a pencil and was sharpening it when the principal came over the telecom announcing that Kennedy had been shot. I went back to my table and a few minutes later it came back over the telecom that the President was dead and that the afternoon pep rally for the football team was canceled.

Answer 4

Sitting in a college classroom [poli sci] and someone ran in and said the president had been shot. Climbed on my bike and left for home right away...kids were 3 and 7, wife was devastated...we stayed in front of the tube for probably 48 hours straight. At first we thought it was some kind of coup or cold war attack beginning...we prayed a lot.

Answer 5

I was at my English class in a Catholic High School. First they announced over the PA system that Kennedy had been shot,
we were all devastated. Shortly after, they announced that he had died. They canceled all classes for the day, and sent us home, where we and the rest of the Nation stayed glued to our TV sets.

Answer 6

In an 8th grade class. English, I think. I remember the announcement being made over the loudspeakers and the varied emotions that were displayed while we waited for the buses to come take us home. I remember one guy laughing about it and the class getting angry with him. The teacher admonished those who got angry and calmly explaining that people handle bad news differently. I remember getting home and being frightened of what might happen while the country was in turmoil.

Answer 7

My Mom and I were at the neighbors house, we kids were watching TV when they interrupted it with the news. My Mom yelled for the neighbor to look quick, the President has been shot,

Answer 8

8Th grade gym class at a Catholic School in North Miami Beach, FL. We were all escorted into the church were we prayed. We had the days off from school after that, we were glued to the TV for days. Everyone cried that day and in the days to follow.

Answer 9

I was a student nurse working on a medical unit at Confederate memorial hospital in Shreveport, La.

Answer 10

8th grade math everyone was devastated spent the next 3 or 4 days glued to the tv