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I am a huge history buff, but i love learning about JFK and bobby. Who here was alive when they where killed and do you remember where you were when it they where killed. My dad was in the 8th grade. he said a teacher came in and said they JFK has been shot and they all had to go home. thanks!

2007-10-01 15:53:32 · 6 answers · asked by carriec 7 in Politics & Government Other - Politics & Government

oh and does anyone know if bobbys widow is still alive. thanks

2007-10-01 16:24:45 · update #1

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I was also in the 8th grade. It was science class. A runner came in and whispered in the teachers ear. He became very upset and actually cried when he told us the news. At that time we were only told he had been shot, not that he had been killed.

The best way I can describe the mood is, It was like someone had just turned off the music at a dance. You know what I mean....? an empty feeling, a feeling of something terrible happened with the added fear of what's going to happen now?

We were released to go home early. By the time I walked home, my grandmother had the TV on and the word was out that he was indeed dead.

There was no school the next day. The whole country seemed to stop for about 3 days.....horrible feeling in the air.

.EDIT: You wanted to know about Bobby too. I remember seeing that on TV . It was a second blow to the country. I was a little older then and was paying attention to politics by that time. Bobby was a very popular figure with the young voters. I still wasn't old enough to vote but was in favor of him to win.
I am a staunch conservitive these days, but Democrats were different in those days. Much closer to the middle of the road politically. Noy like the far left dogma of todays Dems. More like Joe Liberman. JFK actually cut income tax to increase Federal income, like Reagan and Bush did. Yes...good old days when 80% of politicians were in the middle politically.

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2007-10-01 16:03:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I was in the student union at K-State when JFK was shot. People came out of the TV viewing room shouting about it. I never did make it to class that afternoon. Didn't have a TV at home, so watched the funeral at the pizza place where I worked.

Don't remember where I was when I heard about Bobby. Probably working at Cessna. Then MLK. Then I worked race riots as a volunteer deputy sheriff. Hell of a decade.
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2007-10-01 23:06:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I guess I saw about Bobby on the TV, but I really don't remember. When I was in ninth grade, geometry class was about to start and a girl came in and said she had just heard that the president had been shot. She thought it was a joke. I wasn't so ready to dismiss it. About a minute later, the loudspeaker in the room came on with the announcement that the president had been shot and wounded. I guessed he'd probably survive. Most wounded people do. He didn't. After school I went to hang out with my buddies, and I was afraid they'd all be laughing about it. They took it dead serious.

2007-10-01 23:03:59 · answer #3 · answered by Pat J 2 · 1 0

I was in private school when JFK was killed in November, 1963. Because I lived only one block from the school, I went home for lunch to walk my dog, as I did most days, weather permitting. I had just come back from the park and my mom was in tears. I asked what happened, and she told me what was on the radio. I went back to school, and they had just learned about it too, and within minutes, we were sent home for the day.

I was visiting my sister in Kansas in June, 1968, when RFK was killed. We had watched on TV the results of the California primary, guaranteeing his first ballot nomination, and turned the TV off to go to bed just before midnight. We must have missed by minutes the events which followed in the kitchen at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, when the assasination happened, and did not learn about it until the next morning.

2007-10-01 23:04:07 · answer #4 · answered by Mike 7 · 1 0

I was 8 years old in 1963, in class and have detailed memories of the news coverage. Took my kids to Arlington in 1996.

I was home watching TV when RFK was shot.

2007-10-01 23:10:53 · answer #5 · answered by Stand-up philosopher. It's good to be the King 7 · 1 0

I was in the 6th grade when JFK got shot, at the time we were living in Wichita Falls Texas. We did not get to go home. !968, my Father was in Vietnam I was in missoula MT with my Mother.

2007-10-01 23:33:09 · answer #6 · answered by smsmith500 7 · 1 0

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