What Were You Doing The Day J.F.K was first announced assasinated??

Question

How Old were you?? What thoughts were goin through your head ??

Answer 1

my mama was like 15 or 16. I wasn't here until she was 18.
So I was hanging out in her ovaries with my sister who was born when my mama was 31.


I was here for both space shuttle explosions.

Answer 2

Walking past the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square in London.
It was a dark and cold evening and I saw some people on the steps of the embassy listening to a big radio. The news was just coming through live so I went over and joined them.
You could do that in those days before all this security nonsense.
I was 20 and I was with a girl so to be honest my main thoughts were not about JFK.

Answer 3

I was in 4th grade and in November, I would have been 9 years old.

It was a weird time, we were all boomers, and TV was flooded with movies and TV series about WW II. I remember asking someone if he (meaning the President) had seen the guy who shot him. I think I also expected he would have survived a head shot like that, movies you know.

By the time we got home, I think it was after 2 PM, and he died at about 1:45 PM Central time, same time in Dallas as it was in the Chicago suburbs. But they didn't say he was dead until later, I think.

Kids our age were pretty attuned to the idea that the Russians were the enemy, and so it naturally seemed like the Russians were behind it.

It turns out that plenty of adults were wondering that too. In fact, I heard that Khruschev was worried that we would think they were behind it.

Answer 4

I was in high school civics class. The teacher was Ms. Crosley and one of my best friends was sitting next to me.

The president had been to the city I lived in the day before he was assassinated. The principal came on the PA and said that a momentous historical event and tragedy was taking place and that he was going to put the radio broadcast on the PA so all could hear it.

We listened to the news broadcasts for about 30 minutes before the announcement that the president was dead. Even though the time came for classes to change the principal had stopped the bells and everyone remained where they were. Many were crying, so Ms. Crosley got a box of kleenex out of her drawer and put it on her desk.

My best friend, who was a football player and a mega jock, but very sweet, went up and got one for himself and brought one back to me. The President died too young and so did my friend. He died before he reached 40. I will always remember that day and how neither of us knew that he would die so young.

Answer 5

I remember it like it was yesterday! It was Nov. 22nd 1963 and it was my10th birthday. I lived in Ireland then, so it was around supper time. I had some pals in for a birthday party, we were listening to Beatles records and when my mother heard the news, she stopped the party and sent everyone home. With Kennedy's Irish background, he was loved over there and the whole country went into mourning, people were even crying openly in the streets.

Answer 6

I was sitting in my 3rd grade class room, I was 7 yrs old. Miss Adrien had just given a test and she was going from desk to desk to grade each paper. A nun had entered the room(Catholic School). Her and Miss Adrien were talking very quietly at the front of the room. When the Nun left the room, Miss Adrien continued to grade papers at our desks. When she got to mine I noticed she was crying tears on my paper, and everyone Else's. She was not able to finish the class that day, she was too upset. I felt sad too that day I think mostly because everyone else was saddened.

Answer 7

I was in Mr. Waylens 5th grade History class and I cried, not real sure why at that age, other than it felt so big, too big and very sad.
And the look on my teachers face when we were told over the intercom really moved me, he looked stricken.

Answer 8

I drove from far north Dallas to within a couple of blocks of the shooting.

Answer 9

My mom was twelve. They were let out of school (in Boulder, CO) early that day. She says everyone was in a daze.

Answer 10

I was negative five years old. Not much.