JFK Assassination November 22, 1963. Where Were You?

Question

We are coming up on the 44th anniversary of the JFK assassination in 3 days. For those of you that can remember that far back what were you doing when they announced that JFK had been shot? How did you react? What did you do? What do you think now about the incident after 44 years?

Answer 1

I wasn't born yet on that day. How about you?

Answer 2

I was four years old. I remember everyone talking about it, but I didn't understand it all at the time. I remember that was ALL that was on TV for days and days and days. This was back in the days of black and white network television only, you understand, and in my rural community, we only had one channel (an ABC affiliate). I remember they preempted my cartoons for the reports, and I remember seeing the horse-drawn carriage going down the street with people all along the street. The closest thing I could compare it to as a small child was like a parade. This will sound mean, but I was mad because my regular shows didn't come on TV--I was a kid and didn't know any better, ok?

I remember years later reading the book on the JFK conspiracy and getting all interested in it, since it happened in Dallas, and I'm from Texas maybe, or just because that sort of history mystery stuff fascinates me anyway. I still don't believe we know the whole story, and I doubt we ever will. Most of the people who could have told us different were either murdered too, or have gone on to their graves.

Answer 3

Sorry I was not quite born yet so I was still not even a though in my parents life yet, my eldest bro and sis were alive but very young!! My other sister was like me and not born yet.

I saw Reagan shot on tv as a kid. I remember saying at about the age of 11 WOW how could someone should the president!

so I imagine Id have felt the same with JFK and RFK!

Answer 4

We were going into the room before geometry class. A girl said somebody said the president had been shot. She thought it was a joke. I wasn't convinced it was a joke. A few minutes later the speaker on the wall came on and a voice said that the president had been shot and wounded. I figured he'd probably survive, because most people who get wounded do survive. He didn't. I went to meet my buddies after school, and I was afraid they'd think it was funny. They were shocked.

For years everybody thought it was a conspiracy, but the truth can be stranger than fiction. He was a target of opportunity for a homicidal nut, who then became a target of opportunity for a second homicidal nut. Jack Ruby, who shot Oswald was said to have had Mafia connections. He met a few gangsters in his life, but he was too flaky for any of them to want him as a business associate.

There is still one thing that bothers me. There is a famous black and white photograph of Oswald posing with a rifle and a communist newspaper. The shadow under his nose goes the wrong way. The sun doesn't do that.

Answer 5

i was in school in seventh grade and i noticed a silence and some of the female teachers were about to cry and a little later the principal announced over the the intercom and told everyone to go home. i was thirteen but i felt sadness but more anger. i think there was way more to it than has ever been told and probably never will considering how the politicians are nothing but crooks, liars, scammers, thieves and all other rotten things that low life humans do

Answer 6

Sitting in my second grade classroom They put the news reports from the radio over the intercom system. some of the kids laughed and applauded the news, I guess a reflection on their idiot upbringing, some cried. I went home and watched Walter Cronkite.
All the conspircy stuff, the B movies and government reports are all garbage. Perhaps our grandkids will get the truth.

Answer 7

I was 5. I suspect I bugging my brother. I don't remember the assassination, but I do remember watching the funeral on TV in my parents living room.

I do remember that I was at home watching TV when both MLK and RFK were assassinated.

Answer 8

The paperwork was sealed after the investigation, and will not be unsealed for 100 years from that date. Of course, nobody who was alive when it happened will be alive when it's unsealed....

Answer 9

I was on the grassy Noll. It was Elvis who set it up, and because of this happening it lead to the Vietnam war upbringing and a destroyed generation. The world would of been better if JFK was not murdered.

Answer 10

I was on the playground at recess. When we went back to homeroom, the rascals who'd been kept in were pounding on their desks "Kennedy's dead."
There are reasons for political correctness, you children who didn't live thru the free-wheeling age when the loudest voices screamed whatever they chose have no idea.

Answer 11

I was in the fifth grade,And I was walking down stairs going to the gym, when a girl told me it had happened.