2007-12-07 09:29:38 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I was teaching my second grade class when a co-worker called me to the hallway and told me what had happened. I walked back into the classroom, obviously distraught. When the children asked me was was wrong, I looked down on my desk and saw a picture of JFK looking back at me. On the little milk cartons that the children drink from were pictures of the presidents with a brief biography. The one that happened to be on my desk was that of JFK. I remember holding up that little milk carton and pointing to that picture of JFK and telling the children that our president had just been shot. School closed down for the day shortly after that.
2007-12-07 10:11:45 · answer #1 · answered by Gladys 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
My oldest daughter was 4 years, she always knew who President Kennedy was and would point him out and say his name.
It's funny how, I could see that even little children were drawn to him.
He had charisma like no other President has ever had, at least, since the Television has been in our home.
On that day she was watching TV.
I was in the kitchen, when she came running in, wanting me to go see.
There is no way to describe the emotions and feeling that were racing though my mind.
I do remember crying and wishing my husband was at home.
Just last summer, at a backyard party, with all family together she got up in front of everyone, telling about how she felt as a 4 year old that day.
She said," I know it had to be bad because mom was sad, and if mom was sad, she felt sad too.
I have to wipe the tears as I write this.
We all must pray that will never happen again to our President.
2007-12-07 12:48:47 · answer #2 · answered by DeeJay 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Cutting through a parking lot on the way to the bus stop to go to work. The parking lot attendant had a radio playing. They interrupted the station to announce that President Kennedy was shot.
2007-12-07 14:11:45 · answer #3 · answered by California Gal 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was 22 and flying as a flight attendant for TWA (laughingly referred to as "Try Walking Across"). However, the week before I caught the measles and was "domiciled" in Kansas City in the isolation wing of TWA's residential hotel! Real Bummer! I had nodded off and the company nurse came in and gave me the sad news. What a dreadful day. I will NEVER forget Walter Cronkite crying, on the TV set, reading the news that day!
2007-12-07 16:44:53 · answer #4 · answered by CJ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Zambales Red Training Beach at Subic Bay in the Philippines. I had just landed in the first wave of landing craft. When the fourth wave came in they off-loaded live ammunition. I called the command ship on the radio and asked what was going on. They informed me that the President had been shot and killed. In the space of less than half an hour we went from peacetime conditions to near-war footing.
2007-12-07 09:53:03 · answer #5 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was in school. A girl ran out crying and the rest off us at silent and crushed!
I think it was a Friday. No teaching happened after that. The radio was on the intercom overhead, on news every minute.
We may have been allowed to go home a bit early, as I recall, and I noticed the news was all you could get all weekend.
Everything seemed to stop. Camelot was gone!
2007-12-07 09:39:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I was there!
I lived in Dallas, and was in HS. 3 buddies and I skipped school to see the presidential parade. I vividly remember seeing JFK and Jackie in the limo. After the press buses and motorcade passed by, we went to the car. We heard on the news he had been shot. That was less than a minute after we saw him.
They said he was injured and on the way to Parkland Hospital, but the truth was, he was already gone.
I'll never forget that day. And yes, I believe Oswald acted alone.
2007-12-07 10:45:14 · answer #7 · answered by Carlos R 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was living in Los Angeles and operating a bookkeeping machine for Mr. Marty of California, a sportswear manufacturer. I was at lunch when the news broke, but I didn't know about it until I returned to the office to find the entire staff weeping.
2007-12-07 10:40:26 · answer #8 · answered by felines 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was in the 8th grade in a Catholic school. The girls and boys were attending separate devotionals in the church, first the boys and then the girls. As we were leaving the church, the girls walking in told us about the shooting. When the girls got back to class, the boys told them the president was dead. The nuns sent us home.
2007-12-08 01:51:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sitting in History class at North Norwood School, Miss Berhman's class.
2007-12-07 11:45:27 · answer #10 · answered by drg5609 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋