So how many people were on the Grassy Knoll, and  What song of the Stones was on the Radio airwave  Nov 22, 1963?
What were you doing Where were you??

Kilroy wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2008 at 9:05am:


I was in my 5th grade classroom. We watched reporting on TV.

THE OFFICIAL DAY THAT THIS COUNTRY WENT IN THE TOILET...

I have no memories at all as I was only 3.
I'm sure my Parents (especially Dad) were devastated.

A horrible day in our history. Horrible.

RIP President Kennedy.

LJ.

I was in utero; my parents were at a hotel in Williamsburg, VA on a short vacation when they got the news. 

Clearly it was the Cubans who hired Oswald with Soviet assistance.  The missile crisis humiliated Castro.

Ten Thousand Motels wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2008 at 10:55am:


Interesting theory here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYkrjjTkjdk

what's a pram?

half of me was in my mother's ovary and the other half was in my pop's testicles (possibly the left), where i would safely stay for the next 9 years and change.

kennedy is always glorified...mainly because the way he died, and the fact that he was young and good looking. had he lived, perhaps he would have been sucked intot the quagmire of vietnam like his successor....in any case, i don't think he would have turned out to be the saint that he is generally considered to be today.

I was 11. In Miss Heflin's 6th grade reading class. The janitor came in, and whispered in her ear to come out into the hallway. Then he evidently told her that Kennedy had been shot. She came back in the room, crying, and told us. Stunned silence. It was almost time for the last period of the day--Mr. Lippert's science class. As a group, we all changed classes together, so we silently went up the stairs to his room. I remember everything as if it just happened yesterday. The room was dark, save for a small desk lamp, lit up, on his desk. We all filed in, silently {I mean, serious. A group of 6th graders who didn't say a word for the rest of the day...}. Mr. Lippert had taken some kid's science project, a ham radio, and had tuned into a broadcast {the one with Walter Cronkite}. I remember putting my head down on the cool desk top and just listening. Not long after, it was reported that Kennedy had died. We just stayed there, listening, until the class, and the school day, was over.

Mom picked me up in our old black '51 Studebaker. I had saved some money to buy a horse statue I'd been eyeing in the local hardware store. But it was dark, cold, rainy.....and I just wasn't in the mood to do anything but go home. Wisely, my Mom said "Well, since you were going to buy the horse anyway, and since it's on the way home, why don't you go ahead and buy it?" So, I did. A black mare that I named Sonora Star. And I still have that horse statue. And every time I hold that horse in my hands, the entire day comes flooding back. So yes, in the long run, I'm glad I bought that black horse on that blackest of days....

The next day was Saturday and I spent most of my time, in the den, watching everything unfold on TV. That went on into Sunday, and then all day Monday {which was a day with schools and businesses closed}. My Dad thought I was obsessed. I guess maybe I was. But I knew, even in my little 11 year old mind, that it was a pivotal day in our nation's history. And the first of several assassinations that would haunt us during that most fascinating, and tumultuous, of decades.

i am not sure where i was. i was only 1 year old.  probably playing with my blocks.

Joey wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2008 at 4:49pm:


BAD FACTS AS USUAL JOEY...LBJ'S GREAT SOCIETY JUST RAN OFF KENNEDY'S COATTAILS AND GOT PASSED TO HONOR OUR SLAIN LEADER.
LBJ WAS NOT GOING TO BE DROPPED IN 1964.

YOUR BOY'S CONTRIBUTION WAS ESCALATING THE VIETMAN WAR AND COSTING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES.. NOT EVEN W HAS THAT MUCH BLOOD ON HIS HANDS.


HE ALSO PROBABLY HAD KNOWLEDGE OR A PART IN THE JFK ASSASSINATION.

RIP LBJ

I was not even close to being born yet for the Assassination of Kennedy (John). 

Pearl Harbor, JFK Assasination, and 9/11 are the three tragic days this country will never forget.

If you were alive and were old enough for any of these shocking events you always remember just what you were doing that day and possibly exactly how you found out.



Ian

Ian Billen wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2008 at 9:21pm:


well i remember where i was on the day of 9/11 and how i found out about it, but honestly i do forget what i was doing.

Did anyone else ever see the hilarious Seinfeld spoof with Keith Hernandez and the magic loogie?