Walter Cronkite is heard announcing that JFK had been shot and killed.
November 22, 1963. The nation was stunned.
Where were you and what were you doing when you heard the news? As I recall, I heard he had been shot shortly after noon. It was a Friday I believe.
Were you a fetus or a gleam? Were you a child, a teen or an adult? Can you remember it like it was yesterday?
Johnny we hardly knew ye…but the torch lives on.
Too young. I do remember reading the Warren Commission Report in my high school library in the mornings before school actually started.
Was it like watching paint dry? (The warren Commission Report)
In a high school English class
I can remember not believing it, thinking it was one of those bad, tasteless jokes.
Anyone care to speculate how America might be different had Kennedy lived?
Comparisons to Lincoln, anyone?
I was shocked to hear it has been 48 years. Kennedy’s assassination and 9-11 are two events everyone will always remember the exact circumstances when they heard the news. I was in high school history class. I think its hard to do the ‘what ifs’, but you can’t help but wonder what if Kennedy had finished his presidential term. How different would it have been from the decisions Johnson made. And what exactly was his relationship with Marilyn anyway? 🙂
I was 18 months old….
I believe that Vietnam would not have been escalated.
I believe that LBJ’s Great Society programs would have been very different.
I believe that Robert Kennedy might have succeeded him as President.
I think you might be right. I think LBJ might have been canned actually. I like his wife and daughters but hold LBJ in low regard.
Actually, there were interesting parts (to a teenager), such as the exact timeline, the description of the autopsy, etc. I don’t know WHY that stuff is interesting to a teenager, but I learned a little bit about what happened that day while letting my curiosity run amok. That zapruder film is a hell of a thing to see even after so many years. Poor guy didn’t stand a chance. And they really botched the autopsy up, due to protocol surrounding the President.
I was in the terrible twos at the time.
Attending Infant of Prague Catholic School in Jacksonville NC….the Nuns stopped all 8 grades, marched us in formation the 60 yards to the Church, and a rosary was said. Longest round of kneeler pain I ever had!
You youngsters!!!! 😉
Funny, or maybe not so funny. I heard not one word about the JFK assassination on TV today. You would think it would have been mentioned. There were two shows on the history channels.
I hope more will be made of the 70th bombing of Pearl Harbor happening in a couple of weeks. Now that one was before my time!
Wow you guys are old. (I respect my elders). I wasn’t even a fully formed sperm cell.
I saw a fascinating special in which an informer that was placed in the Mafia boss, Marcello’s cell, said that Marcello was the man behind Kennedy’s shooting. And then they pointed out all the connections between Ruby and Oswald.
Here’s a print story about it. I wonder why this didn’t make bigger news……I blame “Big Conspiracy.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/liz_smith/item_ymeevc7p3qWQHkltFqRCLJ;jsessionid=E565A51B1FDEBA57923FF5E203692F9E
My mother was peripherally working in Garrison’s office during his investigation. She also, later, had extensive contacts with the Cuban immigrants. She’s always believed that the Mob and the Cubans cooperated with killing Kennedy. Not the COMMUNIST Cubans, but those betrayed in the Bay of Pigs.