JFK

[Sixacresand]

We watched the PBS program about it a few nights ago.  I recall a lot of memories and feelings of that day and the days that followed.   

[Brad_bb]

Sorry, I thought the -8 would be clear enough.  Yes I was listening to reports from that day on the anniversary.  My point is I wasn't even born yet at that time and just hearing the reports from that day had me choked up.  I don't think it was AS divided back then as it is today, so I'm sure everyone was pretty affected by it.

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Brad I'd say if the United States had been this divided way back then the country wouldn't be here now as we know it.  Just couldn't have lasted that long in the shape we are in today.

[doc henderson]

Thanks Brad.  I must have been in a literal mood.  

[WH_Conley]

I was in the second grade. We were sent home. The town and county I live in was strong Republican. The whole County locked down. I think almost every business shut down and people went home to watch the TV. I am not sure anything opened the day of the Funeral. The general feeling as I understood it then was, "he may have been the other party, but he was MY President."

[maple flats]

At the time JFK was shot, I was in Driver's ed class, on the road. Since we were not allowed to have the radio on while driving, the 4 of us in that car only found out the news upon returning to class. We were all shocked when we finally heard the news, upon returning to school at first we only knew everyone was crying, it took a few minutes to hear why. I was in 10th grade at the time, graduated in June of 1965.

[Gearbox]

I was in my dads shop putting the engine back together in my 55 Pontiac preparing for winter quarter . Just out of High School when it came over the radio

[ron barnes]

I was at home, sick as a dog, the day JFK was killed.  It was my 17th birthday.  Not a good day.

[Gary_C]

I was in the US Army in Germany on that day (evening) and my wife and I were just finishing dinner in a downtown restaurant when our German waitress came and told us the news. We immediately returned to our quarters and I went in to the base where I was surprised to find nothing going on.

JFK was very much admired by the German people and had earlier finished a summer tour of Germany where he had given his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.

[sharp edge]

Is that the big donut speech?

I was US Navy Japan in the middle of the night. We had to stay on base for a couple of days and thought they were having a party. When we did go downtown we found out they felt as bad as we did about it.

SE

[Ron Scott]

Was 27 years old and working in the Federal Building office of the USFS as a forester on the Soo Ranger District of the old Marquette National Forest (now the Hiawatha National Forest). The sad news came over our radios.

[Don P]

A different presidential assassination, a century earlier.  I came across a comment while reading a book and went looking for the picture. It was one of those moments that kind of locates a couple of famous people in their time relationship with one another in my mind. Young Teddy Roosevelt watching Lincoln's funeral procession.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lincoln_Funeral_Procession_Roosevelt_Mansion_Broadway.jpg