Where were you when Kennedy was shot?

[HansJob]

I was in grade school. I remember the nuns making us kneel and pray for something we didn't even understand. I came home from school and seeing my Mom visibly upset. I lived in HI then.

[k2skier112]

At home or my dads shop, I was only 2.

[skifishbum]

residing in my dads nutsack

[HansJob]

residing in my dads nutsack

me thinks this will be a common response. i'm just an ol' ass mf.

[iceman]

No idea where I was when it happened, but my first actual memory is of his funeral, watching it on TV with my mom, the riderless horse and my mom crying and crying. First thing I remember in my life.

[Meadow Skipper]

The DC folks here might appreciate this one. I was in 6th grade at the Sidwell Friends school in DC. Robert Kennedy's and Robert McNamera's kids (and probably some other politicos') went there and the whole school was in some kind of assembly. The double doors just blew open and over a dozen guys in dark suits hustled in, grabbed those kids and hustled them out. Kind of mind-blowing. The assembly got let out minutes later and I wandered out and a kid told me about JFK. Mind=totally blown.

It was a pretty big deal because we lived in DC about a block from the school. My parents wouldn't let me go outside all weekend because they were concerned about riots or something. That was a weird week for an 11 year old.

Back when I was a gubmint employee I spent a couple months working in DC and I went by to see the exact spot I was standing when I heard the news. I also happenstantially walked a number of times by the church where his service was held and that iconic picture of John Jr. saluting was taken. I didn't have a lot to do on weekends except walk around to see sights.

[skifishbum]

me thinks this will be a common response. i'm just an ol' ass mf.

12 30 64
so i'd guess about a month or 2 into lbj's term i moved on over to reside in mom for a while

[cinnepa]

^^^ditto, was in moms belly.

[userA]

in a teenagers belly
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[HD333]

I was hanging out waiting to be set free in my old mans nuts.

[TNKen]

Was in the second grade. We had just gotten televisions installed in the classrooms, and our teacher, who was in her first year of teaching, let us watch the news.

Other big news of the year was our school became integrated, we had the only black kids in our school in my class. Twins, brother and sister, I'm not sure who was more scared of the other. It all worked out and they were good kids.

[bushman]

Probably sitting in a corner.

[Shredhead]

My wife an I just had this conversation this morning. I was in school and remember because the teachers made it a big deal. She's younger, wasn't in school yet and doesn't remember.

[GeezerSteve]

2nd grade, Mrs. Hurd's classroom. The younger Mrs. Hurd, her daughter in law, was the student teacher. The principal closed the school day a few minutes early, with no explanation. One of my classmates named John had heard from his older brother than JFK had been shot. I walked home, where I saw my mother crying on the couch with our B&W TV on. Our family, like many others across the USA, huddled together the entire weekend watching TV coverage. We saw Ruby shoot LHO live.

5 years and 1 day later my brother was killed in Vietnam along with 15 fellow GIs in an ambush by NVA troops.

[The Suit]

I was one year old, living in Durham NC while my father was in grad school at Duke. It's weird to think that growing up in the 1960s and 70s, assassinations (or attempted assassinations) were sort of normal.

[Edgnar]

20 years prior to birth. You are some old fucks

[Chainsaw_Willie]

Hangin' with these guys for another few years:

[XXX-er]

I love that whole segment^^

I remember hearing about it at lunch on the playground

[Danno]

I was in 6th grade at the Sidwell Friends school in DC.

I'm going to have change my characterization of you from "crusty old codger" to "upper crusty old codger".

I was -4 years old.

[Meadow Skipper]

You are some old fucks

Thanks, I hadn't realized that until you brought it up.

But I got to see all the good bands.

I'm going to have change my characterization of you from "crusty old codger" to "upper crusty old codger".

Good one. I know, it took me a long time to appreciate the weirdness of that.

[wooley12]

In geometry class hitting on the girl sitting next to me. School was let out and I went home to watch the news. It was on all 3 channels until station sign off a 1 A.M.

[Art Shirk]

Kubrick's handwriting

[GeezerSteve]

Kubrick's handwriting

Wow.....

[spook]

that's weird, my first memory is of shitting out an anal thermometer.

[capulin overdrive]

I'm old, but not quite that old!