48 Years Ago

[DAKSY]

It was one of those days that you will forever remember.
That afternoon you know where you were & what you
were doing when you first got the news...

I was 11 years old & my USAF dad was stationed in Rome,
Italy. It was about 8:45 in the evening when there was a
knock on the door of our apartment...

 

[BrotherBart]

9th grade English class when he was shot. Study hall when they announced he was dead.

 

[ISeeDeadBTUs]

9th grade??? Damn!! You guys ARE old!!

 

[firefighterjake]

. . . I wasn't even a gleam in my daddy's eye.

 

[DAKSY]

9th grade??? Damn!! You guys ARE old!!

I was in 6th grade & I guess I qualify as old.
Gonna be my 60th winter on Ma Earth &
I'm hopin to get REALLY old...

 

[fossil]

14 y/o. 10th grade. High School Metal Shop over in the foundry area working on a casting mold.

 

[Danno77]

My MOM was in kindergarten at that point. LOL!

 

[BrotherBart]

My MOM was in kindergarten at that point. LOL!

I think I need to go lay down now.

 

[Jim41]

2nd grade: When we were told what had happened; All I could think of was Olive Oil from Popeye singing "If I were President". I remember seeing homemade memorials in all the front windows of the Mom and Pop stores in the neighborhood. Dark days indeed!

 

[GAMMA RAY]

My MOM was in kindergarten at that point. LOL!

I think I need to go lay down now.

Lay down? You just got your butt outta bed!! :coolsmile:

 

[Milton Findley]

11th grade, Algebra II, looking forward to the pep rally for the big game that night. We did not hold the Rally. Nobody remembers the game.

 

[Thistle]

I was 2 months 11 days old.Probably sleeping in my crib after recently being sent home from hospital,was in incubator 56 days being a 3 month premie that weighed 2 lbs 11oz at birth,dropped to 2lbs 7.

 

[BrotherBart]

I was in the 10th grade. Don't ask what I was doing in a 9th grade English class. :red:

 

[bogydave]

Elementary school in WV.
Bell rang to end recess early & we all went to our class rooms & heard the news.
Recess was my favorite class.

 

[Delta-T]

I was -12 (in my current body), but suspect that I was in my mid50's of my past life as a vegas lounge singer when I heard the news. Sad times, sad times.

 

[Jack Straw]

I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the JFK museum in Dallas this fall. I wasn't born quite yet when it happened and the museum put everything into perspective. I came away wondering who advised him to go to Dallas.

 

[Dix]

I was 5, in Kindergarten. They sent us home from school. We lived with my Grandparents back then (my Mother & I) My Grandmother was in front of the TV crying when I got home early. My Mom couldn't get out of work, but got home ASAP.

Etched in my brain forever.

 

[BrotherBart]

A somber funeral like none before or since. The cadence of those drums haunt me to this day.

 

[Dix]

Good vibes to Caroline. She's the only one left.

 

[Mrs. Krabappel]

I was not yet born, but my brilliant, esoteric grandfather spent his retirement years on the case.

I think this is only the first part
http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v1n2/gtds.html

 

[hossthehermit]

Seventh grade, school got out early, spent an extra 2 hours lugging wood for the old guy down the road after school. Made an extra dollar.

 

[jharkin]

My MOM was in kindergarten at that point. LOL!

Wow Danno you might have the prize for youngest... Even my parents were in high school at the time and I though I was one of the younger folks here....

 

[Dix]

BB, I remember the 5 minutes of silence as well.

Eerie the things that stick in your mind.

 

[Flatbedford]

My parents didn't even know each other yet.

 

[begreen]

8th Grade Algebra class. We all went silent. But what really freaked us out was seeing the vice principal (a dark and swarthy Italian) as white as a ghost. Two of my teachers and he went down for the funeral in DC.