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curmudgeon
Citizen
Username: Curmudgeon
Post Number: 696
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 1:57 pm: |     |
I was also in the 3rd grade - Miss Zomback's class at South Main Street school in Spring Valley NY. It was our music-lesson time and the music teacher, Miss Weatherby, was leading the class when the announcement came over the P.A. system. Miss Weatherby immediately began sobbing and left the room. We were too stunned (as much by her reaction as by the news) to do anything. |
emmie
Citizen
Username: Emmie
Post Number: 92
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 3:07 pm: | |
I was in Dallas and a senior student nurse at Parkland Hosp. were they brought JFK to the ER. The news spread through the hospital like wildfire. I was working the 7-3 shift in OB. The city became instanly paralyzed. I took me hours to drive back to the dorm at the end of my shift. Traffic was at a stand still everwhere. The city was in an incredibly somber mood for months after. |
Nancy Janow
Citizen
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 643
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 5:28 pm: | |
Isn't it weird that 5 of the 20 posters (25%) were all in third grade in 1963? |
crazyguggenheim
Citizen
Username: Crazyguggenheim
Post Number: 198
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 5:43 pm: | |
The craziness of it all! |
emmie
Citizen
Username: Emmie
Post Number: 93
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 7:15 pm: | |
I hate it when I'm in a hurry! Of course I ment where not "were" and instantly not "intsanly" in my above post. Oh well, maybe if I had been in the third grade in 1963 instead of college I wouldn't make such mistakes now. |
us2innj
Citizen
Username: Us2innj
Post Number: 440
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 7:45 pm: | |
What did you mean by ment?  |
emmie
Citizen
Username: Emmie
Post Number: 94
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 8:44 pm: | |
us2, glad you had a good laugh, you probably needed it. |
us2innj
Citizen
Username: Us2innj
Post Number: 442
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 9:44 pm: | |
I just love when people attempt to correct on mistake and make another. A good laugh is always good for the sole. <snicker> |
emmie
Citizen
Username: Emmie
Post Number: 95
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 10:36 pm: | |
You mean you actually have a sole? The subject was about JFK!! Give me break, you are one of the reasons that so many will not post on MOL. Complete and total nastiness. |
Ed May
Citizen
Username: Edmay
Post Number: 991
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 11:22 pm: | |
I was in 6th grade at St. Catharine School in Glen Rock watching a Spanish lesson on TV. We switched to the news and the nuns had us pray for our "Catholic" president. I kept thinking that someone should lower the American Flag to half staff and eventually they did. We took the bus home at the usual time, but in silence. ON our street my mother and the other mothers were crying. I later watched Oswald get shot on our black and white TV set. Years later I visited the assassination site in Dallas and it gave me the weirdest feelings.
Ed May |
galileo
Citizen
Username: Galileo
Post Number: 77
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 12:26 am: | |
I was teaching school the day Kennedy died. My principal called a few of us out in the hall. He said Kennedy had been shot and wasn't expected to live. He told us not to tell the children. When we dismissed them we would just say to turn the radio on when they got home. There might be some important news. I guess he wanted to keep everything calm, but for me it was awful. I had to keep teaching and hold back the tears. We had just been in Washington for Veterans Day weekend and had seen Kennedy leave the White House to go to Arlington. It was so sad. JFK had a special charisma. |
us2innj
Citizen
Username: Us2innj
Post Number: 443
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 7:13 am: | |
Hey emmie, I think you have your knickers in a twist over nothing. I would suggest you lighten up. It was said as a joke, but I guess you have no sense of humor.
PS- I even misspelled "soul" intentionally, did you? |
kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 465
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 2:18 pm: | |
I was in ninth grade, Earth Science class, the last period of the day. They put the news on over the PA system. Most of us were just stunned, although one friend who idolized the Kennedys was in tears.
Weekend activities were cancelled. The next week, the school paper carried a rave review of the senior-class play that had never been performed.
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cfa
Citizen
Username: Cfa
Post Number: 736
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 6:49 pm: | |
I was probably in my playpen or something like that. Wait, did they have playpens back then? |
gretchen
Citizen
Username: Gretchen
Post Number: 27
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 7:23 pm: | |
I was not yet born, but the posts about 4 year-olds remembering their mother's tears give me chills--in 30 years will my 4 1/2 year old be saying she remembers my fear and tears on September 11?? |
compsy
Citizen
Username: Compsy
Post Number: 46
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 9:04 pm: | |
Kathy...Earth Science...does that mean you were in NYC schools, in the 3-year "SP" ??
I was in 9th grade, too, in Friday afternoon English. A rumor started buzzing around the room like wildfire, and the first thing that I heard was that
"Kenny D. was shot."
My initial reaction was,
"Who the hell is Kenny D.? Yet another popular personality that I don't know? God, I'm hopeless."
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John Holl
Citizen
Username: Jgh
Post Number: 96
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 9:05 am: | |
I was in 6th grade at Our Lady of Sorrows School in South Orange. We were watching a French (?) lesson on Channel 13 when the school principal came in and told us...we watched Walter Cronkite in silence the rest of the afternoon. |
kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 466
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 12:28 pm: | |
Compsy, No, I was upstate. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 522
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 5:23 pm: | |
I was in kindergarten at Moses Cleaveland Elementary School, in Cleveland, OH. They didn't tell us anything in school that I remember, but sent us home. All weekend long on TV, but it as over my 5-year old head and I just remember being annoyed that my favorite shows weren't on. |
patty
Citizen
Username: Patty
Post Number: 248
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 9:01 pm: | |
I was a HS freshman at an assembly where the Ft. Monmouth Army Band was performing. An announcement was made and we went back to homeroom while a very stricken band packed up and left.
During the weekend in front of the TV, I remember wearing my mother's cardigan, which still smelled of a peat fire in Ireland from her stay there a month earlier to see her sick father. (She had also worked tirelessly in JFK's campaign, and still has her framed inaugural invitation she never got to use.) When I smelled my first peat fire on a visit there years later, it was very bittersweet. |
jem
Citizen
Username: Jem
Post Number: 617
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 10:08 pm: | |
(Ooh. Another 9th grader checks in! I feel better now.) |
curmudgeon
Citizen
Username: Curmudgeon
Post Number: 700
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 10:20 pm: | |
Being a lowly 3rd-grader at the time, one of my strongest memories of the time is that all television programming...yes, ALL of it, all channels...was pre-empted for the 3 days between the assassination and the funeral. That was a hard thing for a 9 year-old to handle. |
patty
Citizen
Username: Patty
Post Number: 249
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 10:27 pm: | |
Jem, you rock.
(always knew) |
mooewe
Citizen
Username: Mooewe
Post Number: 112
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 11:24 pm: | |
I was 10, in 5th grade in Falls Church, VA. We were working quietly at our desks, when a teacher from across the hall came in and spoke quietly to our teacher. I distinctly remember my teacher putting her hand to her mouth and turning very pale. When I got home, my mother asked "Did you hear?"; I said yes, went to my room, and began to sob.
A few days later, at JFK's burial, a group of jets flew over Arlington Cemetary, which was only about 5 miles or so from my house. We looked out our back door and saw the jets pass over. |
barleyrooty
Citizen
Username: Barleyrooty
Post Number: 464
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 9:38 am: | |
I was a twinkle in my father's eye! |
jfburch
Citizen
Username: Jfburch
Post Number: 295
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 3:21 pm: | |
I was almost exactly nine months old and according to family lore, picked that day to start to walk. My folks had borrowed a TV to watch an upcoming football game and Mom had hired a babysitter so she could go do something. Babysitter called and asked if she was still going. She got the news, said No and turned on the TV and watched during which I got up and started toddling back and forth. Or something. |
gibbsgirl
Citizen
Username: Gibbsgirl
Post Number: 16
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 4:28 pm: | |
I was at Underhill Field practicing with the CHS band for Thanksgiving football game. |
randee
Citizen
Username: Randee
Post Number: 5
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, January 25, 2003 - 11:38 am: | |
Wow! Another 3rd garder! I was at The Milnes School, in Fairlawn, NJ. In '64 we moved to Maplewood.
We were sent home, and for the rest of the week I laid on my tummy tranfixed watching the whole thing on TV...
So whats with the 3rd grade thing?? |
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