| Author | Message | ||
     softparade Citizen Username: Softparade Post Number: 39 Registered: 8-2002 |
I was in school when we got the news at 1:00- and were all sent home. We then spent the next four days glued to a black and white tv. I am sitting in an office where 90% of the people were not even born and I wondered if any one else remembered.. or cared. | ||
| jem Citizen Username: Jem Post Number: 609 Registered: 5-2001 |
I was in high school. We weren't sent home, since the news at first was just that the President had been shot. We were all in a state of disbelief. I remember going into town after school (which ended at about 2:00) with a couple of other girls, and being in a local clothing store when the news came over the radio that Kennedy had died. I spent the rest of the weekend glued to the tv, like you, softparade. | ||
| jgberkeley Supporter Username: Jgberkeley Post Number: 2424 Registered: 5-2001 |
Middle school in a class on the rivers of the Middle East. An announcement over the speakers, everything just shut down and we went home. | ||
| sac Citizen Username: Sac Post Number: 552 Registered: 5-2001 |
I was in my first grade class. They piped the radio feed into our school's PA system. Then, when I went home and told my mother, she didn't believe me at first. Finally I got her to turn on the (small black & white) TV and it was on nearly constantly for the next three or four days. | ||
| Nancy Janow Citizen Username: Librarylady Post Number: 641 Registered: 5-2001 |
Every Friday at 2 we'd listen to a radio show (3rd grade). We were late turning it on and came in after the beginning. We thought that the show was about Lincoln's assination..it took a few minutes to realize that they were talking about JFK being shot. The teacher (Mrs. Campbell) ran screaming from the classroom to the principal's office le}aving 35 9 year olds alone in a class. The principal went on the intercom and dismissed the school early. No worry about school buses or lack of parents at home to receive the kids early. It was such an eerie walk home..small clusters of tall grownups talking in very muted tones and crying. The tv stayed on the entire weekend. | ||
| shoshannah Citizen Username: Shoshannah Post Number: 37 Registered: 7-2002 |
I, a four-year-old in Brooklyn, was in the beauty parlor with my mother. Someone came running into the shop with the news, and all the ladies (in rollers, under the dryer, smoking cigarettes in the chair)began screaming and crying. We went home and turned on the TV. In my four-year-old mind I couldn't understand why my mother was so upset if she never even met the man. | ||
| Soda Citizen Username: Soda Post Number: 817 Registered: 5-2001  |
I had just started running the half mile on the track outside my high school, as part of a gym fitness test. On a rise above the track where the student parking lot was, I noticed a small crowd of kids forming around Victor Cooperwasser's GTO, which had all its doors open. As I neared the turn closest to the lot, I heard the car's radio blaring. It wasn't music. I couldn't make out what was being said, but it was definitely a newscast. I kept running, but kept turning my head to watch as that crowd rapidly grew. As I approached the lot for the second time, I called out to ask Ronny Letzler what was happening. He called back, "Kennedy's been shot!" I left the track and raced up the hill to listen to the radio with the others. I don't remember if I ever finished that half mile. | ||
| mlj Citizen Username: Mlj Post Number: 137 Registered: 6-2001 |
Music class in high school. School played radio coverage over PA system. At first we didn't know what was going on. Then the teachers started crying. | ||
| Jerry Ryan Citizen Username: Gerardryan Post Number: 1020 Registered: 5-2001 |
I was two years old, and have no memory of it. I do remember RFK and MLK's deaths, but not JFK's. | ||
| us2innj Citizen Username: Us2innj Post Number: 439 Registered: 5-2001 |
I was in third grade at PS 207 in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn. After the Principal announced what happened, he put the radio broadcast on the PA system. My third grade teacher pretended to be cutting paper into the wastebasket. She was actually crying. We were dismissed early that Friday, and even though my piano teacher showed up at 3:30, I wasn't really up for a lesson. | ||
| nakaille Citizen Username: Nakaille Post Number: 1307 Registered: 5-2001 |
I was in 3rd grade. I guess they announced it over the PA. I remember lots of crying and then, like many of you, spent the next several days glued to the television. My mother photographed the casket and processional from the tv. I'm tearing up now just remembering. But I'm glad this thread was begun. Bacata | ||
| Joan Citizen Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 1172 Registered: 5-2001 |
I had just gotten home from college for the week and I was in the Greenpoint Savings Bank on Washington Avenue in Brooklyn when I heard the news. I immediately walked home and turned on the TV. | ||
| Redsox Citizen Username: Redsox Post Number: 136 Registered: 6-2002 |
was in parochial school, nuns took us over to church black & white tv on all weekend | ||
| Nohero Citizen Username: Nohero Post Number: 1168 Registered: 5-2001  |
I was 4, but I distinctly remember my mother crying in the living room, watching TV. | ||
| bobk Supporter Username: Bobk Post Number: 2314 Registered: 5-2001 |
I was a freshman in college and I had gone to my dorm room after lunch because I didn't have a two o'clock class. I was lying on my bed listening to the local rock station on the radio when the news came in. It is odd that I have very little further memory of that Thanksgiving week. I know I spent a lot of time in front of TVs and went back to NY for the holiday, but everything is a blur. Very strange. ...and on a lighter note: Gosh you all are young!!!!  | ||
| kap Citizen Username: Kap Post Number: 219 Registered: 5-2001 |
Third grade; Mrs Johnson's class. The assistant principal came in, whispered in her ear and left. SHe started to tell us the news and broke down and cried. I remember like it was yesterday. | ||
| sbenois Citizen Username: Sbenois Post Number: 753 Registered: 10-2001  |
I was with my sister and a very mysterious looking man on the grassy knoll | ||
| steel Citizen Username: Steel Post Number: 122 Registered: 2-2002 |
My 50-something brother was in his company cafeteria recently telling a co-worker that he didn't think he could ever date a woman who couldn't at least remember how Kennedy died. A 20-something woman at the next table turned and said, "that's easy, he was killed in a plane crash". | ||
| Soda Citizen Username: Soda Post Number: 820 Registered: 5-2001 |
I'd never marry a woman who couldn't find New Jersey on a map of the USA. | ||
| annettedepalma Citizen Username: Annettedepalma Post Number: 207 Registered: 11-2001 |
I was also 4, coloring and watching my mother wax the kitchen floor. I remember the radio station interrupted its programming with the news, then my mother just broke down sobbing, and ran to turn the TV on. To this day, the smell of floor wax or the sight of green linoleum brings me right back to that moment. Don't worry, bobk, we're all catching up! |
