On this date...

[Oldgringo]

Anybody remember where they were and what they were doing on this date in 1963?

[RPB]

yup, I was riding my bicycle home from school as fast as my feet could pedal while crying because the teacher talked like the United States was going to end and everyone die and planes might bomb my house before I got home to warn my parents. (Same teacher was great because if you didn't do your homework, you could ask where Communists lived and she'd pull down a big map with all the areas marked red and spend the whole day discussing it and not ask for your homework, we'd only get by with that two times a week at most though.)

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[stroguy]

Crapping my diaper. Born July 1963 in Bethesda Naval Horsepital

[3dfxMM]

Where? Kindergarten. What? I have no idea.

[USA1]

Waiting to be conceived.

[The Annoyed Man]

6th grade classroom, La Fetra Elementary School, Glendora, California. The principle came to the door of the classroom, and the teacher went and met him there. He spoke to her in a low voice, and she burst into tears. If his being there hadn't gotten our attention yet, that surely did. Then she got control of herself, he left, and she turned to the class and said these exact words: "Children, the President has been shot."

There was a big black & white TV on a rolling stand over in the corner. She dragged it to the front of the class, and we spent the rest of that morning watching the events unfold on TV. Anyway, I remember those first words of hers as clear as a bell. I remember clearly as we watched the TV, Walter Cronkite tearfully announcing that Kennedy had passed.

Later, we had been let out for a recess, and we were standing in two lines waiting for the teacher to let us back into the classroom—girls in one line, boys in the other. One of the girls started sobbing and said outloud, "Poor Mrs. Kennedy!" One of the smartalec boys countered with "Poor Mr. Kennedy!" About 3 other boys chuckled at that, but they all got shut down right away. I know that the rest of us were very worried about what was to come next. I think that "scared that our country was ending" would be an accurate description. As children, we didn't really have a concept yet of a line of succession. All we knew was that the President was sort of "the nation's father," and now he was dead.

[Diesel42]

What TAM said.... x2

I was in 1st grade at Casa View Elementary in Dallas. Mr. Hargraves came to each classroom and told the teachers. Mrs. Gillian told us that the President had been shot while driving through downtown. He was taken to Parkland and no one knows what will happen. We prayed. They let us go home at lunch for the rest of the day. Mom told me and my brothers that we need to remember everything that happens on TV, because this was History happening.

Immediately shocked, I became dis-interested by dinner. I still have the newspaper clippings and the special photo album the Dallas Morning News published after the funeral.

(Sigh)
Nick

[Middle Age Russ]

The historically significant events of that day were lost on me since I was less than three weeks old. I have been told that my only interests at that time were eating, sleeping and having my diaper changed.

[PBratton]

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death." - JFK

[MoJo]

I was a Senior in High School in Spanish class. We got the news over the PA system right after lunch.

[The Mad Moderate]

My mom was not yet born in 63.

[Divided Attention]

My mom was not yet born in 63.

I don't know if I should or as I could be your mother!

[Tamie]

Anybody remember where they were and what they were doing on this date in 1963?

You can't prove I was in Dallas. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[Oldgringo]

My mom was not yet born in 63.

How about your daddy?

[The Annoyed Man]

Anybody remember where they were and what they were doing on this date in 1963?

You can't prove I was in Dallas. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Good one.