JFK; where were you on that day?

[Dennis1209]

It's one of those events that you never forget. I was in sixth grade and in the gym when they piped the news reports over the PA system standing next to the stage. Some events (such as 9/11) get seared in your brain for life.

[whitewolf001]

It's one of those events that you never forget. I was in sixth grade and in the gym when they piped the news reports over the PA system standing next to the stage. Some events (such as 9/11) get seared in your brain for life.

That one I can tell you exactly where I was at, I was in Machine Shop in my freshmen year of high school when all of a sudden the teacher got a phone call and he turned on the news. Shortly thereafter kids from all over the school were getting pulled left and right.

[Grand Torino]

I was in 9th grade in my Algebra I class. It was a terrible time watching all the girls crying the rest of the day.

[frankmako]

I was in school. We got the rest of the day off. Teachers were upset some. But us kids were not. We just got the rest of the day off.

[caliperman]

I was 21, and in the USAF, stationed in Izmir Turkey.

[greenego]

10 years old in 4th grade. We just came in from lunch time recess. Teacher came in the room and made the announcement.

[Motasyco]

We weren't told anything at school.  My mom had it on the TV when I got home from school.  I remember running outside to tell a couple of my friends. 

[DaveS]

Sitting in class watching the news report on TV, and I remember my teacher crying.

 

DaveS

[Oh Shoot]

.....

What surprises me the most is how much the democratic party has changed. .... What's happened to them?

 

Maybe just don't get enough strange nookie, so have to screw the populous. LBJ probably hadn't been laid since his 40's. Carter, well, c'mon. Slick Willy tried to complete, but never got past unseeded amateur status compared to JFK.

 

- OS

[Garufa]

Slick Willy tried to complete, but never got past unseeded amateur status compared to JFK.

 

And got impeached for it to boot.

[Oh Shoot]

And got impeached for it to boot.

 

Yeah, how times change. JFK was even balling an East German spy, one reason J. Edgar Hoover was able to usurp even more power by holding it as blackmail over the party.

 

- OS

[Erik88]

Do we know for a fact he was screwing around, or is it still speculation? I heard he had a fling with Marilyn too. Jackie was a good looking woman, surprising that he would have the urge. Then again, maybe it isn't. 

 

I wasn't around so I'm just curious.

[-boatman-]

I was in class, second grade. I still remember very well someone coming into the classroom and telling us he had been shot.


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[Oh Shoot]

Do we know for a fact he was screwing around, or is it still speculation?....

 

Quite well documented from countless memoirs from politicos and newsmen. He was quite the cocksman, and no way that Jackie was not in the know about at least some of it. She was just as much a "politician's wife" as Hildebeest in that regard.

 

- OS

[Patton]

There are books written by exsecret service agents that worked full time just to keep the first ladies from finding out about the girlfriends.

[No_0ne]

November 22, 1963, 

That's the day everybody is supposed to remember where they was.

I was working in a school book depository in Dallas Texas.  Halton Mifflin had just come out with that new math and they had them real thick math books; It's hard to pick them math book boxes up by yourself and I told them Ya'll gotta get somebody in here to help me with them boxes.  They hired a fella named Harvey, something.  I can't think of his name.  Anyway, he'd been in the Marine Corp and I of course in the Navy for five years and he kept braggin about what great shot your Marine Corp was as opposed to your Naval forces.  I said "I tell you what you little pinko commie bastard, this afternoon at lunch I want you go back to your boarding house and bring back your rifle.  I got two tickets to the Texas theater says you can't hit that manhole cover down there by that grassy knoll.  You know he cracked off four shots, DAMN if the president of the United States didn't happen to drive by at that exact moment.  We felt bad about that.

 

 

 

 

 

Tim WIlson, Uncle BS.  

... good to know there's another Tim Wilson fan here...

[No_0ne]

N/M, double post.

Edited November 24, 2013 by No_0ne

[safeandsecure]

At the barn, tending some calves.  Got called to the house, and watched news until milking time. Back to the news after milking.

 

I well remember how it affected everyone, especially the folks of my parents' generation. It was a personal loss, a very deep grief for the older folks; I thought of JFK's death, and how it hit everyone during the 9/11 attacks, when I went through the emotions of that.  Maybe it's not a very good comparison for most, but it was for me.

 

Somehow, events like these two gets into the deepest parts of us, makes us aware of our own mortality, and causes us to question so many things ... and then there's this spark, this little ... something ... that just rips your heart out.  With JFK, it was John-John saluting his father's coffin.  With 9/11, for me, it was the faces of the firefighters, that "look" that seemed to say "we're not coming out of this one." 

[daddyo]

I was in fourth grade at Ducktown Elementary School in Ducktown, TN. The principal announced over the loudspeaker that President Kennedy had been shot. The teacher, Mrs. Stella Chancey, was so upset she had to leave the room.

[Sam1]

I was but a glimmer of life inside my father's testes.

[Dennis1209]

Hildebeest, noun, <democrat>:  The act of consuming a minimum of a twelve pack of 5% beer and supplying two large paper sacks. The later, in case of a "Hildebeest" break or malfunction. The 5% brew to painfully sear in your memory the "Hildebeest" and plausible deniability.