Posted 2013-11-22 8:24 AM Subject: JFK...it DOES NOT seem like 50 yrs ago he was shot
Living on the edge of common sense
Posts: 24138 Location: Carpenter, WY
I remember being in the 5th or 6th grade and the teachers wheeling in a TV with tears running down their cheeks when it happened. Dad came home from his job at the post office early, mom stayed home from her evening job as a waitress and we were glued to our little black and white TV with the 14" screen.
Posted 2013-11-22 8:29 AM Subject: RE: JFK...it DOES NOT seem like 50 yrs ago he was shot
BHW's Lance Armstrong
Posts: 11134 Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint
I was in 1st grade in old lady McGoverns class sitting towards the back of the class in the 2nd row and Mrs Voyt the speech therapist teacher came into class crying and telling us the president had been shot and killed. Classes 1-4 were in the same room in the mornings.
Posted 2013-11-22 8:42 AM Subject: RE: JFK...it DOES NOT seem like 50 yrs ago he was shot
"Heck's Coming With Me"
Posts: 10794 Location: Kansas
I remember walking into the school hallway and hearing a young man making the cavalier remark "Has Kennedy kicked the bucket yet?" I didn't have a clue what he was talking about until the message came over the speakers in the hallway that President Kennedy had been killed. I was horrifed. The days that followed were grim with visitors filing by the casket in the Rotunda at the Capitol Building and the funeral procession with the white horses and caisson. The whole nation was in mourning. We lost a beautiful man and a great President.
Posted 2013-11-22 12:50 PM Subject: RE: JFK...it DOES NOT seem like 50 yrs ago he was shot
Expert
Posts: 1956 Location: Ky
I was in the 2nd grade. I remember the 2nd grade teacher in the classroom next to our's came running in screaming that the president had been shot.
They sent us home from school and we thought that was pretty neat. Nothing on TV when we got hom but that. We were watching when Ruby shot Oswald. As a 7 year old I remember not really knowing what to make of it all. I do remember all the adults were just beside themselves with grief and worry.
Posted 2013-11-22 1:50 PM Subject: RE: JFK...it DOES NOT seem like 50 yrs ago he was shot
Texas Tenderheart
Posts: 6715 Location: Red Raiderland
I wasn't born yet but having lived in the Dallas area all my life my parent's have taken many visitors down to Dealey Plaza and retraced the motorcade route to Parkland Hospital. You can always point to where the Texas Book Depository window was, from where Oswald shot. The area is very pretty, especially the grassy knoll. Dallas is a very clean city so if you every get a chance to come down and see the memorial to Kennedy, it's definitely worth it. There are other things to see and do downtown so it is worth the trip. Good restaurants around there, too, at the West End. I took my teenaged niece and her best friend down there a couple of years ago and my niece was extremely bored but her friend was quite intriged. Maybe my niece will appreciate it more when she is more mature, I know I was. We used to go to downtown Dallas a few times a year when I was a kid and Dallas was so safe and clean that when we were done seeing the sights, like the Kennedy Memorial, during the day we would go to a restaurant, usually the Old Spaghetti Warehouse and then spend and hour walking the downtown streets of Dallas. It was beautiful. I don't think it is safe enough now but it is safe to be down by the memorial during the day.
JFK...it DOES NOT seem like 50 yrs ago he was shot
