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I just watched the PBS special on how TV news "came of age" during the horrible time of the JFK assassination.

Fantastic work in putting that documentary together. Much film footage I'd never seen before. Unfortunately the sound deteriorated for the last 30 minutes of the broadcast here. Wonder if that happened anywhere else?

The show brought back incredible memories and surges of emotion for me. As a high school sophomore in Fort Worth, I had gone downtown with some friends the morning of the 22nd and had heard JFK speak after his breakfast at the Texas Hotel - before he was to leave for Dallas.

At about 12:30 that afternoon, during Ms Wilkerson's World History class, our Latin teacher raced down the hallway yelling "Dallas should be kicked out of Texas, or Texas will have to secede from the Union". We all thought she was nuts, but just then the principal came on the PA system, and said "I think you should all hear this". He then patched in the CBS radio coverage of the horror taking place just 30 miles east of us.

At the same time, my mother was visiting a friend in the hospital, and some idiot in the hall yelled "they shot the president; hooray for Dallas". My mother immediately jumped up and screamed "don't you realize that man was a father, and now his wife and children are alone?"

For the next three days, we were all alone.

Many sad memories.

Tom
 
One of those landmark moments in life.
I remember our grade school teacher wheeling
in a (Black & White)TV,to let us view.

- Doug
 
THAT was the day the music died, IMO. Childhood's end. The world became a place less of wonder, more of suspicion after that day.
 
Well said, I agree.

Our teacher left the classroom after an announcement on the PA system by the Principal, and returned with tears in her eyes. Everyone was told to go home. We were scared, but didn't know what happened.

When I arrived home, my Mom was fighting back tears. I had never seen her cry until then! The TV was on with Walter Cronkite going on about the tragedy. My father was speechless, couldn't believe it. As a fellow WWII Navy combat vet, he thought the world of JFK.

Everyone was sad for days: the unspeakable had happened.

God knows what Kennedy may have accomplished. Bobby, too.
 
DrEntropy said:
THAT was the day the music died, IMO. Childhood's end. The world became a place less of wonder, more of suspicion after that day.
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That is the feeling I had when the word came to the English Lit class I was in.

The great years of childhood while our nation thrived as it came back from the war years and I felt people really cared about each other. I have never felt that trust and security since.
 
11/22 this year will mark 35 years since I joined the Air Force (retired at 24 years)
 
I remember seeing him when his motorcade stopped in front of our high school. Just like on TV, a slight bend in his back and his hand in his pocket. That was 1962.

On the day he was shot, I was a junior in high school sitting in english class when the news came. Very much surprised when the teacher upon hearing the news, remarked "About time someone got that SOB!" What a shock. Just reminds me that not everyone then held him in such high regard.
 
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