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Where were you at 1pm EST on that day?

As a high school sophomore - and member of the Young Republicans - 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. After his remarks, we returned to school.

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
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Walking down the hallway at school, someone came out of a classroom and said president Kennedy has been shot - it didn't register for a minute, then all I could think of was is he still alive. A short lived hope. What a time those years were.
 
I was a freshman walking across the quadrangle at Northeastern University in Boston when I heard... Saw the Oswald shooting on TV at the fraternity house where I was staying.
 
16 years old, walking across the Madera High School campus between classes. To this day he remains the only President I have seen in person and shook hands with.
 
Four years and a couple of weeks before I was born. My father was in Washington on a training assignment for the Dept. of the Treasury from his usual work in New York. After the assasination, my mother wanted to be with my father, so my grandfather drove her from New York to D.C.

My father had been given a 35mm camera by Treasury as part of his training assignment. He took color slide pictures of the Kennedy funeral procession that we still have. The slides (as most do) have preserved the colors very well over the years.

One of my employees lived on Capitol Hill and the line to view Kennedy's body went past his house. He remembers his mother cooking soup and sharing it with the mourners.
 
Just 6, so probably in school. I don't recall the actual events of the day, although I'm sure there were disruptions and kids sent home. But I do remember watching the funeral procession a few days later in the small black and white set my parents had in the basement rec room. Gets hard though knowing what is an actual memory from that time and what has been built over the years from seeing various anniversary and other rebroadcasts after being that young at the time.
 
Corpus Christi; Cullen Jr. High; home early; watched TV coverage. Image that sticks is of John-John's salute when the caisson passed.

Like others, otherwise memory's blurred.
 
I was working a construction site, we were building a chemical processing plant in Burlington New Jersey. When that news hit us, the whole job shut down. There was total silence which seemed like an eternity. Then we all left and went home, about a hundred workers. PJ
 
Recess in 8th grade. Male teacher came outside and sat beside me on the sidewalk. Told me what had happened. They sent us home early.

Saturday and Sunday I spent with a spade and wheelbarrow, digging the footer for our two-stall, detached garage-to-be. Dad had been indoors watching the tellie when Oswald was shot, came outside and told me of that.

Quite a time.
 
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