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November 22 1963. 61 years ago. I happened to be home sick from school that day and remember the news of the terrible event playing out on live TV news as it happened.

Coincidentally, it was 9 years later, to the day, that I was raising my right hand enlisting in the Air Force.
 
I remember it too. I was in junior high school in the library. I remember hearing the news on a transistor radio that the librarian was listening to.
 
Our high school political club went downtown (Fort Worth) to hear JFK speak at a welcome ceremony, then went back to class (Paschal High School). After lunch I was in social studies class, when Mr. Berry the principal patched in local radio to all the classroom speakers.

We heard the horror reports - and we were just 30 miles away. From "three shots were fired" to "President Kennedy died at 1pm central standard time".
 
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3 years out of the Navy on a job in Atlantic City NJ, went out to the boardwalk to eat lunch and heard it announced on the radio. Gave my lunch to the seagulls and went home. Devastating day for sure!
 
I was in my HS art class, when the teacher came in crying.
 
I was first grade. Have to admit I didn't understand the significance of what was going on, just knew a couple days off from school. I do remember a few days later watching the move of the body from the White House to the Capitol to lie in state. I've seen that video as broadcast since then, compared to today, you can hardly tell what's going on the detail is so light.
 
I also vividly remember coming home from Sunday School and seeing Jack Ruby shoot Oswald live on TV. As a child that was frightening to me.
 
I was 2 weeks from my entry into the world. Never thought to ask my parents if they worried about what they about to bring a child into.
 
Gliderman8 said:
I also vividly remember coming home from Sunday School and seeing Jack Ruby shoot Oswald live on TV. As a child that was frightening to me.
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Elliott - I remember watching that live on TV with mom and dad. Dad said it was the first live coast-to-coast broadcast of a murder.
 
NutmegCT said:
Elliott - I remember watching that live on TV with mom and dad. Dad said it was the first live coast-to-coast broadcast of a murder.
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I’m confident that it was and, no delay in the live broadcast. It happened so quickly that the technology didn’t exist to keep it from being broadcast.
 
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