Where were you when you found out JFK had been shot?

[WI_DEM]

I was born in March, 1964, but my mom was washing the kithen floor and listening to the radio when the music was interrupted to announce the first bulletin that shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in Dallas.

[evlbstrd]

1. In Catholic school.

The nuns cried. So did I.

[spanone]

42. We all did. I remember it well. The janitor cried.

St Simon's grade school

[Oak2004]

114. I was in St. Simon's School at that moment as well

though most likely not the same St. Simon's (mine was in a Slovak/Polish/Lithuanian neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago). The tears, I'm sure, were the same everywhere.

It's odd to think back on that world. It was in so many ways such a different time from today, in both good and bad ways.

[eridani]

116. St Teresa High, in assembly

No one could believe it! We went home early that day.

[blue neen]

2. Sitting in the second row from the windows, in the third grade classroom

of Mrs. Crawford, Apollo Elementary School. I shall never, ever forget it.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

3. Smaks Burger Bar

On Independence Ave., in Kansas City.

With my folks. I was four and a half, and I do remember it. Everybody was really acting weird . . . .

[evlbstrd]

117. Smaks!

Seal burgers!

[CrazyOrangeCat]

121. absolutely!

:D

[rzemanfl]

4. Geometry class. n/t

[TahitiNut]

5. Attending a Jesuit college in Mobile, Alabama.

I was a ROTC student and was supposed to have a ROTC class that afternoon. I wandered in to the ROTC building and encountered lifer NCOs in tears. That's how I found out. I went a few blocks off campus over to my father's barbershop, where one of the good ol' boys said "It's about time somebody shot that son of a bitch." There was some agreement. :puke:

For me, it was incredibly tragic. During my prior two years at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, I had the chance to be a sideboy (on the Eagle) for JFK at the end of the '62 Summer cruise as he reviewed the ship at the Navy Yard in D.C. I got to see him about 18" in front of me. :patriot:

[DemoTex]

84. Spring Hill? My dad did research there in the early 1950s.

He was working on his PhD in entomology at Auburn and did short research projects at Spring Hill College. I was born at the Mobile Infirmary in 1948, and we lived there (on Dog River), off-and-on, for a few years.

Me? I was in Mrs. Shappard's 10th grade geometry class when JFK was killed. I remember stories of parties that night at the country club. My family stayed at home and grieved in front of a crystal-clear 30" black-and-white Capehart TV. For days ..

[TahitiNut]

87. Yup Spring Hill College.

It was a pretty decent school except for the 'community' ... at that time (1963-64). I enjoyed the Jebbies tremendously - most of them. Academically rigorous, to say the least.

On weekends, when I wasn't studying or baby-sitting for my half-sister, I went water-skiing in the Mobile River bayous and swimming at Gulf Shores and eating red snapper on the Causeway. Anything but stay downwind of the pulp mill. (Yech.)

[DemoTex]

88. Is that Barbara Jordan (D-TX)?

Yes, Spring Hill was academically rigorous. Glad to hear we have a few more things in common. It explains a lot.

[TahitiNut]

91. It is, indeed. She's one of my 'heros' - I was in awe of her.

We're kin, Mac. :hug: (Which means you can bust my chops, too.) :silly:

That little half-sister I used to baby-sit is now a 50-year-old and successful Chief Counsel of a large company headquartered in Altanta. It's funny - thinking of when she was a hyperactive kid chugging RC Colas and driving me nutso.

[DemoTex]

96. My long-lost older brother!

I flew Barbara Jordan several times after she retired from Congress: Always in the Learjet 55 (the Lear's entry steps were easier for her, as opposed to the Lockheed JetStar's). She was such a fine person, and such a fine member of the US Congress at a time it needed almost 400 more just like her.

I have had the distinct pleasure of gazing into her sincere eyes as I shook her fine hand, and saying softly to her "thank you for that speech in 1974 .. thank you for pushing the impeachment of that Nixon monster!"

Then she put her life into my hands. My hands! And I flew off into the sun with the Great Barbara Jordan on my Learjet. It gets no better. Her 1996 death was devastating. Same kick-in-the-gut as Molly Ivin's.

[TahitiNut]

100. That kind of memory is a priceless treasure.

The truly great and graceful - realizing our human potential - are rare beings. She was one of those.

[Joe for Clark]

6. I was 6 years old and trying to understand why my parents

were crying like that.

Scared me. That was the ONLY time I ever saw my father cry. Even when my brother got killed.

Joe

[durtee librul]

7. 7th grade french class

Teachers didn't believe it at first - told us kids not to get upset that it was probably a mistake. 20 minutes later, the principal came to the room crying and said he had died and we were all going to be sent home.

Got home and my mother was crying in front of the teebee. My dad cancelled the rest of his appointments for the day and came home. We were glued to the tv for the next few days in utter disbelief this had happened in our great nation.

[nevergiveup]

8. I was sitting in an Education 101

class at Western Illinois University.

[ikojo]

30. I thought Macomb Illinois was boring in the 1980s

when I briefly attended Western....what was it like in the early 1960s?!

[nevergiveup]

89. I didn't consider it boring

but I was a country boy back then and it didn't have to be very rambunctious for me to consider it exciting. I graduated before the turbulent part of the 60's began so I am not sure how involved the student body became in protests etc. All in all Western has always been and still is considered rather conservative.

[Dr.Phool]

9. I was a school safety patrol guard.

One of the kids who stood out there and held the crossing flag.

They let us out of school early, but didn't tell us why. Somebody told me why about 10 minutes later.

[Speck Tater]

10. In my Air Force Barracks ironing a shirt. In San Antonio TX (nt)

[la la]

11. In Inglewood, CA

in our first apartment--3939 102nd St, Hollywood Park Plaza ---the place now has a big fence with razor wire topping it.

Just a comment on how other things change.......

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

12. Sitting in my 6th grade classroom, just after returning to school

from lunch break.

One of my classmates was late getting back and she was trying to tell Sister Malachy that President Kennedy had been shot. Needless to say good ole Sister Malachy didn't take the news very well. She had the ruler out ready to strike when the school principal came over the PA system and told us all to assemble in the parish church to pray for the President.

I remember everything about that day from that moment on, even though it happened 43 years ago.

[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

13. I do not have an alibi. EOM

[Canuckistanian]

46. LOL!

Then tell the court what you were doing on that day.

:rofl:

[americanstranger]

14. 2nd grade Social Studies, right after lunch, in Levittown PA.

My teacher, Mrs. Berryman, hushed the class and announced to us that JFK had been shot and killed in Dallas.

The kid behind me said, 'Well, that makes three,' referring to the fact that JFK was the third president to be assassinated.

Mrs. Berryman sent him to the principal's office for being a wiseass.

- as

[Art_from_Ark]

92. Kennedy was #4

Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley were assassinated before him.

[americanstranger]

93. Maybe that's why he got sent to the principal.

Mrs. Berryman was a tough teacher. :)

- as

[Art_from_Ark]

98. Sounds like my 2nd grade teacher

She paddled 5 or 6 boys for playing "Super Bowl" during recess. Yikes! ;(

[ronnykmarshall]

15. I was 2 years old

So I really have no memory of it.

[RC]

16. Standing on a pier in San Diego

[uppityperson]

17. Lunch.

[aquart]

18. Changing classes in high school.

[asjr]

19. At my office in KC, Ks and heard

it on the radio.

[cspanlovr]

20. In 5th grade, Catholic school in NYC.

I was collecting the crayons to be put back in the storage bin. It was "art" day. My teacher (a nun) cried her eyes out.

[kevinmc]

I remember my Mom was Ironing.....

and watching TV and she started crying. I was 4.

[blues90]

21. In gym class freshman in high school

They announced this over the intercom as we sat on the floor of the locker room . A day I will never forget .

[DUgosh]

22. I saw it on BBC

At our home off base in Wilstead England, my Dad was stationed at Chicksands. I told my folks and they refused to believe me and told me to stop making things up.

[anitar1]

23. Cleaning my kitchen when a neighbor called with the news.

I turned on the radio and listened in disbelief. then went to the nearby school to pick up my 2 children and bring them home. It was a nightmare.But by the next day I began to wonder who was behind it.

[Gabi Hayes]

24. Where were you when Arlen Specter rolled out the Single Bullet Theory?

That was as important as the murder itself. It put the official seal on the coup that occurred a few months earlier.

[Lerkfish]

25. too young, I remember the funeral, though.

I was 5, but I distinctly remember the horse drawn carriage and the flag-draped coffin on black and white tv. I remember because my mom was balling her eyes out, and I asked what was wrong, and she said "they killed our president".

I think it made an indelible impression because she was crying so badly, and I didn't remember seeing her cry before.

[americanstranger]

31. I remember 'mourning music' being played on the radio all that weekend.

That music scared me. It was not like anything I'd ever heard to that point.

[Lerkfish]

34. that sounds about right. But my only certain memory is that image on TV

I remember also wondering why the horses were going so SLOW, having seen plenty of westerns when the horse carriage goes really really fast.

[ikojo]

26. My mom was probably holding me or

pushing me in a cart. She told me she was at Sears when she heard Kennedy had been shot. I was five months old at the time.

[shadowknows69]

27. In my previous life

don't remember much about it.

[doc03]

28. In 6th period Biology class they announced over the

intercom that he had been shot. In my next class Geometry they announced that he had died. I remember some of the kids that came from Republican families made remarks like good riddance or joked about it. Back then there seemed to be as much hate for JFK as there was during for Bill Clinton when he was in office.

[Hippo_Tron]

85. Out of curiosity where did you live at the time?

JFK was extremely popular for a peacetime President (60-70% approval ratings) and so I've always wondered from what regions of the country his critics came from and what their issues with him were.

[doc03]

90. I am in eastern Ohio, although this was Union

country at the time and is still heavily Democratic, we have a good many old Quaker farm families that are staunch Republicans and racists. I think the main reason there was such hate for the man other than just being a Democrat I suppose was because he was a Catholic. On an overpass on I-70 someone painted "Vote White Vote Republican" way back in the 60's and it was there until they rebuilt the overpass just few years ago. The Republicans always hate the Democratic Presidents but I think JFK and the Clintons are tops on their list.

[ljm2002]

29. It's not November -- is this a trick question? n/t

[WI_DEM]

33. yes, a trick question.

[Jonathan50]

32. Nineth grade, home from school sick that day...Alone.

Was watching TV trying to keep from being bored to death (only three channels with no children's programs).

[brook]

35. In a shoe store..

at 81st, East of Madison, NYC. They had a TV on. Walking home, the city seemed hushed. People looked stunned. We lived in a hotel apartment and many of the staff were Irish. They were crying in the elevator, the halls, the lobby. It was surreal...and stayed that way for several days.

[EST]

36. Class change, I was walking into fourth period English class

and there was my teacher at the entrance, pounding the wall, crying. She managed to gasp out that the president had been shot.
South Charleston high school-tenth grade, South Charleston, West Virginia.

[AngryOldDem]

37. In my crib, taking a nap n/t

[mnhtnbb]

38. 7th grade English class. They announced it over the PA. I walked

home and asked my Mom and visiting grandmother if they'd heard. When they said, 'Heard what?' I told them the President had been assassinated. My mom, the Republican, replied "It's about time".

At that moment I knew I could never be like my mother.

I was the only one of my family (one brother, Mom, Dad) glued to the TV set all weekend.

Chatham, NJ.

[Hippo_Tron]

86. What did they dislike about JFK?

And what part of the country did you live in at the time? I'm curious about those who didn't like him considering he was extremely popular.

[WorldResident]

115. Before his assassination his approval was in the 50s

Though anyone who took glee in his assassination has to comparge to anyone celebrating right after 9/11, to put it in modern terms.

[leeroysphitz]

39. The Guf. nt

[stillcool]

40. catholic school...

we got out early. The memory gets mixed up with a hurricane when we were sent home from school as well. Same kind of feeling...people were freaked.

[SaveElmer]

41. In a high chair most likely...

I was only 2...however I do remember where I was when RFK and MLK were assasinated...I remember my Mother being extremely upset!!!!

[Canuckistanian]

43. Back home from Kindergarten

Watching a soap opera (Search for Tomorrow?) while my mother was ironing.

I understood who Kennedy was and what big news it was to become (not bad for 5 years old, huh?).

The next few hours, all of us were glued to the TV.

[Horse with no Name]

44. I was 8 months old

My mom said she was watching "As the World Turns" when she found out.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

45. Teaching a class in Alaska.

In a relatively remote school to boot. News travelled fast, though.

[PCIntern]

47. Fifth grade Quaker School

The Third Grade teacher was ecstatic. Couldn't hide her joy. My teacher was an ex-WAC who was one of those tough-but-fair gals. She was so upset she was shaking.

My Mom stayed with her and they talked and talked. When I got home, the casket was exiting the plane. Who knows who or what, if anything, was in it at the time.

[ms liberty]

48. Sitting in front of the TV...

watching "As The World Turns" and coloring in my coloring book, while my mommy washed windows. I was just over 4 years old, and I remember it very clearly. I yelled out, "Mommy, mommy they shot the President!" and I was crying.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

49. 8th Grade at North Junior High School, Colorado Springs

My Science class was cancelled and were were herded into a large study hall where we got the news over the P.A. system. The next hour, I went to my regular History Class, but all we did was listen to the radio broadcast over the school P.A. and cry. I can remember the full names and faces of everyone who sat around me on that day, as though it happened just a couple of years ago.

[Blue_In_AK]

97. Hey, guess what?

I went to North Junior High School in Colorado Springs for a year, only I was a few years before you, 1958-59. Then they built Horace Mann and I transferred there for eighth and ninth grade.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

101. A fellow Viking! You didn't happen to go to Steele Elementary, did you?

I think the 3 best years of my life were the ones I spent in Colorado Springs back in the early 60s (except for the terrible day in November).

And I did my 9th grade in Arkansas.

[Blue_In_AK]

104. Yes, the Vikings.

I was thinking it was Vikings at Horace Mann, but we were the Lancers there, now that I think about it. In Colorado Springs, I went to Lincoln Elementary in fourth and fifth grade and Katherine Lee Bates in sixth. Then North Junior for a year, then Horace Mann for two. My older brother went to Palmer High School, which was called Colorado Springs High School at the time since it was the only high school in the city. Wasson was built while I was in junior high, but I never went there because we moved up to Woodland Park where I did the first half of my sophomore year, and then we moved to Pasadena, Texas, because my dad got a job at NASA working on the Apollo project. ... Talk about your culture shock! From beautiful, pristine (at least back then) Woodland Park, Colorado, to Stinkadena, Texas. :(

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

106. I played softball against both Lincoln and Bates

I was shortstop on the 6th grade softball team. I know what you mean about the pristine and beautiful Rocky Mountains. My dad was career Air Force and transferred in 1961 to Colorado Springs for 3 years while he worked on the Cheyenne Mountain project. He rented a beautiful old Victorian two-storey house on Nevada Avenue. The rent??? $50, yes FIFTY dollars a month back in 1961. I can sarecely believe it now. The owner wanted to sell him the house, too, and the asking price was $14,000 but he said he would go down to $10 grand, as he was anxious to move away. My dad couldn't afford it on his officer's salary. And President Kennedy visited Colorado Springs just a few months before he was assassinated. His motorcade drove right down Nevada Avenue in front of my house. I remember his convertible stopping right in front of where I lived and he rose up to acknowledge a big sign that said "Welcome, Mr. President". Half the town turned out to see him and were lined up along Nevada Avenue for miles.

[TroglodyteScholar]

50. History class... n/t

[Staph]

51. In New York City

My dad was interviewing for a job, and Mom was driving us around Manhattan (going the wrong way down one-way streets. Mom is a West Virginia country girl at heart). When he got back in the car, Dad said that he heard a rumor in the elevator that the President had been shot. He turned on the radio, and we heard the funeral music. On the street, you could see people gathering around car windows, listening to the news. I thought that the world had ended. I was nine years old.

[EVDebs]

52. At recess on the schoolyard during fourth grade

We called the kid who ran up and said JFK'd just been shot a friggin liar.

[SoCalDem]

53. Roosevelt-Lincoln Junior High.. 2nd floor landing in the Lincoln building

Changing classes, headed for Algebra class. I was with Debi Bass, Sue Buchman and Lyndall Haines. We heard the PA announcement that said.."The president of the US, John F Kennedy, has been shot in Dallas. Please go immediately to your classrooms. It was cold and sleeting outside...and aftre the first reaction, there was complete silence except for the sound of feet racing for classrooms..

but then I was just a kid..not a CIA agent like GHWB who does not remember where HE was :eyes:

[whathappened]

54. study hall

flushing senior high , flushing michigan,class of 65

[BoneDaddy]

55. four years before conception

[Zoigal]

56. JFK

Teaching a first grade class in CA. A parent walked into the classroom and told me.

[Kingofalldems]

57. Latin class

Latin II to be exact. 10th grade. The teacher had a radio and we listened the whole period.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

58. 8th grade at Sacred Heart School

Our teacher was a nun, we prayed, listened to the radio, and then were sent home.

[Subdivisions]

59. I had actually just been conceived...Mom discovered she was

pregnant with me just one week prior to JFK's assasination.

[EndElectoral]

60. 5th grade. Heard it over the speaker. They let us out. Walked home in shock.

[sandyd921]

61. Home sick

I was in 8th grade and at home sick. I was watching a soap opera at the time the "special bulletin" came on.

[EFerrari]

62. At recess in my gender segregated Catholic school playground.

The nuns went into a huddle and started crying.

Edit: I was in second grade and almost 7 yrs old. We stood and prayed until the news confirmed he had died. Then we went to a school Mass.

[saracat]

63. 2nd grade.Catholic School. They sent us home early and wouldn't say why!

I remember watching black and white TV coverage for days.My parents were riveted to the screen.My Dad knew JFK and his family.My uncle was a particular friend of JFK. They were "drinking buddies".My Grandmother had been a friend of Rose. Everyone was very upset.

[Canuckistanian]

73. Wow, your family seemed to be connected to the Kennedys

It must have hit your family very hard.

[saracat]

77. More my Dad, as he grew up with them and his Dad was a friend of Joe

Kennedy.My Dad'a Mom was Irish Catholic and that was her affinuty with Rose.They even sent their kids to the same schools.My mom didn't know them at all but she felt the loss that all Americans felt. I just felt strange. And I was concious of history.

[joneschick]

64. Mrs Fischer's 2nd grade class room, County Line School

it was my 7th birthday. Mrs. Winters came to the door and spoke to Mrs Fischer, who in turn told us. Then it came over the PA. One student suggested that we all pray. I had my head in my desk crying---obiviously all the grownups were really upset and my birthday was over. I never got to hand out my treats.

[phylny]

65. I was in Kindergarten class, and I remember my teacher, Miss Kenny, crying while

listening to a red transistor radio.

I also remember seeing the funeral on t.v.

[Venus Dog]

66. In Catholic school - 7th grade

Sister Marie Leonard walked back into our classroom after conferencing with some other nuns and told everyone to rise. After we were all standing, she said, "President Kennedy has been shot. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost...etc." After the Our Father, she went right back to teaching. We were all shell-shocked.

[hlthe2b]

67. In Kindergarten... teachers crying and five year olds speculating

that the then "new" janitor 'musta done it.' The confusion and innocence of little children, I guess... (that is until we sat transfixed to the tv with our parents to see the coverage and Jack Ruby shoot Oswald on tv). I'll never forget it. My Mom became a conspiracy theorist I'm sure shorty after, following every twist and turn in NOLA AG, Jim Garrison's investigation...

[poiuytsister]

68. I'd come home for lunch, I was in 7th grade.

My brother was home sick that day. Our grandmother called to tell us because she was the only one who watched tv during the day back then. I got to stay home the rest of the day to watch the news coverage because as my mom said "this is history in the making." She was the news director of the local radio station at the time. I believe that was one of the first time I ever was aware of solid news coverage of a breaking event. I am now a total news junkie and have had MSNBC on 24/7 when I am home.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

69. Home on leave from the marines.

My apolitical older sister, who I lived with, bawled all day. I was stunned, but not shocked, because of the hatred the RWer's had for him and assumed it was some Klan type that killed him.

[all.of.me]

70. in phys ed class in 3rd grade with mr pinto.

we were outside. he called us all around in a circle and told us.

[Ino]

71. 6th grade, on the playground (n/t)

[dysfunctional press]

72. wow- you have pre-natal memories? that's cool...

so was your mom's coochie pointed in the direction of the radio at the time, or what...?

[htuttle]

When I found out, I crapped my pants

Of course, I crapped my pants all the time back then -- I was only 3 months old.

[rasputin1952]

74. I was in class in NYC...the Principal/teacher brought a TV in for live

coverage, while parents were being called to make sure the students had someone at home so the kids could cope better.

My brother and I crossed the street to catch the city bus home, and it was the first and only time I recall NY being absolutely silent. There were no insect sounds, no birds, the vehicles were silent, it was very eerie.

I recall seeing a man on the news in TX saying he was "glad the bastard was dead", he was accosted by a very angry crowd, and if it weren't for the police, I doubt he would have gotten away with his life; he was pretty bloodied, and the police took their time pulling people off of him.

For the first time in my life, and the only time, I saw my father cry when the funeral cortege was on its way to Arlington. My father did not vote for Kennedy, but for him, to know that a president, could be cut down, after taking on the Cuban Missile Crisis and facing down the Russians/E.Germans in Berlin, was a breaking of a spirit forged fighting in Europe during WWII.

[Earth_First]

75. Not even yet a twinkle...

My parents were still in high school at the time...

[worsty]

76. 3rd grade.....

Inez Elementary in Albuquerque. A little girl ran into the lunchroom saying the President had been shot. I went to my room (quonset hut) to my teachers sitting on her desk crying as she watched the news on TV.

[Mind_your_head]

78. Is this a trick question thing?

I was born in March, 1964, but my mom was washing the kithen floor.....

Do you want to see how many people will 'catch this'? or are you checking your credibility at the door? or what? :shrug:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

79. Eighth grade math class

:-)

[kestrel91316]

80. At the miniature golf course in Baguio, Phillippines. Age 6.

My dad was USAF and we were stationed in Japan. We were on Thanksgiving vacation in the Phillippines. I remember it like it was yesterday.

[Skittles]

82. damn, k

like you I was six, USAF dependent in a foreign country but I don't remember a damn thing :(

[kestrel91316]

122. I still remember the face of the young Filipino guy at the miniature

golf course who came running toward us across the grass with the news, and I remember what he was wearing. But I don't remember what any of my family were wearing.

I guess the guy was the focus of our attention.

[Skittles]

81. Peterborough England

I would have been six but honestly, have never remembered anything about it

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

83. I Was Sitting At My Kitchen Table; 1980 Or So I'd Say.

My mother was retelling the story of how she was in school and how everyone was crying so hard. It always left the impression on me that he must've been a great man. To this day when I hear of JFK, I think back to that kitchen table moment and my fascination at my mother's words, and think about how great of a man he must've been.

[chknltl]

94. OMG someone shot JFK????

Well are they gonna replace him?

[Blue_In_AK]

95. I was in Mrs. McCafferty's high school English class

South Houston High School my senior year. It's so clear in my mind like it happened yesterday.

[DemoTex]

103. Mine too. I know what you mean.

My 5-year-younger brother still has severe nightmares about JFK's death (he was 9 when the deed was done).

[pfitz59]

99. In the kitchen with my mom...

I was 4/12. I remember it very well. The funeral, the crying etc. etc. Might have stuck to me because our family was HUGELY Catholic at the time! Lots of hard-core waking!

[frogcycle]

102. Changing classes in HS

walked into Economics class and some bozo rightwinger comes up to me all smiles and says "hey, guess who got shot?" From his demeanor I thought it was some sort of joke so just said "who?", expecting some sort of play-on-words punchline

He says "Kennedy!"

It took a second to realize it was real.

Then we all sat, they put the radio on the intercom, and we listened to the news for the duration of the class, heard them announce he was dead.

I never spoke to that asshole again.

[Behind the Aegis]

105. Half of me was in one place, the other half somewhere else.

My partner, however, was being born, almost to the hour, in Oklahoma.

[texanwitch]

107. I had just turned 10 years old and was at home from school for some reason.

We had just got home from the grocery store and I was laying in bed watching TV, a game show. I think the show was called something like "You Don't Say".

I remember going to tell my parents that the President was shot.

The neighborhood was very quiet for the next 3 days.

[kittykitty]

108. In a store called Raley's in Bijou, Lake Tahoe, CA. We were checking out

and heard it on the radio. My friend and I were finishing up a summer working at Harrah's Casino. Everything was packed, and we went home and listened to the radio. We had to sleep on the floor that night as we were going back to Berkeley in the morning. It was incomprehensible.

[Edweird]

109. I was a gleam in my daddy's eye.

[Ignacio Upton]

110. Exactly 24 years from being born

And I was born on the anniversary of his assassination.

[LittleClarkie]

111. Dribbling in my crib, I suppose

I was all of three months old.

[donheld]

112. At the time I didn't give a damn

I was 4

[devilgrrl]

113. My mom's womb

Born less than a month later.

[RebelOne]

118. At home, taking care of a 1-1/2-year-old child.

[Tracer]

119. In Canada, driving back to New York ...

... with my sister and her new husband.

The rental car had no radio, so we were completely unaware.

We stopped at the border and went into the Canadian side store.

As we were young, we were laughing and goofing around. When we went to pay for our purchases, the woman at the counter looked strangely at our silliness and finally said "It's a sad day for your country".

All three of us said "A sad day?!!? What do you mean!?" --- and she told us about Kennedy.

We finished the trip staring out at the gloomy, bleak November landscape in silence.

[dogday]

120. Second Grade-School dismissed early

When I returned home, my Mother was ironing and crying, and she hugged me the hardest she had ever hugged me.... I started to cry too..... :cry:

[martymar64]

123. In my mother's womb in Dallas

She lived north of Love Field at the time.