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In reply to the discussion: John Fitzgerald Kennedy 11-22-1963 Where Were You? [View all]peace frog
(5,609 posts)It was a small school in a small Florida town, only one class per grade and the principal was my teacher. He brought in a radio and announced that there were reports the President had been shot. We listened to the news chatter for a while, then the announcement came that President Kennedy had died from an assassin's bullet. I was devastated, it was like the roof had caved in. School was immediately closed so I went to get my sister in 3rd grade, we assembled outside where the flag was lowered. I could see my mother waiting for us in the parking lot. It was a sad, somber ride home.
As for conspiracies, certain things did not feel right to me but, being a child, I wasn't sure what it all meant. I witnessed Ruby's elimination of Oswald on live TV, and something in my head screamed "bogus"! Other inexplicable things ... when I saw the photo of Oswald in his back yard holding the rifle, I noticed that the fingers were too short. There were no fingertips, just short stubby fingers with no tips. I asked my dad about it and he was flummoxed. And so on, but at the time we were ordered to ignore the evidence from our eyes and ears, and just fall in line with official explanations.
Life went on, but questions remained. It was my mother who read Mark Lane's Rush To Judgement, she talked about it and I listened, and mourned our country's loss. We've never been the same since 11/22/63.