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In reply to the discussion: How old were you when JFK killed [View all]UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)71. I was 3 years old.
My mom choked up when we were at a restaurant a few years ago and she was talking about the brilliant people in his administration.
I don't remember JFK's funeral but I remember RFK. I think of the train and his flag draped coffin every time I hear The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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College freshman too, went home that weekend with friend, for 'Thanksgiving.' so also went
elleng
Nov 2012
#3
Same here. Was walking across the quad between classes. Every one just stood around in a
LoisB
Nov 2012
#40
12-yrs old, in vocal music class. They put the radio announcements over the intercom.
txwhitedove
Nov 2012
#15
My mum was 17 and in Haiti---JFK meant nothing to her. She was living through Papa Doc. n/t
vaberella
Nov 2012
#18
I was 15 yrs old. I was in study hall at high school. The principal came on the loud speaker and
southernyankeebelle
Nov 2012
#19
About to turn 7. My earliest political memory was shaking JFK's hand at a rally in New Haven
leveymg
Nov 2012
#32
Your Dad fuckng rocks. Contrast JFK (and the Kennedy family's tradition of
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#80
Me too (4). I have no memories of it, naturally. But I do remember that
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#82
Same exactly with me & my birthday & grade, and we had a similar experience in class. We had just
We People
Nov 2012
#169
It was a Friday and I was 19 and hitch hiking home from college and got picked up by a trucker.
PuppyBismark
Nov 2012
#50
Your first paragraph reminds me of Don Delillo's "White Noise" for that
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#90
12 here as well. Sitting in Mrs. Harris's 8th grade English class when we heard the news.
11 Bravo
Nov 2012
#198
OT somewhat, but I'm not really sure that news was appropriate to put on
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#98
3 days before my 13th birthday.. It was tragic and devasting & I remember like it was yesterday.
whathehell
Nov 2012
#131
I was 9. I remember my fourth grade teacher cried when she announced the news.
Chemisse
Nov 2012
#133
I was 29. I recall almost every thing that was on the news that day as though it happened
ladjf
Nov 2012
#137
My Daddy hadn't even met my Mommy yet, so I wasn't even a gleam in his eye. nt
LaydeeBug
Nov 2012
#138
16, in the crowded hallway at school. Not a funny joke, I thought. Went into chemistry class...
Hekate
Nov 2012
#155
I was 7 in the second grade the principal announced it over the pa system. The sister told us to put
kimbutgar
Nov 2012
#172
"The President is dead." came over the loudspeaker in my elementary school class.
Honeycombe8
Nov 2012
#185