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| RJ Long (Rjlong)
Registered Member Username: Rjlong Post Number: 1861 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 71.195.124.20  Rating: N/A |
I remember it vividly, I was a Freshman in high school. . . We were out on the practice football field, working on our band's halftime show for the weekly football game when we got the news. Shocked, stunned, disbelief, tears. Mr. Perkins, our band director, gathered us all around, had us hold hands, then led us in prayer for family and country. Not much in the way of academics for the remainder of school, but we all learned a valuable lesson about the fragility of life that day: November 22, 1963 RIP, JFK, RIP. | ||
| Bill Gerrie (Bill_gerrie)
Registered Member Username: Bill_gerrie Post Number: 575 Registered: 3-2006 Posted From: 216.198.139.38  Rating: N/A |
Yes I do RJ. I was on my way back to the depot as I use to deliver milk retail to homes. It was one of those things you hear that is so hard to believe. Just like 911. A very sad day in history. Bill | ||
| joe padberg (Joemc7ab)
Registered Member Username: Joemc7ab Post Number: 581 Registered: 6-2004 Posted From: 66.38.159.33 Rating: N/A |
Yes I remember it as well. Having lunch in the cafetaria at the Northern Alberta Institute of technology in Edmonton. | ||
| Austin Scott Davis (Zimtok)
Registered Member Username: Zimtok Post Number: 484 Registered: 9-2006 Posted From: 173.166.209.1  Rating: N/A |
Well as I was only 3 at the time I don't remember it as it happened. But I do remember as the years passed that it was always remembered... . | ||
| Bob MacIsaac (Wildbob24)
Registered Member Username: Wildbob24 Post Number: 151 Registered: 5-2007 Posted From: 98.92.175.72  Rating: N/A |
I was in the 4th grade in Beverly Mass. The teachers just lined us all up and sent us home early. I didn't find out what happened until I got home and found my Mom crying. She was a huge JFK supporter, having grown up in Boston. It certainly was a dark day in American history. Bob | ||
| J.L.Vickers (Roadrunnertex)
Registered Member Username: Roadrunnertex Post Number: 88 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 76.6.86.90 Rating: N/A |
I can recall it like it was yesterday. I was 21 years old and in the USAF(SAC)Schilling AFB Kansas. I was asleep after working the mid-night shift. A Teck/Sgt on our crew who lived in the barricks came in our room and got us up and stated JFK has been killed in Dallas,Texas. It was a very sad day for America. I still ask my self now 48 years later who did it? jlv | ||
| joe padberg (Joemc7ab)
Registered Member Username: Joemc7ab Post Number: 582 Registered: 6-2004 Posted From: 66.38.159.33 Rating: N/A |
jlv There is enough info out there to get the answer. suggested start 'silver certificates' The guy that did it was driving the limo. | ||
| John & Barb Tesser (Bigrigger)
Registered Member Username: Bigrigger Post Number: 571 Registered: 9-2007 Posted From: 97.91.68.252  Rating: N/A |
We were in Biology class and they started playing the live feed off the radio over the loudspeaker system. One of those "moments in time" like the Challenger explosion and the World Trade Center bombing. Kind of funny that our lives are timed and defined by disasters. John | ||
| Mark Renner (Boomer)
Registered Member Username: Boomer Post Number: 250 Registered: 11-2006 Posted From: 206.58.200.38  Rating: N/A |
I was a soph in H.S. A lot of the girls were walking up and down the halls crying. I don't remember if school was let out early. But for good luck and Secret Service protection we may have had Reagan and Ford assassninated also. Scary times. | ||
| Luvrbus (Luvrbus)
Registered Member Username: Luvrbus Post Number: 1314 Registered: 8-2006 Posted From: 24.251.184.12 Rating: N/A |
Yep, I was in a hell hole were he ordered me to be It was 3 wks before the news reached us the commander in chief was gone wasn't anytime for us to even think about it I still don't to this day just history to me good luck (Message edited by luvrbus on November 23, 2011) | ||
| Brandon M (Brandon314159)
Registered Member Username: Brandon314159 Post Number: 57 Registered: 3-2011 Posted From: 173.8.221.225  Rating: N/A |
My dad was 3 years old..my mom 1...me...23 years away...does that make me one of the youngest busnuts? :-) I do remember Sept 11th though...since I'm on the West Coast...saw the news before even left for school. Most classes were spent staring at the televisions in rooms that had them (even though they were never used otherwise). Not a day to forget.... | ||
| Don Evans (Doninwa)
Registered Member Username: Doninwa Post Number: 296 Registered: 1-2007 Posted From: 208.81.157.234  Rating: N/A |
I was in the sixth grade in a two room school that had six grades, three in each room. The three grades from my room crowded into the teachers Pontiac to listen to the radio. | ||
| Laryn Christley (Barn_owl)
Registered Member Username: Barn_owl Post Number: 727 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 108.15.212.72  Rating: N/A |
My parents were not married yet and I was no where to be found. | ||
| L James Jones Jr (Jamo)
Registered Member Username: Jamo Post Number: 234 Registered: 11-2007 Posted From: 74.67.218.12  Rating: N/A |
Laryn, A post on one of the biker boards I frequent had a bunch of posts about when you were born. One guy posted that for his parents' first date, they went on a picnic. He said he went with his father and came home with his mother. Ha... I was 9 in 63 and happened to be home sick from school. I was watching TV in my parents bedrooom (illegally) and they broke into whatever show I was watching. I went down and told my Mom, but she wouldn't believe me until we turned on the TV. | ||
| david tiehen (Dave4106)
Registered Member Username: Dave4106 Post Number: 14 Registered: 11-2006 Posted From: 72.160.41.34 Rating: N/A |
common knowledge lbj and hunt planned jfk assasination from before election. secret service protection? nowhere in sight when he was murdered. don't believe me/ google madeline brown. lbj mistress for twenty years tells it all. wake up!!! | ||
| Mark Renner (Boomer)
Registered Member Username: Boomer Post Number: 251 Registered: 11-2006 Posted From: 206.58.200.38 Rating: N/A |
It always seemed strange to me that someone could place that many shots from a bolt action rifle at a moving target from that distance, in that amount of time. But then there are a lot of strange things that happen. I was on a plane, pushing back at PDX on 9-1-1 when we had to return to the gate. Amazing how fast the entire airport emptied out. |