Today is the anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death... Nov. 22, 1963.

[sinkingfeeling]

He died by a high powered gun. The country is now awash in more irrational hate and higher capacity guns than in 1963.

My whole belief system changed in the 1960s.

[OLDMDDEM]

1. Where were you when President Kennedy was assassinated?

I was in Algebra watching our teacher cry because of the assassination.

[Amishman]

4. I was a couple decades short of existing

That day was a long time ago now. A generation before my time, I'm a father with gray hair and back problems

[Freddie]

5. In second grade

Our class was the first to know as we were next to the office and the school secretary called the teacher out of the room for a minute.

[John1956PA]

15. In second grade as well. The P. A. speaker abruptly blared a radio news feed. n/t

[marie999]

14. I was watching the Russian opera The Queen of Spades at the Steinbeck Theater

on Cannery Row in Monterey California. After it ended a sign came on the screen "President Kennedy has just been shot.".

[George II]

2. One of the saddest days of my life.

[Archae]

3. I was 3 years old.

So I don't remember anything of the killing, first hand.

I do know my racist as hell relative said years later he "celebrated," since according to him, "That (n-word)-loving commie was dead."

[OLDMDDEM]

8. Pretty pathetic

Why can't people just be normal, average, whatever you want to call it?

[kskiska]

6. I was home watching "As the World Turns"

with two small children. It was horrible. Today, we experience such things every day on TV. Back then time stood still.

[OLDMDDEM]

7. Very true.

Time did stand still. The country rallied together. That is something that would not happen today.

[electric_blue68]

9. I was 10...

in school.

Our teacher (who I really didn't like) was called out of the room. When she returned - my goodness, her face was
ashen. She told us what had happened.
Then in x time the announcement came over the intercom that he had died. We were sent home.

I wouldn't understand what we lost till a few more years, I just knew you didn't do that!

If you lived in a more centrist to liberal city like NYC
the pall was intense.

[Liberal In Texas]

10. I was home sick from the JR HS I didn't like much in Omaha watching a small B&W TV in my room when

Walter Cronkite broke into the program I was watching. It was the first "holy crap" moment in my life and unfortunately wouldn't be the last. Two days later we watched as Oswald was shot on live TV.

Years later I had a one of those surreal moments when I walked into the TV station I had arrived at for a job interview. I turned a corner on my way to the news room and there sitting in front of a huge wall-sized blowup of Oswald being shot by Ruby was the TV camera displayed that shot the live video feed that day.

[OLDMDDEM]

16. Interesting

I was in Seward, 90 west of Omaha.

[Nanuke]

11. I was home

I was having lunch after morning Kindergarten watching Lunch With Case (Casey Jones kid show on WTCN 11 in Mpls). The show was interrupted and I ran and got my mom. She called my dad at work. She was sobbing.

[ChazII]

12. I was at the Phoenix Zoo

with my mom, several other parents and of course my peers. It was our first field trip as we were kindergartners. The parents were told what had happened as we boarded the bus for the return trip to school. My only clear memory is how quiet the adults were on the ride home.

[jimfields33]

13. Each year less and less remember this day.

In fact the youngest person to alive this day is now 58 years old.