November 22, 1963 my mother was nine months pregnant with me.

[William769]

Unfortunately, I have to rely on history for what happened that awful day.

I also have to rely on history to know the man who was President John F. Kennedy. I know the Kennedys were a dynasty but to live through that time & see the history firsthand, had to be pretty good till November 22, 1963.

[LakeArenal]

1. Happy almost Birthday?

Did you see this posted on DU? Not by me.

[William769]

3. Thank you, and no I did not see that.

Thank you for posting it here.

[agingdem]

8. I was a high school sophomore..

I was in PE, ready to leave for my next class when the principal made the announcement..I was devastated..a few weeks before I stood on the sidewalk downtown and watched and waived as Kennedy and Johnson's motorcade passed by on their way to the airport...59 years later, the voice I will take to my grave is that of popular Susie, after hearing the announcement said, 'Good, now will someone please kill Chief Justice Warren?"..she died recently and when I saw her obituary, I took great satisfaction in knowing I outlived that bitch..

[LakeArenal]

9. I think you meant to respond to William. But seeing this in real time:

Miracle of television.

[agingdem]

10. I'm old..sorry

November 22, 1963 is as here and now as it was all those years ago..

[SheltieLover]

2. It was awful

My own mother bawled 24/7 for an entire week.

Happy almost bday!

[William769]

4. I can only imagine.

And thank you.

[SheltieLover]

5. I think she bawled because he was Catholic.

(Brainwashed, imo. No offense to anyone.)

I recall seeing ruby shoot oswald on tv. (I was just a little kid, in 3rd grade!)

Very sad time.

Then the cover up. Ffs, it's been 59 years & they still wont release documents!

[snowybirdie]

6. I've had a serious sadness

Two times in my life. First was when,Kennedy was shot. Second time was on 9/11. No difference.

[Xavier Breath]

7. My Mom was in her early 20s,

had not yet met my father, and I would not be born for another three years. She was baby-sitting for a neighbor on an off day from her job at the hospital. The kid was napping, and she was half-watching a soap and leafing through a magazine, when the infamous first words were spoken by Walter Cronkite. She immediately called my grandmother because my grandparents did not own a tv. She thought the world was ending. I guess in a sense it did.

She purchased a commemorative magazine about the assassination, which I have to this day. A dark day indeed, I have no problem that I didn't witness it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. The triplets' father was three days old on 11/22/63.

He prefaces that bit of info with the question "Where were you on the day that JFK was assassinated?" His parents made certain that he knew about it.

I was a freshman in high school. A girl mentioned it to me as a rumor that she didn't believe. My stomach turned because I knew it had to be true. We were sent home from school that afternoon and had the day of the funeral off so we could watch and mourn.

I never liked that girl afterwards. Good thing, because she's a Trumper.