Memorial - Nov 22, 1963

[El Mimbreno]

Amid all the current uproar and insanity, let’s not forget this sad day in 1963.

I was in 7th grade and I can still picture the classroom, the view out the window, the location of the clock and the PA speaker. I can never hear “Hail to the Chief” without picturing JFK’s funeral on my folks’ B&W TV.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. I'll never forget that horrible day.

[dhill926]

2. K & R.....

[Botany]

3. JFK knew that the Vietnam War was a dead end and wanted out .... and that is why I think he got shot

Gotta keep the Military Industrial going.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/john_f_kennedy_114919

[Historic NY]

4. Still have one of the mass cards from his funeral.

[Sneederbunk]

5. A day like no other, followed by a weekend and Monday of pain.

[Permanut]

6. Portland State University closed..

when the news came out. People just walked around with stunned looks on their faces - including me.

[GeorgeGist]

7. 11th Grade Chemistry, Mr. Allore ...

last row 2nd from left. The girls cried, the boys looked confused. School dismissed.

[murielm99]

10. Typing class...

The clattering noise of the keys kept us from hearing the intercom at first. Then someone noticed. We listened to the news that he had been shot. The principal kept the radio on over the intercom for a few minutes. He said he would keep us updated.

We went back to work, after a fashion. The intercom came back on. The radio played. We learned that our President was dead. The bell rang. I want to geometry class through a silent hallway. After about ten minutes, they sent us home.

I saw my old geometry teacher not long ago. He is in his nineties. We spoke about that day.

[dweller]

8. 4th grade

I can remember in detail the whole day ...

😕

[Upthevibe]

9. ..............

[grantcart]

11. me too

[Honeycombe8]

12. I was in sixth grade class. Suddenly, the intercom on the wall crackled, and Walter Cronkite's voice

came on, saying the President is dead.

It was a shock. Esp since we had not known he had been shot, of course, since we were in school.

The announcement was broadcast for the teachers, I'm sure. But it was a sad day, all the same.

I remember in a small town in the deep south where my grandparents lived, I first became aware of JFK when I rode with my Mom to take my grandma's black maid home. Her neighborhood was the black area of town, as was the case back in those days, literally across the railroad tracks. I saw JFK's b&w picture posted to the front doors of many of the houses and asked my mother who that was and why they had his picture on their doors. She told me that was a man running for President, John Kennedy. She may have said that he's popular with "the colored people," which was the term used in those days. She gave no opinion of him, either verbally or by the way she said his name. Mama was apolitical and had no interest in such things.

I should have realized I'd have an interest in politics because I remembered that and still remember the picture of his handsome face flapping in the cool wind on the wooden front door of a tiny wood frame house, and wondering about this white man who was so popular with black people, since that was a new thing I'd never heard of (although I would've been only about 9 years old).

[Ms. Toad]

13. I heard a very conservative/tea party/Trump-type talk show host

(Mike Gallagher) claiming Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., JFK, and Robert Kennedy as one of their own. (He was rambling on about the song Abraham, Martin, and John - and threw in Bobby, as well.)

I nearly ran off the road. Since I have conservative talk radio on because it is the only talk radio I can get at between midnight and 3 AM, when I'm usually driving home - and jazz all night (or whatever music NPR has on) puts me to sleep, I pinched myself a few times to make sure I hadn't actually fallen asleep.

Not sure what to make of it.

[pangaia]

14. It was just before an orchestra rehearsal in college. Watching it on TV in a diner.

When I got to rehearsal, we were, by some odd quirk of fate, scheduled to play the Funeral March from the Beethoven 3rd Symphony.
Instead, the conductor rehearsed the Allegro Vivace. That made a lasting impression on me.

PS.. I also went to his funeral....

[saidsimplesimon]

15. We share a memory.

I was in a high school chemistry class. There were more sorrows to follow. Malcolm X in 1965, Rev. MLK, AG Robert Kennedy in 1968 and the slaying of innocents at Kent State in 1970.

The pretender in the WH should be praising the intelligence community for their sacrifice in protecting his sorry, pathetic, privileged, ignorant asshole insults.