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SharonAnn

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14. I was a Freshman in college. My world changed that day.

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Fri Nov 22, 2024, 10:38 AM

Nov 2024

The feeling of being safe and secure, growing up in the 50’s and early 60’s, meant that Kennedy’s assassination made me aware of monstrous evil. I was shaken.

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It is November 22. [View all] TNNurse Nov 2024 OP

I was 9 dweller Nov 2024 #1

There was a post yesterday asking for yorkster Nov 2024 #2

Here is a recent DU post. John1956PA Nov 2024 #3

There's a very interesting thread in the Lounge Mike 03 Nov 2024 #4

I had this up earlier in the week. MrWowWow Nov 2024 #6

Here is the thread in the lounge: John1956PA Nov 2024 #8

Here you go MrWowWow Nov 2024 #5

Etched in my memory... 2naSalit Nov 2024 #7

It's my Dad's 107th birthday today... MiHale Nov 2024 #9

I was in kindergarten LSparkle Nov 2024 #10

I posted a remembrance this morning Marthe48 Nov 2024 #11

I never saw anyone cry, and that night our high school played its regular football game. Ron Green Nov 2024 #12

The 24th was also something. Oswald shot on live TV NoRethugFriends Nov 2024 #52

I was only an infant but I have felt its effects my whole life. Javaman Nov 2024 #13

Amen to that, Javaman. BComplex Nov 2024 #35

I was a Freshman in college. My world changed that day. SharonAnn Nov 2024 #14

I remember that day so vividly. Borogove Nov 2024 #15

The event that initiated our sad decline as a nation Zorro Nov 2024 #16

Yes bdamomma Nov 2024 #17

And it's a Friday, as well. DFW Nov 2024 #18

Oh, wow soandso Nov 2024 #44

I'm sure I met him at one point or another DFW Nov 2024 #47

Pic soandso Nov 2024 #48

It would have been over 60 years ago DFW Nov 2024 #53

i was 8. barbtries Nov 2024 #19

I was 7 Freddie Nov 2024 #26

yes. barbtries Nov 2024 #30

Same soandso Nov 2024 #45

I was 19 and on leave from the military. Ping Tung Nov 2024 #20

I was an 11-year-old 6th grader in Austin. kch22 Nov 2024 #21

I was in Catholic elementary school at the time Farmer-Rick Nov 2024 #22

High school library WmChris Nov 2024 #23

Thank you for remembering. Kid Berwyn Nov 2024 #24

I was in kindergarten AmBlue Nov 2024 #25

I was six months old and I don't remember it, of course SpankMe Nov 2024 #27

I was 14, too. 5th period English class. japple Nov 2024 #28

It was Latin class for me. I remember Mrs. Beard telling us TNNurse Nov 2024 #42

I was in 7th grade and learned about it as the school day was ending. TheRickles Nov 2024 #29

Fifth Grade classroom... PCIntern Nov 2024 #31

I hated my 4th grade teacher. But after she was called out of our classroom, then returned... electric_blue68 Nov 2024 #40

I was 16. OLDMDDEM Nov 2024 #32

I was 12 ... heard it on the radio in our 1 room school house NotHardly Nov 2024 #33

I wasn't born yet, johnnyfins Nov 2024 #34

What a difference a day made! 3825-87867 Nov 2024 #36

I was in grade 10 geometry class leftyladyfrommo Nov 2024 #37

Sorrow will have it's due. Prairie_Seagull Nov 2024 #38

61 years ago today... alterfurz Nov 2024 #39

I was 3 Vegan4life Nov 2024 #41

It's my first memory: my mother throwing a laundry basket downstairs and saying, Scrivener7 Nov 2024 #43

I wouldn't be born for two years, 11 months and 14 days. Xavier Breath Nov 2024 #46

I don't have any memory Meowmee Nov 2024 #49

My second birthday. Mom stopped making my cake as soon as she heard the news. n/t OnlinePoker Nov 2024 #50

Me too. In Miss Weiser's 10th grade English class NoRethugFriends Nov 2024 #51