Was anyone out there alive and aware when JFK, MLK and RFK were shot?

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76. Was in the 3nd grade when JFK was assassinated

They announced it over the P.A. system and we were told to go home.

I did not know what the word "assassinated" meant but I went home as told which was a walk about 1/2 hr. long.

I arrived home to an empty house which was no surprise as my mother worked full-time (I was what they call a latchkey child; a term that did not exist in those days) .

Mother arrived home about 2 hrs. later and screamed at me, "What are you doing home?". I told her that Pres. Kennedy had been killed and that we were told to go home from school. She began crying at once and my mother NEVER cried. It was indeed a horrific shock and she had not heard about it yet.

Everything was shut down for the next several days and that funeral seemed to go on forever.

On the radio, they played the same song over and over again and that song was "Theme From a Summer's Place".

Every time I hear this song it reminds me of the day JFK was killed and the long funeral and a mother that never cried for any reason whatsoever. It was the saddest time I've ever seen America to be in my lifetime; sadder than 9/11, sadder than MLK, sadder than anything I can remember.

As for Robert F. Kennedy, I remember it too well. It was the assignment in school for the day of the primary election in Calif. and it was to be held in Los Angeles. It was in the wee hours of the the night that I was watching it on our old black and white TV and all of a sudden, it was boom boom boom and a total freak-out on the TV. RFK had been shot and killed right before my eyes and I was not but 12 years old.

My parents were in bed asleep and I went and knocked on their bedroom door. The woke up and were like ? I told them that RFK had been shot and killed and my mother and father got up at once and they both began to cry cry cry. God that was sad.

Some things you never forget and the Kennedy assassinations were one of them as my parents absolutely loved the Kennedys. I hope to never witness such horrific sadness again in my life.

As for MLK, that was incredibly sad as well but at that time, we had the same very racist America that we have today and I don't recall that MLK got near the amount of "press" as the Kennedy assassinations did.

RIP JFK, RFK & MLK!!