Where we you 60 years ago today...
In my room at Monteith Barracks in Germany. It was late in the evening.
I was living in Riverside, Ontario, where my Dad had moved us from Detroit in search of bigger housing for our increasing numbers. I was in my first year of High School; don't recall what class was going on when the principal reported over the intercom that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas, and later announced that he had died. The atmosphere was primarily one of disbelief, understandable in a roomful of 14-year-olds. This was compounded for me on Sunday (November 24th) when I watched Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV in the basement of the Dallas PD.
On my way home from college.
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Where we you 60 years ago today, November 22, 1963?
I was 16-years old and a Junior in high school. I was in physics class when they announced that President Kennedy had been shot. Keep in mind that we were in Northern Michigan and it was in the middle of deer season, so the first comments that we made between ourselves was that we didn't know Kennedy was a hunter, since for us, the only time we ever heard of someone getting shot was because of a hunting accident (there's no question that we were living sheltered lives). It was maybe 30-minutes later, when I was in study hall, that it was announced that Kennedy was dead and that it had taken place in Dallas.
About 15-minutes after that, they announced that classes had been cancelled and that the buses would soon be taking us home. We were also informed that since it was Friday, and that Thanksgiving was the following Thursday, that school would be closed for the entire week, instead of the just the originally planned two-days, Thursday and Friday.
I was working in a local grocery store/meat market at the time and being in an area where a lot of hunters came for deer season, we were pretty busy, so my boss asked me to come in and work most of the days that I had off (I was already scheduled to work the weekends and after school so in the end, it was only a few extra hours). We had a TV at the store and we watched most of the news programs covering the activities of the week. Of course, everyone who came into the store had to stop, look at what was going on and express their opinions and views, to say nothing about speculating what actually happened and who was ultimately responsible. While the term 'conspiracy theory' was not yet part of our lexicon, you could see how stuff like that got started and what perpetuated it.
Where we you 60 years ago today, November 22, 1963... (
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Same situation, junior in High School. We were told over the announcing speaker. Was shocking to everyone.
While surfing through the letters in UHH, my eyes are on the TV set screen showing people who experienced the loss of their people who died in the wars. The show 60 Minutes, the segment "Rise". Those people included mothers, fathers, friends, and children who have suffered unbelievable losses who are facing the internal pains. Natalia said that the pain was almost impossible, but facing their fears of the surrounds made that pain not invincible.
I think that many people around the world experienced this kind of pain from the loss of person who meant something to them being shot dead. The loss of JFK.
It is a worth while piece to view and appreciate. It does give me hope that my relatives might come out stronger from their travail they are facing.
Nov 25, 2023 · 60 Minutes: Rise / Sealand / Ancient Vines airs Sunday November 26, 2023 on CBS What can we expect from this episode RISE – Reporter Scott Pelley joins a group of war widows and ...
Hello,
I was also in science class in junior high. Must have been the time of day for science. I can remember hearing the news. My classroom was filled with
tall black topped science tables with sinks and test tubes.
I was in Fieldstone, New York.
I was in 9th grade in High School, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Because of the time change, we heard about it at 9:00am-ish. I was walking from Homeroom to History class when I heard. Our school called an assembly at 1:00 that afternoon but didn’t close the school (they were afraid, that it being Hawaii, everybody would just go to the beach :-) ). I think that wouldn’t have happened because we were all in disbelief, but all of us who were alive back then can pretty much recall exactly where we were when it happened, and most of us spent the next few days watching Walter Cronkite on TV
I was a sophomore in high school. I had come home early from school because of being sick and was sitting with my mother watching one of her soap operas and they broke in with the news. I stayed home from Church for the same reason and saw Ruby kill Oswald.
Not sure what class I was in, but I was in seventh grade and all of a sudden an announcement came over the PA system from our principal. Cosmo Homet. He told us to assemble in the auditorium for an important announcement. There he informed us that the president had died, and school would be cancelled for the remainder of the day. He said school busses would be summoned to take all of the students home. When I arrived at my house, my mother greeted me at the door and asked why I came home early. I told her the president had died and we immediately rushed to the TV to find out what happened.
Being a Navy Spook on high alert at a NSA communications intercept site in Turkey. We just knew the Russians would launch a full fledged attack soon. They had shot down Gary Francis Powers just a year or so before to cripple our early warning system.
OldCADuser wrote:
Where we you 60 years ago today, November 22, 1963?
I was 16-years old and a Junior in high school. I was in physics class when they announced that President Kennedy had been shot. Keep in mind that we were in Northern Michigan and it was in the middle of deer season, so the first comments that we made between ourselves was that we didn't know Kennedy was a hunter, since for us, the only time we ever heard of someone getting shot was because of a hunting accident (there's no question that we were living sheltered lives). It was maybe 30-minutes later, when I was in study hall, that it was announced that Kennedy was dead and that it had taken place in Dallas.
About 15-minutes after that, they announced that classes had been cancelled and that the buses would soon be taking us home. We were also informed that since it was Friday, and that Thanksgiving was the following Thursday, that school would be closed for the entire week, instead of the just the originally planned two-days, Thursday and Friday.
I was working in a local grocery store/meat market at the time and being in an area where a lot of hunters came for deer season, we were pretty busy, so my boss asked me to come in and work most of the days that I had off (I was already scheduled to work the weekends and after school so in the end, it was only a few extra hours). We had a TV at the store and we watched most of the news programs covering the activities of the week. Of course, everyone who came into the store had to stop, look at what was going on and express their opinions and views, to say nothing about speculating what actually happened and who was ultimately responsible. While the term 'conspiracy theory' was not yet part of our lexicon, you could see how stuff like that got started and what perpetuated it.
Where we you 60 years ago today, November 22, 1963... (
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I was aboard the USS Proteus As-19, in Holy Loch, Scotland.
Hi Neighbor, those were tense times.
Sophmore in HS, World History Class. School was dismissed early and cancelled till after thanksgiving
60 years ago I'd been conceived, but would yet to have been born.
I was at Lackland AFB IN basic training. That day I was on KP. Everything stopped when the sarge came in and announced what had happened. We all watched the proceedings on TV.
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