PinOakEO Loc: NA

When the jury declared OJ was "NOT GUILTY"?

When JFK was assassinated?

I've got good memory.
How about you?

IKWIK!

Mollie Loc: melbourne

I was home here, where I spend my life. and don't forget John Lennon!

dfran Loc: Dallas, Pa

Yes I do remember where I was for both of those tragedy's, do you? Just because you asked the question doesn't mean you actually know!

lev29 Loc: Born and living in MA.

Sorry, but the criminal OJ Simpson trial result is not a tragedy. A miscarriage of justice more likely. An example of jury nullification? Not that I fully endorse that, but how quickly some forget that another crime that had recently preceded it! It also took place in Los Angeles County and was the explicitly racist beating of Rodney King, Jr. I don't have to be black to wonder whether that, too, was a miscarriage of justice. I believe that that verdict weighed heavily in the minds of many black Americans.

Yes, I remember where I was when the OJ verdict was announced: walking through the Radiology Patient waiting room at Charity Hospital, LA . I never saw such a joyous celebration by the patients and clerical staff altogether. At the time, I was stunned by their response, not so much by the verdict. I thought the celebration was stupid because in reality, the trial should not have had any racial overtone to it. I don't believe OJ cared one iota what race his wife was when he murdered her.

As for JFK's murder, I'm obviously younger than the OP. I was just three and a third years old when it happened, and I have zero genuine memories of it.

MLK's and RFK's assassinations? Those I remember.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

I don't remember where I was for OJ's verdict, but JFK I was standing in line for my high school cafeteria when the news spread through the line. The other one I distinctly remember is Jimi Hendrix's death - I was driving on my college campus and heard the news on the radio.

lev29 Loc: Born and living in MA.

Hey, PinOakEO, what does IKWIK stand for?
I Know What I Know?

Also, I believe one should add, for those born before 1995, 9/11.

Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana

Just my luck, I had almost forgot!

dragonfist Loc: Stafford, N.Y.

JFK sassination I received word about from a co-worker on the intercom system as I was working on top of the clay storage silos at a ceramics plant. The O.J. verdict I heard on the radio at the fabrication shop where I was employed as a welder.

EdM Loc: FN30JS

All are the risks of living in a free society.. Whille none of their relatives deem it worth it, I am sure, I do! I would nuch rather lose a publc figure now and then to a screwball with a weapon than give a polticiian the power to say, "off with his head"..

dfran Loc: Dallas, Pa

What do you mean JURY NULLIFICATION..it was a direct verdict from the jury there was no nullification involved? I was in 8th grade English class, in Kingston Pa, with Mr. Germick teaching when the announcement came over the Pa System about the President being shot in Dallas. Texas!we were immediately dismissed from school for the rest of the day

exakta56 Loc: Orford,New Hampshire

When the news that JFK had been assassinated came out over the radio, I was working on a farm in New Hampshire temporarily.

PRETENDER Loc: Micanopy,Florida

The two days I truly cared about was John Kennedy death and 9/11. Truly sad days for our country. Of course for those you who are my age bracket there were some good days. VE VJ days come to mind.

FrankR Loc: NYC

Don't remember where I was for the OJ verdict, didn't pay attention, didn't care. When JFK was killed, I was in a squad tent in (on?) Taiwan, the Republic of China. I was Corporal of the Guard and had just come off duty with my relief. Half asleep, somebody walked up to my cot and said, "He's dead." I told him there were a couple of billion people in the world and I'm supposed to know who "He" is and care. When he told me it was President Kennedy, I muttered something unprintable and rolled over to sleep.

Tomcat5133 Loc: Gladwyne PA

One morning having my own creative business was getting ready a little late. Listening to TV room next door at th sink washing up. I heard Matt Lauer and Katie have nervousness in their voice.
I stared at the TV seeing this long shot of the Tower with smoke coming out. They assumed a plane had hit the Tower. When I saw a closer shot I could see the damage to the floors my stomach sinked and my heart knew that this was a major problem I sat and watched each stage of this story. I saw the 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower. I appeared to me that the towers couldn't last long. Their coming down made me feel helpless.
My son was in NY on business that day and often went to the towers.I knew that all our lives would change. My son was alright good friends were in the building an got out. And a week later I was in NY and managed to get down by walking with my wife to the site. I took a couple of frames of the frame and stopped.
Their is no other event that moved me. I wanted revenge but realized the cycle of volience has not stopped and I am a child born in WW II.
I read in the a magazine last night that the US had dropped almost 25,000 bombs on targets in 2015.
When will this madness ever stop.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

What difference does it make? What's done is done. What's important is the result and its impact on society, the political scene, etc. If one remembers where he was at the time but not the significance, then he hasn't remembered anything worthwhile. End of story.