November 22, 1963
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Those of you that remember this day. I know "exactly" where you were, in school like me.
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2nd grade. We are all squirming impatiently in our classroom. Our teacher, Mrs. Rebshure, is late coming back from lunch. When she finally arrives, she is sobbing. Between the tears and with her voice cracking, she announces that President Kennedy has been shot.
I remember it like it was yesterday.
Tim
Yep! That’s exactly where I was. I remember the principal announcing over the speaker what had happened. We were let out of school early. My sisters and I were picked up by my crying mom.
I wasn’t born yet but I can only imagine the sadness and tragedy and absolute loss felt by Americans that day! It’s a day that I always think about when it comes. He was quite possibly the best president that we ever had. RIP Jack 😢
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I learned today that the last city Kennedy visited before Dallas was Tampa, Florida. I own exactly one JFK Half:
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Sugar magnolia blossoms blooming, heads all empty and I don't care ...
The day America lost its innocence, I was in kindergarten.
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I was crawling around the floor, well I guess anyway as I was too young to know or care. One of my least favorite coin designs of all time, but I have one for type purposes.
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The procession just passing the Lincoln Memorial, en route over the bridge to Arlington National Cemetery.
The caisson with the President's body leaves the White House.
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Yes, like it was yesterday! The day the world/country changed for us kids for sure!! Three teachers were huddled in the front of the classroom. Two were crying. I can still see their hands on their faces, crying!! All us kids were looking at each other. We know something major, something really bad had happened. They wheeled in a TV. The one thing that really stood out, was how the adults were all so laser focused watching the news broadcast. We were released early as well. And then the shock on my mother's face at home. The same for my dad later that day when he came home from work.
It was like the heart beat of the country died that day!
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I was at the Museum of Natural History in NY city on a school field trip. The museum staff gathered us together in front of the large dinosaur skeleton display and made the announcement of him being shot. 😢
Wayne
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7th Grade at Harmony Leland Elementary School, Mableton, Georgia, 12 years old. Teachers were called over the intercom to the principal's office, then returned to the classroom for the announcement over the public address system. First report was that he had been shot in Dallas while in a motorcade. Not long after the announcement that he had died. We didn't change classes the rest of the day but sat in the classroom. We were dismissed at the regular time as most of us rode buses and they had to do their usual routes for all the schools. It was a very sad day.
Such a strange, sad experience. A girl ran into our 2nd grade classroom yelling ‘The Presidents been shot!’. I wasn’t sure who or what a ‘President’ was, but my teacher (a Catholic nun), ran out into the hallway, and came back 5 minutes later, absolutely sobbing. We were all sent home immediately. The oddest part of the day was every adult I saw in my neighborhood was crying, every single one, even my parents. Such a sad, confusing day that will always be burned into my memory.
Dave
I was in the 6th grade and that day our current event item was watching the parade in Dallas on the TV. After the President was shot, the school sent all the students home. I rode my bike home as fast as I could peddle and woke my mom up to tell what had just happened. This and 911 will be forever etched in my mind.
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Tim, we must be the same age. I remember it too. Also remember watching my mom sit in a rocking chair, rocking and crying from early morning until the TV went off the air at midnight.
Tom, 8/4/56
Tim
5/11/56
It's one of those events for which the moment you heard is seared into your memory.
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It was a Friday, and I was in 9th grade, in the cafeteria when the news broke. The audio from the local Cleveland TV station was aired over the school's PA system. I went to my next class, but all classes were soon suspended and I walked home. My parents were watching the television coverage in disbelief. Two days later, just as we were getting ready to sit down to dinner, we saw Oswald get shot. The funeral was on Monday, and I remember watching it very clearly. My civics class had already planned a field trip to Washington for the following May. We saw JFK's simple gravesite surrounded by a white picket fence. Little did I know that in 1993 I would be working and living in Arlington, close enough to walk to the cemetery.
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This sounds selfish, but I am glad I was only 8 years old when this happened. As a 4th-grader I knew that JFK was President, but I had the fuzziest idea of what a President did, and my knowledge of national and international events was limited. From my observation and reading, the people who really suffered back then were adults, because they could understand the wide-ranging implications of the assassination. Had I been 28 instead of 8, I would've been traumatized; instead, I was just shocked and so were my classmates. My ignorance and naivete saved me from being more affected.