Its funny the things you remember about that weekend and that Friday. My father had been killed 5 years earlier and the scene of John John saluting his father will be forever burned into my memory, also the debate about canceling the NFL games, I even remember the game Bears were to play in Pittsburg.
The entire country was in a mindset of mourning not just because it was an attractive family with 2 little kids but the fact that OUR President had been shot. Everyone took that to heart regardless of politics, color, religion, age etc. My how things have changed eh.
DANG, Coinmaster1229!! I read thru this entire thread and ALMOST made it to the end, where I planned on leaving a similar response (and likely suffer the wrath of fellow Forum members for an exhibition of poor taste), but you beat me to it!! (probably for the best............)
But here's where I was for that moment in time, along with some others also referred to............
I was only 5 years old, so likely Kindergarten, but it was also my younger brother's 1st birthday weekend. We all sat around the TV, and I can remember wondering why nobody was celebrating with a party. I think this is why my younger brother has always felt slighted...........
I really don't recall the MLK assassination, but when RFK was shot, I heard it while heading to school & turned around & ran home to tell my parents. They replied "no, son, JFK was shot 5 years ago.....". I then broke the news to them that it was RFK! Back then, not much radio or TV listening/viewing, and the Phila Bulletin was an afternoon paper, so they hadn't heard yet....
I don't recall (not as "pivotal" events in my life or was too young to understand) the Apollo 1 fire, the Kent State Massacre, the Wallace shooting, or Squeaky Frome's attempt............
Nixon's resignation speech: I disliked the man intensely, and was rooting all along for him to get taken down... the fact that he left aroud my birthday was an added bonus. History has since been kinder to the man.......
Apollo 11 moon landing: Watching a B&W set late night/early morning in awe.
Challenger disaster: I was working at CVS as a retail manager, heard the news as I was cashing-out a drawer, and was sickened the rest of the day. Only felt worse when we all found out how NASA ignored all the warnings.
9/11: I was telecommuting & got an IM from a colleague to check out the news - - a plane had hit the tower. I assumed it was a light plane, like in the past with the Empire State Bldg, but turned on the news. I never left the TV the rest of the day, feeling a terrible combination of fear, dread, waiting for the other shoe to drop, and a terrible sense of loss of any security I had known. I also then went thru the market turmoil that resulted. Suddenly, it was up to me as a parent to tell our kids the news and put it in a context that they could understand and handle without being completely frightened & paranoid - - that would be left to me and my peers...........
A note on 9/11: As my company also had buildings in the area in NY, we started hearing updates from fellow employees about being evacuated or some of their buildings being hit by debris during the collapses & being destroyed eventually themselves.... As I worked in Phila some of the time in another skyscraper, needless to say I didn't go back into the office for quite some time, and still don't like to....... I was pleased in a warped way when Comcast built their taller tower, since now THEY would become a more likely target!! - - although still just across the street........
I wasn't to be born for nearly another 30 years, so my memory is a bit vague. The only experience I've had that was like that was September 11th. I was on a field trip in 6th grade on a bus when our teacher said that some jets had bombed New York...Nobody really knew what was going on...It was quite scary.
<<I really don't remember. I was probably at work. >>
I, too, was at work, but I remember that day. I had left my desk to consult with another department. A co-worker from my group caught up to us and gave us the news. That was the first anybody in the building had heard about it. He had gotten the news from my wife who had called me, but, of course I was away from my desk at that point. One of my very early thoughts was "here we go again, any president elected in a year divisible by 20 since 1860 dies in office." I am delighted that the 1980 and 2000 folk survived.
The events of that day completely surpressed my memories of the Thursday night network news. Fast forward until January 2000. I was at the Texas Book depository musuem. I was surprised to hear how recently Oswald's last work order had been found abandoned in the building. They showed the newscast from Nov 21, 1963. How the memories came flooding back! Kennedy was in Fort Worth and was presented with a Texas ten gallon hat. The crowd hollared for him to try it on. He refused. He said come to the White House Monday and he would be wearing it. I reacted badly to that statement- fat chance!, I thought. I resolved to watch the Monday news and see if it happened. Then I never thought of it again 36 years plus.
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The entire country was in a mindset of mourning not just because it was an attractive family with 2 little kids but the fact that OUR President had been shot. Everyone took that to heart regardless of politics, color, religion, age etc. My how things have changed eh.
But here's where I was for that moment in time, along with some others also referred to............
I was only 5 years old, so likely Kindergarten, but it was also my younger brother's 1st birthday weekend. We all sat around the TV, and I can remember wondering why nobody was celebrating with a party. I think this is why my younger brother has always felt slighted...........
I really don't recall the MLK assassination, but when RFK was shot, I heard it while heading to school & turned around & ran home to tell my parents. They replied "no, son, JFK was shot 5 years ago.....". I then broke the news to them that it was RFK! Back then, not much radio or TV listening/viewing, and the Phila Bulletin was an afternoon paper, so they hadn't heard yet....
I don't recall (not as "pivotal" events in my life or was too young to understand) the Apollo 1 fire, the Kent State Massacre, the Wallace shooting, or Squeaky Frome's attempt............
Nixon's resignation speech: I disliked the man intensely, and was rooting all along for him to get taken down... the fact that he left aroud my birthday was an added bonus. History has since been kinder to the man.......
Apollo 11 moon landing: Watching a B&W set late night/early morning in awe.
Challenger disaster: I was working at CVS as a retail manager, heard the news as I was cashing-out a drawer, and was sickened the rest of the day. Only felt worse when we all found out how NASA ignored all the warnings.
9/11: I was telecommuting & got an IM from a colleague to check out the news - - a plane had hit the tower. I assumed it was a light plane, like in the past with the Empire State Bldg, but turned on the news. I never left the TV the rest of the day, feeling a terrible combination of fear, dread, waiting for the other shoe to drop, and a terrible sense of loss of any security I had known. I also then went thru the market turmoil that resulted. Suddenly, it was up to me as a parent to tell our kids the news and put it in a context that they could understand and handle without being completely frightened & paranoid - - that would be left to me and my peers...........
A note on 9/11: As my company also had buildings in the area in NY, we started hearing updates from fellow employees about being evacuated or some of their buildings being hit by debris during the collapses & being destroyed eventually themselves.... As I worked in Phila some of the time in another skyscraper, needless to say I didn't go back into the office for quite some time, and still don't like to....... I was pleased in a warped way when Comcast built their taller tower, since now THEY would become a more likely target!! - - although still just across the street........
I cried. Never, ever forget. I was 5.
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<< <i>I was 2. Don't remember anything about the actual day. I had a friend a few months younger who said he remember his mom crying that day. >>
Likewise, so I have very vague memories, if any, of the event.
I was told that I was at the hospital with my younger brother, who turned three months old that day and was getting a checkup.
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I was probably at work. >>
I, too, was at work, but I remember that day. I had left my desk to consult with another department. A co-worker from my group caught up to us and gave us the news. That was the first anybody in the building had heard about it. He had gotten the news from my wife who had called me, but, of course I was away from my desk at that point. One of my very early thoughts was "here we go again, any president elected in a year divisible by 20 since 1860 dies in office." I am delighted that the 1980 and 2000 folk survived.
The events of that day completely surpressed my memories of the Thursday night network news. Fast forward until January 2000. I was at the Texas Book depository musuem. I was surprised to hear how recently Oswald's last work order had been found abandoned in the building. They showed the newscast from Nov 21, 1963. How the memories came flooding back! Kennedy was in Fort Worth and was presented with a Texas ten gallon hat. The crowd hollared for him to try it on. He refused. He said come to the White House Monday and he would be wearing it. I reacted badly to that statement- fat chance!, I thought. I resolved to watch the Monday news and see if it happened. Then I never thought of it again 36 years plus.