<< <i>Bossman88, where did you get the Treasury Department set of Kennedy halves? That is a great piece.
On a side note.....if anyone is interested in reading perhaps the definitive telling of the Kennedy assassination, check out Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy". It is a HUGE book and includes chapters where he debunks every conspiracy theory out there. The best part of the book is the section which recounts the four days beginning with the assassination and concluding with Kennedy's funeral. It is virtually a minute by minute recounting of the events of those days matching up real timelines of all related events taking place in Dallas those four days. Bugliosi has recently released "Four Days in November" which is essentially that section of the book. Really, once you start this book you won't want put it down. >>
Thanks for the recommended reading.
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I was a 35 year old electrician standing on a high scaffold installing parking lot fixtures at a new supermarket when someone below shouted the news. Dave W
I was in Earl Goodfellow's ninth grade Algebra I class when our principal Harold Voyles made the announcement and in no uncertain terms informed us that it was "no laughing matter"!
I was in third grade... in Iowa. I had just returned to school for the afternoon (always ate lunch at home two blocks away), when Mrs. Pratt abruptly left the classroom for about 10 minutes. When she returned, she announced that President Kennedy was dead (she didn't say how). One girl screamed and several others started crying. We were then asked to bow our heads for a few minutes of silence to pay our respects.
The school learned the news from my older brother who was in 5th grade. He was dawdling around after lunch and was almost late getting back to school that afternoon... but not too late to first hear the news on TV. Mom told him to tell his teacher the sad news and when he did, Miss Sampson at first didn't believe him.
I was in the 9th grade just finishing a gym class when I heard about it. It as Friday and the start of week-end whcih was usually a happy time for me.
That Friday was different ...
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It was my birthday. He was my President. As others have mentioned, his politics really didn't matter when this happened. If you've never been to Dealey Plaza, you ought to go sometime.
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The images we all saw on TV over the 4-5 days from November 22, 1963 are in my head forever as the world as i knew it stopped in sorrow.
Thanks for posting this and the photos. As I send out some checks yesterday and dated them my thoughts were taken back to that time. It's always good to reflect and remember.
Several years ago the program "Antiques Roadshow" featured an episode where JFK's official White House photographer Cecil Stoughton appeared. He had a collection of the photographs that he had taken of the Kennedy family over the short time JFK was in office. Many were well known photos and some were less famous but still quite familiar. He also told a few interesting stories....one of which invovled LBJ calling Cecil on Thanksgiving and requesting that he come immediately to the White House to take LBJ's formal portrait. The portrait shows LBJ sitting at his desk in the Oval Office with pen in hand about to sign an item laying in front of him on the desk. Cecil stated that the item that the item awaiting signing was the iconic photograph that Cecil had taken days earlier of LBJ being sworn into office on board Air Force One. Several days after the program aired I called Cecil at his home in Florida and spoke to him and his wife. He was very friendly and more than happy to answer questions and just make conversation. I suggested to him that he would have won the Pulitzer Prize for photography if Bob Jackson hadn't taken the photo of Oswald getting shot two days later, but Cecil said that he wouldn't have been eligible for the award as he wasn't a civilian at the time. Towards the end of the conversation I asked if he honored autograph requests. He said he would be happy to sign what ever I wished to send him. I had copies made of some of his great photographs and forwarded them on to him and, true to his word, they all came back signed by the man. Several months after our correspondence, he passed away. Here are some of those images.
I was a sophomore in high school, home sick in bed watching television when they broke in "with a special announcement." I think many of us lost more than a president that day.
For most of us kids, it was our first dose of real world reality. Our innocent childhoods were pretty much over at that point! Didn't really know or understand the significance at the time but like @Smudge, I'll never forget the shock and reaction of my parents and other adults at the time.
I'll go out on a limb here and say; if you were born before 1957, I know exactly where each of you were the day President Kennedy was assassinated.
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He was our President when I was born. Many decades later I was at a business meeting in Dallas, and we were at dinner. It turned out we were a half dozen blocks from the plaza, so I went to see the assignation site. It was much different than what I remember from the newsreels, and I was glad I went. Lots of people with little smarts turn it into some conspiracy. All I know is the President was gunned down in the prime of his life and that we can never have him back.
@erscolo said:
He was our President when I was born. Many decades later I was at a business meeting in Dallas, and we were at dinner. It turned out we were a half dozen blocks from the plaza, so I went to see the assignation site. It was much different than what I remember from the newsreels, and I was glad I went. Lots of people with little smarts turn it into some conspiracy. All I know is the President was gunned down in the prime of his life and that we can never have him back.
I always thought about adding Dealy Plaza to my bucket list before I die.
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I was 2…no recollection of the event but, recall my parents discussing what a great leader he was, yes he had flaws like all of us do.
Also, i cannot imagine the turmoil going through Jackie’s mind as that photo was being taken…no one should have to endure that.
I was in middle school, an announcement was made, school was let out. I went home and grieved along with the nation although I didn't realize the connection to world events until I left Vietnam and studied the politics of war. Peace Roy
@ziggy29 said:
Odd, but sad in a way, that back then people were distressed and in tears even when they weren't a huge fans of the man's politics. Today, half of the population would dance on the grave of a fallen political leader if they were in the "wrong" party. We truly live in different times.
Same here. I was in school in Fifth Grade when the Nun came in and told us. They kept a radio on in the Eight Grade room, and when He passed, I cried.
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@Namvet69 said:
I was in middle school, an announcement was made, school was let out. I went home and grieved along with the nation although I didn't realize the connection to world events until I left Vietnam and studied the politics of war. Peace Roy
@ziggy29 said:
Odd, but sad in a way, that back then people were distressed and in tears even when they weren't a huge fans of the man's politics. Today, half of the population would dance on the grave of a fallen political leader if they were in the "wrong" party. We truly live in different times.
Same here. I was in school in Fifth Grade when the Nun came in and told us. They kept a radio on in the Eight Grade room, and when He passed, I cried.
Pete
I can go to my school right now and stand in the exact place where my desk was.
Same here, the majority of us were all in school and let out early. Wish I could go back to my elementary school. It was leveled years ago and a development was put in. Where my desk was, is probably in someones living room today! 😂 🤣
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@FaberCastell said:
I was in third grade... in Iowa. I had just returned to school for the afternoon (always ate lunch at home two blocks away), when Mrs. Pratt abruptly left the classroom for about 10 minutes. When she returned, she announced that President Kennedy was dead (she didn't say how). One girl screamed and several others started crying. We were then asked to bow our heads for a few minutes of silence to pay our respects.
The school learned the news from my older brother who was in 5th grade. He was dawdling around after lunch and was almost late getting back to school that afternoon... but not too late to first hear the news on TV. Mom told him to tell his teacher the sad news and when he did, Miss Sampson at first didn't believe him.
What a tragic day for America ... and the world.
Very similar story for me. I was in second grade in Illinois. My teacher (Ms. Rebster) was late returning from lunch. When she finally arrived, she was crying and announced the news. That moment is forever frozen in time in my mind.
I developed a fascination with the assassination. I delivered a series of presentations in my college speech class and listened to anyone who had an opinion. Years later, I moved to Texas and spent many hours at the School Book Depository, the Grassy Knoll and the railroad tracks near Dealey Plaza.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I still have my doubts it was a single shooter.
Freshman in high school for me - I had gotten out of class early that afternoon because I was in the High School band and we were getting ready to board a bus to go to a rehearsal at another school for a concert that Saturday. While standing in line, we heard that Kennedy had been shot and, by the time we got to the other school, we heard the President was dead. Needless to say, the concert was postponed. Then, Sunday morning, I was watching TV with my father and saw Oswald get shot. My most vivid memory of that Sunday morning was the reaction of the TV cameraman - he kept swinging the camera shot back and forth not knowing to do.
I was in 3rd grade at School No. 9, Belleville, NJ. My younger brother and I walked home each day after school; he remembers seeing the crossing guards crying.
I was in the 8th grade at the end of a physical education class.
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@FaberCastell said:
I was in third grade... in Iowa. I had just returned to school for the afternoon (always ate lunch at home two blocks away), when Mrs. Pratt abruptly left the classroom for about 10 minutes. When she returned, she announced that President Kennedy was dead (she didn't say how). One girl screamed and several others started crying. We were then asked to bow our heads for a few minutes of silence to pay our respects.
The school learned the news from my older brother who was in 5th grade. He was dawdling around after lunch and was almost late getting back to school that afternoon... but not too late to first hear the news on TV. Mom told him to tell his teacher the sad news and when he did, Miss Sampson at first didn't believe him.
What a tragic day for America ... and the world.
Very similar story for me. I was in second grade in Illinois. My teacher (Ms. Rebster) was late returning from lunch. When she finally arrived, she was crying and announced the news. That moment is forever frozen in time in my mind.
I developed a fascination with the assassination. I delivered a series of presentations in my college speech class and listened to anyone who had an opinion. Years later, I moved to Texas and spent many hours at the School Book Depository, the Grassy Knoll and the railroad tracks near Dealey Plaza.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I still have my doubts it was a single shooter.
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@erscolo said:
He was our President when I was born. Many decades later I was at a business meeting in Dallas, and we were at dinner. It turned out we were a half dozen blocks from the plaza, so I went to see the assignation site. It was much different than what I remember from the newsreels, and I was glad I went. Lots of people with little smarts turn it into some conspiracy. All I know is the President was gunned down in the prime of his life and that we can never have him back.
I always thought about adding Dealy Plaza to my bucket list before I die.
You should. I did. A surreal experience.
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@erscolo said:
He was our President when I was born. Many decades later I was at a business meeting in Dallas, and we were at dinner. It turned out we were a half dozen blocks from the plaza, so I went to see the assignation site. It was much different than what I remember from the newsreels, and I was glad I went. Lots of people with little smarts turn it into some conspiracy. All I know is the President was gunned down in the prime of his life and that we can never have him back.
I always thought about adding Dealy Plaza to my bucket list before I die.
You should. I did. A surreal experience.
Yes, I imagine it would be. We've all seen it so many times on TV, we probable have a mental image burned into our minds. It might be a sense of dejavu. Like we have already been there!
I had a very similar experience back in the 90's. I was in Bavarian, Germany. We had tickets to see Phil Collins in concert at the Munich Olympic Stadium. Parking was about 1/2 mile away from. We had to walk through a German community to get to the stadium.
We turned a corner and I stopped dead in my tracks!! My wife asked, what was wrong? As I looked around, I said: I've been here before!! She thought I was crazy!! At that very moment, I didn't know what it was. But I knew I had seen this place somewhere before. As we walked I was looking around, it hit me. This place was the Olympic village during the 72' Olympics. Today, it's just a German apartment complex.
Men, I need to tell you...........that was eerie!! Those images on TV of the terror attack were burned into my mind!!
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In a way; I am glad that I was not alive, yet, to experience such a horrific tragedy.
The first big news thing that I can remember was likely Watergate.
I remember being very ANGRY on 9/11/2001, at the days events. I was a 35 y/o returning adult college student. What made it WORSE was that many of the traditional students were jubilant, since classes were canceled for the rest of the day and they didn't have to attend........They just didn't get it...Very sad.
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I remember the day vividly. I was only 6 years, but I remember seeing every adult I knew sobbing. My teachers (mainly nuns), my parents, my neighbors, etc. It was a confusing time. I wasn't sure what a 'President' was at the time, but I knew by everyones reaction, this was a HUGE DEAL. What a sad time.
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On this date November 25 in 1963, the funeral and graveside services for President Kennedy. From "Four Days", compiled by UPI and the American Heritage Magazine.
I think it not so much a matter of where we were at the time of this horrific event, but rather the change in psyche of seemingly the whole country and the loss of naiveté - welcome to the "modern" world. IMHO, the entire world was a different place after Kennedy's assassination. So much has devolved so rapidly since that day.
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<< <i>Bossman88, where did you get the Treasury Department set of Kennedy halves? That is a great piece.
On a side note.....if anyone is interested in reading perhaps the definitive telling of the Kennedy assassination, check out Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy". It is a HUGE book and includes chapters where he debunks every conspiracy theory out there. The best part of the book is the section which recounts the four days beginning with the assassination and concluding with Kennedy's funeral. It is virtually a minute by minute recounting of the events of those days matching up real timelines of all related events taking place in Dallas those four days. Bugliosi has recently released "Four Days in November" which is essentially that section of the book. Really, once you start this book you won't want put it down. >>
Thanks for the recommended reading.
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Got home and heard he was dead.
I also remember watching Oswald get plugged I think it was two days later?
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I was home on leave from the Air Force.
The school learned the news from my older brother who was in 5th grade. He was dawdling around after lunch and was almost late getting back to school that afternoon... but not too late to first hear the news on TV. Mom told him to tell his teacher the sad news and when he did, Miss Sampson at first didn't believe him.
What a tragic day for America ... and the world.
That Friday was different ...
I knew it would happen.
The images we all saw on TV over the 4-5 days from November 22, 1963 are in my head forever as the world as i knew it stopped in sorrow.
Thanks for posting this and the photos. As I send out some checks yesterday and dated them my thoughts were taken back to that time. It's always good to reflect and remember.
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Several days after the program aired I called Cecil at his home in Florida and spoke to him and his wife. He was very friendly and more than happy to answer questions and just make conversation. I suggested to him that he would have won the Pulitzer Prize for photography if Bob Jackson hadn't taken the photo of Oswald getting shot two days later, but Cecil said that he wouldn't have been eligible for the award as he wasn't a civilian at the time. Towards the end of the conversation I asked if he honored autograph requests. He said he would be happy to sign what ever I wished to send him. I had copies made of some of his great photographs and forwarded them on to him and, true to his word, they all came back signed by the man. Several months after our correspondence, he passed away. Here are some of those images.
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My favorite book about that day. I highly recommend it.
Second grade, got home and it was on the radio. Mom was crying.
For most of us kids, it was our first dose of real world reality. Our innocent childhoods were pretty much over at that point! Didn't really know or understand the significance at the time but like @Smudge, I'll never forget the shock and reaction of my parents and other adults at the time.
I'll go out on a limb here and say; if you were born before 1957, I know exactly where each of you were the day President Kennedy was assassinated.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
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He was our President when I was born. Many decades later I was at a business meeting in Dallas, and we were at dinner. It turned out we were a half dozen blocks from the plaza, so I went to see the assignation site. It was much different than what I remember from the newsreels, and I was glad I went. Lots of people with little smarts turn it into some conspiracy. All I know is the President was gunned down in the prime of his life and that we can never have him back.
I always thought about adding Dealy Plaza to my bucket list before I die.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
I was 2…no recollection of the event but, recall my parents discussing what a great leader he was, yes he had flaws like all of us do.
Also, i cannot imagine the turmoil going through Jackie’s mind as that photo was being taken…no one should have to endure that.
I was in middle school, an announcement was made, school was let out. I went home and grieved along with the nation although I didn't realize the connection to world events until I left Vietnam and studied the politics of war. Peace Roy
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Same here. I was in school in Fifth Grade when the Nun came in and told us. They kept a radio on in the Eight Grade room, and when He passed, I cried.
Pete
I can go to my school right now and stand in the exact place where my desk was.
Same here, the majority of us were all in school and let out early. Wish I could go back to my elementary school. It was leveled years ago and a development was put in. Where my desk was, is probably in someones living room today! 😂 🤣
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Very similar story for me. I was in second grade in Illinois. My teacher (Ms. Rebster) was late returning from lunch. When she finally arrived, she was crying and announced the news. That moment is forever frozen in time in my mind.
I developed a fascination with the assassination. I delivered a series of presentations in my college speech class and listened to anyone who had an opinion. Years later, I moved to Texas and spent many hours at the School Book Depository, the Grassy Knoll and the railroad tracks near Dealey Plaza.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I still have my doubts it was a single shooter.
Tim
For me that was the year before Kindergarten so I probably was at home.
Totally ignorant regarding stuff like this.
8 years old so also in third grade, Right?
Freshman in high school for me - I had gotten out of class early that afternoon because I was in the High School band and we were getting ready to board a bus to go to a rehearsal at another school for a concert that Saturday. While standing in line, we heard that Kennedy had been shot and, by the time we got to the other school, we heard the President was dead. Needless to say, the concert was postponed. Then, Sunday morning, I was watching TV with my father and saw Oswald get shot. My most vivid memory of that Sunday morning was the reaction of the TV cameraman - he kept swinging the camera shot back and forth not knowing to do.
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Seeing Oswald getting shot on live TV was shocking at the time!! Those days of being shocked by world events, are long gone!
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I cannot forget the kid who laughed when we heard in class.
I was in 3rd grade at School No. 9, Belleville, NJ. My younger brother and I walked home each day after school; he remembers seeing the crossing guards crying.
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I was in the 8th grade at the end of a physical education class.
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You should. I did. A surreal experience.
Well, at least one "hobo".
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Yes, I imagine it would be. We've all seen it so many times on TV, we probable have a mental image burned into our minds. It might be a sense of dejavu. Like we have already been there!
I had a very similar experience back in the 90's. I was in Bavarian, Germany. We had tickets to see Phil Collins in concert at the Munich Olympic Stadium. Parking was about 1/2 mile away from. We had to walk through a German community to get to the stadium.
We turned a corner and I stopped dead in my tracks!! My wife asked, what was wrong? As I looked around, I said: I've been here before!! She thought I was crazy!! At that very moment, I didn't know what it was. But I knew I had seen this place somewhere before. As we walked I was looking around, it hit me. This place was the Olympic village during the 72' Olympics. Today, it's just a German apartment complex.
Men, I need to tell you...........that was eerie!! Those images on TV of the terror attack were burned into my mind!!
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
This was 3 years before I was born.
In a way; I am glad that I was not alive, yet, to experience such a horrific tragedy.
The first big news thing that I can remember was likely Watergate.
I remember being very ANGRY on 9/11/2001, at the days events. I was a 35 y/o returning adult college student. What made it WORSE was that many of the traditional students were jubilant, since classes were canceled for the rest of the day and they didn't have to attend........They just didn't get it...Very sad.
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I have a recollection of the disturbing event- as well as the aftermath which is disturbing
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Today's academia! Sad indeed!!
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I remember the day vividly. I was only 6 years, but I remember seeing every adult I knew sobbing. My teachers (mainly nuns), my parents, my neighbors, etc. It was a confusing time. I wasn't sure what a 'President' was at the time, but I knew by everyones reaction, this was a HUGE DEAL. What a sad time.
Dave
Yes, and that was over 21 years ago. I’ll go out on a limb and imagine that it has only gotten worse!
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On this date November 25 in 1963, the funeral and graveside services for President Kennedy. From "Four Days", compiled by UPI and the American Heritage Magazine.
I think it not so much a matter of where we were at the time of this horrific event, but rather the change in psyche of seemingly the whole country and the loss of naiveté - welcome to the "modern" world. IMHO, the entire world was a different place after Kennedy's assassination. So much has devolved so rapidly since that day.
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I remember all the schools closing for the day and remember seeing it on the news. Walter Chronkite to