They say its one of the things you remember...so where were YOU when Kennedy was shot??
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November 22, 1963 was a day that may people have lasting memories of. Together with Sept. 11, 2001, it is said that all of us who lived during those days will always remember where we were when we heard the news.
As a 10 year old, in 6th grade, I had just gotten my first hunting license, and a cut down .410 mossberg shotgun about 2 weeks prior. I was sitting toward the front of the room, near the door, in Mr. Haaks classroom. One of the teachers came in, and told the class what had just happened. All the kids got up, and milled around, talking with each other. Young unsuspecting me...my first thought was that he had gotten shot while hunting. So....soon afterwards my view of just how evil people can be was formed.
God Rest his Soul...he was a good man.
To keep the "coin" in the post, These are part of the of the bank roll of Kennedy Halves that my Mother bought the day they came out. There was a line at the bank.
As a 10 year old, in 6th grade, I had just gotten my first hunting license, and a cut down .410 mossberg shotgun about 2 weeks prior. I was sitting toward the front of the room, near the door, in Mr. Haaks classroom. One of the teachers came in, and told the class what had just happened. All the kids got up, and milled around, talking with each other. Young unsuspecting me...my first thought was that he had gotten shot while hunting. So....soon afterwards my view of just how evil people can be was formed.
God Rest his Soul...he was a good man.
To keep the "coin" in the post, These are part of the of the bank roll of Kennedy Halves that my Mother bought the day they came out. There was a line at the bank.
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Ken
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Got caught as the whole world came to a stop and my parents came home to
watch TV.
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As a follow on, as we walked to school the next week, some older kid pointed out a house and said the guy that killed Kennedy lived there! Well, he was older than us, and obviously in the know, so we ran like hell past that house the rest of the week!
One from that city.
A parent came into the school and I pretended that I was standing there in case anyone came into the school to tell us.
We had heard about it 20 minutes sooner over the intercom when the reverend mother told us.
2 days later I was watching TV and saw Ruby kill Oswald live, I went into the kitchen to tell everyone (it was a Sunday and 10 to 15 of us were
at my grandmothers house) no one believed me. I simply said "they just shot Oswald too" I was met with 'Get out of here'
30 minutes later I was on the stoop eating macaroni. The kitchen was able to sit maybe 6 adults so the cousins all had to sit where ever.
Of course their was a pecking order by age so I usually found my self on the steps leading up to the crapper. While the elder cousins had the choice seats
in the back room.
Oh I miss those days!
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I was in the shower the morning of 9-11. I came out and my wife at the time had a video of a burning skyscraper on the TV. I thought it weird that she was watching a movie at that time of day. Then I realized it was live and unfolding still. I stayed home with her and my 1 yr old son that day.
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bar trying to catch what ever we could on there TV..Sad Day.
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I remember the women who had been my first grade teacher saying, “This day will go down history like the day when Lincoln was shot.” On my way to a Friday afternoon music lesson, my mother and I were listening to the car radio. I thought that modern medical science could save John Kennedy. Of course it couldn’t, and he could not have been saved today.
The next day our high school went through with an exhibition football game that had been scheduled. My father was incensed at that because most every other sporting event, included virtually entire college football schedule had been canceled.
It rained that Saturday, and I was in the school band. We played some hymns from under the shelter of the gymnasium reception and ticket hall at half time. We did not perform our scheduled half time show in part because the band director did not want to mess up our almost new uniforms in the rain. I think that he thought that it was not appropriate to have held that game also.
I still remember watching TV as the caisson bearing Kennedy’s body made its way through Washington and out to Arlington Cemetery. I remember watching Mrs. Kennedy and the remarks my parents made about how dignified she was in her grief. Those days are probably my strongest sustained memories of events that covered four days in the 1960s.
Home on leave from the military for Thanksgiving.
through because the circuits stayed busy. We spent the weekend glued to the TV in the dorm lounge.
The dealer I purchased it from in Iowa bought it from a collector. It's clad, but it's really an awesome piece.
Apparently it was found in a 1974 D bag of Kennedy halves. Is this possible ? Someone answer these numismatic questions. PMs are welcome if I am out of touch posting this here.
Sorry if I derailed your thread, bro.
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A year later I remember walking to the bank to buy my first Kennedy half.
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