Post #184,758
11/22/04 10:33:39 AM
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11/22/63 - Right! Where were you
—or your parents—the day the other JFK had his hat size changed by that shadowy fourth branch of government, the Lone Crazed Gunman?
I'll start: Calvert Elementary School lunch area in Woodland Hills, a then relatively tony San Fernando Valley suburb now gone seriously to seed. I am in the sixth grade, and very aware of my dignity as senior man and of my responsibility to set an example to the youngsters, so when a couple of fourth-graders stumble onto the scene weeping and wailing that the president has been killed I scold them for irresponsible rumor-mongering and, giving my public a foretaste of the keen grasp of the American scene I've demonstrated ever since, reassure them that such a scenario is impossible under our system. As I speak I notice that, behind the tykes and unseen by them, the flag is being reeled down to half-mast. "Wait here," I tell them sternly, and hurry into the school administration office to demand an explanation. I do not return to the tots.
cordially,
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Post #184,760
11/22/04 10:36:18 AM
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Too young to remember.
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Post #184,763
11/22/04 10:43:53 AM
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Ditto. ~ 23 months old.
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Post #184,787
11/22/04 11:57:02 AM
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Ditto there
Just barely 2 years old.
Not sure where my parents were. I might ask them.
Brenda
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Post #184,762
11/22/04 10:39:50 AM
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Only 3 at the time...
...so not too many memories. Do have vague recollections of the funeral procession but that's about it.
Did go to the book repository not long ago, as my son was doing a report on the subject. Worth a visit, if you're ever in Dallas.
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Post #184,807
11/22/04 1:38:36 PM
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One other tidbit
My wife went to school with a kid who's dad was the Secret Service agent that jumped on the back of the car when it started to speed away. These dudes would have been willing to take a bullet for the President, but they failed in their planning for this particular day.
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Post #184,767
11/22/04 10:51:11 AM
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10 and a half years too early.
Interestingly, I was in sixth grade when Challenger exploded...
-YendorMike
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Post #184,769
11/22/04 11:07:29 AM
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I was at work . .
. . but I took the rest of the day off to avoid the continuing drone of radio comentary (workplaces didn't have TVs in those days) which I found depressing.
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Post #184,774
11/22/04 11:25:10 AM
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In second(?) grade during story time.
My teacher at the time was one of the jewels of the profession. That she began to cry after returning from being called into the hall was absolutly devastating to me. All I knew was that *my* world was shaken upon seeing this wonderful woman in shock and tears. And then the announcement came through the intercom and I began to understand.
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Post #184,776
11/22/04 11:32:21 AM
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My parents were...
Dad in 12th grade in Holland Christian in Holland, Michigan.
Mom in 10th grade at Kentwood High School which is now Crestwood Middle School. East Kentwood High School now is the high school. These are located in Kentwood, Michigan.
My Dad, said it was a day that stood still for many people, including him. (about 10 years ago when I asked him)
My Mom just remembers sobbing and feeling heart sick. (also about 10 years ago when I asked her)
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Post #184,796
11/22/04 12:28:41 PM
8/21/07 5:53:09 AM
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Pre-birth
by about 5 months.
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
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Post #184,818
11/22/04 2:35:09 PM
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ditto
by 3 years
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Post #185,031
11/25/04 8:08:13 AM
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Ditto; ~4 mo.
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Post #185,124
11/26/04 3:26:44 PM
11/26/04 3:38:51 PM
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Pre-Birth - About 7 months - Now a question...
Are we baby boomers or busters?
I've heard the classic definition of a baby boomer as "alive when JFK was assassinated", but the statisticians say the last baby boom year was 1964.
So which are you?
I consider myself a buster, because the boomers have pretty much done it all for my age by the time I get there. It seems we get the "leftovers" of the boomer generation.
When we were young it was Rock 'N Roll, sexual freedom, Vietnam, self questioning.
When we retire it will be the bankrupt Social Security, bid up home prices, and lots of consumer goods we can't afford.
Edited by gdaustin
Nov. 26, 2004, 03:30:45 PM EST
Edited by gdaustin
Nov. 26, 2004, 03:38:51 PM EST
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Post #184,798
11/22/04 12:41:35 PM
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Re: 11/22/63 - Right! Where were you
8th grade
after lunch
speaker keeps coming on in the ceiling but shut off after a few seconds
this repeats a few times and finally we get the announcemnt that the President has been shot
a little later we hear he is dead
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Post #184,799
11/22/04 12:46:06 PM
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I was at work.
Second floor of Building 26, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. (No 2 letter abbreviations back then). Someone in the hallway broke the news. I called my wife, home with our 10 month old son, to corroborate what seemed unreal. I went home early.
Alex
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (1772-1834)
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Post #184,826
11/22/04 4:26:39 PM
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Seated in front of my mother.
I have no personal recollection of this, of course, as I was just 4. But my mother tells me that she was ironing clothes when the news on the tv came on. She began to cry and she said I looked at her with the most puzzled look she'd ever seen on my face. I then asked, "Momma, was he a friend of yours?"
bcnu,
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Post #184,832
11/22/04 7:32:59 PM
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Being as I am as old as Rand...
...I too was in 6th grade. Heard about it on the way back from lunch. Called home to get the lowdown, and talked my mom to drag our 14" Zenith B&W TV down to the school so we could watch things unfold. (Trust me , being the one who got the TV ported in was a Big Deal! back then.)
jb4
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Post #184,835
11/22/04 8:20:26 PM
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At work
at LBL. My mater called me with the initial report. We shut everything down.. for the weekend through Monday (guessed? to be the funeral, though tacit).
I've previously mentioned the surreal weekend that was, the never-before or-since competent, respectful mostly silent unfolding on the media. SO and I spent weekend glued to (at least the sound) our only Tee Vee - a Sony 5" B&W, then an engineering miracle, and ob portable.
Jacqueline Kennedy carried the entire mass of US people (and much of the world's; even the Russ sorta liked him) on her adequate shoulders, beginning with her exit from the plane bearing the body / still wearing the blood-spattered pink suit, which she had refused to change.
We began to wonder /worry W.T.F. LBJ ... would do with the reins? Already.
Answer: Iraq -I Vietnam.
But also the Civil Rights Bill which JFK couldn't manage, except In Memoriam.
The Congress Will Act sometimes for matters other than $Oil$. If shamed into it.
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Post #184,851
11/23/04 12:34:03 AM
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Wasn't around yet.
A couple years ago, though, Susan and I went to Arlington National Cemetary, and saw his tomb there - a suitably somber place to remind us of what we lost...
"Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
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Post #184,870
11/23/04 12:06:17 PM
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7th Grade
Didn't comprehend significance. Saw other classmates cry. Nuns (good ol' Catholic school) were rather stoic.
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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Post #184,997
11/25/04 12:00:09 AM
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very similar was at recess when an announcement had everyone
go back to class where a teary eyed teacher told us what happened and had us pray for the president (bad old days). We were released early. Sad doins
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Post #185,105
11/26/04 11:22:58 AM
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Not giving a monkey's, most likely.
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