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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: Wayback on November 22, 2009, 01:27:20 PM
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46 years ago today Nov 22, 1963 (Oliver Stone's version):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBABFpAkJMM
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46 years ago today Nov 22, 1963 (Oliver Stone's version):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBABFpAkJMM
I guess some of us are old enough to remember, not all of us. I was at John F Kennedy Jr. High School (1st in the nation so named) when it happened. I was waiting to get into Mr. Jones science class when I heard something on the PA speakers outside. I couldn't quite make it out. Perhaps some kind of accident at the shop class...
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I was in 3rd grade -- Catholic school, so they announced it over the public-address system and then we prayed the rosary for an hour and went home.
The penultimate episode of Mad Men a couple weeks ago dealt with that day and (as expected from that brilliant show) did a terrific job.
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I don't remember much the day it happened. I was just 4 years old, not in school yet. But I do remember the funeral on TV, those images stayed with me.
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This happened 4 and half years before I was born (barely alive before King was assassinated). I do remember reading about this in history class.
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46 years ago Nov 22, 1963 (Oliver Stone's version):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBABFpAkJMM
I was 5, attending kindergarten, old enough to know something was seriously wrong (from the behavior of my parents and other older folks).
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46 years ago today Nov 22, 1963 (Oliver Stone's version):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBABFpAkJMM
I guess some of us are old enough to remember, not all of us. I was at John F Kennedy Jr. High School (1st in the nation so named) when it happened. I was waiting to get into Mr. Jones science class when I heard something on the PA speakers outside. I couldn't quite make it out. Perhaps some kind of accident at the shop class...
Your high school was named after John F Kennedy Jr.??!! ;)
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46 years ago today Nov 22, 1963 (Oliver Stone's version):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBABFpAkJMM
I guess some of us are old enough to remember, not all of us. I was at John F Kennedy Jr. High School (1st in the nation so named) when it happened. I was waiting to get into Mr. Jones science class when I heard something on the PA speakers outside. I couldn't quite make it out. Perhaps some kind of accident at the shop class...
Your high school was named after John F Kennedy Jr.??!! ;)
well, seeing as I'm extremely gullible, I think I get the joke, but yes, it was a Junior High School in Cupertino. When they were building it, they decided to name it after whoever won the election. I could have attended Richard M Nixon Junior High but for the hands of fate!
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...I could have attended Richard M Nixon Junior High but for the hands of fate!
fate, or the fact that the Mayor Daley machine swung Illinois by getting nearly 100% turnout from Chicago's cemeteries. (or so the story goes).
I was 8 1/2 months old & we lived a block off of El Camino in Burlingame. I don't remember anything of course, but according to my folks this was the day I took my first steps. They'd been out when they heard the news & rushed home to turn on the TV. My mom set me on my feet just inside the door, and up to that point I would always plop down by myself. But on this day I apparently decided to wander into the bedroom, and when my mom turned around a moment later to check on me I was not in sight. She screamed, which nearly gave my dad a heart attack, and when they looked in the bedroom there I was, standing by myself several feet from anything by which I might have pulled myself up.