RIP JFK Nov 22, 1963

[Wayback]

46 years ago today Nov 22, 1963 (Oliver Stone's version):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBABFpAkJMM

[ggould]

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...

[RGMike]

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.

[Lightnin' Rod]

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.

[SFGuy]

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.

[Wayback]

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).

[Wayback]

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.??!! 

[ggould]

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!

[mshray]

...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.