Where Were You?
@LeaPea2417 (37379)
Toccoa, Georgia
November 22, 2015 11:02am CST
Where were you (or were you even born yet) when former president John F Kennedy was assassinated 52 years ago today, November 22, 1963?
I personally was in the womb. My Mother was 4 months pregnant with me. She was teaching elementary school and she told me that as she was teaching that day, that either the Principle or another teacher came into her class room and told her and the class that the president had been shot and killed. She said it upset her so much that she almost felt like she could have had a miscarriage! (luckily she didn't)
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
22 Nov 15
10th grade art class in New Jersey. I even remember what I was working on at the time.
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@LeaPea2417 (37379)
• Toccoa, Georgia
22 Nov 15
Yes, it is just like how I can remember so many details as to what I was doing on the day of 9/11 when I got the news about that sad event.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
23 Nov 15
@LeaPea2417 Its a shame we have to remember such sad times.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
23 Nov 15
@AbbyGreenhill
It is very sad to remember when John F Kennedy was shot and when 9/11 happened and now it is happening all over again only in France this time.
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@xFiacre (13148)
• Ireland
22 Nov 15
I was about 5 years old and I remember being brought downstairs wrapped in a towel after a bath when Ruby shot that other guy and I was awfully confused because we had just borrowed our uncles black and white TV and this had happened inside it and there was a woman called Jackie and my uncle was called Jackie and it was all too much for me.
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@LeaPea2417 (37379)
• Toccoa, Georgia
22 Nov 15
Yes, my parents said how shocking it was to see Ruby shoot Oswald on live TV.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
23 Nov 15
@LeaPea2417
I saw that also and you also was terrible to see.
@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
22 Nov 15
I was 7 years old living in a very remote province in the Philippines..I heard John F. Kennedy's assassination from the adults who gathered around the radio all day for almost a week. The adults were all very sad it made me feel very insecure..
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
22 Nov 15
I was in the Philippines and in the elementary grades.I think I was in grade 5 at that time.
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
22 Nov 15
I was sitting behind John Lewis in Mrs. Kato's English class at James Monroe High School in Sepulveda, California.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
22 Nov 15
@LeaPea2417 I was in science class in middle school in Miami, Florida. Some things you just don't forget.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
22 Nov 15
I remember very clearly I was at home and had a baby to care for with the TV on I heard about it on there and then my mother called from another town and asked me if I had heard the news and about that time we both started crying and had to hang up the phone. It was an awful shock for the whole Country.
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@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
23 Nov 15
I was 27--living in New York--working as a waiter at The Brass Rail--the city came to a stop!
@wetnosedogs (1533)
• United States
22 Nov 15
I was in school. Glad your mom didn't have a miscarriage.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
23 Nov 15
I was in the 7th grade at the time @LeaPea2417 . I remember the principal coming over the loud speaker telling us. Everyone was stunned.
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