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Wayne180d 
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 Posted: 25 Nov 2020 at 10:38pm |
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I was in Mrs. Englehart's 3rd grade class when the school secretary came to our room, crying and announced that Kennedy had been assassinated. We did something you would never be allowed to do today. She had us bow our heads and pray.
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GARY(OH/IN)
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Posted: 25 Nov 2020 at 11:21pm |
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I was in Mrs. Gels southmore english class and apparently didn't learn to spell there from the squiggly lines above. On a lighter note she was a notorious bra strap adjuster and I had been in enough trouble to warrant a seat right next to her desk so I wouldn't miss any of the action. he-he
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LionelinKY
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Posted: 25 Nov 2020 at 11:38pm |
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8 years before I was born but my parents never forgot about it. Even my FIL/MIL still talked about that day many years later when their daughter and I started dating as teenagers.
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snowman(MI)
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Posted: 26 Nov 2020 at 4:48am |
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I was in first grade country school, lady driving by the school stopped and shared the news she had heard on her car's radio with the teacher that the president had been shot
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B26240
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Posted: 26 Nov 2020 at 6:19am |
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I was in high school study hall and they turned on the pa system and we listened to the radio for a while. Unforgettable.
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Gary
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Posted: 26 Nov 2020 at 7:55am |
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Was in a High School class. Another teacher came to the room, opened the door, and made the announcement
"President Kennedy has just been shot"
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Tbone95
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Posted: 26 Nov 2020 at 8:37am |
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I was a few years shy of being born, but here’s how time messes with you looking back.
I was in high school in the 80’s, and in ‘83 I wrote a paper on Kennedy in advanced composition class, “1000 Days and 20 Years”. Named for the length of his term and the time that had passed since the assassination. It was strange at the time how it was still such a big deal for most people but because it was before I was born, it was sooooo long ago I didn’t understand why. Now, it’s basically the same time frame now back to 9/11, and I remember everything about that day.
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orangereborn
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Posted: 26 Nov 2020 at 3:49pm |
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Yes I remember where I was...I was at Gehl Mfg, West Bend WI getting a load of Gehl equipment.. They had hurried to get me loaded.. I think it had to do with noon hour. I left and a short time later I stopped at Beaver Dam WI for fuel and snack. The attendant came out (yes that was when they pumped your fuel) with tears and said "isn't that terrible what they did to the president?" Others were standing around, hugging and sobbing...I can say that same emotion hit again when Linda called from work on Sept 11, 2001 and said "turn on the TV"....Dale
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BobPaulusCentrOH
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Posted: 26 Nov 2020 at 4:31pm |
I was in eighth grade in a school that had no outside communications. One of the parents drove down and told us on recess. There are lots of theories, and lots of suspects. Jackie Kennedy, herself, probably has the most probable story of who did it. I am sure that we all felt like the people of Lincoln's time, that the world had come to an end.
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Bob-Maine
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Posted: 27 Nov 2020 at 8:39am |
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I had just started my career in the Engineering Dept. of the D&H railroad. On the day that President Kennedy was killed, I was part of a survey party doing some work at Lookout Junction, PA, just south of Carbondale. A man came walking down the track carrying a bucket. He was picking up pieces of coal to heat his house (this was a very poor area). He gave us the news. We worked all day and drove back to Albany NY that night. There was no radio in the railroad vehicle so we didn't get the details till we turned in the van and talked with the railroad police officer on duty. Not many things are as clear in my mind as that day. Bob@allisdowneast
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Posted: 27 Nov 2020 at 6:07pm |
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I was in 3'rd year high school being bored as usual!
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