Where were you and what were you doing the day that President Kennedy was shot?
(on today’s slip of paper drawn from the jar)
I was in the 4th grade, we were living in Army housing in LA (lower Alabama).
The elementary school was located in one of the housing areas. We would walk (single file in a line of course) down the sidewalk to the nearby playground for recess.
Once a week we would walk to the swimming pool and swim during recess. It was on the way back to the school from one of these walks that a lady ran out of her house and told the teacher about the assassination of President Kennedy.
When we got back to the classroom, all the teachers were in the halls talking about it, and in our class I remember some of the boys saying that since we now have no president, the Russians would be taking over the world. Boys!
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June 25, 2007 at 9:36 am
Daisy
I was too young to remember (just about to turn three). I do remember how the Kennedy family was often in the headlines, and that it seemed that this charmed family had so much more than their share of sadness.
August 13, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Photo Buffet
I was in seventh grade science class. Our teacher stopped everything, shut off the Bunsen burner, and closed his book. We waited for another announcement from our principal’s office, and within minutes the intercom crackled with the news, “President Kennedy has died.”
It was a dark day for our country. I remember my parents were both home and we all watched the funeral together on tv. They cried and I remember feeling really vulnerable that day, as if nothing would every be the same. Of course the country pulled itself together again, but that year was a shattering blow, regardless of one’s political leanings.