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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 2:04am » |
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Alright, all you old farts, where were you, and what were you doing 40 years ago today? Most of us remember exactly where we were and what we were doing.
Me? I was in study class with Mr. Cavanaugh, in the 8th grade. He was called out into the hall, and was told what had happened. He came into the classroom, with tears in his eyes, he told us about our president.
I can remember so clearly the shock, sorrow, and fury of the people in our small town. The television coverage. The look on Jackie's face, while witnessing the swearing in of LBJ. The sight of John-john saluting as his father's casket went by. Ruby shooting Oswald.
So many memories. I can clearly remember so much of that horrible time.
So where were you?
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #1 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 3:21am » |
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John H. Reagan High School....Houston, Texas
10th grade.......Art Class......Teacher was Ms. Moore
Remember it like it was yesterday!!!! 
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #2 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 7:00am » |
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Shitting in my diaper.....LOL
You old farts...... 
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #3 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 8:48am » |
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....hmm, the end of innocence:
-the sophomore French Lab at Midland School, Los Olivos, California, (teacher: Mr. Rhodes), which, strangely enough, is not far from JackoWhacko's Neverland...
...not a conspiracy?....BIG hmmmmmmm
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #4 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 9:03am » |
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on Nov 22nd, 2003, 7:00am, jonny wrote:Shitting in my diaper.....LOL
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So you have been doing that for a long time ... Hmmmmmm .........    
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #5 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 9:04am » |
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This happened before my time! But I can tell you where my mom, her best friend, and one of my best friends were. I can tell you where I was when Elvis died, JFK Jr., and John Ritter.
My mom has told me numerous times about the day Kennedy was shot. She has about 5 books on it and all of the different theories. She often wondered how Jackie got through the whole thing after her husband being shot right beside her.
Very sad time for America.
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #6 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 12:36pm » |
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I was very young, I had no concept
of what was happening/had happened
until many years later.
3 lives taken...
(JFK, Robert K, MLKJr.)
sad time in America.
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #7 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 12:40pm » |
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Sophomore…..Boulder City High School….Mr. Hinton’s History class.
We got the rest of the day off.
When I was in Vietnam my Commanding Officer was Col. (Dr.) Pierre Finck. He was part of the team that did the autopsy on Kennedy. He didn’t agree with the other pathologists and refused to change his report to agree with the “Official” report. He was sent to Vietnam and told his retirement was soon to follow.
I also remember where I was when Elvis croaked.
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #8 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 1:59pm » |
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Yep I remember.
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #9 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 2:26pm » |
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Watching "Divorce Court" on TV, when they interrupted the program (never did find out how THAT divorce came out) and made the annoucement that JFK had been "shot". Thirty minutes later - they announced that he was dead.
I sat in shock for hours waiting - I don't know for what - maybe for them to announce that it was a gag or something. But when my roommate came in from work that afternoon, I was still sitting in front of the TV. By then it had registered and I was crying.
later that night, my roommate and I went to our local "Cheers" bar to just be around other people.
It WAS the end of innocence and no, I'll never forget it. Every year, it all comes back - just like it was yesterday.
And YES, before any of you "younguns" say anything - I AM an OLD person with "vivid" memories of my lost youth........ That was the day most of us had to grow up for real.
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #10 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 3:17pm » |
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I was in front of the tv my mom was watching As the World Turns and I was waiting to go to afternoon session of Kindergarten... believe it or not I remember it like yesterday and I was 5 years old...I was the one that told my mom because she was in the other room... and at 5 I also remember feeling the heartbreak for John-John when he saluted the casket carrying his Father.
No one sheltered us like they do to kids now and life was good... thanks for remembering this fellow Bostonian ,and remember "Ask not what your country can do for you...Ask what you can do for your country"
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #11 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 4:18pm » |
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7th grade, history, Mr. Mulholland. Even the class bully cried.
CH came along 33 yrs later,
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #12 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 4:43pm » |
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Fact:
100 percent of the people that answered C'Chuck's question admit to remembering the Kennedy assasasanation.
Fact:
100 persent of the people that answered C'Chuck's question also admit to having Clusterheadaches.
Conclusion:
Kennedys cause clusters. 
Hey................it's better than the guy that said Jello was the cause. 
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #13 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 6:22pm » |
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on Nov 22nd, 2003, 7:00am, jonny wrote:Shitting in my diaper.....LOL
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Hell, jonny, I was already smokin' cigarettes...still am. Are you still pootin' your britches....
Serious....I'll never forget the day or the days that followed. I've often wondered how history would have read had he lived.
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #14 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 10:42pm » |
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I was 17 in high school print shop. Mr. Joy left the room, came back and they plugged in the PA system to the radio which played the rest of the afternoon. The one thing I remember was the dead silence. Nearly 2,000 kids walked to their next class without saying a word. We sat in front to the TV all weekend.
Lots of younger types don't understand what the big deal was with the Kennedys. Aside from being so different and young, they were FUNNY. There was hilarity at news conferences and many of them.
Everybody had his version of the Kennedy accent. You heard it everywhere. Even my dad, the staunch Republican, had one. They made politics fun.
It was very different
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #15 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 11:17pm » |
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on Nov 22nd, 2003, 10:42pm, Charlie wrote:
Lots of younger types don't understand what the big deal was with the Kennedys. Aside from being so different and young, they were FUNNY. There was hilarity at news conferences and many of them.
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Right on Charlie..... Even if you didn't like them -- you loved them. Weird but true. Things haven't been the same since....
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #16 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 11:24pm » |
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I remember the minute they announced it at my school..I was in the auditorium and suddenly after the announcement everyone including myself, starting crying..it was such a sad time... nancyc
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #17 on: Nov 23rd, 2003, 12:52am » |
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I was in the third grade in Mt Sterling IL, Mrs Moore's class. The thing I remember the most was after Igot home that day and my Dad came home. Dad HATED JFK because of the Bay of Pigs, and never had any good thing to say about him. When Dad came in the door that evening he was crying, something I had never seen before. I asked him what was wrong and he said "President Kennedy has been shot." I asked why he was crying because he hated JFK so badly. He said something that has molded my outlook on life a lot. He said, "Yes, but he was MY president, and the president of MY country." That has meant more to me in the last forty years as I have shaped my political views and mylove for America than anything else.
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #18 on: Nov 24th, 2003, 12:06pm » |
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Hey, I got to ride with Ted once - man what a shitty driver.
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #19 on: Nov 24th, 2003, 12:26pm » |
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No sorry - I was not even a twinkle in my dad's eye yet.
I know and understand the impact that JFK's death had on the nation. There was an elegance that surrounded the white house that was lost. The office does not hold the same stature that it had in those times. Now the office is more of a joke. We do not treat it will respect in this nation and we elect them to it, so in a way it makes sence why people from other countries do not treat it with respect either.
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #20 on: Nov 24th, 2003, 1:49pm » |
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on Nov 22nd, 2003, 4:43pm, BobG wrote:Fact:
100 percent of the people that answered C'Chuck's question admit to remembering the Kennedy assasasanation.
Fact:
100 persent of the people that answered C'Chuck's question also admit to having Clusterheadaches.
Conclusion:
Kennedys cause clusters.
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Jacks was already smoking cigs.
Jonny was already shittin' his diapers.
Jack still smokes.
Therefore I was almost 12 months old and do not remember.
Thomas--you obviously did not cross any bridges with Teddy.
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #21 on: Nov 24th, 2003, 2:18pm » |
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soiling my diapers.
But I distinctly remember telling my mom that it was a conspiracy and someone needed to look at the grassy section.
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Re: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President
« Reply #22 on: Nov 25th, 2003, 12:34am » |
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That noise they heard on the grassy knoll was me farting while my mama was changing my diaper.
In fact, i was only 4 when it happened. I do remember when Robert Kennedy was killed, and i remember when Elvis croaked too. I also remember when that whacko killed John Lennon.
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« Reply #23 on: Nov 25th, 2003, 12:43pm » |
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If you must know...I was still swimming in the vas deferens of my Father's Testicles....ewwwwwww. But I remember I was shocked & saddened, even as a young sperm.
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I was in the third grade, walking home from school (somewhere around ten miles) . Stopped by a freinds house, he came running out of the house screaming "Kennedy is dead Kennedy is dead" in a happy tone. His parent's were happy as well. That was my first real fight, kicked that kids ass right in his front yard. Been a Democrat ever since.
Grumpy old Lee
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