Thread: Where were you 51 years ago today?

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I was only 10 years old.. but I do remember hearing about it on the radio,,and seeing TV footage,later in the piece,,and couldn't understand why anyone would want to assassinate the dude..

I find it interesting how our brains associate events like this with little reactions that become markers in time. For me, whenever the Kennedy assassination comes up it's a picture in my mind of Mr. Tanous, our higher math instructor (calc, trig, all that unintelligible stuff ), running down the central staircase of our high school yelling at the top of his lungs "They've killed him, they've shot the President,,,,,,"over and over. He was genuinely distraught. As is almost always the case in matters like this, it took time for the story to emerge and more thorough understanding to develop, but that image is what sticks.

i only remember being out of school for some reason ..only much later did i find out my family`s ties to him ..i tried to find my post about it to repost here but could`nt .. anyway the marine facing forward is one of my older brothers .. the casket is president Kennedy ..

I remember the teacher from across the hall coming over informing us, so upset it was hard to understand what she was saying.

[QUOTE=sharpmark;533855]damn you fellas are old!!!!
I was only 4yrs old -not really sure what I was doing!

If you hadn't gone to nitie nite you were probably watching Rin Tin Tin, Lassie and Festus !

Yeah, SharpMark, it happens to all of us sooner or later; if you live long enough, the list of "markers" on your calendar gets pretty long. I just did a quick mental inventory, and came up with at least ten right off, and I know that if I sat down and really thought about it, I could make a pretty impressive list of just the events in my life that have truly changed history.

Was in 6th grade at an old school house, took awhile for the news to get to us. They sent us home that day. Still remember trying to figure out how this could have happened on the long walk home. Ma had not heard anything about it by the time I got home. At first I truly believe Ma could not comprehend what I was telling her. The ringing of the telephone interrupted our conversation and the information received via the phone call confirmed what I had been telling her. A truly sad day for America. R.I.P. JFK!

I remember the news on T.V. and the folks being all upset, but I was in my own world and it didn't really sink in until I got a bit older.


51 years ago I was more concerned about making it to 12 years old so I could get a paper route and buy a mini bike! I was 9 years old and trying to figure out if kissing Susan Woolf was near as good as advertised? Think I was just as happy modifying and peddling my Schwinn Stingray to be honest. Hum, now that I think about... I've come full circle and little has changed! Oh to be so innocent... Wish the world could be!

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Mechanical drawing class in the engineering school at Bradley, University. At almost 72, I have many, many markers.

I was working at the Ford Foundry in Fostoria, OH. and working on my first Hot Rod (attached). NOTE: I was also stationed in Okinawa from 1967-1969 at Naha Air Base.