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lawvixen
Oldsmar, FL
age: 52
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I was out the other evening shopping with my girlfriend and her 14 year old granddaughter.
I happened to mention John F. Kennedy and what I was doing the moment I heard he had been shot. The granddaughter then astoundingly asked "WOW, you were alive when Kennedy was shot"??? "Yes dear" I replied, "and I also had warned Lincoln NOT to attend the theatre that night"!
When I was 8 years old my parents took our family on a car trip vacation to Washington DC, circa 1962.
While impatiently waiting outside in line for hours to take a tour of the White House, I started playing hopscotch with one of the little girls in line behind us. I was raised in a small northern Wisconsin town and had never seen a black person before in real life, only on black and white tv. When I returned to my mother, she was wondering what I was going to say with my big mouth, hoping I would not offend anyone. All I said was "I didn't like her permanent".
Out of the mouths of babes...................certainly remind me how old I am!
I need to add that President Kennedy actually came downstairs that day while we were viewing the public rooms of the White House. He then asked everyone in the corridor "how do you like YOUR home, that I rent"?
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| 12/2/2007 7:06:01 AM |
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waytogo51
Prairie Grove, AR
age: 51
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Oh yes I hear you on that. When I tell the younger ones I can remember the price of gas being 20 some cents a gal, they say that I am really old. 
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| 12/2/2007 7:21:38 AM |
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cottagebithec
Utica, NY
age: 60 online now!
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law... how right you are. Our generation has lived through and participated in such a dynamic "time" of cultural and political upheaval in our country and the societies of the world. My opinion is that is why we (at our age) are such interesting and dynamic people and why those youngins (up there in the forums)are so impressed. So it is a positive!
and we will remain forever 
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| 12/2/2007 7:26:54 AM |
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sorprano
Wayne, NJ
age: 55
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was out the other evening shopping with my girlfriend and her 14 year old granddaughter.
I happened to mention John F. Kennedy and what I was doing the moment I heard he had been shot. The granddaughter then astoundingly asked "WOW, you were alive when Kennedy was shot"??? "Yes dear" I said, "and I also had warned Lincoln NOT to attend the theatre that night"!
When I was 8 years old my parents took our family on a car trip vacation to Washington DC.
While impatiently waiting outside in line for hours to take a tour of the White House, I started playing hopscotch with one of the little girls in line behind us. I was raised in a small northern Wisconsin town and had never seen a black person before in real life, only on black and white tv. When I returned to my mother, she was wondering what I was going to say with my big mouth, hoping I would not offend anyone. All I said was "I didn't like her permanent".
Out of the mouths of babes...................certainly remind me how old I am!
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attending catholic grammar school i was shocked and at that time we had a TV in the classroom, so the lay teacher put the TV on...what i remember was that there was any TV to watch other than every channel was covering this event like 20 hrs a day (channels 2 thru 13 by me with any cable as of yet)--the other 4 hrs because TV stations shut off for several hrs--and how i know they did was because if i left my TV on it was my alarm clock the next morning hearing the star- spangeled banner going off...thank god for the church bizzar that weekend... it saved my week--i still see that funeral procession in my sleep...
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| 12/2/2007 7:40:11 AM |
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knightnyte2
Spring, TX
age: 55
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vixen, this thread is delightful. Thanks for starting it. My kids tease me all time. When I take them to my parents in Mississippi, they started believing!!
It's amazing how many things we've lived through. color tv, fm radio,
peace
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| 12/2/2007 7:44:52 AM |
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helloeyes
Enfield, NH
age: 52
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I remember the principle coming into the classroom, telling us that JFK had been shot, and that school was going to be released early. I remember going home and watching the tv all evening, until I had to go to bed.....which in those days was 7 PM lol, my kids find that so hard to believe that people went to bed that early.
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| 12/2/2007 7:45:19 AM |
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waytogo51
Prairie Grove, AR
age: 51
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Hey Knight don't forget the 8-tracks. 
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| 12/2/2007 7:52:35 AM |
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lawvixen
Oldsmar, FL
age: 52
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My son found my case of warped LP's in the attic one Christmas season while hunting for decorations. He quickly yelled out "Oh look giant cds"!
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| 12/2/2007 7:59:11 AM |
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butterfly58
Arcadia, MO
age: 58
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I feel sometimes with all this high tech that the new generation has, they've lost something in the process. An innocence maybe or a certain connection to their surroundings because it's so accessible on-line.
Even at my age I still remember where I was and what I was doing with the Kennedy Assassination. He was such a "young" and daring President. Only time I was interested in politics.
Also since I was an avid reader and the same age as Anne Frank, I couldn't fathom the holocaust and so many people dying for what? And nobody caring to step in, such tragedy.
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| 12/2/2007 8:01:51 AM |
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waytogo51
Prairie Grove, AR
age: 51
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I was in the 2nd grade and I remember when they came and got our teacher out of class to tell her. I can still hear her scream.
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| 12/2/2007 8:20:27 AM |
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lawvixen
Oldsmar, FL
age: 52
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I posed this "game" at a party a few years ago. Name something that we use in technology today that we did not have when we were kids. We went 3 times around with 30 people and stil could not run out of ideas.
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| 12/2/2007 8:30:53 AM |
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davewave1
Ann Arbor, MI
age: 61
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Remember WHen......... ALL......the TV shows were 'LIVE'? Red Skelton, GE Theater, Show of Shows (Sid Cesear, Carl Riner etc.), Ed Sullivan, What's My Line?, Jack Benny, Grocho Marx, etc. etc.?
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| 12/2/2007 8:41:28 AM |
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floridagentlemn
Ocala, FL
age: 55
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I remember being home from school that day, being sick, and my mother was watching her soap opera [she called them "my stories"] and then the newsman broke in with the news of Kennedy being shot. It just was like somekind of feeling of helplessness and hopelessness that I had never experienced before then. the only thing I can liken it to now, is the death of a loved one. so tragic. so lifechanging.
Being from New England and seeing the Kennedy's in election parades, both John and Bobby, there was an even closer connection I think.
But then a few months later we were introduced to The Beatles, and our lives changed again, this time for the good.
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| 12/2/2007 9:00:28 AM |
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knightnyte2
Spring, TX
age: 55
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kennedy was killed on my 11th birthday. though it was a very sad day, what amazes me is the difference between Nov 22, 1963 and today is, every single American was sad then. No party lines or religious lines. OUR President was murdered, in public, in a parade, and ruthlessly. If that happened today, there would be millions saying, he/she deserved it. I'm not talking current or past administrations,(please do not make this political) just the idea that OUR President was shot. Those involved in criminal robberies, kidnapping, murdering citizens we thought even then, deserved it. But not the President. That very hate, is the norm today.
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| 12/2/2007 9:13:21 AM |
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lotus3
Venice, FL
age: 55
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Knight..excellent post
I was in the sixth grade, in class when there was a knock on the door, and Father Bernard entered the room...and whispered to Sister Angela...she clutched the crucifix on her neck, turned ashen white, thanked him and turned to her place at the front of the class. With tears in her eyes, she informed us that President Kennedy, had been shot. Most of us, could not grasp the situation, we were all so sheltered and naive then. About an hour later we were told that Our President had died and school was being dismissed early. I can remember, as if it was yesterday...walking back to my home, so very scared...something terrible had happened, and I actually believed the killer could be in my home town, in Northern NY State. My parents and 5 siblings spent the entire weekend in doors, watching the news. We were all still sitting in the living room when watching the tv when Ruby shot Oswald...live on TV.
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