Where were you when you heard JFK was assassinated?

[Buster]

I was in the middle of a 3rd grade class day and the head Nun came in and told us to go home for the day and Pray, because our Catholic President had been shot and the country was in grave peril

 

[tsptalk]

I was 4 months old living in a duplex in Brooklyn, NY.

 

[remark]

10 months old being raised in western WI to become a 24/day, 7/week - no vacation - Dairy Farmer. Upon graduation at age 18 - I KNEW what I didn't want to do.

 

[GoldenGate]

I was 10 years old standing in cafeteria line. Blown away by the news hard to believe :'(
Was equally horrified and saddened when Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were gunned down

 

[nnuut]

I was 17 and in High School when it came over the announcement system.

 

[Minnow]

Wasn't even a twinkle in my dad's eye. Way before my time ya bunch of old timers :laugh::toung:

 

[nnuut]

WhipperSnapper!

 

[nasa1974]

I was 11 and in 6th grade. First time a saw a nun cry.

 

[Frixxxx]

Pre-Frixxxx, Hence why I never followed the story very closely except from a historical point!

 

[amoeba]

Sick with the measles, and then pneumonia. I watched some of the funeral procession, wondering when the hell it was going to end, bcz I was missing Jim Doney's Adventure Road, cartoons, and Tarzan movie re-runs; wondering if the evening classics would be pre-empted as well (e.g., Dragnet, Combat, Walt Disney, etc.). If there's anything worse than getting sick as a kid, it's getting sick during a presidential assasination. I suppose this was ~2nd-3rd grade. Boring!

Earlier, they made us watch those election debates between Nixon and JFK in kindergarten (probably the teacher wanted to watch); it had some mild entertainment value to us kids as Nixon was always looking around with his eyes, while JFK couldn't pronounce Cuba (said "cuber").

 

[bmneveu]

My father was born the year JFK was assassinated. So that was back in my previous life, when I was a squirrel or bug or something.

 

[polarbear]

I was in 5th period Music Theory, junior year. The band leader, our teacher, showed up half the time, so the other days we screwed around. One fellow went to the radio from time to time and announced it, around 1pm (Eastern time, Tampa). The news went from gravely wounded to dead. We were all stunned. Intercom 6th period the principal finally got his act together and cancelled the pep rally. Friday. As a fact, he (JFK) had visited Tampa two days earlier, on Wednesday, that street was renamed Kennedy Boulevard.

As for Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the same procedure for both. In our dorm at UF we tended to congregate in one fellow's room on the first floor around 4 after classes. Found out about both in there.