Posted on 11/19/2013 7:43:13 AM PST by US Navy Vet
Post them here.
“I was on a destroyer off the coast of Cuba.”
Were you there a year earlier? I was sweating it out at ground zero, Ft. Myer, ANC, during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I was looking at Miss Datson’s legs, eighth grade. Wow!
In 1962 I graduated from Iowa State with a Chemical Engineering degree and went to work for a major rubber company in Akron, Ohio. I was sitting at my desk in the Development Dept when I got a call from my wife to tell me the news.
I had a week’s vacation scheduled and right after work we loaded the car and headed out to spend a week in Des Moines with my wife’s family. We drove all night, and listened to the whole story as it unfolded on the radio.
And on Sunday we watch Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. Too this day I believe Ruby was acting on behalf of the ‘no-names’ who were behind the whole assination plot. With Oswald dead, there could be no conflicting accounts of what really happened, and no Oswald ‘confession’ as to who hired him.
This was all too convenient for the aspirations of LBJ who wanted so bad to be president...he would never have been elected to that office.
I was an EM1 aboard the USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), just beginning my 2nd enlistment. We were North of Hawaii, in heavy swells, enroute from Sasebo to our home port, Alameda.
Due to the heavy swells, we lost an F3H “screaming demon”and tow tractor off the hangar deck, through the #3 elevator door. The hangar bay deck was wet due to spray coming in through the open doors and the ship was rolling heavily because of the large swells. The plane capt and tractor driver were able to bail out just before the plane went out the door.
Very interesting but what is, or was, an unauthorized transistor radio?
Sister Mary Reginald’s 8th grade class in Christ the King Elementary School, in Queens, NY. The Mother Superior, Sister Columbo, came on the PA and announced that shots had been fired at JFK’s motorcade in Dallas. We had animated discussions, then she came on again and announced that JFK was dead. Somber atmosphere. Shortly afterwards, she announced that school was canceled. I walked about two blocks home, and told my father who was home that day, and he shot bolt upright and turned on the TV.
I saw Oswald killed on live TV a couple of days later. I was stunned. I was young and impressionable. I adored JFK, war hero, first Catholic president, “progressive”. I remember I felt strongly about civil rights at the time (and still do). When I was growing up there were still segregated public accommodations in South, and school integration was just starting. Of course, the legitimate cause of civil rights has been distorted until it is no longer recognizable.
I also remember the next morning being upset that the Saturday morning cartoons weren't on TV.
I was reading a fifth grade history book sometime in the early 1970’s.
Regards
GtG
PS I was 18 at the time.
I was a Sophomore in high school, and was in my Bookkeeping class. A fellow student was out in the hall, and the teacher stopped teaching, and asked him why he wasn’t in his class. He told us the President had been shot. Of course we all thought he was lying, until somebody in the classroom pulled out their transistor radio, and we heard it for ourselves.
It was recess and we were playing Crack the Whip on the sawdust playground.
For some reason Eric "Ears" Gerritson arrived to school late (maybe a doctor's appointment, or something else), ran to the playground and told us. We ran inside to tell our teacher.
We spent the rest of the day drawing patriotic pictures with crayons as the principal read patriotic stories and speeches over the intercom.
JFK’s been assassinated?!?!?
No Way!
In the kitchen with a couple of babies which is where I spent a lot of time in the 60s.
My husband called me from work-—when he was able to get a dial tone.
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Probably potty training or taking a nap.
I was sitting at a stop light on 34th street in St Petersburg, Florida. I was on my way to a company meeting. I heard it on the radio and the guy in the car next to me rolled his window down and honked for me to do the same, which I did, and he hollered over that “the president was shot”. I told him I was listening to it also. He said, no great loss, and I shook my head in agreement. I was not a fan of Jack Kennedy.
All that at eight years-old? Did you even have a childhood?
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