Posted on 11/22/2014 6:13:15 PM PST by GOJPN
A funny aside...
There was a comedy album around 1965, can't remember who, that mocked LBJ in the following way: (LBJ speaking),
My fellow Americans, I come here today, not as your President
Not as the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force
But as a poor barefoot boy from Texas, who has become your King...
I’ll never forget...Was in my garage waxing my ‘59 Ranchero listening to country music on the radio.
They broke in and said the president had been shot, was a republican but it was a real shock.
Senior at damien hs la Verne ca
Debate tourney at Glendora hs. Remaining debates postponed. Car pool back to home rooms. TV set up. Never had that before.
Sat there til my friends mom picked us up.
Catholic school very big deal. Mostly Irish priests.
I vaguely remember that but we much preferred Rusty Warren’s Knockers Up at the time.
I was home with the flu when that happened. I remember the original “We Interrupt this Program.” I was only 9 years old. Nine years later, to the day, I was raising my right hand and taking the oath to join the Air Force.
Wasn’t even a twinkle in my old Dads eye yet.
I don’t remember the day/moment JFK was killed, but I DO remember the funeral.
I was going on 4 years old and my Mom (who is a rock-ribbed Republican), had been crying all week, but she was also pregnant at the time and was always crying. ;)
She sat me down in front of the TV with her to watch the funeral procession. I distinctly remember her saying, ‘This is a very important day and you need to remember this.’
And I have. And I always will.
God only knows why the principal worded her announcement the way that she did.
What about the moon landing?
This must have been back in the days when politicians actually commanded respect. I can’t imagine a similar occurrence ruining my day.
I was 4 Months.
Back to the 3rd grade for me. I remember my aunt from next door coming over and crying with my mom. From the side of my house I yelled out ‘John F. Kennedy is dead’ as if to announce it to the neighborhood. The funeral on Monday I was at my friends house and his mom was touting the importance of the event. Her name was Sylvia Packard a teacher who shortly later on died of cancer and they named an elementary school after her.
I was not yet born, but boy did this piss me off. I knew it was Johnson who did it. That’s the first thing I said upon birth: “Johnson done it, the bastard.
Taking a Geometry test in 10th grade. Sister was running around the hallway and we were wondering what was going on. She finally came in and told us President Kennedy had been shot. The news of his death hadn’t as yet been announced. We all gasped and put our pencils down. Needless to say, we didn’t have to finish our test.
I was in French class in high school.
My younger brother had a Detroit Free Press route and I had just got my drivers license. There were three special editions plus the regular paper that day. I drove him around to deliver them. We would just get home and they would call and tell us there was another edition to be delivered.
Yeah, but it pissed you off all the same.
I had just turned three. I remember being at one of my parents friend’s house - they would watch me once a week while my mom did errands.
Mr. Brown and I would have lunch. I would get one Twinkie and he the other. (NEVER anything like that at our house). I remember my mom and Mrs. Brown talking and being upset - and I was out in the sun room playing. And then seeing it on T.V. later.
Just don’t ask me what I was doing this time last year!
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