[South40]

Yeah...JFK was assassinated 12 years before I was born

I was alive that day and I remember it quite well.

I was 6-years-old. My school was two blocks away from my home. I arrived home that day to find my mother sobbing while glued to the TV screen. I inquired as to what was wrong and she told me the president had been killed. I knew who JFK was as his picture was hanging on the wall in our living room.

My mother passed away on Sept. 30th of this year. At a gathering after her funeral my siblings and I went through boxes of her belongings. Among them were front page LA Times stories of both JFK and RFK's deaths. I have them now.

[Pedantic_Lady]

My mother passed away on Sept. 30th of this year. At a gathering after her funeral my siblings and I went through boxes of her belongings. Among them were front page LA Times stories of both JFK and RFK's deaths. I have them now.

My dad was 18 at the time; he saved the morning paper from that day, the one with the "wanted for treason" bits in it, plus the later editions discussing the assassination itself. He kept the paper from when RFK was shot, too.

[Inyo-Mono]

Among them were front page LA Times stories of both JFK and RFK's deaths. I have them now.

I was 13 when JFK was assassinated. After hearing the news over the radio, I jumped on my bike and rode to the nearest newspaper racks where I purchased both the LA Times and the Herald Express with the JFK story on the front cover. I still have both copies.

[jmc813]

My mother passed away on Sept. 30th of this year.

Deepest sympathies on your loss.

[two23]

I was 7 and it was announced over the PA system at school...my teacher broke down---others heard crying in the hallways. Watched the funeral procession at my grandmothers house and those images are burned in.
Those were weird times: Air Raid Drills (hit the floor/get under the desk)--having to be drilled for the locations of all the local fallout shelters--announcements that "sometime today an aircraft will be breaking the sound barrier nearby"..(and sometimes not announced: crack-BOOM)