[WesternPacific]

I was in grade school in a small town outside of Corpus Christi, Texas when JFK was killed. I remember our teacher making us put our heads down on our desk while she cried. I remember, as a third grader, we really didn’t understand the magnitude of the event, only that it must be great, due to our teacher crying. I do not remember anyone being happy, just the opposite. We knew someone, our president, had been killed. The schools were closed and we were sent home for the rest of the week.

[TigersEye]

I was in the third grade too and like you didn't understand the magnitude of it. My teacher told us nothing but an older friend told me about it when school let out. He was upset but I still didn't get it.

When I got home my Goldwater Republican mother was sitting in front of the TV crying her eyes out. I asked her "Why are you crying? You didn't even vote for him." She replied "Because he is our President." That is how most people were then. There was no joy anywhere in my neighborhood and it was probably a predominately Republican area.

The author is just one more liberal lying sack of dog feces.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I live up here in MN and had the same experience. Our teacher broke down and sobbed - nearly all of us were grieved. When we watched the funeral, my mother wept (a Nixon patriot then, conservative now). Americans respected their institutions (evidence the media covering for JFK) and our belief in our system was nearly religious. Nearly 50 years of leftist dominance in gub’mint, media and education have almost destroyed this confidence, but it has had unexpected consequences . . .

When the movie ‘Independence Day’ came out, I saw it in the theaters. In the scene where the White House gets fried by the aliens, the entire auditorium (an evening crowd - full house) erupted in cheers. Remember, of course, that this film came out in the midst of the krinton reign. Seems the rabble is just as disposed to off the emperors as well as the media made conservative villains.