I don’t remember where I was......heh heh, well I was 4 yrs old, I’m certain I must have been in my family’s house, but I have no recollection of that day.... but I was only 4.....
Odd thing is, I remember very clearly hearing 2 days later that Oswald had been shot, even though I had no clue at the moment who Oswald was..... my aunt came onto the back porch and called out to my father (we were in the backyard), “Oswald was just shot!” I vividly remember thinking, “who was Oswald and why was he shot?”
I found out after school when I got a ride home with one of the neighbor kids. Her mother told us. I was a little vague on some of the personalities involved, but I got informed very quickly. So I remember there being nothing on TV except somber music and coverage of the assassination and the lying in state and the funeral. I remember Oswald’s shooting too.
We had Life and Look magazines at home and my father always watched the news at 5:30, and I with him, so this was a story I followed for quite a while. I even remember some of the mysterious deaths of those connected to the investigation.
The JFK assassination was really my introduction to politics and government. I was a Goldwater man in 1964.
I was 13 and watched Oswald get shot on live tv...that WAS memorable.
I was in First Grade, attending a Catholic school. Father Mitchell called Mrs. Kretschmann out of the room, and when she returned, she was teary-eyed. I didn’t know why until later, and did not understand it. Only that the first Catholic president was dead, and the adults in my family were very sad.