JFK Assasination Anniversary
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AKLRULZ · 11-21-2003, 08:05 AM

Do you remember when this happened? Where you were when you heard the news? Do you believe there was (is) a cover up conspiracy?

I wasn't born but my parents had been married for just a few months and were stationed in Texas at the time - my mom used to talk about it when we were growing up so those are the only memories I have of it.

**Colexis Mom** · 11-21-2003, 08:11 AM

I wasn't born yet. I've only seen it on TV and read accounts.

Dumbo · 11-21-2003, 08:34 AM

Old lady checking in! I was in Jr. High in library class when the announcement came. I never heard it because there was no loudspeaker in the room. When school got out for the day I was waiting in front for my friend when I heard other students talking about it. Went home and saw tv. My mother said the first announcement came during "As the World Turns" and she didn't think it was serious so when the show ended at 2pm she turned the tv off. Back then ATWT was only a half hour show.

All 3 networks were live. Thank goodness we had NY WPIX. At some point on Fri or Sat night they showed the movie PT 109. That was the movie about JFK in WW2. On Sun we saw Oswald shot live.

Tv came of age during JFK and those 3 days in Nov were something we'd never seen before. Usually the stations signed off after the news at 11.

About a conspiracy/coverup. I don't know but I think it's possible especially with that new book about LBJ.

I don't think JFK would have gotten us so involved in VietNam. DH and I were talking the other day about what if JFK would not have been shot and those 58,000 plus killed in VietNam would not be dead. What kind of men would they have been? Found a cure for a diease? Been in Congress? Kinda makes you wonder.

kimdisneynut · 11-23-2003, 10:29 PM

JFK was killed in November, I was born a week later.

simbarel · 11-21-2003, 08:34 AM

10 years before my time....but I wish I was living then. Not that I want to experience the horror, but I want to experience the love for a president like the people did back then.

DisneyMomma · 11-21-2003, 09:28 AM

It was my 3rd birthday (do the math and you'll figure out that I am an old person,

) SInce I was so little I don't remember the event but I always got the date of his assasination correct on tests.

gym mom · 11-21-2003, 12:34 PM

I was in the third grade. The biggest impact it had on me was that it seemed like the funeral went on for days!!! All of my favorite shows weren't on because of this stupid funeral! Ahhh the selfishness of children!

Jennifer

mrsmaup · 11-21-2003, 12:41 PM

I have no idea. I dont know exactly when this happened, but I do remember my daughter asking both my mother and grandmother about where they were. I dont remember where my grandma was, but I do remember that my mom was in grade school.

I guess my grandchildren will be asking me where I was when Reagan got shot. I DO remember that. I was in 5th grade.

TinkerAnn · 11-21-2003, 12:42 PM

My parents had only been married for 8 months (still in their honeymoon stage

....I wasn't even a thought yet!) and my dad was stationed at the air force base in Jacksonville, AR. I remember stories about how the whole base was affected in such a sad way.

DISNEYGOOF · 11-21-2003, 04:07 PM

My mom says she was looking for a stroller for me
when it happened and I was only 1 so I don't remember
anything. I don't know about conspiracy theories, I've
heard plenty of them today on the news and on talk radio.

**chezp** · 11-21-2003, 04:24 PM

My parents weren't even married when this happened - I don't know if they'd even met by then, but of course there was a cover-up.... wasn't there?

Janet 46 · 11-21-2003, 05:11 PM

I was 6 and in the first grade. I remember that there was an announcement in the school and we were let out early and all the Moms were crying in the school yard when we left but I couldn't figure out what had happened.

I watched a documentary about it several years ago, and I'm convinced that there was a major cover-up and conspiricy. The Warren Commission explanation just doesn't make sense when you study pictures of the events.

reinstructor · 11-22-2003, 07:00 PM

I was in college in Waxahachie about 30 miles south of Dallas. One of my good friends was along the parade route.

I do not believe there has been a coverup. I think Lee Harvey Oswald worked alone. There have been so many books, tv shows and movies about this that it is really hard to know what is true and what is fiction.

DVC_Don · 11-22-2003, 08:14 PM

5th grade. I do not believe there was a cover up. Too many people and hard to keep a secret. Heck, Bill Clinton could not keep Monica a secret and they were the only two people in the Oval Office at the time.