Comments on: JFK

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 01:09:00 +0000

They set up a television in the gym/auditorium and most of the school was down there trying to understand what was going on. The Cuban Missile Crisis wasn’t that long before and the rumors spread, even without the Internet.

By: Shirt

Shirt — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:39:57 +0000

Before the announcement there were several students shouting in the halls the president had been shot. Then came the announcement. Even though it was a bright sunny day out by the tennis courts my eyes darkened and a great chill took me. Play stopped. The students headed for the locker rooms and I saw I wasn’t the only one weeping.

Our President was dead.

I’ve not recalled anything else from that day

By: Toking White Guy

Toking White Guy — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:26:15 +0000

That was a major shock comparable to the 9/11 attack. I was 15, and just off the boat from Japan (father was a navy man). I couldn’t understand why people on the docks were crying. Loudspeakers were blaring, but the sound was distorted. Suddenly I understood. The next several days were spent at a relatives house in SoCal mostly indoors watching the reporting. It was a tremendously sad and disorienting time of my life, and the lives of my family, and the lives of my fellow citizens…