Kennedy assassination

[*michaelsean*]

(11-25-2019, 06:00 PM)Dill Wrote: Last Friday I was sitting in a hospital office registering for a (routine) CAT scan when this older guy with a grey beard (a hospital functionary of some sort) was walking through the back area of the office, when he stopped, pointed to me and said "I'll bet that guy remembers where he was on this day in 1963."   

I hadn't even realized the day was Nov. 22nd.

But I did share my memory. I was in 7th grade study hall when the news came over the loudspeaker that Kennedy had been shot. We got updates throughout the afternoon. (He apparently was not dead yet, and had no word on where or how badly he was wounded; people still hoped he'd be ok .) So I was only 12 but it was still a shock. All the teachers were grim and somber. Our family was glued to the tv set that evening. Everyone was thinking "it's the Communists!" Then Oswald was killed a couple days later and the conspiracies began.  

The person registering me said she was "in the womb" on that day. lol.

I can't really remember what day Reagan was shot. I remember when it happened, but he didn't seem badly wounded ("Who's minding the store?") Jodie Foster wasn't even impressed.  

Same for John Lennon. Don't even remember the year.   Not the same shock.

"Eff you dick.  At least I don't remember Pearl Harbor."