50 Years Ago today ... November 22, 1963

[freeagent]

Regardless of your politics, if you're about my age (57) or older, you probably remember where you were that day when President Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas (by a communist sympathizer, not a tea party member just to correct the folks who want to re-write history).

Anyway ... I was in second grade at St. Luke Catholic School in Two Rivers, Wisconsin that Friday afternoon. I can't remember the name of my teacher that year (she was a nun from the order of the Sisters of St. Agnes), but I can remember sitting in the farthest row on the right side of the room, about the middle of the row, when the principal (who I think was Sister Gilbertine) came over the loud speaker and asked us to pray for the President and began to pipe through the radio broadcast. That's a picture that never has left my psyche....

 

[PopRay]

I was a little boy over in Germany with my parents...my Dad was in the Army...listening to a broadcast on Armed Forces Radio...sad day indeed!

 

[Old Bearkat]

by a communist sympathizer

Scratch sympathizer. He was a Communist with a capital C.

 

[markf]

John Q. Adams elementary school Dallas 2nd grade.
I remember being so scared,teachers were crying,walking the halls
We as kids were crying to,we didnt have a clue as to what
was going on,,we did get out of school early.
Then i remember playing tackle the man with the football in the
front yard with all the neighborhood kids when my Mom
comes running out of the house yelling,they just shot Oswalt,
No cable tv back then,just days and days of tv coverage.

 

[Blue Bird]

I was in the fifth grade and can remember our teacher informing us that the President had been shot. We were left to our own divises for an hour or so because all of the teachers were gathered in the Supt. office listening on a radio to news broadcasts. Later that afternoon, the whole school had an assymbly at the flag pole. The flag was brought to half mast and one of the teachers led in a prayer for our country. It made a big impression on me. I guess that was the idea.

 

[MelaniB]

I remember and I was only in the first grade. How I found out is by all the adults talking. Everyone was sad and some crying. No one needs to die like that. Isn't that period when the desegregation started? It was a long time ago so I don't quite remember.

 

[rainjacktx]

JFK was killed about a year before I was born.

I like how the progressive left is trying to make Oswald out to be some early version of the Tea Party. Yet the man responsible for JFK's death went on to be President and pass the single most socially destructive piece of legislation ever.

I'll say it and I don't care who believes it: LBJ wore the blood of JFK on his hands until the day he died.

 

[westexasflats]

Rainjack, your pretty much on,he was a low-life but fair as a president, I was a senior in HS went to Vietnam for my senior trip, hated Johnson since.