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[–] 26812005? [S] 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Yes, I was in third grade when JFK was killed, then woke up in my thirties, a gradual process.

(My dad always said Ruby was a mafioso hit, got me going..)

[–] 26813302? 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

His name isn't Ruby, it's Rubenstien, Jewish mafia from the Chicago Outfit.

[–] 26813325? [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I know. Good point.

[–] 26812185? 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Do you know what you were doing when you heard JFK was shot?

I was sitting on the ground outside doing something on the back step to the kitchen when my mom came to the screen door and said the president was shot.

[–] 26812608? [S] 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I think the JFK killing and 9/11 are the only things I will truly remember, what I was doing at the time.

Well there are minor things. I woke up one morning years ago to hear the opening guitar riffs to Rocky Mountain High and then "The singer is dead." Won't lie, I got choked up.

9/11 I was at home when my kid radioed from our local JnBox that a plane had struck one of the towers. He was freaking out.

I remember walking in the house and turning on the TV as I watched the Koresh place burn to the ground. I was looking for children to run out.

Sandy Hook I was at home and watching Diane Sawyer (I actually believed her and others, for many years, no more).

And that first space shuttle, was outside helping on a remodel.

JFK, all I remember was a female school teacher grabbing another female teacher while she held a transistor radio, they were both very emotional. That was third grade in Vegas, my dad was a blackjack dealer back then.

I remember watching the JFK stuff, and funeral, for days, that was only thing on at the time. Saw Ruby shoot Oswald though it may have been on a delay.

I was borrowing somebody's phone when news of my little brother being killed in a drunken car wreck came, I felt the blood leave my face (same thing happened when my wife confessed an old affair).

[–] 26813557? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I was 2yrs old and probably eating dirt, but my parents talked about it for years after and because of it I have been woke since my teens. I pray for POTUS and his family daily

[–] 26817499? ago 

Sitting in third row in second grade.