Time has really passed

[pfrederi 18,689]

Just realized yesterday was 56 years since Kennedy was assassinated.  Didn't even see any mention of it.  i have CRS bit I know where I was and what i was doing 56 years and 1 day ago

Edited November 23, 2019 by pfrederi

[ebinmaine 72,728]

I wasn't yet created for that occasion but I remember the space shuttle Challenger and 9/11 like they were yesterday afternoon...

[stevasaurus 23,281]

They did talk about it on Chicago TV.  I was in 7th grade gym class when we heard about it.  

[Stormin 9,985]

 I was standing outside the local Chippy when I heard about Kennedy.

[squonk 43,843]

I was not old enough to go to school yet watching it on my Grandparents Zenith. The one where the channel lit up in the knob. It had tubes and everything. We got 3 channels! 

[squonk 43,843]

34 minutes ago, stevasaurus said:

They did talk about it on Chicago TV.  I was in 7th grade gym class when we heard about it.  

Were you "heckling from the back " during dodgeball? 

[SPINJIM 1,986]

It was announced on National Public Radio in the morning, and on local news at noon, but that's it.   I remember I was working at M.A.Bruder Paint Co. in the paint testing lab in west Philly.  I was standing at the lab bench when Earl, one of the paint chemists, got a phone call from his wife.  Earl stood up at his desk and announced it to everyone.  I turned to my right to listen for any details.   Everyone in the lab just stopped work, and the place was silent for at least ten minutes.   I don't recall what I did yesterday, but I remember all of those details from 56 years ago.

   Jim

Edited November 23, 2019 by SPINJIM

[1995 520H+96+97 937]

44 minutes ago, squonk said:

I was not old enough to go to school yet watching it on my Grandparents Zenith. The one where the channel lit up in the knob. It had tubes and everything. We got 3 channels! 

Black & White or color TV.

[JoeM 8,351]

Black and White for us, and it was on all three channels. I remember saying something about it to my Mom and she scolded me. Something like, you just need to watch it!

It must of been the mid 60's when we got color TV, remember watching Batman in color.

[squonk 43,843]

51 minutes ago, 1995 520H+96+97 said:

Black & White or color TV.

B & W.  I think we got color around 69 or 70. first show I remember watching in color was HEE HAW! 

[857 horse 2,588]

i was 8.....................................

life stood still for a few days and took a breath..........

and yes,,,,,    black and white was the only choice,,,,,and we were perfectly ok with it......

 

and yes again,.,,,,,,,,,it has flew

 

memories,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,thank-you guys,,,

[JCM 10,226]

I remember watching the black & white Zenith when Jack Ruby came out of nowhere and pointed that Revolver at Lee Harvey Oswald and let him have it, I believe that was on live TV on 11-24 - 63, I was 5 years old and remember it like it was yesterday for some reason.

[8ntruck 7,842]

I was home from grade school sick - pneumonia, I think.  Mom and I were playing records, so we didn't have the radio or TV on.  My oldest sister came home very upset with the news.

 

Yup, the TV was black and white and we could only get two channels, sometimes a third, depending on the weather.

[pfrederi 18,689]

I was in band practice.  B&W TV with Walter Cronkite....Can we reincarnate him???

[953 nut 60,083]

We were decorating the gymnasium for a Thanksgiving themed fund raising event  to raise money for our high school senior trip. I remember it like it was yesterday. The announcement was made over the PA and we all kind of gathered for a group hug. Very sad day indeed!    

Today's "News People" are too busy chasing after concocted nothing stories  to pay homage to great people who have defended the freedoms we all enjoy.

Now if I could only remember what I did yesterday.

[Razorback 1,129]

I was 5 mo old.....

[Lee1977 7,215]

I was 21 years old going home from Center Piedmont Community College when I heard the new on the radio.  I know Oswald was framed, don't if he shot out of the School Book Depository.  I do know enough about guns that Kennedy was shot from the front. i knew that when I first saw it on TV.

Edited November 24, 2019 by Lee1977

[Buzz 502]

I was on the USS Midway tied up behind the USS Arizona Memorial when we got the news that our Commander-in-Chief had been assasainated. Very solemn times.

 

[The Tuul Crib 7,339]

Yep l was a 5 year old  trying to understand what was going on around me. It was a sad day all the same. 

[JERSEYHAWG / Glenn 4,499]

I was 11. I remember the news on the old black and white console tv. It had a renote control to. A clicker box with a wire from the clicker you held to the tv. And when you changed channels it made a loud clunk. Channels 2 to 11. Cant get over all the years that went by. Wow. 

 

Glenn

Edited November 25, 2019 by JERSEYHAWG / Glenn
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[JC 1965 1,532]

I was 17 in my in my junior year of high school. The principal made the announcement over the pa system.Then 11 months later i had been drafted and started basic training. 

[rmaynard 16,299]

I was sitting in 8th grade geometry class when the announcement came over the intercom.