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Nov. 22, 1963 - Where were You?

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination... I remember it quite clearly... We were walking back to the High School from the little store across the street during lunch hour when several crying girls came running out of the school saying Kennedy had been shot...
Several of the teachers ran home and grabbed TV's- and we spent the afternoon watching the events unfold... The next 4 days events were pretty much the classroom topic..
With it following so closely on the Cuban missile crisis- all the Airbase kids were scared for their Dads- as the local SAC Base was put on alert status again...
 
A politically connected & oriented post in the Coffee Shop? :roll:

Anyway, are you sure about the SAC (Strategic Air Command) presence at Glasgow in Nov. of 1963?

The 4141st Strategic Wing at Glasgow was inactivated in February 1963,
Click to expand...

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/MT/Airfields_MT_E.html#glasgow
 
Ft Leonard Wood, Missouri

Just completed basic training, had everything out of the barracks, were standing in line waiting for transportation to our next assignment.

Sgt. Page had a radio and came out and told us the news.

Many were being flown out on DC3 planes. I was in the last bunch, our flight was cancelled. We were put up in the reception area for the night and flew out the next morning to Ft. Gordon, Georgia.

I remember going from Augusta to Ft. Gordon on 1939 Ford buses. With a full load, and everybody having their duffel bags, the bus had to shift down to super low to make the hills.
 
By the merry-go-round. Our teacher, Mrs. Kirstine, came across from the old school to the new school, and we asked why she was crying. She said, "President Kennedy has been shot." At that time (as I recall, 50 years later) it wasn't yet known if he was dead. Three days later when the funeral was to be held, school was dismissed so we could all watch the proceedings on television. Even though my dad had one of the first television sets in the area, it had not worked for a few years. Reception was so fuzzy that we really didn't care. Ronald Snyder was our neighbor, so our family of five went to his house to watch the funeral. Ronald had a bigger supply of Pepsi products in his basement than did any of the local grocery stores, or at least it seemed that way. I plum overdosed on Pepsi and Hydrox cookies that day. Coincidentally, this is the same house that Peach and I and our kids have called home since 1986, when we bought the Snyder ranch.
 
I was ironing clothes at the ranch in Wyoming and watching an old black
and white snowy television when it came on that JFK had been shot.
I think about everyone remembers what they were doing that day.

Same with when the twin towers were hit. Those type of things make an
indelible mark on your memory.
 
The world lost a great leader that day.

As to where I was, well, I wasn't here yet.
 
I solved the USA issues that day. Killed JFK, and was born all the same day. I don't really know what he stood for. The NRA totes him as a hero, my folks thought he was terrible. All I know was 8 hour after he was killed, I came into the world.
 
I was in 2nd grade when the principal announced over the loud speakers in our classroom that President Kennedy had been killed. We were all scared and crying...
 
We were on Hiway US 18 comming home somewhere near Plankington SD Roads were icy that morning. Herd it on the radio. Now look at that picture in Time magizine page 43. I believe that was the next Sunday morning as they were bringind into the Police Station basement. I was watching, there was much commosion and activity so could hardly tell what was happening. That very picture was on telivision for an instant that morning. That was the instant Oswald was shot. I was watching his face. Ddidn't have any idea what had happened until a few moments later.
 
I had been crapping my diapers for 4 months on a regular basis; something I was to learn that socialism had been at for much longer; except they used someone else's diapers, and sent the cleaning bill...
 

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