Where were you when JFK was shot?

[Campntime]

I was in 4th or 5th grade in the gymnasium of our little grade school.  As I tied my tennis shoes a friend said 'They shot President Kennedy!'  I didn't believe him and a bunch of us run upstairs to our classroom.  Teachers were setting up a TV and the entire 4-8th grades joined the rest of the day and just watched the news in silence...not really realizing the meaning of it all...just knowing something very significant had happened.

[Miss-Teri]

I wasn't born yet, but it was interesting reading all your responses.  I had no idea that schools were let out early and that they were out a couple of days due to the assasination!
Among my forever memories of terrible events are the explosion of the space shuttle, 9/11, and the Oklahoma City bombing.  It's such a helpless feeling seeing it on TV and not being able to do anything.  
-Teri

[topcat7736]

I was a senior in high school. We were sent back to our homerooms where we listenend to a radio over the speaker system which was carrying the news. After about a hour, school was closed.

[vjm1639]

I was in first grade and I remember the announcement coming over the intercom at school. Our teacher and home room mother were crying and I can remember most of us not really knowing or understanding what was happening but knowing it was a bad thing.  I went home and my mother was watching it on television.  She baby sat for a young girl in the afternoons and I can remember telling the little girl she shouldn't be laughing that the President had just been shot and it was a very bad day. I didn't even know what a "President" was.

[NightOwl]

we had just had a brand new baby and were so poor we had only recently gotten our first tv (black and white, 13 inch screen, rabbit ears and reception was all very snowy of course.)  I heard the news on the kitchen radio, then turned on the tv just in time to hear Walter Cronkite, his voice breaking, announce the death of our young president.  Not only was I horrified at this loss of life, just as in 9-11, I thought "my, God, what is coming next? the invasion amd eradication of our whole country?"  Having recently lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis when we were all just mere hours from dying, I was truly fearful that we were living out a continuum of  destruction.

Yes, it was one of the defining moments of our generation, along with the hideous impact of VietNam.

[tahoecampers]

Iwas in 3rd grade. We listened to the radio in class and then they sent us home. I think that it was the second time that year? (Cuban Missle crisis?) that we were sent home. I remember watching the funeral on a black and white TV. I think we still have the pictures that my parents took,of the funeral off the TV. I just remember it being a really sad time for all of us.