November 22, 1963.

[MineralMan]

It was early in the morning at my California college in Freshman year. I was coming down from my dorm room to go to my first class, a Biology 101 class in a large classroom. As I walked past the dorm TV lounge, they were just announcing that JFK had been shot. I watched, dumbstruck, for a few minutes and then hurried to the classroom. I walked in, interrupted the professor, and announced the news to the 100+ other freshmen in the room.

"Class dismissed!" Everyone found a TV set somewhere to watch. and watch we did, as the story unfolded and history changed.

An unforgettable day in my life.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. I missed this event - born in 1965.

President Kennedy.

[OLDMDDEM]

2. I was in algebra class my junior year in high school. Our teacher was standing upfront crying his heart out.

[snowybirdie]

3. I was working at my new job

at a Sears store. We watched his death announcement in front of a wall of tvs, all tuned into Walter Chronkite. Chilling!

[CrispyQ]

4. I was in first grade.

It was lunch recess, a gorgeous Colorado day, when all the teachers came out of the building, most of them crying. We gathered round & they told us what happened. The violence of it shocked me to the core. Even though I knew our country had had assassinations before, it seemed to me we were past that. Five years later, Martin & Bobby.

It kicked off an era.

[mobeau69]

5. I was in 7th grade. The teachers were out in the halls talking with each other. We didn't know what was going on until

the principal made an announcement over the PA and instructed us to go to our home rooms and wait to be dismissed when the busses arrived.

What a terrible day.

[Emile]

6. We must be the same age. I was in the

7th grade too. Born in 1951.

[Beatlelvr]

8. Me too

Some of us gathered in the auditorium and watched on a tiny tv set. I don't remember if school was dismissed that day or not.

[mobeau69]

9. May 28th. JFK was born on May 29th.

I’ve never gotten over it.

[Rebl2]

7. I was

six and remember vaguely my parents being upset. A few years ago I was going through some of my parents things in a desk drawer and found newspaper clippings about his death.

[bluescribbler]

10. I was in 8th grade Social Studies class.

All the girls in class started crying. They sent us home early. The school is now named the John F. Kennedy Memorial Middle School.

[bif]

11. I was in 3rd grade at a Catholic school.

An announcement came over the PA system giving us the news. The nuns started crying and told us to go home and pray.