Wry Catcher
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Where were YOU on 11/22/63? If you weren't born yet, admit the only thing you know about this historic event is what you've read.
That Friday we had a rally so our class schedule was different. We were scheduled to play in the semi final game that afternoon at Kezar. I heard The President was shot on my way from Geometric to Physics, and when I entered the lab the teacher had a small transistor radio on the lab table in front of the room.
It was there we learned President Kennedy had died...
Sunday morning my mom, sister and I went to church, the priest gave a moving sermon and there were lots of tears. Upon arriving home my dad told us the someone had killed LHO.
What's your story.
Classroom in high school sitting about halfway back near the big window to my left. Gazing out the window looking forward to the Thanksgiving holiday with a sense of imminence since we were in the last class of the day on a Friday, a relaxed class with a cool music teacher. She was very sweet.
The public address speaker starts sputtering. Usually that never happened except at the beginning of the day. After a few fumbling noises the sounds of radio news came on describing what appeared to be a shooting in Dallas. Much like 9/11 four decades later there were many conflicting reports of what had or had not happened. We all listened in silence, aware that they wouldn't be doing this unless it was big.
Then the radio went silent and our principal, a Texan who had that same halting slow speech we'd soon get used to from LBJ, came on and said, "John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States....(Texas size pause).... is dead". Collective shriek went up from the room. The teacher slumped, her head buried in her hands.
The process of getting up and going home after that is a blur. The next seared memory is continuing to watch television as we'd been doing for two days on Sunday, and seeing LHO murdered on live TV. Even as a kid I could see it was staged.
Yep that was a very dark Thanksgiving weekend for all Americans...well excepting those you committed the crime.
My entire family (7 of us) was watching as Ruby assassinated Oswald, right there on the black and white TV screen. My father a WWII veteran was incensed. He said how the Hell did they let that guy in there to shoot Oswald?
Yet another proof of conspiracy. The Dallas PD building was likely the most guarded building in the world that day, yet a known Mafioso walks right in and pulls a gun.
Lots of theories abound. What we know is what you posted above, "That day forever changed America...and we still suffer from it today."