[Cantwaittoarrive]

I had just turned two at the time so I don't remember. I do remember being in the shower when my dad came in and said Bobby had been shot

[Lark7]

In Miss Watson's English Lit class - the principal announced the event over the PA. Everyone was numb.

[TNT]

I was on a second grade field trip to the Laub's Bakery in Cleveland Ohio

[Yorio]

I was in Okinawa going to the Stars and Stripes office from a hotel in Naha. As I caught a taxi, the driver told me that JFK was dead. I shook hand with him at the University of Illinois rally before he became president. There was a big talk that if JFK became president, Pope will run the U.S. Did you believe it? Many did.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Yorio

I was in Okinawa going to the Stars and Stripes office from a hotel in Naha. As I caught a taxi, the driver told me that JFK was dead. I shook hand with him at the University of Illinois rally before he became president. There was a big talk that if JFK became president, Pope will run the U.S. Did you believe it? Many did.

I remember that. I had a pin that said if I were 21 I'd vote for Kennedy.

I have voted for both parties over time.

[chuckinca]

Having lunch in the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago where I was working.

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[TerpDawg]

Asleep in the US Navy Facility barracks in Argentia, Newfoundland, waiting for the evening operations shift. We went on beefed up two-shift days for a short time while the powers-that-were determined the assassination was not part of an international conspiracy. More than a few hardened sailors shed some tears that day.

[raynan]

I was in 8th grade and the speaker system came on scrambling radio stations and we thought the Mother Superior had mistakenly opened her mike and we were giggling and then the radio announced the President had been shot....we were told to gather our belongings and we would all go over to the church to say a prayer and then we were dismissed. I walked to the bus stop (which I never did because I normally walked home with friends) and everyone on the bus was crying. Then I got scared and ran home after my bus stop. My mom & dad & I were glued to the tv for days, saw Oswald shot live and then the funeral. So sad. I will never forget!
Nancy

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by Cantwaittoarrive

I had just turned two at the time so I don't remember. I do remember being in the shower when my dad came in and said Bobby had been shot

When Bobby Kennedy was shot in 1968, I was at home with our two month old daughter who had been born 3 days after Martin Luther King was shot.

What an April and June of 1968.

I watched the "funeral train" for Bobby, etc., etc. while my husband was doing his summer training* at Fort Knox, Kentucky.......we were still living in Middlesex County New Jersey at the time, in our first bought home.

*He was a drill sargeant in a tank division. Actually, while I was still in the hospital in 1968, having just delivered our first child, we were listening to the radio of all the Army reservists being called up for Viet Nam. The furthest he went was Kentucky or the Kearny, N.J. shipyards to train others.

Each "assassination" just brings back other memories of those years.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by Yorio

I was in Okinawa going to the Stars and Stripes office from a hotel in Naha. As I caught a taxi, the driver told me that JFK was dead. I shook hand with him at the University of Illinois rally before he became president. There was a big talk that if JFK became president, Pope will run the U.S. Did you believe it? Many did.

Like Gracie, we have voted for both parties over time......

However, the city we came from in New Jersey was definitely IN LOVE with J.F.K., Jackie and all the Kennedy clan.......back in the early '60s.
We knew no different..............

It wasn't until my husband enlisted in the Army Reserves and was sent for basic training to Fort Knox, Kentucky (where he subsequently went every summer as a drill sargeant in the tanks division) that it dawned upon him that people from other parts of our nation WERE NOT in favor of the Kennedy family at all.............just the opposite. At age 18, it was his first time out of his neighborhood, so to speak.

We both graduated high school at a young 17, having skipped a grade.
Met at our high school senior picnic.......engaged at 19, married at 20, children at 22 and 25.......seems like a long time ago now.

However, those days are not only etched in HISTORY, but in our minds.
All of the assassinations...........

[CaptJohn]

I was in Miss Pasco's 10th grade algebra class at Pensacola High. They announced it on the PA system.

[petco882]

I was in England at the time. It was my birthday and I was going out for dinner with my family. When we got to the restaurant everyone was talking about it and the entire time the television was replaying it over and over. It was upsetting for the people in England as well as the U.S

[Geewiz]

I was feigning illness because I hated Mrs. Gladys' 3rd grade glass. I was home watching Bozo's circus when network news broke in. What was more interesting was the reaction of my grandfather's friend the following weekend. We were connected to the Chicago Outfit and my grandfather said to Lenny, isn't Jack Ruby one of your guys? I never saw Lenny get that angry and grab my grandfather by his lapel and said, "Moeie,never bring that up again." I grandfather went pale and from that moment we never talked about it again.

[John_W]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

When Bobby Kennedy was shot in 1968, I was at home with our two month old daughter who had been born 3 days after Martin Luther King was shot. What an April and June of 1968.

When Bobby was killed June 6, 1968 that was my high school graduation day from St. Petersburg High. Unlike with his brother JFK, which I remember that day vividly, I can't remember any of the circumstances of Bobby being shot. I guess it was from going through the cap and gown ceremony and all the excitement that afternoon that I didn't have time to realize what had just happened.



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[Villages PL]

I was working at Black Rock Manufacturing when the shop supervisor came out of his office and started walking through the shop announcing, in a loud voice, that the president had been shot. Everyone was stunned to hear it.