JFK Question

[TeenageRepublican]

I have homework that's pretty good in my opinion. My homework is to ask anybody that can remember around November 22, 1963 (JFK's Death) what they were doing.
So, if you were there, what do you remember exactly? Do you remember what you felt?
If you can remember, feel free to post. I don't care how many responses I get and I honestly don't care if it leads to a JFK Conspiracy debate. I just need a response.
I would ask my parents but they can't remember. I would ask my grandma but she's a flaming liberal if you get my drift.

[BuckeyeMike]

I was on the flight line at Selfridge AFB in Michigan. We were in the middle of a re-certification load of missiles on an F-106 aircraft. They shut us down, we down loaded what we had already loaded, the BB stackers took the missiles back to the cells. We were given a talk-to in the hangar and sent back to the barracks. We spent the rest of the day and the next, watching everything unfold on the TV in the dayroom. The base was shut down tightern' a frog's ass in a rain storm....nobody on....nobody off. Spent a good part of the next 3-4 days on the base.....we still had work to do on the aircraft on the flight line, so we were about the only thing moving on the base at that time. I had turned 21 in April of that year. Lot different than when we went DEFCON 5 and got the "bugout" order for Florida during the Cuban Crisis in October '62......we didn't spent ANY time on the base then other than get ready to ship out. Everything and everybody was in motion then. Stark difference.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Sorry TR I can be of no help there. In Nov of '63 I was only four months old and my adoption had not yet been finalized, so I was in one of the five foster care homes I would stay in prior to my adopted parents getting me on December 7th. Needless to say, I don't remember much, :smirky:.

[TeenageRepublican]

I was on the flight line at Selfridge AFB in Michigan. We were in the middle of a re-certification load of missiles on an F-106 aircraft. They shut us down, we down loaded what we had already loaded, the BB stackers took the missiles back to the cells. We were given a talk-to in the hangar and sent back to the barracks. We spent the rest of the day and the next, watching everything unfold on the TV in the dayroom. The base was shut down tightern' a frog's ass in a rain storm....nobody on....nobody off. Spent a good part of the next 3-4 days on the base.....we still had work to do on the aircraft on the flight line, so we were about the only thing moving on the base at that time. I had turned 21 in April of that year. Lot different than when we went DEFCON 5 and got the "bugout" order for Florida during the Cuban Crisis in October '62......we didn't spent ANY time on the base then other than get ready to ship out. Everything and everybody was in motion then. Stark difference.

Thanks so much, BuckeyeMike! This is supposed to be turned in tomorrow and I thought I had to turn in my mom's memory of what happened. She was 3, so she only recalled watching the TV.
Thanks again! :thumb:

[UnkHiram]

TR

I dont "Remember" what I was doing that day, but I do know what it was. I was raised in Dallas. On Nov 22nd 1963 I was in Parkland Hospital Recovering from Skin Graft operations --- got burned. I was 4 at the time of Kennedy's murder. Parkland was the Hospital they took Kennedy too. My Father was a meter reader in Dallas and had just a few weeks earlier bought (Through a mail order catalog) the same gun as Lee Harvey Oswald used. I dont remember much about it at all but my family has told me alot about the deep seated dislike for Kennedy before he was shot and the sudden and semi-permanent affection for him afterwards. I grew up like most kids in Dallas my age going down to Dealy Plaza and trying to figure out the angle's and such. ONe of the "Pranks" we liked to pull is to go drop empty shell casings on the "Grassy Knoll" a few days before the Anniversary, it always got the Tourists real excited.

[TeenageRepublican]

Sorry TR I can be of no help there. In Nov of '63 I was only four months old and my adoption had not yet been finalized, so I was in one of the five foster care homes I would stay in prior to my adopted parents getting me on December 7th. Needless to say, I don't remember much, :smirky:.

No worries, Homes. My mom and dad can't remember much either...except my dad. He has a photographic memory and can remember things that are super important to him. He can remember complaining about paying 58 cents per gallon in the late seventies.
He is kind of paranoid, though. He was raised to believe that there was going to be another great depression soon or we were going to get bombed by the Soviets. Ever since then, he's always had to live with a possible disaster and is prepared for it. Seriously, if there was no threat to our nation, he would go crazy. I don't know what to think of it...
My dad's a HUGE John F. Kennedy fan because my grandma (who's a liberal) hates JFK with a passion. My grandma was and is crazy, if she hates a political American figure with a passion, then s/he must be good. She hates Fred Thompson...

[TeenageRepublican]

ONe of the "Pranks" we liked to pull is to go drop empty shell casings on the "Grassy Knoll" a few days before the Anniversary, it always got the Tourists real excited.

You guys had all the fun back then...:rotflmbo: