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Old 11-22-2013, 12:57 PM
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Updated from the other thread.

Right about now. 50 years ago.
I was a college frosh. Villanova University

I remember finding out about the shooting between classes on campus in the early afternoon. The whole University closed in mid afternoon (EST).
The student center was mobbed with students as was the campus Chapel.
That was the Friday before Thanksgiving.

I wasn't too emotionally upset. Empty feeling mostly. They did catch Oswald in pretty short order, a few hours or so, so it didn't have a "killer on the loose" fear factor. At least not to me. Kruschev had caved on the Cuban blockade the previous year, so I wasn't worried about ICBMs coming over the North pole.
I went home to NYC & watched Ruby kill Oswald on TV on Sunday, which happened to be my Birthday. Most of the country was glued to the TV for the week. School didn't resume classes until the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Very somber day & week. Everywhere.

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The NFL played on however ....
All regular programming was canceled. High school football games, college football games, all canceled out of deference to the tragedy. The AFL suspended its schedule that weekend as well.

But not the NFL. New commissioner Pete Rozelle nervously debated within his inner circle as to whether the schedule of games for Sunday, November 24th should be allowed to go on despite the death of the president. Rozelle even contacted the White House and spoke with press secretary Pierre Salinger to seek advice.

Salinger opined that President Kennedy, an ardent football fan, would have wanted the games to go on. How he knew this was anybody’s guess as JFK’s thought processes came to a sudden and violent end when the third bullet exploded his head during that fateful motorcade.

But even the President’s own brother, attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, was said to have agreed with Salinger and told Rozelle that the Kennedy Family would not be offended if the football games were played on Sunday while the President’s body lay in state inside the Capitol Rotunda.
November 1963: When the world stopped, the NFL did not - Chicago Chicago Bears | Examiner.com

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Old 11-22-2013, 01:24 PM
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I was 8 years old; Port Hueneme, Ca; went out to 10:40 recess; two kids from another class were playing on the bars, smiling and repeating "the President was shot".
We told them "shut-up stupid liars", "stop saying that... you're being bad!".
Went back to class and 22y.o. pretty Miss Stone told us the same thing; .....the school day went on as normal...
BUT... Oh! The Humanity!!!!

I was sooo Angry & disillusioned the week of the assassination of JFK!!!
All my beloved cartoons were preempted; a full week without Huckleberry Hound, Jinx the cat and Quickdraw Mcgraw & Heckle & Jeckle.
We had to resort desperate measures;....like going outside to play.
I'm surprised we all survived.......
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Old 11-22-2013, 01:53 PM
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For those of you that remember when it happened, that perhaps feel that America's innocence was lost on that date, I have often, but not always, envied you.
You at least were able to really experience that innocence, even if briefly.
Assassinations weren't unheard of before then. McKinley, Lincoln, and a few others. And politics were dirty as hell in the 1800s through the 1920s. Tammany Hall, drugging people and forcing them to vote ten times, duels, skulduggery, Joe McCarthy, stuff that wouldn't be dreamt of today. I think the "innocence" was an overblown myth, especially considering JFK was the scion of a family of bootlegging gangsters.

Not to speak ill of the dead, but my point is that politics has always been dirty ball.
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Old 11-22-2013, 03:22 PM
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Right, but that was before the 24/7 news cycle and big money. All the seedy stuff that has since come out about JFK was pretty well suppressed at the time. We were all pretty much in the dark about it then and bought into the myth.
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Old 11-22-2013, 03:28 PM
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Right, but that was before the 24/7 news cycle and big money. All the seedy stuff that has since come out about JFK was pretty well suppressed at the time. We were all pretty much in the dark about it then and bought into the myth.
But dirty stuff about earlier politicians was known -- newspapers played some dirty ball in the early 1900s. In other words, I'm surprised that people were so non-cynical.
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Old 11-22-2013, 04:01 PM
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The NFL played on however ....
All regular programming was canceled. High school football games, college football games, all canceled out of deference to the tragedy. The AFL suspended its schedule that weekend as well.

But not the NFL. New commissioner Pete Rozelle nervously debated within his inner circle as to whether the schedule of games for Sunday, November 24th should be allowed to go on despite the death of the president. Rozelle even contacted the White House and spoke with press secretary Pierre Salinger to seek advice.

Salinger opined that President Kennedy, an ardent football fan, would have wanted the games to go on. How he knew this was anybody’s guess as JFK’s thought processes came to a sudden and violent end when the third bullet exploded his head during that fateful motorcade.

But even the President’s own brother, attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, was said to have agreed with Salinger and told Rozelle that the Kennedy Family would not be offended if the football games were played on Sunday while the President’s body lay in state inside the Capitol Rotunda.
November 1963: When the world stopped, the NFL did not - Chicago Chicago Bears | Examiner.com
Not entirely unlike MLB after 9/11, which gave us all some escape. You obviously don't forget, but the distraction is a welcome one. At least to sports fans.
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I probably heard about the assassination attempt on Reagan before I ever heard of JFK. We definitely talked about JFK in first grade (circa 1984), though I may have seen something about him on tv before that.
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Old 11-22-2013, 06:52 PM
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The best part of being in grade school in the late '50s / '60s was the excitement of watching the NASA program unfold in real time from the very first manned space flight. The Cape Canaveral, Florida rocket launches were a thrill to see on TV in the school classroom. Then every few weeks or months, another progressive manned space craft was launched from Cape Canaveral. or you young 'uns - Cape Canaveral was what it was called in FLA before re-naming it the Kennedy Space Center, in honor of our slain President.

The worst part (which never happened) was the fear of nuclear war with the U.S.S.R.. At least this was for me.
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I probably heard about the assassination attempt on Reagan before I ever heard of JFK. We definitely talked about JFK in first grade (circa 1984), though I may have seen something about him on tv before that.
I was driving north from Lake Charles, LA to Shreveport, LA in my triple Navy 1980 Lincoln Town Car that afternoon.
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I was watching TV. I remember it clearly it was 1983 and I was trying to see if the Dukes of Hazard was going to come on.
Twenty years too late.

Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
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The best part of being in grade school in the late '50s / '60s was the excitement of watching the NASA program unfold in real time from the very first manned space flight. The Cape Canaveral, Florida rocket launches were a thrill to see on TV in the school classroom. Then every few weeks or months, another progressive manned space craft was launched from Cape Canaveral. or you young 'uns - Cape Canaveral was what it was called in FLA before re-naming it the Kennedy Space Center, in honor of our slain President.

The worst part (which never happened) was the fear of nuclear war with the U.S.S.R.. At least this was for me.
Roger all that, SRJ. I mentioned that just a few days before JFK died we moved from NY to Daytona Beach. My dad was working for GE who did the launch consoles for all the NASA work and I got to see all those flights (starting with Gemini) with my own eyeballs. It was a great place to be at the time, lots of excitement around here then.
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President Kennedy had sent Adlai Stevenson to the U.N. to vote for the repatriation of the Palestinian refugee's to their homes.

The council voted 82:1 in favour, the one being against-Israel.

Please do tell me who killed President Kennedy.
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In science class. They gathered everybody up in the cafeteria while the busses pulled up outside, told us and sent us home.
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I was a child living just north of Boston and locally it was taken like it was the end of the world. A lot more than a man died that day and many truths, many beliefs lived on only as fallacy. People still cling to many of those fallacies today, as if.

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