Where Were You?Thursday marks the 44th anniversary of the assassin-ation of President John F. Kennedy. What are your memories of that day? Were you still in school or out in the 'real world' when the news hit? Click on Comments below and share your stories of that fateful fall day in 1963.
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It was my first real job. I was a "dental expeditor" or delivery boy for a dental lab that made false teeth for dentists in Bristol, Thomaston and Terryville. On route 6 between Teryville & Thomaston I began to notice cars pulled off the road with drivers leaning over to hear radio broadcasts. Some were crying. Then the radio confirmed the worst. President Kennedy was shot and had died. Returning to my home base in Bristol was the longest three-mile drive I would endure for years to come. It was truly a feeling of insecurity that a president could and would die. It was terribly sad but also the beginning of the reality that the world we thought we knew guaranteed us nothing. My God, who cared about anything else except what were we going to do -- our beloved president was gone. Our world had changed.
I was in 7th grade at a Catholic junior high school in Massachusetts when they announced that President Kennedy "had been stabbed." Of course we'd learn the truth once we got home. It was a horribly sad few days and it seemed the world just stopped. There isn't much I remember as vividly from 7th grade as I do those four days. We moved to Southington several years later. And then my children would spend their own 7th grade at John F. Kennedy Junior High School.
I was working in a jewelry factory office in Providence, RI when we first heard that President Kennedy had been shot. It seemed so unreal...........We were glued to the TV for days. I still don't think that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone that day.
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