Rememberances of the Kennedy assassination

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45 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas.  I remember that day well.

I was a freshman at Beaumont High School here in St. Louis.  I was just coming back from lunch and into the classroom when a fellow student, Terry Mislark, was walking into the classroom talking to a girl.  He turned to me and said, “Jon, didn’t Kennedy just get shot?”  I thought he was trying to pull a prank on her and said, “Sure.” Dealey plaza It was a few minutes later when they made an announcement over the public address system that the president had indeed been shot.  Classes continued the rest of the day, but I remember going home and spent the entire weekend watching TV including the live killing of Lee Harvey Oswald on Sunday morning.  TV news was different back then.  There wasn’t much LIVE coverage.

Many years later I went to Dallas and did the tour of the Sixth Floor Museum.  It is the museum dedicated to the Kennedy assassination and it’s located on the sixth floor of what was then the Texas School Book Depository Building.  It was very eerie to look out the window of the building and see that view that we’ve all seen thousands of times.  My recollection was that it hadn’t changed in the 30 years or so since the assassination.  Even the trees didn’t appear to have changed. 

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13 thoughts on “Rememberances of the Kennedy assassination”

  2. I also well remember that day. We watched the news repoprts in our classrooms, and some of the teachers (public school) led the students in prayer. How things have changed! I still have a copy of our local newspaper from the next day, with a 2 inch high bold headline, “KENNEDY ASSASSINATED”.

  3. I hope I live long enuf to eventually see all the records opened on this event. I would love to know ‘the rest of the story’. (Not dozens of nut-job theories.)

  5. As a truck driver also got to visit Dealey Plaza. I sent my company VP a post card from there, telling him that behind the fence on the grassy knoll I found an old wallet with his ID in it. He busted up laughing at the card, because he knew what this meant. I was putting him in the spot of the mystery sniper of the killing. But the part that was shocking to both him and me was that nobody else in the office knew what it was about. Nobody knew of the Plaza, the grassy knoll, etc. It is a national shame how poor it is today’s level of public education.

  6. …..and all the conspiracy kooks who made money off of the assasination.
    Let it go. Oswald did it.

    Kinda like the 9/11 Truther bullsh*t too.

    You know the same old rot. That Coast to Coast nonsense that George Noory keeps his rice bowl full with.

    Talk about an ignorant public.

  8. Mike,
    I don’t know… maybe I’m a fool, but I still have some faith in our government. I think Oswald did it I guess. But I haven’t studied it intensely.

  9. I was ten years old and living in Sunbury-on-Thames, England when it occurred. I remember seeing it on the evening news – I was standing behind our green armchair, and there was a fire in the fireplace. I *think* my father was in the armchair, but it may have been my mother.

  10. People have been duped with this conspiracy BS for too long. OSWALD DID IT. End of story. The real mystery is if someone put him up to it and who.
    There was no gunman on the grassy knowl or hidden in the sewer.
    This has been gone over ad naseum scientifically. He was a former Marine and a hell of a shot.

    People are more apt to believe Oliver Stone’s (kook) rendition of the story than the facts.

  11. Just one question for those who think it’s so simple: What happened to the limo Kennedy was riding in? Why in the world would it have been destroyed?

  13. I live in Fort Worth, sometimes I go over to Dallas for business. It’s always eerie driving down that street, looking at the buildings, the grass. I’ve also been to the museum, it’s pretty creepy. I’ve even visited Oswald’s grave, it’s less than 5 minutes from where I live. There’s nothing on his headstone, no day of death or birth. Just a name.

    Although I know people are frustrated with conspiracy theories, watch JFK by Oliver Stone. It’s long but worth it. You’ll notice how a lot of things surrounding the assassination don’t add up..

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