History JFK,45years ago Nov22d,'63 what car and where were you?

I was in a high school typing class wondering what I was doing there because I was so far behind! I had a '56 Chevy Bel Air 2 door sedan. I bought it for $300 with money from my paper route. My parents had a 1962 Ford four door sedan. It was a day I'll never forget. My oldest son was born nine years later on November 22.

 

Me too! I guess we (mom and I) were in a filling station getting fuel when the news came over the radio. The story is that we were driving a 1963 Mercury with a breezeway rear window - or maybe it was the 1953 Ford two door. I couldn't see from where I was riding.

 

10th grade study hall @ Pulaski High in Milwaukee. Just got back from lunch.

The vice principle made the announcement over the PA system. Lots of kids cried... hard to believe.

We got a few days off after that and my folks and I watched Jack Ruby shoot Oswald at the Dallas PD.

 

Working on a new elementery school in Palos Verdes, it was lunch time, listening to car radio on way to store, news had just broke, back at the job, guys would not believe me at first, until later. Soldering copper pipe, I inscribed on the 2X6 studs in wall, the time & date of this dasterdly event in history!!
Just had bought a new 1963 Ford wagon for our 3 kids, my 32 roadster was still in many pieces---Waiting---Black & white TV was on constantly, but all they showed was re-run news, & lots of drab music for a week, Oswald took the fall, its been proven by expert marksmen, with an Italian mail order rifle, Oswald at best could have only got off 2 shots with that scoped, bolt action weapon that was no way near the accurate types we have today! Then there is the question of the "Muddy footprints"--the "Grassy Knoll"--- the "Overpass" & Jack Ruby silencing Oswald before he could "Talk"----American politics at its best!!!------------------Don

 

I was in shop class when the principle started broadcasting a radio station over the PA system. We had no idea what the heck it was all about until the news guy finally said the president had been shot. No one said much of anything for the rest of the day. When we went out in the hallways after class there were girls crying everywhere. That night and for days afterward there was no rock & roll music on any radio station. We had alot of kids in our neighborhood (typical at that time) and usually played football, hounds & deer, kick the can etc in the evening but in the days that followed the assasination we all sat around bummed out, not having any fun at all. As a few other folks have said---it seems like yesterday. It sure was a sad time in our country's history.

 

I was 19 and driving a 57 Buick 2dr ht and had a 40 Ford cpe project. I was just pulling into a gas station when the news came on that JFK had been shot. Everyone was just stunned that this could happen. During the next ten years we saw more of the same when Bobby and MLK joined him

 

I was sitting home. The day before I was suspended from high school for 3 days for starting a riot in the cafeteria. More like just a bunch of yelling and fooling around. Since they closed all the schools they extended my suspension.

I had a '39 Ford Coupe with a SBC project.

Bill

 

I was just thinking about this, I was 16 and had just gotten my license. I was going to highschool at David Douglas in Portland, OR. We were sitting in chemistry lab and I can remember they started broadcasting the radio program over the intercom.
Some of the girls in the class started crying and I got to huge one of the best looking girls in the school as she cried................................I remember that like it was yesterday, not 45 years ago. It was a sad day.
I was driving my old Chev Htp, 235 Corvette 6 with headers and huge dump tubes a friend made in metal shop. The car would show 55/56 Chevys the way home for about 1/8 mile before they'd catch me....................some times. It used to piss those guys off to be beat by a 6cyd.

 

I was in the second year of a Mechanical Engineering Degree at General Motors Institute in Flint, Michigan. I was in a drafting class when the announcement came over the intercom. It was very matter of fact, "the president has been shot in Dallas. The school will be closed for the remainder of the day". We all packed up our drafting tools and filed out. I got in my car and drove around town in a daze,not knowing what to make of the fact that someone could shoot the president of the United States. Back then every appliance store had their TV's on display in the front window and I pulled over at one and stood on the sidewalk watching multiple images of the coverage from Dallas along with about a dozen other people.
I was driving the '61 Valiant that my mom gave me when I left for college and my dad had his beloved '57 392 hemi powered Imperial. I think that the day he died he would tell you it was his favorite car.

Frank

 

My birthday is the 22nd also, but that didn't happen for another 9 years later!

 

I was a 17 year old high school Junior. I remember being in class after lunch and we heard the news. My '31 Ford tudor was parked outside (later I eventually traded it for a black '57 Chevy - four door post but it had the obligatory stick tranny! - shoulda kept the '31!). I delivered furniture for the family retail business and it seemed like the AM radio in the truck had nothing on but somber music. Simply didn't or couldn't have known what insanity would follow! Gulf of Tonkien resolution in 1964 and of course Vietnam! What a nightmare! Off to college with a college deferment - kinda the best of times (age wise) and the worst of times (draft/war wise). A good view on these times is David Halberstam's famous book, "THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST". Open a window and look out.............................

 

Amazing how so many of us can remember exactly where we were, and what we were doing or driving! Seems those days were only the beginning of a very tumultuous decade. The '61 Lincoln Kennedy was riding in that day in Dallas is now in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn MI. Saw it a few years ago. The Henry Ford is definitely a "must see" attraction for everyone.

 

I was a junior in high school and lived about 15 miles from downtown Dallas. I was at home that day with the flu and was watching TV when the news flash broke in saying JFK had been shot. I just could'nt believe what I was hearing. Needless to say I stayed glued to the TV the rest of the day watching the chain of events that unfolded that afternoon. I also could'nt believe they were talking about areas of Dallas that I knew well, The School Book Depository, Parkland Hospital, Oak Cliff and the Texas Theater (I had dated a girl that lived in Oak Cliff and we occasionally went to the Texas Theater). I had just bought a 62 Impala SS 2 door hardtop with a 409 with 2 4's, 4 speed, silver with blue interior. It's hard to believe that was 45 years ago, damn that makes me old. If you were alive it's a day you will never forget. Did you know that John Connally still had a bullit in him when he died and told his family not to allow it to be removed upon his death. Makes you wonder why.

 

I was 6 and pissed there was nothing else on TV.

 

I was 13 and in the Assembly Hall in school. I don't recall why we were all in there but, while the principle was speaking his secretary came up to him on stage and gave him a sheet of paper. You could tell she had been crying.
He read the note, trying not to choke on his words. He told us we were all dismissed from school and that the buses would be coming shortly and for those of us that lived nearby, we were to go directly home. The President had just been assassinated.
It struck me pretty hard because I was good friends with the Postmaster's son and his father was pretty big in the Democratic Party in our parts. So Joe and I did a lot of bumper stickering and passing out of fliers when JFK was running for office.
Whatever it was that occurred that day, this country changed and has never been the same since.

 

I was riding in the back seat of the family grocery getter 1956 Chevy Nomad. I have been pissed every since dad sold it. But he did replace it with a 64 Grand Prix big block 4 speed it was cool.

 

I was in HS in 63 and on same date in '66 joined AF, can't belive that was 45 yrs ago and 42 yrs since basic training. Damn getting old just thinking about it but it still was a good time to be in the US, cars were cheap, so was gas, and the girls were still... girls got lucky if you knew who was "putting out" LOLglad I made it this far .... feel sorry for the kids today, wayyyy more hassle than when we were young.

 

we will all be long dead and buried when the truth comes out,well maybe not some of the young whippersnappers,might know the truth of Why the glass top was left off the limo at the last minute...Texas & LBJ ??????? worked out for him didnt it I have read in a couple of books that that was the VP limo and not the normal JFK limo

 

I was too young (just two years old) to remember, but I recall when I used to ride with my Grandpa and pass by a little store in Hickman,Ca. , he'd always say "This is where I was when they shot the President".

 

Nobody deserves that. However; he was a S.O.B. started the illegal war in Laos and Cambodia that got us imbedded in Vietnam. Hundreds of thousands of US Military killed, only to be disgraced by 80 percent of the citizens of their own country.

 

I was in the 2nd grade, our prinicpal came to the door and called the teacher into the hall, they spoke and he came in and told us what happened. We were dismissed early and sent home.
My parents had a 57 Plymouth Belvedere and a 55 Ford Custom at the time. Three days later my brother was born a month early, my Mom always blamed the stress of the assination on her going into early labor.

 

Was a sophomore in high school....word came over the PA system and we were let out of school early. I had a black 41 chevy coupe with a 57 235 in it but I only had my driver's permit...couldn't drive it to school so I hada ride the bus home. All the girls were crying and it was cold and windy as hell that day...bad day indeed.

 

I was repairing typewriters in a high school and driving a 59 Ford. Seems like yesterday.

 

I was in 3rd grade, they had an announcement and we all went home early, maybe 2 PM instead of 3. It was announced that he had been shot, by the time I walked home we found that he was dead.

I recall watching everything on TV for the next few days and saw the Oswald killing too, it may have been live.

My dad had a '59 Ford Ranch Wagon with the 312 T-Bird engine and 3 on the tree. The car was totaled out a few weeks after.

Bob

 

I was a senior in high school. Left school early to go to work and got an anti noise ticket. Only cop in town that was not a mason. My dad was the head mason at the time. Have the copy of an invoice where I bought a new pair of mufflers for the 54 chev on Nov. 25. Our world changed that day and not for the better.

 

Junior in High school. We heard about the shooting while we were in one class and his death a while later in another.

It was the day after my 17th birthday. My car then was the 51 Merc coupe that I had bought from the wood shop teacher Chuck Darlington the previous spring.

I remember watching the funeral and several days of pretty much continuous television on the whole situation at the time.

 

I would have been 3 1/2 so I have no recollection of it. kinda makes me wonder who told me? maybe I knew at 3 1/2 but didn't know I knew all this time til now.

I think.

 

I remember it too well, was in sr. year high school..........small school only 52 in my class.............it caused our little town to stop in its' tracks........just sold my '39 coupe 3/8 X 3/8 flat head w/ 4 97's ........and bought a '58 "W" motor sedan
BAD TIME IN OUR YOUNG LIFE

 

I was 13 years old in Catholic school. The nuns were crying and everyone was shook up about the news. My Dad drove a 1960 Chevrolet Impala, V8 with a Powerglide, white with red interior

 

I was in grade 3 catholic school in Nova Scotia. The nuns were all crying and we got sent home from school. My mom was watching it on tv when I got home. She was pretty upset and we sat and watched it unfold. I remember her telling me he was the first catholic president. We had a 58 Chev Delray. coral pink with gray int. 235 3 spd.