KuroKuro

I was in a Year 10 History class when I saw it. Of course, this was about 38 years after the fact.

haggis88

Also in this camp...my parents would have been 4 and 8

i think the first major "celebrity" death I can remember where i was, would be Diana...

ultrarunner

Apparently...love has no boundary

I made my way down to Buckingham palace that morning, and saw the body brought in, and carried past me (still have the pictures I took). I was interviewed by a TV station, and was on Telly that evening

Piff Poff

My Mum who would have been 14, had not met my Dad, who would have been 34, he would've been married to his 1st wife with two kids, I don't think I was even a twinkle

ultrarunner

Songs with JFK's death in them

1. "Conspiracy Theory" - Steve Earle (2002)
Key Lyric: "What if you could've been there on that day in Dallas? / What if you could wrestle back the hands of time?"
2. "He Was a Friend of Mine" - The Byrds (1965)
Key Lyric: "He was in Dallas town / From a sixth floor window a gunner shot him down / He died in Dallas town / He never knew my name, he never knew my name / Though I never met him I knew him just the same / Oh, he was a friend of mine / Leader of a nation for such a precious time"
3. "Sympathy for the Devil" - The Rolling Stones (1968)
Key Lyric: "I shouted out, 'Who killed the Kennedys?' / When after all / it was you and me"
4. "Civil War" - Guns N' Roses (1990)
Key Lyric: "And in my first memories / they shot Kennedy / I went numb when I learned to see"
5. "Public Enemy #1" - Eminem (2006)
Key Lyric: "Like that day John F. Kennedy was assassinated in broad day / by the greatest lunatic with a gun / Who just happened to work on the same block in the library book depository / Where the President would go for a little Friday stroll / Shots fired from the grassy knoll"
6. "Born in the 50's" - The Police (1978)
Key Lyric: "My mother cried / When President Kennedy died / She said 'It was the communists' / But I knew better"
7. "Life in a Northern Town" - Dream Academy (1985)
Key Lyric: "In winter 1963 / It felt like the world would freeze / With John F. Kennedy and The Beatles"
8. "Brain of J" - Pearl Jam (1998)
Key Lyric: "Who's got the brain of JFK? / What's it mean to us now?"
9. "Sleeping In" - The Postal Service (2003)
Key Lyric: "Last week I had the strangest dream / Where everything was exactly how it seemed / Where there was never any mystery of who shot John F. Kennedy / It was just a man with something to prove / Slightly bored and severely confused / He steadied his rifle with his target in the center / And became famous on that day in November"
10. "The Day John Kennedy Died" - Lou Reed (1982)
Key Lyric: "Oh, the day John Kennedy died / I remember where I was that day, I was upstate in a bar / The team from the university was playing football on tv / Then the screen want dead and the announcer said, 'there's been a tragedy / There are unconfirmed reports the president's been shot / And he may be dead or dying.'"

The4BellsLondon

Not born

MarkG

Same place I was when Julius Caesar was assassinated.

I must admit, I've never really understood the Kennedy worship. If he hadn't been assassinated, he'd probably just be another failed President, blamed for the Vietnam War.

caretaker

If he hadn't issued the order to begin withdrawing American advisors from Vietnam, (the first 1,000 by end of 1963 - reversed by LBJ 2 weeks after his death), he may not have been shot. He'd ordered training of South Vietnamese troops to be speeded up and hoped all American forces could be withdrawn by 1965, pending his re-election. Whether this action would have been dependant on initial US military success will never be known, but he'd shown his willingness to make unpopular decisions

montreal mike

yet another needless stupid war

the yanks wanted, at all costs, to keep the commies at bay

that didn't work

Saigon fell and the commies took over

and guess what?: in time they've turned out to become a bunch of capitalists after all

Shard

Yes, it does seem to have been in vain. One of the problems of having God on your side I suppose.

bats

I think it was the promise of what might have been. He was seen as a good man with a loving wife and family, all smiles and good looks with a soul to match. History eh?

I remember where i was when RFK was shot. We were at school with access to a radio for updates which allowed us to be as be important and tearful as teenage girls could be.

Auld Yin

I read a headline this week. "JFK, Martyr or Satyr?

bats

Catchy. He was a bit wayward by most accounts.

montreal mike

You are probably right as he was not around long enough to have done much, good or bad

only later did we learn of his fondness for the weaker sex

Shard

...the fairer sex, maybe?