what were you doing 42 years ago today

[Gwylan]

I didn't really find out until the following morning - it happened after my bedtime.

I remember my mum and dad being quite upset though.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Heard the news on the radio. Was shocked. And then went off down the local youth club.

 

[Dandyman]

Moving quietly but quickly away from a grassy knoll.

 

[sully]

Probably watching "Watch With Mother" in black and white - if the TV had warmed up in time.

I was 17 months old.

 

[3gulls]

22nd November 1963...dallas Texas


JFK

A job well done! One less IRA loving

 

[On the Left Wing]

I was at school, probably drinking milk

nicking Hiney's milk off him

 

[On the Left Wing]

Heard the news on the radio. Was shocked. And then went off down the local youth club.

to practise your air rifle skills?

 

[Everest]

I was at school, probably drinking milk

I was at home, probably drinking milk

 

[whitelion]

It was a Friday night and my elder sister's 12th birthday. I was getting ready for a bath when the news came through around 8pm.

 

[Bombardier]

About to pop out of my mummies tummy. I did on the 23rd and they have been trying to put me back to this day!

 

[1066gull]

I was dead.

Well, technically was not born.

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

I WAS J.F.K.

 

[simonsimon]

Shopping in Key Markets LANCING aged 9.

 

[Eggmundo]

Shopping in Key Markets LANCING aged 9.

Key Markets was around then?
I know it was key Markets when I was a lad but I didn't realise it went back that far.
I wasn't alive BTW. for the original question.

 

[Marc]

22nd November 1963...dallas Texas


JFK

hiding behind a grassy knoll...

 

[Muhammed - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

i was dreading my 3rd christmas.....as a kid i was shit scared of men with beards and hats, christmas was not a happy time for me!

 

[RexCathedra]

I feel guilty to this day about it, but what I mostly remeber was missing a school treat -- the local parish Christmas bazaar.

I was in the first grade, and the grades were going in order from eighth to first. My brother went the day before, and was wild about it-- his grab bag was most awesome. It was scheduled for the last two hours of the day. Sister had us lined up in our coats and ready to walk over when the news came through.... I was livid, but also old enough not to let on. And all those grown-ups crying was, well, kind of creepy.

We had summered in Washington the year before, taken the White House tour, gone out to Andrews AFB to see JFK fly out on one of his trips. I am supposed to have shaken the great man's hand on a rope line at some point, but nerves then, and the passage of time has left the memory hazy.

It would be difficult to exaggerate what a blow the assassination was in Boston Irish Catholic circles...


I personally consider Bobby's death a far greater catastrophe...

 

[Yorkie]

I heard about it when the news came on the tv. I was doing my homework for my GCEs

 

[Alby]

Probably watching "Watch With Mother" in black and white - if the TV had warmed up in time.

I was 17 months old.

Probably doing something similar aged 2 years and 7 months !

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Probably doing something similar aged 2 years and 7 months !

Just back from a day at Nursery (in Woodingdean)
Alby, we must be about the same birth date - March 1960?