Do you remember what you were doing the moment you found out JFK was assassinated?

56 years ago today...November 22, 1963. I was sitting in my first grade classroom waiting for the teacher to get back from being called to the office. She came back & said she had something to tell us. Afterwards we all sat and cried till the bell rang to go home.

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Ryansgrampy97 · 80-89, M

I was aboard the USS Independence CVA-62 off the coast of Turkey, 200 miles from the Russian border. The only thing we knew is that we were ordered to General Quarters, and every man (no women on Navy ships back then) went to battle stations. Every aircraft was fully armed and sent aloft and we remained that way for 72 hours as they did not know that this was not the beginning of an attack on the U.S. We were under strict wartime conditions which meant radio silence, therefore we did not know about the attack for 3 days.