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We lost President John Kennedy.

Those of us who were old enough will never forget that day.

(And I got the number of years right this time.)

It happened on my sixth birthday.

And now it's true on official Bored time.

Happy birthday, Elwood. --Bob

Wait! What's going on? Is the Bored's clock off by a minute or so? --Bob

Thanks. It is after 2am here, and I am posting this from work.

I thought Central time (UTC - 5 hours) was the official Bored time.

I noticed a while ago that the Bored clock was 1 minute off.

jarnon wrote:I thought Central time (UTC - 5 hours) was the official Bored time.

I noticed a while ago that the Bored clock was 1 minute off.

The original Bored was hosted in California. Ever since then, Pacific Time has been official Bored time.

Bu since the assassination occurred in the Central Time Zone . . . . --Bob

I was in 8th grade during the 25th anniversary, and I was in my art class (ironically, the only one I ever took) when they played a recording of the news report from the assassination over the PA, followed by an announcement from the principal of my junior high that it was 25 years ago at that exact time that JFK had been shot. Kinda creepy, especially since it was an unannounced remembrance... and not exactly something the students could even relate to since we did not live through it...

lb13

I no longer say where I was because I have found that if you are that old no one is listening to you anyway.

elwoodblues wrote:I no longer say where I was because I have found that if you are that old no one is listening to you anyway.

Excuse me....did you say something?


Happy birthday!

elwoodblues wrote:I no longer say where I was because I have found that if you are that old no one is listening to you anyway.

Hey, I figure that my age cohort are the youngest people alive who can remember it. I don't have any personal memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the year before that, for instance.

elwoodblues wrote:I no longer say where I was because I have found that if you are that old no one is listening to you anyway.

Are you sure it's not because you were on some grassy knoll? --Bob

C. S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley also both died on November 22, 1963.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

elwoodblues wrote:I no longer say where I was because I have found that if you are that old no one is listening to you anyway.

Hey, I figure that my age cohort are the youngest people alive who can remember it. I don't have any personal memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the year before that, for instance.

I was in seventh grade, and I remember our last class of the day was social studies and our teacher, Mr. Vickers, used to brag that he had been the only Republican mayor of some small town in Georgia (back then there were no Republican elected officials in Georgia or most other places in the South). He used to discuss politics in class, but I don't remember any of the details. I do remember going into class and talking with one of my classmates and saying that Mr. Vickers was going to be real happy about this.

Wrong. He spent the entire hour talking about what a horrible thing this was for the country and how political disagreements should never lead to something like this. I wound up respecting him tremendously after that.

Sadly, I think that attitude is completely gone today on both sides of the aisle. If Obama (or a Republican president) were shot, you'd see some really sick comments flying all over the place on the internet.

bazodee wrote:C. S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley also both died on November 22, 1963.

It's a conspiracy.

The entire senior class was in the cafeteria taking some kind of standardized test. Frank Baxter, a junior who worked in the high school office, came to the door of the cafeteria and called for Rich McKillip, our guidance counselor, who was administering the test. Mr. McKillip came to the front and announced that the president had been shot. We went back to our answer sheets as ordered. An hour later our principal came on the p.a. And told of the death of our president. The next three days were a blur of nearly palpable grief.

I am too young to have any recollection of this day at all.

silverscreenselect wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

elwoodblues wrote:I no longer say where I was because I have found that if you are that old no one is listening to you anyway.

Hey, I figure that my age cohort are the youngest people alive who can remember it. I don't have any personal memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the year before that, for instance.

I was in seventh grade, and I remember our last class of the day was social studies and our teacher, Mr. Vickers, used to brag that he had been the only Republican mayor of some small town in Georgia (back then there were no Republican elected officials in Georgia or most other places in the South). He used to discuss politics in class, but I don't remember any of the details. I do remember going into class and talking with one of my classmates and saying that Mr. Vickers was going to be real happy about this.

Wrong. He spent the entire hour talking about what a horrible thing this was for the country and how political disagreements should never lead to something like this. I wound up respecting him tremendously after that.

Sadly, I think that attitude is completely gone today on both sides of the aisle. If Obama (or a Republican president) were shot, you'd see some really sick comments flying all over the place on the internet.

What's even more sad is that in 7th grade, your prejudices were already so ingrained that you believed an individual would be happy about the assassination of their president simply because of that individual's party affiliation. Very telling.

I saw a tweet today from someone who said he remembered hearing that President Kennedy had been shot. It was 8th grade history class, twenty five years ago.

tlynn78 wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:
Hey, I figure that my age cohort are the youngest people alive who can remember it. I don't have any personal memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the year before that, for instance.

I was in seventh grade, and I remember our last class of the day was social studies and our teacher, Mr. Vickers, used to brag that he had been the only Republican mayor of some small town in Georgia (back then there were no Republican elected officials in Georgia or most other places in the South). He used to discuss politics in class, but I don't remember any of the details. I do remember going into class and talking with one of my classmates and saying that Mr. Vickers was going to be real happy about this.

Wrong. He spent the entire hour talking about what a horrible thing this was for the country and how political disagreements should never lead to something like this. I wound up respecting him tremendously after that.

Sadly, I think that attitude is completely gone today on both sides of the aisle. If Obama (or a Republican president) were shot, you'd see some really sick comments flying all over the place on the internet.

What's even more sad is that in 7th grade, your prejudices were already so ingrained that you believed an individual would be happy about the assassination of their president simply because of that individual's party affiliation. Very telling.

You're assuming way too much. He said Mr. Vickers used to discuss politics in class. He probably made it clear that he did not like JFK.

tlynn78 wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote: I do remember going into class and talking with one of my classmates and saying that Mr. Vickers was going to be real happy about this.

What's even more sad is that in 7th grade, your prejudices were already so ingrained that you believed an individual would be happy about the assassination of their president simply because of that individual's party affiliation. Very telling.

No, it reflects a seventh grader's rather limited understanding of the world and especially of one particular teacher. For what it's worth, the girl I was talking to (and I don't even remember her name but I had kind of a crush on her back then) and I agreed on this, and there was a sense of anticipation in the class waiting for him to say something. My politics were certainly not well formed back then: i probably couldn't have told you much about exactly what each party stood for (and I voted for Nixon in the class mock election because it seemed like most of the other kids were voting for Nixon).

I do remember my father telling me about a number of the GIs he was serving with in Europe who were very happy to hear about FDR's death, and there were also a number of people happy that MLK and Bobby Kennedy were killed.

This thread's too depressing. Anyone want to guess what movie was #1 at the box office 50 years ago today?

smilergrogan wrote:This thread's too depressing. Anyone want to guess what movie was #1 at the box office 50 years ago today?

Our American Cousin?

lb13

I remember my teacher saying, after the pa announcement, "now the shit's hit the fan," and we were stunned about the event and that our teacher had cussed. With that said, even tho no one in our immediate vicinity was a Democrat, everyone knew how horrible this was. You don't kill the prez of the US.

Bob Juch wrote:

tlynn78 wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:
I was in seventh grade, and I remember our last class of the day was social studies and our teacher, Mr. Vickers, used to brag that he had been the only Republican mayor of some small town in Georgia (back then there were no Republican elected officials in Georgia or most other places in the South). He used to discuss politics in class, but I don't remember any of the details. I do remember going into class and talking with one of my classmates and saying that Mr. Vickers was going to be real happy about this.

Wrong. He spent the entire hour talking about what a horrible thing this was for the country and how political disagreements should never lead to something like this. I wound up respecting him tremendously after that.

Sadly, I think that attitude is completely gone today on both sides of the aisle. If Obama (or a Republican president) were shot, you'd see some really sick comments flying all over the place on the internet.

What's even more sad is that in 7th grade, your prejudices were already so ingrained that you believed an individual would be happy about the assassination of their president simply because of that individual's party affiliation. Very telling.

You're assuming way too much. He said Mr. Vickers used to discuss politics in class. He probably made it clear that he did not like JFK.

No, that's the impression I got from the post, too. Just because you disagree doesn't mean you would be happy about a death. I don't remember anyone thinking/saying that, or it entering one's mind.