Tag Archives: President

A US Citizen recalls how he first found out about JFK's assassination from a fellow coworker. Continue reading

I was a sophomore living in Ann Arbor. I walked to the diag that day, knowing nothing, and saw some groups of students standing in groups of 2 or 3. Continue reading

I was an accounting clerk in a ball bearing factory. There were huge machines which punched out different sizes of ball bearings. Continue reading

I was in high school in 1963. We were all taken to the gym. No one told us what it was about, but it was obviously very important and probably bad. Continue reading

During the fall of 1963 my husband and I were living in London — he a grad student and I an expecting mom. Continue reading

I was teaching at Lenape Jr. High School in Central Bucks the day our president was killed. Continue reading

I was working at home in the kitchen, the baby napping and the older children in school. Since I had neither the television nor radio on, it was a total surprise when the delivery man arrived at the back door sad said, "the President had been shot". Continue reading

At a research laboratory of the University of Kansas Medical School, I was discussing a biochemical problem with another post-doctoral fellow when we heard the President had been killed. Continue reading

I was not surprised, when I heard the news, perhaps almost having expected some fanatic waiting to kill President Kennedy. Continue reading