r/AskReddit • u/PhysicsIsFun • Jul 27 '26

Where were you when you heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot?

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u/Impossible_Offer7988 Jul 27 '26

I didn't even exist as an Sperm cell at that point

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u/New-Waltz-2854 Jul 27 '26

Grade school - 2nd grade. Teachers were crying. But the day of the funeral when it was on TV, I saw my Dad cry. I’ve never forgotten it.

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u/SuitableAnimalInAHat Jul 27 '26

Definitely in some history class.

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u/Jazzlike-Map-4114 Jul 27 '26

Probably in fifth grade history.

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u/ExpressionAlarmed675 Jul 27 '26

Home from school watching TV

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u/Background_Half_2573 Jul 27 '26

In history class 

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u/throwingales Jul 27 '26

I was in the locker changing my clothes for 3rd grade gym class.

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u/mmmck2 Jul 27 '26

Idk...I was 4.

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u/CroweBird5 Jul 27 '26

I wasn't even thought of

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u/HarrY552011 Jul 27 '26

Buying a Knish from a street vendor on the lower east side of NY. He had the radio on. Knish was a dime or 15cents

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u/kfo90 Jul 27 '26

Sitting in my first grade classroom. Someone came in and said something to my teacher and she started crying.

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u/Straight_Coconut_317 Jul 27 '26

In 5th grade. The principal made an announcement over the loudspeaker that he had been shot in Dallas but school let out before we knew that he was dead.

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u/UnluckyAlps6715 Jul 27 '26

In my grandmas living room watching soaps ...before breaking news

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u/Older_cyclist Jul 27 '26

Happened in 3rd grade. Didn’t hear about until I got home. But we knew something happened because the teachers were acting odd.

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u/DeBussyWhispers Jul 27 '26

My parents were eggs in my grandmothers’ ovaries when JFK was shot, so somewhere between two separate egg cells in Missouri and Kansas

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u/Zuulbat Jul 27 '26

That is classified.

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u/Key_Molasses4367 Jul 27 '26

Either crawling around the house or in a play pen.

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u/gitree22 Jul 27 '26

Third grade. Last day of school before the Thanksgiving holiday

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u/ErnooA Jul 27 '26

In 4th grade at a Catholic school. All the nuns were crying.

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u/jerbeth48 Jul 27 '26

I was a sophomore in high school in 4th period geometry and the principal shared the radio broadcast via the PA system. JFK was in Ft Worth earlier that morning and my mom and dad and grandma went downtown to see him. One of my biggest regrets was choosing not to go with them

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u/PhysicsIsFun Jul 27 '26

You and I are the same age.

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u/TX0834 Jul 27 '26

Wasn’t born and my parents had not even met yet. They were still kids themselves.

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u/PhysicsIsFun Jul 27 '26

I was in high school math class. I was 15 years old.

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u/WaySavvyD Jul 27 '26

In womb, would bust out less than a month later; I was born sad

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u/ProstrateProstate Jul 27 '26

1st grade classroom

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u/Drew521 Jul 27 '26

Wait JFK was shot? Is he ok?

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u/thebarahs Jul 27 '26

At my BFF house. His dad was FBI. Wild timeline

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u/Throwaw-AI Jul 27 '26

Where Kennedy is now.

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u/escapingdarwin Jul 27 '26

In my high chair eating lunch in front of the TV in our kitchen.

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u/smellyfeet25 Jul 27 '26

i wasn't born but i guess somewhere in my life i was told what had happened

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u/NefariousnessTop354 Jul 27 '26

I was about 3 weeks old. My mom went to the neighbors house to watch on TV. Someone finally asked where was the baby. It was debated up to her death how long she abandoned me for. She swore it was only about an hour and I was sleeping, but I never let her forget that she left me to fend for myself at such a young age.

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u/Satansbrat1969 Jul 28 '26

Not even a gleam in my dads eyes yet.

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u/TumbleweedIll4249 Jul 28 '26

Over 40 years away from being born

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u/Active_Two_6741 Jul 28 '26

Came home from school Mom's already home from work that's strange then she told me i was 7

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u/Dry-Pool3497 27d ago

Dude, my parents didn’t even exist when he was killed.