Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

Jackie Kennedy thought the same thing. LJB was a merciless man!!

Nelson7

I was in the 7th grade in COBB county Georgia. We had moved there just 9 weeks before. When it was announced over the PA that the president had been shot my classmates cheered. Kennedy was catholic and for black civil rights. My family was catholic and for civil rights. That was my welcome to Georgia moment.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Why your classmates cheered??🤔

RandyBrian Loc: Texas

You are implying that a class room of 7th grade Americans cheered when they heard JFK had been shot. I can't imagine that happening. I do not know you, so I will not assume the obvious. Yet. Are you SURE you remember that event correctly, or am I (hopefully) misinterpreting your post.?

skyrider

That would not surprise me. Remember, in those days that area was hard shell Baptist. They were anti Catholic and anti black rights.

Elwood Loc: Florida

I was working for Pan American Airlines in Los Angeles on that day. When we got the news several of my fellow workers, and myself, were gathered around discussing this when our boss came out of his office and asked what we were doing? When we told him about JFK he said "tough s**t now get back to work"! I presumed then that he was not a fan!

Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

How well I remember. I lived in Augusta, GA in 1959-60, and coming from California, I was shocked to see that the south was still very anti-negro. There was even separate lunch counters at Woolworth's for black and white, 'a waste of money', I thought. And yet, it was the black people who were very spiritual.

The Methodist Church, near where I lived, was filled with mostly black people. Their choir was awful so I asked the pastor if I could direct the choir. He was over-joyed at the thought. Unfortunately, it was right after that that I came down with pneumonia. And then we left Georgia. But the pastor came to my home after I was released from the hospital. (We were both disappointed that I wouldn't be able to direct the choir.)

I got a bunch of white folks upset with me when I boarded a bus, and took a seat in the back next to a black girl who looked to be about my age. We started chatting and enjoying ourselves, meanwhile I was getting dagger-looks from the white folks.

RandyBrian Loc: Texas

I'm afraid that is not true. I am "hard shell" Baptist, and have never known any Christian to be anti Catholic OR anti Black. I do remember an occasional preacher criticizing some of the Catholic Churches teachings as not being true to Christ's teachings, but that is hardly anti anything. Nevertheless, a room full of American 7th graders cheering the assassination of a President? Especially in 1963? I do not believe it.

Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

Depends on the school and what the kids learned from their parents.

LogicallyRight Loc: Chicago

Thanks. I was no hero and I don't take credit for what I didn't do. I served in a position that didn't require much from me. As I look back, I wish I could have done more. But aboard a ship, some of us have limited chances to do much of anything, but our job. Mine was computer maintenance and they seldom failed. so there was little to do most of the time.

I missed the next tour and there was a massive explosion on the hanger deck, one deck above where I worked, and in an area I often passed while going back and forth. Could have been terminated then. About 60 sailors were. I guess every day on the job is, in a way, risking your life. But that was the limitations of my visible risks. Viet Nam was just building up at that point.

Well actually, I did end up later on in the Armed Forces Police for 6 months. Qualified with a 45 that I never had to use. Did get in a lot of street battles with military we had to take in. That was in Seattle. We know what a s**t hole that city is now. but it wasn't bad while I was there.

Nelson7

I am simply reporting what I witnessed sitting in a segregated school in a segregated state. I am glad that you cannot imagine that it happened. It would not happen today but a lot of change has taken place for me to be able say that. A great deal of progress yet to go.

Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

I can imagine it because I lived there years before JFK was assassinated.