President Kennedy On Television, 1963
This slide of the week: PRESIDENT KENNEDY ON TELEVISION, 1963, was inspired by my visit to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealy Plaza in Dallas last week. Having just watched a video of an ABC NEWS special aired last November about that fateful day in Dallas forty years ago, my Kennedy-curiosity was as peaked as it could possibly be.
The Sixth Floor Museum is in the legendary school book depository building where Oswald fired the fatal shots. The exterior of the building remains virtually as it was that day. But the sixth floor, with the exception of the recreation of the “sniper’s perch” near the corner window, bears no resemblance to its former warehouse appearance. Fifteen years ago the space transformed into a most engaging and informative display with incredible photos, films, and artifacts that tell one of the most famous events in the history of the universe. The omni-present
I was 13 years old and living in California at the time of the assassination.
I was home ill (probably faking it) from school.
I was in my room watching a comedy show called “Pete & Gladys” starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams when
a SPECIAL BULLETIN came on and disrupted my comedy show.
The newscaster came on to say that there was a shooting during the Kennedy motorcade.
(I am uneasy with these special bulletins to this day due to this horrible day!).
Shocked I ran to the kitchen to inform my grandparents. My grandfather was doing the dishes and he thought I was joking as used to joked about this very thing in the past.
But I was able to get him to go to the television set to see the news. Then my grandmother joined us.
At first we thought that the news was only about a shooting that didn’t involved the President.
Turned out it was the worst that could have happened as President Kennedy was beloved by most of the public.
We were all shaken by the events of that day.
Everyone was upset and crying.
When President Kennedy was in office my feelings as a child was that everything was so wonderful! Americans seems to be very happy!
After President Kennedy’s Presidency ended life in the U.S. seemed to go down hill.
That is how I remember it.
i was in first grade, staying with my aunt, and awaiting my little brothers birth. he was born a week after the assasination.it was the warmest november ever 75 degrees in massachusetts that week. my mother was hanging clothes on the line before she went off to the hospital.