I was 11, in the 6th grade, in Michigan. Our teacher was called out of class, came back about 15 minutes later, said the president had been shot, then said a prayer. He went back out of the room later, and the class remained silent the entire time he was gone. When he came back, he said the president had died and dismissed class for the rest of the day. As I walked home from school, the women of the neighborhood gathered in their yard's talking and crying over fences.
I was 4 years old. I was happily working on a hole with my toy earthmover when my sister tried to drag me inside to listen to the radio. I was unmoved and didn't know who Kennedy was.
I was 11 at the time, and never heard the news in school. Once I got home, my mom said come listen to the radio, and I heard members of Congress praying and saying that Kennedy was dead.
@@celebrityrog I’m not certain whether Jackie’s evidence of JFK’s murder spurred more frequent political assassination attempts, at least here in the U.S. If I’m not mistaken, it wasn’t until 5 years later that any more such attempts were made in USA - both, tragically, being quite successful (Sen. Robert Kennedy & Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.). But talk about 1 picture being worth 1,000 words… the sight of the shocked First Lady, in a light pink suit with JFK’s dried blood distinct on her clothes & limbs, was devastating and forever haunting. “Let Them See What They Have Done.”
@@celebrityrog perhaps, but that splattered blood on her iconic pink Chanel suit showed how brutal the act was, how immoral. it was no accident, no force of nature. just cold-blooded murder.
@@squares4u this is true. Previous assassinations - apart from Lincoln, because he was so beloved - didn’t get nearly the same amount of shock and horrified awe from the masses, because they didn’t happen so publicly and they didn’t have so much documented visibility. Kennedy’s murder was literally recorded on film. I literally had to watch it in school, and it was disturbing… not for the reasons you’d expect, because I was honestly expecting more carnage, but because of how QUICK it was. Like, within literally a second, he’s smiling to the public… and then there’s a small red explosion, the car is careening, his wife is climbing onto the back hood, and not even a full 10 seconds pass before it’s utter visual chaos. So quick and so brief that it’s almost too short to possibly absorb or process the disbelief of it. All I know for sure is I never want to view that recording again.
I used to ask my mom about this day. She was 10, and she would recount the day for me. Now I get asked about 9/11. It's crazy how these events mark a generation.
Both of my parents remembered the day President Kennedy was shot. Mum was at a friend's house and said her friend's mother was just devastated. Dad was standing in the kitchen of his parents house when the news came on the radio.
Agree, I just turned 4 and remember my babysitter woke me up from a nap…. crying…. I saw him as anther little girl and boy’s Daddy being shot…. so sad.
@@micheleMAGGIO-m8j Indeed, no matter what you've thought about Kennedy's politics, this was the President being shot to death in broad daylight. A shocking scene.
I was a freshman in high school in Florence, Oregon. Someone came to the classroom door and asked the teacher if she could step into the hall for a moment. She came back in shortly in tears. An announcement was made over the PA system that the President had been shot. Class was dismissed for the day. I remember milling around in shock and disbelief in the parking lot outside the gym with myriad other students. A few months ago I was in that parking lot once again. The high school has long since been torn down. I stood once again on the spot where I told myself that I would remember this sad moment for the rest of my life.
There's a small time error in how this scene was filmed. JFK was shot around 1230pm in Dallas which was 630pm in the UK. In late November the sun sets just after 5pm in the UK. The Queen wouldn't have been working on that fallen tree after sunset. She probably would have been sitting down to supper.
It was deliberate ,Jackie wanted people to see what was done to her husband and never forget it ,I was a little girl when this happened and I could never forget the gravity of it ,so much sadness from the news and people comments !
I don’t know about that, but this and perhaps the moon landing spring forth peak conspiracy theories, so nothing new here; Chappaquiddick incident leaves lots of answers we may never get. The Kennedy’s had their way with women though, to say the least.
This might be the most stupid, uneducated comment I’ve ever read in my life. There’s countless amounts of historic records, video footage and personal accounts proving what you said was made up in thin air. You sound like a teenage girl making shit up for attention
I was in 3rd grade at a Catholic school. The nuns ran through the hallways screaming and hysterical. We were all made to kneel on the floor for what seemed like hours while our teacher, Sister Somethingorother, said the rosary over and over again. We had the year before been through the Cuban missile crisis where JFK made the nation aware of the possibility of nuclear war at any time. Twice in two years I witnessed my mother weeping for the fate of her children. It was a trauma in my childhood I'll never forget.
I was also in a Catholic school on that day, 2nd grade. No one became hysterical, but a young teacher, Miss Adams, was crying. We had wonderful nuns at my school, best teachers I ever had. The education I received from them really set me on a good path for my entire life. I remember watching the news with my dad later that evening, and he explained to me about the vice president becoming the new president. Same with Cuban missile crisis, no hysterics, but then we lived in the tornado belt, so we had experience with safety drills for tornadoes. If my parents had concerns, they did not let us kids see it. I remember my parents weeping when the 4 little girls died in a church bombing. My parents had 4 daughters, and the reality of 4 little girls all dying like that, just from hate, really was painful for them.
I was a Junior in High School, in German class. The announcement came across the classroom speaker and after a moment of stunned silence, most of the girls in the room began weeping. I don't remember much of the remaining day, though I know we were all released early to go home. I still remember the funeral, with Jackie in black and John John saluting as his Father's casket passed by.
I had a similar experience with 9/11. It was the first time in my life, that my peaceful, 'normal' life was truly shaken up and I will never forget the shock and horror I felt.
Not to be rude I'm just curious why would Germany care about what happens to the US president? More so curious because students started crying. Like I'm not saying I wouldn't feel sadness for the people if someone from another country died but to cry over it.. probably not.
@@QueenMizu Well.... teenagers. You know? They are door slamming, the world is gonna end over a break up and I HATE you for making rules and sticking to them bags of hormones during that time. Or some of them, at least. I wasn't the overly dramatic kind myself, but some just are. And you gotta consider, that Germany had a very positive image of America at that time. We got treated exceedingly graciously after WW2 - especially by the Americans. It's not something, that's very much on people's radar these days, but we literally owe the fact that Germany even still exists and made a fast economic comeback to the fact, that that was granted to us and supported by the Marshall Plan. Admittedly, so we wouldn't fall into the hands of the Communist, not out of sheer good will, but still. People back then still looked up to America as the rightful 'leader of the free world'. Not to mention, that everything cool and new and exciting came from America. Movies, music, fashion... Kennedy was much more to people than just some president of a foreign country. People idolized him, even outside of the USA.
Such a powerful moment. I was 13 years old when they let out classes at my high school. We were told the President was dead and little else. I will never forget this day.
I totally agree. I was 8, but remember it like it was yesterday. A horrific event I have never fully recovered from. In hindsight I am very glad we did not see the Zapruder film until much later. When 9/11 happened I was upset and I prayed for all who were lost and those who were left to grieve for them. It did not scar me the way the assassination did. I had already been traumatized and this was something else that happened. I believe the country has been on a downhill glide since then. There was hope in 1961. Now?
I remember this day vividly. I was ten years old and in the fourth grade. I had been so excited, as my mother had given birth to my sister the day before. Our class had just returned from lunch when another teacher came in and whispered something to my teacher. They both started crying. Then the principal broadcast Walter Cronkite over the PA system while we listened to the updates. It was decided that all the schools in our district would dismiss early and we were sent home. It was so quiet on the bus, you could've heard a pin drop.
We were abruptly sent home from grade school early, though we were not told why. In those days, there was no phone tree, they just booted you out and most mothers were at home. If not, one of your neighbors would just scoop you up until your parents showed.
My dad was just an infant and my mom wasn't born yet, but my late grandpa had very vivid memories of where he was when he learned the news. He worked for the Department of Energy at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). He was a Superintendent at the time, so he was way out in Area 14 when the call came out over the radio. DOE ceased operations for the day and it was a madhouse getting thousands of workers back and accounted for at once.
My Grandmother told me that she was at lunch in elementary school when the principal walked in and told her class that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas but the students didn’t pay much attention and when she got home her parents took her and her sister to a friends house to listen to their radio and talk when they got there they were told he was dead
My future sister in law's birthday was November 22nd. She and my brother were set to get married the next day, November 23rd which is my birthday. It was too late to cancel the wedding. It was held in St. Clare Catholic Church which was truly depressing because the President was Catholic so all Catholic churches were draped in black velvet in mourning. Saddest wedding day I've ever witnessed. 😢
For anyone interested in sixties politics and culture I'd heartily recommend Jeff Greenfield's book, "If Kennedy Lived", based on the premise that he was wounded in Dallas on that awful day but survived and recovered. A really great read by a great writer and thoroughly plausible.
The Queen served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, a women's branch of the Royal Army in WW2. She was a truck driver and mechanic, so this scene of her driving the vehicle makes total sense. Also amusing was the story of her sporting the King of Saudi Arabia around during a state visit....the Saudis at the time forbade women from driving (not a bad call....I kid, I kid) and reportedly the King was nonplussed when the Queen took the wheel to sport him around whatever royal grounds they were on.
Timing seems off on this, presumably for dramatic reasons. Kennedy was shot at 12:30pm local time, which is 6:30pm in the UK, long after dark for late November.
I was in third grade... They never announced things like that to the school children back then. I heard some older (high school) students talking about it on the way home on the bus. We all watched the news that night.
I was five, growing up in London. My parents were watching tv and my mother cried. A man on the tv said 'a darkness is falling all over the world'. I went outside and looked, and came back and told them that it was ok, he was wrong and it was still light outside.
I always wondered what it was like in the royal household when this happened. I would have imagined it was akin to something like WWII starting. Shock and uncertainty of what's to come.
"I'm sorry, your majesty. But there is a lovely new programme debuting tomorrow about a time-traveler with a police box." And of course, Matt Smith starred in that show.
@@KebabMusicLtdI remember thinking in the 70s that the Daleks were just large shop vacuums with toilet plungers for weapons. And that someone occasionally flashed the lights on and off and set off sparklers or something, and pretended the Daleks did it all. I was so not impressed. 😂 I remember thinking all it would take to disable the Daleks would be to install ragged carpeting, so that their castor wheels would get caught up on the ravelings. I wanted to like Doctor Who, but I just couldn't get into it in the 70s & 80s. Also, the doctor seemed to always be fighting a ferocious cold or allergies. Despite having this enormous scarf which didn't seem to be doing him an atom of good, lol. I later became a fan of the tenth doctor. Till it all went Woketarded in the past few years.
My mom was about 2 months pregnant with me at the time. It's scary knowing that so many of us know where we were when this tragedy happened, & still talk about it. :(
It was evening in the UK when he was assassinated. I remember the TV newsflash. Also Elizabeth the Second was more than five months pregnant. Edward was born the following March.
I remember this day well. I was in the 3rd grade on the west coast. It was mid morning. First we heard he had been shot, then that he had died. School was let out early and my Dad picked me up. I couldn’t relate how bad this was. My Dad had promised to take me to Sears to buy a baseball glove. He said, not today son.
"I don't wish to give offense when I suggest that this country should select a, uh, king or even a queen instead of a president. One isn't that quick to shoot a king or a queen. The majesty of royalty, you see."
@@alexsmith4937 7 failed attempts over 63 years? US Presidents should be so lucky. 2 US Presidents were shot dead during her reign. 3 if we count McKinley who was shot dead in the last year of her reign.
I was 5 years old and do not remember this. I do remember my mother crouching behind the door either when Oswald or Robert Kennedy was killed. can't remember which.
I remember that I was shocked beyond words it felt like the world had ended I was born in 1953 I felt so bad it was a lovely sunny morning but I did not want to get out of bed Camelot was dead
I grew up in Mississippi, although I was only 4 when this happened, and we were living out-of-state at the time. Although, I have heard stories of a public meeting in Jackson, MS being interrupted by the news, and some of the attendants stood and applauded. JFK was not well liked in the segregationist South, especially for sending US troops into Oxford, MS when the university there was finally integrated. Vestiges of the Jim Crow South. Those in power didn't cater to anyone wanting to disrupt their power structure.
I was an "early" kindergartener, and so attended the morning sessions. I came into the kitchen, where my mother was washing dishes, and the neighbor down the street was sitting in one of our kitchen chairs, in what I now think was a Chanel suit and a pearl necklace. She was sitting there crying, and I had never seen an adult cry before. I wanted to make her feel better, so I told her that her necklace was pretty. She didn't look up at me, but held a tissue to her nose and mouth and said, weeping, "thank you, dear". I didn't understand what was going on, but I knew it was big and terrible. We did not have a television at the time, but apparently the secretaries at the university where my father was a professor had radios on as a matter of course, and so they heard the news and told everyone else. My dad called my mother and told her. The neighbor apparently had heard it on radio or TV, and didn't know what to do, so came down to our house. She was the grandmother of the family that lived 3 or 4 doors away, so I don't know if she went to their house and no one was home and then came over to ours because she knew who we were? I don't know how long she stayed, but years later, my mother said that she didn't really know what to do with this woman, except offer her a cup of tea or a coffee and just let her sit there. A few days later, I went to play at a friend's house, the day of the funeral, and they had the TV on. I remember wondering why they were showing the same thing over and over again, but it was really just the very long procession. It was in black and white. Six months later, in April of 1964, one of the members of our babysitting co-op and a minister, the husband of our nursery school teacher, was demonstrating against a segregated school being built, and a bulldozer ran over him and killed him. At the time, his wife had taken his two small children to the zoo. I remember standing outside out upstairs bathroom, brushing teeth, getting ready for bed, when my mother told us. She said, "the driver didn't know he was there, he didn't mean to do it". That was true, but I wonder why she made it a point to tell us that, was she trying to soften it, that he wasn't murdered in cold blood? And then the next year, a woman, also in that babysitting co-op (whom my very gentle and accepting mother took an immediate dislike to, and after a meeting, came home and told my father that she didn't want her anywhere near us kids; when he asked her why, she couldn't explain it) murdered her nextdoor neighbor's son. We were very middle class and from an educated background, and death by violence seemed very close.
Oliver Stone’s film JFK has me convinced that there was more than one shooter and that Lee Harvey Oswald was just what he said he was all along: a patsy. There is no way in hell that he could have pulled off those shots from his position with a big Texas live oak tree blocking his view.
Clay Shaw, Oswald und Ferry kannten sich vorher. Es gibt Fotos von davor. Übrigens ist die Magic Bullet wohl doch Wahrheit weil Hartmunition, die Wunden und die rekonstruierten Sitzpositionen es möglich machten. Vielleicht hat Oswald diesen Schuss gesetzt. Aber dann niemals den Kopfschuss. Da war viel mehr, hundertprozentig ein Komplott.
My late husband was in the Air Force and had been shooting since he was 6. So he was extremely proficient and probably could have progressed to sniper qualification. He told me that he was extremely more advanced than Lee Harvey Oswald could ever be and even he couldn’t have made those killing shots from that location. But I’m a conspiracy theorist on a number of issues. I believe we’ll all know the truth someday.
A lot of the claims that Stone made were debunked years ago. He even admits that he used a great deal of artistic licence in the telling of his yawnfest. Oswald had plenty of time to fire off three rounds as has been demonstrated numerous times now. If there was a second, third or fourth shooter involved, we are still waiting for anyone to come up with a name...
Oswald did shoot a police officer. Officer Tippet was in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was killed. Despite the grief he was feeling over his brother's death, Bobby Kennedy actually called Officer Tippet's family and gave his condolences for their loss.
Although I am speaking as someone who was not even born around this time , I personally feel death began, or at least was at the start of, a dark path in American history.
As a Catholic my mother remembers crying when she heard those words...they gave the last rites of the church...this absolutely means they are gonna die...now even now when I heard that I bawled my eyes out too
@@sharonjensen3016 Yes, but he died at 2am Saturday morning in Sydney. There are many faults with this. The TV coverage would not be live from USA, in 1963. Walter Cronkite would not have been heard, or certainly seen, outside of North America..Any time I have been in the UK in November, it is dark at 7pm as well...
@@WarfightersWorkshop No it wasn't. Anyone on a worksite wearing a three-piece-suit was only there to bark out commands. Those guys never did a days work in their entire lives.
1) He literally works with the Queen, you dress your best. 2) He's wearing a tweed suit which is very much working attire, it's a fabric that is naturally waterproof and hard wearing.
His death was indeed very sad and tragic. But the truth? "Camelot" was a false narrative concocted by a fawning media. History has exposed that much. I've learned not to romanticize these things too much, while not losing my sense of empathy for the entire Kennedy family. They have suffered much, some brought on by themselves, some by fate. Sad in either direction.
The truth is that JFK was assassinated by the Deep State. Similarly they are desperately trying to assassinate Donald John Trump. They know that they will lose some influence if he is elected this year as US President, particularly the ability to wage war and profit from it.
@@bengmelea8646if anything DJT is part of the deep state and actively works to undermine democracy. He received so much support. Was Never sentenced for his crimes even when he bankrupted firms, didn't pay suppliers etc. if anyone else did the same things he did they would be long in jail. And yet he is still here. It's sad what the republican party has become. Is DJT the best that a republican party can select against Harris?
What are some other out of the blue tragedies that hit the nation? Here is what comes to the top of my head: Pearl Harbor JFK assassination Space shuttle Challenger blowing up Princess Di crash (UK) 9/11
I remember the day Princess Diana died. I'd heard conflicting reports that she had a broken leg and internal injuries before it was revealed she was dead. Total shock for everyone. Being a child of the 70s, I remember watching Charles and Diana's wedding on TV. Who would have thought her life would end so tragically?
I was a young child, possibly 4th grade so my memory of his death is very vague. However I have a memory of his life that was first hand and one I remember to this day. President Kennedy visited San Diego, CA where I lived. His route was going near our elementary school so we were all taken out to line the route. With Secret Service positioned everywhere 5 feet or so, most kids had a hard time seeing anything. But I was the tallest in my class (I’m 5’10” today) and I wiggled my way to the front ending up next to a SS agent. He gave me a quick glance, a very brief smile and let me stay. The President’s motorcade came toward us and pulled to a stop before they would make a wide left turn down the street. I stared intently at JFK, somewhat fascinated but I wasn’t sure why. Then all of a sudden as though he felt my eyes on him, he turned his head and looked directly into my eyes. He didn’t look away quickly like I expected but held my gaze intently. Then a small smile crept onto his lips, almost flirtatious, and he gave me a private little wink and broke eye contact. The motorcade moved on. Although I deplore men who are promiscuous, I have to admit that at that moment and for the rest of my life I understood why John F. Kennedy had little trouble coaxing women into his bed. Even in fourth grade I understood sexual attraction (to a certain degree) and there was something extremely adult about that look. Although I’m sorry he was killed, it’s a good thing we didn’t meet 10 years later because one or both of us would have been in big trouble.
People had a visceral reaction to his death because of how much people saw JFK as a new direction he was going to take the nation. The most important being the civil rights movement.
Were you alive when this happened? Do you remember where you were?
I was 11, in the 6th grade, in Michigan. Our teacher was called out of class, came back about 15 minutes later, said the president had been shot, then said a prayer. He went back out of the room later, and the class remained silent the entire time he was gone. When he came back, he said the president had died and dismissed class for the rest of the day. As I walked home from school, the women of the neighborhood gathered in their yard's talking and crying over fences.
I was 4 years old. I was happily working on a hole with my toy earthmover when my sister tried to drag me inside to listen to the radio. I was unmoved and didn't know who Kennedy was.
I was in 3rd grade catholic school. I remember the nuns crying.
Yes, junior high school. I’ll never forget that day or the days that followed 😢
I was 11 at the time, and never heard the news in school. Once I got home, my mom said come listen to the radio, and I heard members of Congress praying and saying that Kennedy was dead.
Jackie said the reason she didn’t change, was to show the world what was done to her husband, the president.
Which was a bad mistake. It encouraged others to copycat, gain notoriety and potentially do so more than Oswald did.
@@celebrityrog
I’m not certain whether Jackie’s evidence of JFK’s murder spurred more frequent political assassination attempts, at least here in the U.S. If I’m not mistaken, it wasn’t until 5 years later that any more such attempts were made in USA - both, tragically, being quite successful (Sen. Robert Kennedy & Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.).
But talk about 1 picture being worth 1,000 words… the sight of the shocked First Lady, in a light pink suit with JFK’s dried blood distinct on her clothes & limbs, was devastating and forever haunting. “Let Them See What They Have Done.”
@@celebrityrog perhaps, but that splattered blood on her iconic pink Chanel suit showed how brutal the act was, how immoral. it was no accident, no force of nature. just cold-blooded murder.
@@squares4u this is true. Previous assassinations - apart from Lincoln, because he was so beloved - didn’t get nearly the same amount of shock and horrified awe from the masses, because they didn’t happen so publicly and they didn’t have so much documented visibility. Kennedy’s murder was literally recorded on film. I literally had to watch it in school, and it was disturbing… not for the reasons you’d expect, because I was honestly expecting more carnage, but because of how QUICK it was.
Like, within literally a second, he’s smiling to the public… and then there’s a small red explosion, the car is careening, his wife is climbing onto the back hood, and not even a full 10 seconds pass before it’s utter visual chaos. So quick and so brief that it’s almost too short to possibly absorb or process the disbelief of it. All I know for sure is I never want to view that recording again.
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I used to ask my mom about this day. She was 10, and she would recount the day for me. Now I get asked about 9/11. It's crazy how these events mark a generation.
I remember being angry that daytime TV programming was taken over by some long, boring news account when I was seven years old.
I remember 11/22/63 very well indeed. It was God awful, an impossible tragedy.
Both of my parents remembered the day President Kennedy was shot. Mum was at a friend's house and said her friend's mother was just devastated. Dad was standing in the kitchen of his parents house when the news came on the radio.
Agree, I just turned 4 and remember my babysitter woke me up from a nap…. crying…. I saw him as anther little girl and boy’s Daddy being shot…. so sad.
@@micheleMAGGIO-m8j Indeed, no matter what you've thought about Kennedy's politics, this was the President being shot to death in broad daylight. A shocking scene.
That line about believing yourself to be unhappy and then real unhappiness comes along to overide that feeling is so true.
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@@nnedwards3260 You never know how much you love someone until you lose them.
I was a freshman in high school in Florence, Oregon. Someone came to the classroom door and asked the teacher if she could step into the hall for a moment. She came back in shortly in tears. An announcement was made over the PA system that the President had been shot. Class was dismissed for the day. I remember milling around in shock and disbelief in the parking lot outside the gym with myriad other students. A few months ago I was in that parking lot once again. The high school has long since been torn down. I stood once again on the spot where I told myself that I would remember this sad moment for the rest of my life.
Thank you for sharing your story. God bless.
That day was the first day I ever saw my dad cry.
What's great about this scene is the Queen comes into the room and not one of the servants notice her.
Everyone had been shocked and horrified out of their usual role, including the RF, I would imagine.
Likewise, she’s so stunned by the news she also doesn’t notice nobody acknowledging or even noticing her.
I never thought about that I don’t think she ever walked into a room without people paying attention to her.
There's a small time error in how this scene was filmed. JFK was shot around 1230pm in Dallas which was 630pm in the UK. In late November the sun sets just after 5pm in the UK. The Queen wouldn't have been working on that fallen tree after sunset. She probably would have been sitting down to supper.
Ty I was just thinking that.
You sound like Poirot.
@@MsLogjam A high compliment.
@@chancellorjake Aye.
Just to say it’s genuinely good to see folk out there who value the truth. So many lies and half-truths everywhere. So facts are even more important.
It was deliberate ,Jackie wanted people to see what was done to her husband and never forget it ,I was a little girl when this happened and I could never forget the gravity of it ,so much sadness from the news and people comments !
I don’t know about that, but this and perhaps the moon landing spring forth peak conspiracy theories, so nothing new here; Chappaquiddick incident leaves lots of answers we may never get. The Kennedy’s had their way with women though, to say the least.
This might be the most stupid, uneducated comment I’ve ever read in my life. There’s countless amounts of historic records, video footage and personal accounts proving what you said was made up in thin air. You sound like a teenage girl making shit up for attention
So why didn't she ever say anything about it in later years?
@@josephshields2922 Because she was a very private person, would you want to relive that?
I was 8. I remember it, in detail, to this day.
There's the thing about unhappiness. All it takes is for something worse to come along and then you realized it was actually happiness after all.
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I was in 3rd grade at a Catholic school. The nuns ran through the hallways screaming and hysterical. We were all made to kneel on the floor for what seemed like hours while our teacher, Sister Somethingorother, said the rosary over and over again. We had the year before been through the Cuban missile crisis where JFK made the nation aware of the possibility of nuclear war at any time. Twice in two years I witnessed my mother weeping for the fate of her children. It was a trauma in my childhood I'll never forget.
the nun running and crying seem like a terrifying image
i am not christian muslim for a matter of fact but this is just scary image
I was also in a Catholic school on that day, 2nd grade. No one became hysterical, but a young teacher, Miss Adams, was crying. We had wonderful nuns at my school, best teachers I ever had. The education I received from them really set me on a good path for my entire life. I remember watching the news with my dad later that evening, and he explained to me about the vice president becoming the new president.
Same with Cuban missile crisis, no hysterics, but then we lived in the tornado belt, so we had experience with safety drills for tornadoes. If my parents had concerns, they did not let us kids see it. I remember my parents weeping when the 4 little girls died in a church bombing. My parents had 4 daughters, and the reality of 4 little girls all dying like that, just from hate, really was painful for them.
I was a Junior in High School, in German class. The announcement came across the classroom speaker and after a moment of stunned silence, most of the girls in the room began weeping. I don't remember much of the remaining day, though I know we were all released early to go home. I still remember the funeral, with Jackie in black and John John saluting as his Father's casket passed by.
I had a similar experience with 9/11.
It was the first time in my life, that my peaceful, 'normal' life was truly shaken up and I will never forget the shock and horror I felt.
Not to be rude I'm just curious why would Germany care about what happens to the US president? More so curious because students started crying. Like I'm not saying I wouldn't feel sadness for the people if someone from another country died but to cry over it.. probably not.
@@QueenMizu
Well.... teenagers. You know? They are door slamming, the world is gonna end over a break up and I HATE you for making rules and sticking to them bags of hormones during that time. Or some of them, at least. I wasn't the overly dramatic kind myself, but some just are.
And you gotta consider, that Germany had a very positive image of America at that time. We got treated exceedingly graciously after WW2 - especially by the Americans. It's not something, that's very much on people's radar these days, but we literally owe the fact that Germany even still exists and made a fast economic comeback to the fact, that that was granted to us and supported by the Marshall Plan. Admittedly, so we wouldn't fall into the hands of the Communist, not out of sheer good will, but still.
People back then still looked up to America as the rightful 'leader of the free world'. Not to mention, that everything cool and new and exciting came from America. Movies, music, fashion...
Kennedy was much more to people than just some president of a foreign country. People idolized him, even outside of the USA.
@@QueenMizu American High School. German Language Class.
@QueenMizu Americans and Canadians stayed in Germany after the war to rebuild.
Such a powerful moment. I was 13 years old when they let out classes at my high school. We were told the President was dead and little else. I will never forget this day.
I've been asked if I remember when Kennedy was shot. "Yes," I respond. "Both of them." I'll never forget those sad days as long as I live.
ML king too. I was at BU with my mother when he died
Me either! It marked a period in my life when the world was not the same anymore.
Yes. Abraham, Martin and John
Her reaction when she saw she is wearing the same jacket was almost emotional
This nightmare has never left me. The whole nation was never the same after it.
And our government tried to do ' let it happen' another one on Trump .
JFK was such a moron for riding in an open car like that on a known route. It was like he was daring someone to shoot him.
I totally agree. I was 8, but remember it like it was yesterday. A horrific event I have never fully recovered from. In hindsight I am very glad we did not see the Zapruder film until much later. When 9/11 happened I was upset and I prayed for all who were lost and those who were left to grieve for them. It did not scar me the way the assassination did. I had already been traumatized and this was something else that happened. I believe the country has been on a downhill glide since then. There was hope in 1961. Now?
I remember this day vividly. I was ten years old and in the fourth grade. I had been so excited, as my mother had given birth to my sister the day before. Our class had just returned from lunch when another teacher came in and whispered something to my teacher. They both started crying. Then the principal broadcast Walter Cronkite over the PA system while we listened to the updates. It was decided that all the schools in our district would dismiss early and we were sent home. It was so quiet on the bus, you could've heard a pin drop.
My sister was born only days before. I thought how lucky to be an infant and not have to go through such unhappiness.
We were abruptly sent home from grade school early, though we were not told why. In those days, there was no phone tree, they just booted you out and most mothers were at home. If not, one of your neighbors would just scoop you up until your parents showed.
My dad was just an infant and my mom wasn't born yet, but my late grandpa had very vivid memories of where he was when he learned the news. He worked for the Department of Energy at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). He was a Superintendent at the time, so he was way out in Area 14 when the call came out over the radio. DOE ceased operations for the day and it was a madhouse getting thousands of workers back and accounted for at once.
My Grandmother told me that she was at lunch in elementary school when the principal walked in and told her class that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas but the students didn’t pay much attention and when she got home her parents took her and her sister to a friends house to listen to their radio and talk when they got there they were told he was dead
My future sister in law's birthday was November 22nd. She and my brother were set to get married the next day, November 23rd which is my birthday. It was too late to cancel the wedding. It was held in St. Clare Catholic Church which was truly depressing because the President was Catholic so all Catholic churches were draped in black velvet in mourning. Saddest wedding day I've ever witnessed. 😢
First time seeing this in a few years... full body chills as she stood behind all the servants with her face shocked.
For anyone interested in sixties politics and culture I'd heartily recommend Jeff Greenfield's book, "If Kennedy Lived", based on the premise that he was wounded in Dallas on that awful day but survived and recovered. A really great read by a great writer and thoroughly plausible.
The Queen served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, a women's branch of the Royal Army in WW2. She was a truck driver and mechanic, so this scene of her driving the vehicle makes total sense. Also amusing was the story of her sporting the King of Saudi Arabia around during a state visit....the Saudis at the time forbade women from driving (not a bad call....I kid, I kid) and reportedly the King was nonplussed when the Queen took the wheel to sport him around whatever royal grounds they were on.
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One would say that she did that with total knowledge of Saudi women's situation.
I heard she _really_ took him for a ride. Apparently she had quite the lead foot.
"The Saudis at the time forbade women from driving." At the time? They didn't make it legal for women to drive until about six years ago.
He was very plussed. Especially after Her Majesty gave him a good jostling on the ride.
Timing seems off on this, presumably for dramatic reasons. Kennedy was shot at 12:30pm local time, which is 6:30pm in the UK, long after dark for late November.
I was in third grade... They never announced things like that to the school children back then. I heard some older (high school) students talking about it on the way home on the bus. We all watched the news that night.
Actually it was evening - about 7 pm, by them, in November. So it would have been dark.
My mom was a cub journalist in DC at the time. She took photos of the president and first lady just a couple of days before they left for Dallas.
"That's the thing about unhappiness." "All it takes for something worse to come along, then you realize that it was happiness after all."
I was five, growing up in London. My parents were watching tv and my mother cried. A man on the tv said 'a darkness is falling all over the world'. I went outside and looked, and came back and told them that it was ok, he was wrong and it was still light outside.
This made me chuckle over my tears reading these comments. The innocence of children is why humanity continues onward
What did your parents say? 😄
The innocence of a child can make the worst situation just a little bit brighter
I always wondered what it was like in the royal household when this happened. I would have imagined it was akin to something like WWII starting. Shock and uncertainty of what's to come.
Like the scenes dramatized in "The King's Speech".
"I'm sorry, your majesty. But there is a lovely new programme debuting tomorrow about a time-traveler with a police box."
And of course, Matt Smith starred in that show.
I remember watching that too. It was a bit boring until they introduced the Daleks.
@@KebabMusicLtdI remember thinking in the 70s that the Daleks were just large shop vacuums with toilet plungers for weapons. And that someone occasionally flashed the lights on and off and set off sparklers or something, and pretended the Daleks did it all. I was so not impressed. 😂
I remember thinking all it would take to disable the Daleks would be to install ragged carpeting, so that their castor wheels would get caught up on the ravelings. I wanted to like Doctor Who, but I just couldn't get into it in the 70s & 80s. Also, the doctor seemed to always be fighting a ferocious cold or allergies. Despite having this enormous scarf which didn't seem to be doing him an atom of good, lol. I later became a fan of the tenth doctor. Till it all went Woketarded in the past few years.
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Don't you have a Capitol to storm?
I was three weeks old and the world changed forever
They wanted Jackie to change out of that pink Chanel suit! She said,
“No. Let them see what they did to Jack!”
My mom was about 2 months pregnant with me at the time. It's scary knowing that so many of us know where we were when this tragedy happened, & still talk about it. :(
Me too!!!! I was born in May 1964
@@roziongjoco-gomez3258 I was born July of 1964, so very close to you! We're almost birthday twins
I was in school and I remember plainly we were dismissed from school. Still so very unhappy.
It was evening in the UK when he was assassinated. I remember the TV newsflash. Also Elizabeth the Second was more than five months pregnant. Edward was born the following March.
They literally removed the "Future king soundtrack" to avoid getting copyright
I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news. I was at home, watching the news.
I remember this day well. I was in the 3rd grade on the west coast. It was mid morning. First we heard he had been shot, then that he had died. School was let out early and my Dad picked me up. I couldn’t relate how bad this was. My Dad had promised to take me to Sears to buy a baseball glove. He said, not today son.
It makes it sound like he was alive for a while after he was shot but he wasn't, it was half an hour
The officers running to greet her car is the most British run ever.
I was 5 and Kennedy's funeral is a core memory..i remember the riderless horse with backwards boots in the stirrups. and little JohnJohn's salute.
I was 4 and I reember the dancing horse with the backwards strrups too.
My mom says i was in her lap while she watched tv as it happened. I was born in march of 63
No one cares
@@dmoney8602You cared enough to comment.
@@dmoney8602 but apparently you cared enough to comment and be a dipshit about it maybe next time don't be an asshole and comment.
I have seen a picture of Johnson on air force one before the swearing in. He was smiling and showing a high sign.
"I don't wish to give offense when I suggest that this country should select a, uh, king or even a queen instead of a president. One isn't that quick to shoot a king or a queen. The majesty of royalty, you see."
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You been talking about the Queen again, Bob? On Independence Day?
No thanks, we’ve already got Donald Trump who’s planning to be a dictator from day one.
That sentiment conveniently overlooks the fact that there were seven assassination attempts on Queen Victoria during her reign.
@@alexsmith4937 7 failed attempts over 63 years? US Presidents should be so lucky. 2 US Presidents were shot dead during her reign. 3 if we count McKinley who was shot dead in the last year of her reign.
My family and I watched his assassination live on TV. We sat there stunned before we all began to cry.
yep...
Sadly you watched the horror of this episode of history.
No, you didn't. 🙄
@@skeeta1068who are you to tell them what they did or didnt experience ?
@ariase0 Someone who knows history. Kennedy's assassination wasn't broadcast live on TV. And the Zapruder film wasn't shown publicly until 1969.
The young queen !!
Even the Queen mother looked young.
She was 37, which is not remarkably young.
@@roberthudson1959 everyone that is under 39 years old are considered as young because they are still in their youth 🤔🤔
Did you just cut that scene without the keeping the climax in the clip?!?
Emmy winner
I was 5 years old and do not remember this. I do remember my mother crouching behind the door either when Oswald or Robert Kennedy was killed. can't remember which.
2:14 When you see or hear someone has lost something, it makes you realize that what you have you may have taken for granted
There is one big mistake in that scene. When Kennedy was shot the Queen was 20+ weeks pregnant with Prince Edward. Thats not seen here...
I remember my father telling me that they let school out early (he lived in the Bronx) and that all of his teachers were crying.
I remember that I was shocked beyond words it felt like the world had ended
I was born in 1953 I felt so bad it was a lovely sunny morning but I did not want to get out of bed Camelot was dead
I was five at the time. It is the first news event I remember: I think because my parents and grandparents were so shocked and appalled by it.
I grew up in Mississippi, although I was only 4 when this happened, and we were living out-of-state at the time. Although, I have heard stories of a public meeting in Jackson, MS being interrupted by the news, and some of the attendants stood and applauded. JFK was not well liked in the segregationist South, especially for sending US troops into Oxford, MS when the university there was finally integrated. Vestiges of the Jim Crow South. Those in power didn't cater to anyone wanting to disrupt their power structure.
I was an "early" kindergartener, and so attended the morning sessions. I came into the kitchen, where my mother was washing dishes, and the neighbor down the street was sitting in one of our kitchen chairs, in what I now think was a Chanel suit and a pearl necklace. She was sitting there crying, and I had never seen an adult cry before. I wanted to make her feel better, so I told her that her necklace was pretty. She didn't look up at me, but held a tissue to her nose and mouth and said, weeping, "thank you, dear". I didn't understand what was going on, but I knew it was big and terrible. We did not have a television at the time, but apparently the secretaries at the university where my father was a professor had radios on as a matter of course, and so they heard the news and told everyone else. My dad called my mother and told her. The neighbor apparently had heard it on radio or TV, and didn't know what to do, so came down to our house. She was the grandmother of the family that lived 3 or 4 doors away, so I don't know if she went to their house and no one was home and then came over to ours because she knew who we were? I don't know how long she stayed, but years later, my mother said that she didn't really know what to do with this woman, except offer her a cup of tea or a coffee and just let her sit there.
A few days later, I went to play at a friend's house, the day of the funeral, and they had the TV on. I remember wondering why they were showing the same thing over and over again, but it was really just the very long procession. It was in black and white.
Six months later, in April of 1964, one of the members of our babysitting co-op and a minister, the husband of our nursery school teacher, was demonstrating against a segregated school being built, and a bulldozer ran over him and killed him. At the time, his wife had taken his two small children to the zoo. I remember standing outside out upstairs bathroom, brushing teeth, getting ready for bed, when my mother told us. She said, "the driver didn't know he was there, he didn't mean to do it". That was true, but I wonder why she made it a point to tell us that, was she trying to soften it, that he wasn't murdered in cold blood? And then the next year, a woman, also in that babysitting co-op (whom my very gentle and accepting mother took an immediate dislike to, and after a meeting, came home and told my father that she didn't want her anywhere near us kids; when he asked her why, she couldn't explain it) murdered her nextdoor neighbor's son. We were very middle class and from an educated background, and death by violence seemed very close.
Oliver Stone’s film JFK has me convinced that there was more than one shooter and that Lee Harvey Oswald was just what he said he was all along: a patsy. There is no way in hell that he could have pulled off those shots from his position with a big Texas live oak tree blocking his view.
Clay Shaw, Oswald und Ferry kannten sich vorher. Es gibt Fotos von davor.
Übrigens ist die Magic Bullet wohl doch Wahrheit weil Hartmunition, die Wunden und die rekonstruierten Sitzpositionen es möglich machten. Vielleicht hat Oswald diesen Schuss gesetzt. Aber dann niemals den Kopfschuss. Da war viel mehr, hundertprozentig ein Komplott.
My late husband was in the Air Force and had been shooting since he was 6. So he was extremely proficient and probably could have progressed to sniper qualification. He told me that he was extremely more advanced than Lee Harvey Oswald could ever be and even he couldn’t have made those killing shots from that location. But I’m a conspiracy theorist on a number of issues. I believe we’ll all know the truth someday.
A lot of the claims that Stone made were debunked years ago. He even admits that he used a great deal of artistic licence in the telling of his yawnfest.
Oswald had plenty of time to fire off three rounds as has been demonstrated numerous times now.
If there was a second, third or fourth shooter involved, we are still waiting for anyone to come up with a name...
Oswald did shoot a police officer. Officer Tippet was in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was killed. Despite the grief he was feeling over his brother's death, Bobby Kennedy actually called Officer Tippet's family and gave his condolences for their loss.
That suit was made by the New York firm Chez Ninon, right?
An exact line for line Chanel copy, right?
It was an American copy of Chanel, but I'm not familiar as to which house or company made it.
It's over, everone knows.
Although I am speaking as someone who was not even born around this time , I personally feel death began, or at least was at the start of, a dark path in American history.
I was a little kid. My sisters were sent home from school. I didn't understand what was going on but I sensed it was momentous.
There is the music?
pfft hard to imagine philip being that sadge about it; making snide comments about it more likely
Well, where was she going?
Prince Daemon was watching with the Queen when that happened.
not the point at all but claire foy's outfit in the last scene is SO good
I was only 4 when Kennedy was assassinated - but I do remember watching the coffin being pulled by horse in Washington.
As a Catholic my mother remembers crying when she heard those words...they gave the last rites of the church...this absolutely means they are gonna die...now even now when I heard that I bawled my eyes out too
Prince Doctor Who has the Queen’s back!
And the very first episode of Doctor Who broadcast the next day.
All i could think about is how comfortable their matress must be.
Kennedy died at 7pm London time. I find it odd that the scene shows this at bedtime...
It was the following day (Saturday) when the news broke in Australia.
@@sharonjensen3016 Yes, but he died at 2am Saturday morning in Sydney. There are many faults with this. The TV coverage would not be live from USA, in 1963. Walter Cronkite would not have been heard, or certainly seen, outside of North America..Any time I have been in the UK in November, it is dark at 7pm as well...
What season and episode was this?
Crazy because now RFK jr will seek answers that never got delivered
Jackie tried to hold his head together??? Dear God
It would have been night time in England when Elizabeth learned of the assassination of JFK.
Regardless of geography, time will always end any type of power dynamic.
One of my favorite shows. Loved her in this role. Four years later I have a massive crush on Claire Foy 😅
Why did it take you four years to develop that crush?
00:37 I always put on a 3 piece suit and peaky blinders hat to do yard work
Well that was the fashion of working men back then
@@WarfightersWorkshop No it wasn't. Anyone on a worksite wearing a three-piece-suit was only there to bark out commands. Those guys never did a days work in their entire lives.
1) He literally works with the Queen, you dress your best. 2) He's wearing a tweed suit which is very much working attire, it's a fabric that is naturally waterproof and hard wearing.
I'm not a fan of the show (sorry 😟) but when I saw the title for this video on my recommended page, I just had to see it badly.
It would have been nightime in Scotland by the time they found out about the shooting.
I was a baby, so I have no memories of it.
His death was indeed very sad and tragic. But the truth? "Camelot" was a false narrative concocted by a fawning media. History has exposed that much. I've learned not to romanticize these things too much, while not losing my sense of empathy for the entire Kennedy family. They have suffered much, some brought on by themselves, some by fate. Sad in either direction.
The truth is that JFK was assassinated by the Deep State. Similarly they are desperately trying to assassinate Donald John Trump. They know that they will lose some influence if he is elected this year as US President, particularly the ability to wage war and profit from it.
@@bengmelea8646if anything DJT is part of the deep state and actively works to undermine democracy. He received so much support. Was Never sentenced for his crimes even when he bankrupted firms, didn't pay suppliers etc. if anyone else did the same things he did they would be long in jail. And yet he is still here.
It's sad what the republican party has become. Is DJT the best that a republican party can select against Harris?
I never realisresed Lyndon Johnson was in the car behind, or that the Governor of Texas was shot in the chest.
Does anyone know if he survived?
If you are old enough… who can forget that day…RIP JFK❤
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She was wearing the same clothes because, “she wanted everyone to see what was done to her husband.”😊
My dad was 7 at that time. And my mom was 2.
this scene w/t the background music is not the same feeeling.....
What are some other out of the blue tragedies that hit the nation? Here is what comes to the top of my head:
Pearl Harbor
JFK assassination
Space shuttle Challenger blowing up
Princess Di crash (UK)
9/11
I remember the day Princess Diana died. I'd heard conflicting reports that she had a broken leg and internal injuries before it was revealed she was dead. Total shock for everyone. Being a child of the 70s, I remember watching Charles and Diana's wedding on TV. Who would have thought her life would end so tragically?
I was a young child, possibly 4th grade so my memory of his death is very vague.
However I have a memory of his life that was first hand and one I remember to this day. President Kennedy visited San Diego, CA where I lived. His route was going near our elementary school so we were all taken out to line the route. With Secret Service positioned everywhere 5 feet or so, most kids had a hard time seeing anything. But I was the tallest in my class (I’m 5’10” today) and I wiggled my way to the front ending up next to a SS agent. He gave me a quick glance, a very brief smile and let me stay. The President’s motorcade came toward us and pulled to a stop before they would make a wide left turn down the street. I stared intently at JFK, somewhat fascinated but I wasn’t sure why. Then all of a sudden as though he felt my eyes on him, he turned his head and looked directly into my eyes. He didn’t look away quickly like I expected but held my gaze intently. Then a small smile crept onto his lips, almost flirtatious, and he gave me a private little wink and broke eye contact. The motorcade moved on.
Although I deplore men who are promiscuous, I have to admit that at that moment and for the rest of my life I understood why John F. Kennedy had little trouble coaxing women into his bed. Even in fourth grade I understood sexual attraction (to a certain degree) and there was something extremely adult about that look. Although I’m sorry he was killed, it’s a good thing we didn’t meet 10 years later because one or both of us would have been in big trouble.
Blame lbj, he was in on it
Claire Foy is a very beautiful woman, the queen had an upgrade.
wait a second.. Kennedy was still alive? Seems his head was split open on the spot. Am I wrong?
Clair foy 😊
1962 so i was only 1 at the time.
People had a visceral reaction to his death because of how much people saw JFK as a new direction he was going to take the nation. The most important being the civil rights movement.
I was 3 when this happened
I was almost two. I would turn two in Feb. 1964.
Thought they slept apart