What were you doing when j f kennedy was assassinated

[xenia]

I think it was announced about 6.15 on a Friday night. I think I was watching a show called "Scene at Sx Thirty" a forerunner of Calendar presented by Mike Scott and an Irish guy Gay Byrne.

[xfox3x]

I was standing next to the gas cooker waiting for my mum to put scrambled egg on my plate and my dad shouted through to the kitchen to tell us. I was only about 9 at the time and didn't understand the import of it.

[hillsbro]

i was sat watching bonanza when it suddenly went to a news bulletin that jfk had been shot. can you remember what you were doing and how you heard?

Me too. The exact wording of the newsflash was "President Kennedy has been shot and injured in Dallas, Texas". Then the TV schedule was abandoned as successive updates came from Dallas, until they announced that the president was dead. For much of the time as we waited for news there was no broadcasting as such - they just showed the

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[janie48]

More appropriate than BBC TV.

They made an announcement,then carried on with normal programmes-Harry Worth!

 

my parents loved Harry worth, but i don't think they would have wanted to watch a comedy that night.when i got home it was as if they were in mourning.

they idolised kennedy as many people did,but then that was before the bad stuff came out as it did some years later.

[arrodbo]

In the Gate Pub at Wadsley Bridge aged 17 with my girlfriend when the news broke.

[medusa]

I wasn't even a twinkle yet

[bullerboY]

We were in the Gaumont cinema when it was flashed on the screen.

[Whoosh77]

I was with friends at a youth club/dance at the old Wharncliffe Side School (now demolished) when someone came him and told us that President Kennedy had been assassinated.

 

I can't forget either that when his brother Bobby was assassinated I was in Innsbruck, Austria, on holiday.

[Texas]

Drinking beer in a pub and the news came on the bar radio. Quite a shock.

[lazarus]

Ive no idea.