John F. Kennedy assassination, November 22, 1963

I was in Mrs. Hutto's 5th-grade math class. I ashamed to say that I, and several others, stood up and cheered when she made the announcement. Always wonder if things would have been different if he had lived.

seebell said:

I was in Mrs. Hutto's 5th-grade math class. I ashamed to say that I, and several others, stood up and cheered when she made the announcement. Always wonder if things would have been different if he had lived.

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Weird that! I was in 5th grade. We were called to assembly in the auditorium for the announcement. There were also cheers there as well. I don't hear well and didn't hear the announcement. I had no clue why the cheers. I never understood the cheers from grammar school kids.

Ledsteplin said:

Weird that! I was in 5th grade. We were called to assembly in the auditorium for the announcement. There were also cheers there as well. I don't hear well and didn't hear the announcement. I had no clue why the cheers. I never understood the cheers from grammar school kids.

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Well, as for me, my parents were very conservative people who had grown up in the rural south. Remember the billboards that said Impeach Earl Warren? Catholics were anathema. Nonetheless, cheering was bad manners.

Note to Donald Trump. Don't start printing money without the Federal Reserve's consent. Or, don't block the effort to either expand the war effort to benefit the oil companies. Either of those will get you shot.

Displaced Bama Fan said:

Note to Donald Trump. Don't start printing money without the Federal Reserve's consent. Or, don't block the effort to either expand the war effort to benefit the oil companies. Either of those will get you shot.

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Or double cross Sam Giancana.

The thing with JFK is he would be considered a conservative by todays standard.

seebell said:

I was in Mrs. Hutto's 5th-grade math class. I ashamed to say that I, and several others, stood up and cheered when she made the announcement. Always wonder if things would have been different if he had lived.

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Don't feel too bad. I actually had some fellow students cheer when Reagan got shot when I was in the sixth grade. I was for Carter, but that was just plain stupid.

Bazza said:

My father (a 20 year Navy veteran) did not like JFK.....he used to say "What's so special about a man who lost one of our PT boats?"

But I don't remember anyone cheering or being pleased - I just don't understand that kind of narrow mindedness....

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Several years ago, my ole man and I was sitting there talking about the different Presidents (he was born in Missouri during Truman's Presidency, so he has good recall of the later years of that one). I was VERY surprised at what he had to say. He rated Bush 41 (this was when Clinton was still Prez btw) as the best President in his lifetime - which was hilarious because he hated the guy and talked smack about him when he was in office and yet voted for him twice. I was puzzled, but he also thought very highly of Gerald Ford, which I thought really weird.

When asked the worst, he replied without hesitation that the two worst BY FAR were JFK and LBJ. And he actually rated Kennedy worse. So when I asked why, he basically said that the only reason he thought JFK was worse was because the man was unquestionably intelligent and politically stupid in so many ways; he at least could say that LBJ was a Texas bumpkin who wasn't all that sharp to begin with. (Btw - he also said Reagan's Presidency was the biggest acting show ever put on, which also amused me).

But here's another one - my ex-FIL who was a Louisiana Catholic points out that NOW there's all this historical revisionism that JFK was a popular guy. As he pointed out, JFK only became popular AFTER he died. Indeed, as he said, if you see the movie "JFK" there's a lot of accuracy of what even a lot of non-Catholic Louisianans thought of him.

And with his civil rights stands in the South, let's just say he was not that liked by most white Southerners (from all I've been told firsthand), either.

Oh btw - my great grandfather was a Baptist preacher and yellow dog Democrat. He sat out the 1960 election because: a) he couldn't vote for no Republican; and b) he couldn't vote for no Catholic, either. He died in 1962, so his last vote was for Adlai in 1956 (don't ask me how he justified voting for a divorced candidate in that time).

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seebell said:

Well, as for me, my parents were very conservative people who had grown up in the rural south. Remember the billboards that said Impeach Earl Warren? Catholics were anathema. Nonetheless, cheering was bad manners.

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It is beyond bad manners, it is down right disgusting. I am no fan of Obama or Trump, but I hope anyone cheering their murder on here gets a suspension and a barn avatar.

I don't mean this as an attack on what you did as a fifth grader and I think you know it was wrong, I was just saying how I felt.


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For the record, I didn't cheer when JFK got shot. Of course, pre-fetus individuals rarely do.

bamachile said:

For the record, I didn't cheer when JFK got shot. Of course, pre-fetus individuals rarely do.

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WTH is a pre-fetus?:biggrin:

seebell said:

WTH is a pre-fetus?:biggrin:

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I'm not quite as old a geezer as some of you. Just sayin'

Yeah, anyone alive on that day can remember where he/she was and how they reacted. That and 9/11 are the greatest tragedies in my lifetime. Even thought the "solid South" was democrat in those days, there was little love for JFK. It is funny how history can change the perception of an individual. I believe had he lived the 1960's would have been very different.