I found newspapers from when JFK died in my parents' attic today. That

[GreenPartyVoter]

was very unexpected and interesting!

[demmiblue]

1. What a great find, and a great piece of history!

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Yeah, it was very unexpected but it makes sense given that my mom was in

high school at the time so old enough to be affected by the experience and to want to keep those newspapers. I opened the box and saw the iconic photo of LBJ being sworn in and knew right away what those papers were. There must be 3 or 4 different editions.

[mzteris]

2. JFK died in your parent's ATTIC???

OMG!!!!!!!!!!




:rofl:



Sorry - I couldn't resist.


cool!

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. LOL How they ever fit that convertible in there, I'll never know!

[CTyankee]

3. I am probably their age...early 20s when JFK was killed...lived in NYC.

I remember the day so well. I put down my little son for his nap and started to prepare for dinner. My husband called me from his office and said "Turn on the TV. President Kennedy has been shot." I remember thinking "Oh, it can't be all that bad...probably a minor wound..." and then turned on the TV and got the news that he was dead. What a shock. We ended up going to a friend's house for dinner instead and they were strangely unsympathetic. I felt sad and came home miserable.

I remember it being several weeks before I got used to the term "President Johnson."

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. They were in my mom's keepsake box. She was in high school when it happened so they were

tucked away with autograph books and corsages and high school fight pins. :) I am looking forward to having the time to go through that box, and also her college box which has some copies of Life and one of Mademoiselle from '64.

[peacebird]

4. my dad gave me Life mags and newspapers from JFK and first man on the moon

I have kept up the tradition by storing the year in review copies of Sports Ill, Life (while it lasted), Time, and Newsweek, and Rolling Stone every year since my son was born. (1982)
The cedar chest has gotten rather weighty... LOL! But the mags are really fun to look at - especially the ads in them!

[MorningGlow]

6. My mom just gave me that issue of Life magazine

I have a bunch of Rolling Stone mags from the '80s--not the greatest decade for it, but not the worst either. I made a point of saving the Obama victory and the inauguration day front pages. Perhaps my son or maybe a grandchild will appreciate them. I know I do.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. I have two copies of Life. Also have some a 1950s Popular Mechanics and

some Farmer's Almanacs or something similar from the 1890s. I'm afraid to touch those, but they are very cool.

[kentuck]

5. Wow! he died in your parents attic??

You might want to re-frame that sentence. :-)

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. If I wasn't so tired I would. But I'll let it stand just so people can have a laugh. Heaven knows I

have pointed it out when others have done it. :P

[pengillian101]

7. Interesting.

I was in grade school at the time of JFK's death and also saved the newspapers in a trunk in our attic in Wisconsin. Who knows what became of them. That house has been renovated several times by different owners since then.

I guess we had the same idea that it was important to save them.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. It's too bad they got lost. :^( It's really exciting to find and have things like that.

[pengillian101]

18. Well, hopefully, someone like you found them, eh?

:hi:

[amerikat]

8. If you were alive at that time you remember that day.

I was in the 4th grade. About 2:00(I think) PM when the teacher was buzzed by the intercom thing
by the classroom door. She stepped out of the classroom for about a minute and when she came back
in she was crying....sad and upset. She said that the president had been shot and school was closing.

What I remember from that day was riding my bike home. It was different that day. Everywhere
people were outside talking with neighbors. When I got home It was the same, all the neighbors were
out on the lawns, sadness and uncertainty. My mom and grandmother were crying.

The day the music died. I was to young to grasp the consequences of a day that would influence every day
since. We watched the funeral procession on TV. I would still like to know what really happened that
day. I don't think it has been fully investigated. I guess we will never really know. PEACE.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. I wasn't here for that one, but I was in school and saw the Challenger shuttle explode on live TV.

Not quite the same situation, of course, but still a gut-wrenching loss of lives and terrible blow to the space program. (I'm a space nut. We eat, sleep, and breathe Star Trek around here.)

[lunatica]

9. The country changed that day

Everything stopped for days. It was a profound shock that's very hard to explain. Later they killed MLK jr and Bobby Kennedy. It was bad.

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. 9/11 is the closest thing I have experienced to the country stopping I think, even

more than when Challenger blew up. I guess partly because the scope of loss of life and the panic involved, but also we live under a airliner circling path. I had never heard it so quiet outside as when all the flights were grounded. It was eerie.