I was in 6th grade. However, since the assassination of JFK occurred on
11/22/63, I still had a full day of school and went home to a regular
weekend. You're a week early, John.

I also find it interesting that we get all of these little subthreads about
Kennedy and his family and ideology and politics, and yet *nobody* noticed
that the date mentioned was in error. Does this mean that we'll have to redo
this thread next week?

Steve DeMoss
N16071
KHVC

"Big John" wrote in message
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40 years ago today I was ferrying a F-89J from the Maine Air Guard at
Bangor, ME to the Oregon Air Guard at Portland OR. Chugging along at
20K, keeping under the big jet stream blowing east, I was about 150
out of Oklahoma City, my next refueling stop, when ATC came up on
frequency and announced that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas
and was dead.

May he rest in peace.

Big John