RE: What's the first major news story you can remember living through as a child?
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I love the stories you tell of your childhood. You have very clear memories of things from way back in the day, much clearer than any of mine.
And you always have such great pictures! Who was the photographer in your family? And how on earth are they so well organized that you can find the ones you need?
You had to get under your desks?! And know that it wasn't a drill? How frightening!
I remember only sitting at my desk on that day. I believe there had been an announcement over the school PA that said JFK had been shot. I felt a shock goe through us all. I don't remember anything else about that day, or the days that followed.
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Thank you, yes I can remember many things from my childhood.
I am not sure which parent took the photos, I am guessing both because I have photos of both in them. When I put them on the computer in Google Cloud, I arrange them in albums, which makes it easy to find what I am looking for. Having them there ensures they are protected if something happens to the originals.
I guess they had us get under our desks because we live so close to Cape Canaveral and they thought it would get hit by a Russian missile, that is the only reason I can think of. I do not think a desk would help much in such an attack, but it must have made them think so.
We were a small school, this was two grades in this class. I would rather have our teacher telling us the news than a PA system, which we did not have.