Where were you today in 11/22/1963?

[VeganBikeChick]

I was...in my mother's ovaries...

[zoom-zoom]

I was...in my mother's ovaries...

Me too...for just over another 9 years. My earliest sudden tragic memory was the Challenger disaster. I was in jr high.

[Koronin]

Not born yet for the original question.

I was in 6th Grade when the Challenger disaster happened. Actually was in science class and watching it live on TV. Our science teacher had gotten the TV in the classroom to watch the launch. He had spent the week before teaching mostly about space, NASA and the space program.

[VeganBikeChick]

Another hijack...I was in third grade when Challenger happened. It's the first major disaster I remember.

[NbyNW]

Carter is the first POTUS that I remember. I remember people talking about John Lennon getting shot but I didn't know who he was at the time.

[GLC1968]

I was not born yet in 1963. Hell, my parents hadn't even started dating yet!

I do remember distinctly the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. A bunch of 'liberal' kids in my class actually applauded when we got word that it had happened. My teacher at the time really read them the riot act and recounted his experience when Kennedy was shot. He told us how everyone was crying and upset and how they canceled classes that day. It was surreal. I'm pretty sure that was 8th grade, if I am remembering correctly.

[azfiddle]

I was in 2nd grade I think. We were allowed to walk home from school for lunch, and my friend and I walked home together. She came running out of her house to tell me the president had been shot. I didn't believe her and ran the last half block home to find out. I remember watching the funeral procession on tv.

[Pax]

I was three, it is one of my first clear memories. We had met the president earlier that Fall. I remember my parents sitting in the living room crying.

[Crankin]

Bike Writer, I agree with you. I fear that now, we are so divided that (some) would clap or cheer if our president was shot. I felt embarrassed when I heard that people at the NASCAR race booed the first lady and the v.p.'s wife when they were there supporting military families. This hit home, since I'm a military mom; those booers don't represent me. I would never boo any president, no matter how much I disagreed with his or her politics. You have to respect the office.

[maillotpois]

I do remember distinctly the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. A bunch of 'liberal' kids in my class actually applauded when we got word that it had happened. My teacher at the time really read them the riot act and recounted his experience when Kennedy was shot. He told us how everyone was crying and upset and how they canceled classes that day. It was surreal. I'm pretty sure that was 8th grade, if I am remembering correctly.

I remember that - and I was in eighth grade as well.

[margo49]

I was 7 years old and in New Zealand we woke up to the news.
There was no tv then so it was on the radio.
We had this line-up every morning in class and anyone who had knowledge of a world current event could get up in front of the class and tell about it. So most of the class got up that day except the Very Religious who did not have radio and had not seen (been able to read?!) the morning paper.

I remember their little baby dying just before that.

[ny biker]

When I was very young, I remember my grandmother watching a big funeral on TV. My guess is that it was either RFK or MLK Jr; I was 4 years old that year.

I was in high school when the principal made an announcement on the PA system that the hostages in Iran had been freed.

I don't remember the day Reagan was shot.

I was in college when the Challenger exploded. I first heard about it in an American Civilization class I was taking. The class was on American Popular Culture. We spent the whole time talking about it -- how people learned about it, why it was having such an impact on people, stuff like that.

[bmccasland]

I would add that when I was in Jr. High - can't remember the year exactly, I visited my Aunt who lived in Dallas, and she drove us to the site, pointed out the state book repository. She was a University student in '63 so had vivid memories of the nation's response. "End of Camelot" pretty much sums it up. It made an impact to me seeing the site (approximately 10 years afterwards). Dallas was still embarrassed that it happened on their soil.

[ny biker]

Fetal...

[jessmarimba]

Unborn. Not nearly so catastrophic, but the first news story I remember is baby Jessica stuck in the well.