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Where were you when JFK was assassinated?
« on: November 22, 2013, 03:15:24 PM »
(excluding our youthful editor, of course, and any other lucky member)

I sent my remembrance in to The Record. It wasn't published, but they posted all of them here:


http://www.northjersey.com/news/230247631_john_f_kennedy_assassination_memories_the_record.html


Mine's way down near the bottom of the first page, so to save you all that scrolling, here it is:


Bob Leafe, Hackensack

I was a junior at Bergen Catholic High School and was in a class taught by someone who was not well-respected by the students. He liked to make really bad jokes that he thought would endear him to his class, but they had quite the opposite effect.

Early that Friday afternoon, he was called to the classroom door by someone. He returned ashen-faced and announced that the President had been shot.

The class erupted in mock laughter, thinking that it was another of his dumb jokes. He looked at us in utter horror. A few minutes later, the principal's announcement over the PA told us that the President was dead.

I belonged to the school's intramural bowling league, which met after school on Fridays at Ten Pin On The Mall at the Bergen Mall. We were sure it would be canceled after the announcement, but, for some reason, it wasn't.

It was impossible to concentrate on bowling, so we spent most of our time in Ten Pin's bar, which had a TV. Normally, we would not be allowed in there, but it was understood that everyone needed to be near a TV on that horrible day.



So 50 years ago this minute, I was an extremely sad 16 year-old in a bowling alley bar.
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Re: Where were you when JFK was assassinated?
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2014, 12:50:14 PM »
At that time, I was working as a barber in Hack. and I heard it on the radio. We were all shocked and continued to listen on the radio. The next day we did not go to work and had the TV on.

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Re: Where were you when JFK was assassinated?
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2014, 03:42:13 PM »
Hi Joe,

Where in Hackensack were you a barber? We'd all like to hear about anything you recall about Hackensack back then. All memories are great additions to to the site's database.

If you choose to share, please do so in a different thread.

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