Where were you when Kennedy was shot?

[USG '60]

Hey, 64, I love stories like that that show what us okies are made of. One of the most telling stories in that vain that I ever heard came from Tom Brocaw while he was here covering the bombing. Paraphrased, this is what he said.

"I have covered many events of devistation and in all cases the prices of everything skyrockets immediately, from available food to necessary supplies. Not here in Oklahoma City. Trucks just began showing up with all manner of needed supplies and there is NO charge. Food is free right now as there is no way set up to deal with money. I have never seen such generous people"

I have never been so proud to be an Oklahoman. Damn near bawled like a baby.

[SOUTHSIDE GIRL]

I was home, trying to get my husband on the phone. He was to busy to talk he was trying to move the fire truck out of the tornado path,, Luck was with him when it reached the intersection of SW 134 and May it turned to the east and followedSW 134th. Fire station 35 is located at 131st and May. He followed the tornado into the neighborhood and has been interviewed by several tv stations. We were lucky it didn't get us, but my mother-in-inlaw lost her house

[TaoMaas]

I was inside the weather center at one of our local stations, shooting behind-the-scenes video. So I heard all the reports coming in, but I was so busy that I really didn't get a grasp of exactly what had just happened until I saw the helicopter shot with that long red swath running through Moore. Or rather, where that section of Moore USED to be.

[Generals64]

Hey, 64, I love stories like that that show what us okies are made of. One of the most telling stories in that vain that I ever heard came from Tom Brocaw while he was here covering the bombing. Paraphrased, this is what he said.

"I have covered many events of devistation and in all cases the prices of everything skyrockets immediately, from available food to necessary supplies. Not here in Oklahoma City. Trucks just began showing up with all manner of needed supplies and there is NO charge. Food is free right now as there is no way set up to deal with money. I have never seen such generous people"

I have never been so proud to be an Oklahoman. Damn near bawled like a baby.

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If we ever meet, I'm a bit of a redneck and can get excited pretty quick. So, from out of nowhere came this guy (from Boston) wanting an interview...Sure I said except you're going to have to follow me and stay up with me....Cameras . lights, action ....Hey where did 64 go? He's in the truck headed out to fee the OG&E guys...they jumped in the truck cameras rolling so and so on....In about 30 minutes we were able to stop and he said and I , quote" Why are you doing this?" Doing what??? .....taking your time, money and effort????? I said wouldn't you do the same thing when your friends are in trouble????No, not really......Then this interview is over......My uncle saw the interview on TV DFW station....He called and said that he was proud...Really I said....then come and help.....The same day the OK Highway Patrol acame by and asked us if President Clinton could come and eat with us??? Sure, what size gloves does he wear????Why they asked....You don't work, you don't eat...they took him to Del City instead......If we don't help each other in times of need then we don't NEED to worry about getting help ourselves......Most people didn't get to help pull the dead mother from atop her child in a bath tub.....Never forget that...................Genrals64...This wasn't a brag...this is how the people of Moore, Oklahoma Handled their crisis...Just like the people covering the Murrah building bombing.....

[PennyQuilts]

I was watching the weather all afternoon when the tornado(s) were coming. It was just wild. I was never in any danger, near 50th and Shartel, but no real way to know that at the time. I was glued to the TV and IM'ing my buddy back in Washington DC (who I later married but didn't yet know that was in the cards) telling him what was happening. I recall telling him that I'd never seen anything like it and he hadn't either. When the tornado hit Moore, I started worrying about my mom in NE OKC. Afterwards, the smell of gas covered everything. Mom had all kinds of debris in her yard 7 - 8 miles away, pictures, bills, receipts, etc. Just incredible. Way too many people died but I am still amazed that it wasn't higher. I tell people that I am from OKC, where they blew us up in 1995, and blew us down in 1999. But we always come back.

[Generals64]

When we were cleaning up the debris of the Tornado, I was raking junk up and saw a check book laying there.....It belonged to a friend from Church who lived 12 miles away. I returned it...trouble was he didn't have a house at all after that day. But God Prevailed...his family was fine and he had insurance.......The weirdest story I remember was the lady that thought the insurance money she got was to keep her going until she decided to build her house...she was givving money to the kids in the neighborhood and so on then we finally got her to understand that it would run out... Oh yeah, Last year 2008 there was a friend of ours who finally got her settlement check from her insurance.....She came by and said look I got my settlement $2,500.00....I looked and said that's not right....Her daughter told me to be quiet she would take care of it.....Did I mention that the check was for $250,000.00????nice daughter huh? Well, I busted her bubble and called the Bank.....

[papaOU]

All of this was going on when Kennedy got shot????

[Generals64]

All of this was going on when Kennedy got shot????

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Read the original introduction...."where were you when Kennedy got shot or any other Historical event during your life time?"""

[papaOU]

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Read the original introduction...."where were you when Kennedy got shot or any other Historical event during your life time?"""

Okay! My bad.

[Generals64]

Okay! My bad.

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Hey Pappy":...........did you ever get your hair cut???rumor is something about a mohawk???? Of course Red/Gen doesn't have to worry about his hair huh????He can't get all the grease out of it from Highschool....In response to this thread....I was in Slidell, Louisiana when Hurricane Rita hit the Gulf Coast....you want to talk about very strange feeling....When the eye of the Hurricane came over NOTHING was moving.....and then all He%%% broke loose.

[bowtieguy]

When J.F.K. was shot I had just got back to school from lunch. One of the guys in my class ran in and said that the president had been shot. The teacher turned on the television and we all watched for the rest of the day. That afternoon when I got home I found my mother crying, it was then that I realized that our country had lost one of the most important leaders in it's history.

When the Murrah building was bombed I had just gotten into the shower, I was on vacation. I spent the rest of the day trying to find friends that worked in the area, only one was left. So many lost for nothing, it still hurts my heart to think of it.

When the tornado took Moore I was in Ft. Worth, my father-in-law had just died about 6 hours before it hit. My home was in Moore, my kids were in Moore and many of my friends were in Moore. I know that was not as bad as being in Moore at that time, but, not knowing if my home was gone or if I had lost my sons or any of my friends was very hard on me. I came home to find that my home and my kids were just fine, but, many of my friends had nothing left. I have faced devastation in my past and it did not make this any easier.

[papaOU]

When J.F.K. was shot I had just got back to school from lunch. One of the guys in my class ran in and said that the president had been shot. The teacher turned on the television and we all watched for the rest of the day. That afternoon when I got home I found my mother crying, it was then that I realized that our country had lost one of the most important leaders in it's history.

When the Murrah building was bombed I had just gotten into the shower, I was on vacation. I spent the rest of the day trying to find friends that worked in the area, only one was left. So many lost for nothing, it still hurts my heart to think of it.

When the tornado took Moore I was in Ft. Worth, my father-in-law had just died about 6 hours before it hit. My home was in Moore, my kids were in Moore and many of my friends were in Moore. I know that was not as bad as being in Moore at that time, but, not knowing if my home was gone or if I had lost my sons or any of my friends was very hard on me. I came home to find that my home and my kids were just fine, but, many of my friends had nothing left. I have faced devastation in my past and it did not make this any easier.

The Murrah building I was at work at TTI. Worked grave and was about to go home. The company is at Skyline and Eastern. The entire dock was open and we never heard anything. I guess the Canadian kept us from hearing the blast. The radio said something about a broken gas line. Did not know the amount of destruction until I got home. Of course at that early in the game nobody knew exactly what happened.

The May tornado was really close. Wife, Granddaughter and I were returning from Springfield MO. If we had been ten minutes later we would have been in the middle of it. We were I35 and Indian Hills Rd. when it hit. We used to go to a Bowling Tournament in Springfield every year. It seemed as if every year there was bad weather in Oklahoma when we returned.
Still could never convince the wife we needed to stay longer and spend a complete day at Wilson's Creek Battlefield. Maybe that's why she's an ex now.

[Prunepicker]

When the May 1999 tornado hit, Prunette and I were going to go to a Gospel
Quartet concert at a Baptist church in Del City. Something came up and we
didn't go. I don't remember the church but it was in the middle of the path.

When we go to the commissary at Tinker we see all of the new houses that
were built since then. THAT was a tornado disaster.

Sometimes you wish you were there so you could help. Then again, you're
very glad Providence intervened.

[papaOU]

Sometimes you wish you were there so you could help. Then again, you're
very glad Providence intervened.

When you can see where it actually sucked the grass from the ground.....If you were in it and lived you were definitely blessed,,,,,,,,

When I drove down Western and to the west and actually viewed the massive destruction I cried. War-zone does not do the sites justice....

[SOUTHSIDE GIRL]

My Mother in Law live at 119th and Western. When we finally were abel to get in to the addition you couldn't tell which house was hers. Her garage was completly gone. The roof on the kitchen was gone, but the pictures taped on the china cabinet were still there. Tornados are amazing

[Generals64]

My Mother in Law live at 119th and Western. When we finally were abel to get in to the addition you couldn't tell which house was hers. Her garage was completly gone. The roof on the kitchen was gone, but the pictures taped on the china cabinet were still there. Tornados are amazing

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Something I remember very vividly was about a week before the Tornado hit in Moore, I had painted parking lines on the parking lot....The next day after the tornado, there was NO Paint left at all........

[papaOU]

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Something I remember very vividly was about a week before the Tornado hit in Moore, I had painted parking lines on the parking lot....The next day after the tornado, there was NO Paint left at all........

Next time don't use a water-based paint.

[Pstmstr]

I was in the 2nd grade when my teacher, Mrs. Newport told us about it. I'll never forget it.

[Generals64]

I was in the 2nd grade when my teacher, Mrs. Newport told us about it. I'll never forget it.

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You know, some of us have gone through many memorable things in our lives....Kennedy being shot....Still remember it vividly....Bobby Kennedy....Wasted ....Martin Luther King.....Viet Nam.....Desert Storm....Why we can't get our stuff together and live in peace I'll never know....Getting semi teary-eyed as the May 3rd storm was devastating to many people here in Moore....Sorry....Had to Vent...Was deeply involved in that storm....

[Generals64]

hey, this was just originally put in here for and few "quick" memories but, where were YOU on Historic Occasions that will go down in History.????

1. The Moon landing?
2. The Fall of Saigon?
3. When John Lennon was shot?
4. When Marilyn Monroe was found dead???? I thought they were kidding....

Surely there are some other moments......I told my wife "I Loved her" the first time in one of the round booths at Cattlemen's and 6 months later asked her to marry me in the same booth......She won't go to Cattlemen's with me now...don't know why after 44 years......

[papaOU]

hey, this was just originally put in here for and few "quick" memories but, where were YOU on Historic Occasions that will go down in History.????

1. The Moon landing?
2. The Fall of Saigon?
3. When John Lennon was shot?
4. When Marilyn Monroe was found dead???? I thought they were kidding....

Surely there are some other moments......I told my wife "I Loved her" the first time in one of the round booths at Cattlemen's and 6 months later asked her to marry me in the same booth......She won't go to Cattlemen's with me now...don't know why after 44 years......

moon landing; at my grandparents..

They had a color t.v.

Fall of Saigon; home watching the news

John Lennon; playing poker.

At a stoplight 29th and May, across the radio - Groucho Marx died! To hell with Elvis, Groucho just died!!!

[gmwise]

When JFK was shot ,I was in the womb with 8 months left to serve..lol

[Generals64]

When JFK was shot ,I was in the womb with 8 months left to serve..lol

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oh my gosh!!!! now you have to come up with something of historical significance from your era.....

[OKCDrummer77]

Challenger explosion - in my 3rd grade classroom.

[Prunepicker]

I just started a new thread called "Where were you during historic events?"