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Way Back Jack wrote:
> 9/11:  There's a path on my property that I used for jogging, naked in
> warm weather, except for running shoes, baseball cap, and radio ear
> phones.  Anyway, the news interrupted the soft-rock show and I ran
> back to the house and told the old lady to turn on the tube.

I woke up in the morning, logged into my computer to see that I was 
receiving a whole slew of CNN Breaking news alerts in my email.  I turned on 
the TV, and every station was covering the event.  I called my sister, told 
her to turn on the TV, and she called me a few minutes later wailing that 
"the world is ending!  the world is ending!".

>
> JFK: I was cruising in a '58 Impala on Pulaski Hwy. when the news of
> the shooting interrupted Johnny Tillotson's "Talk Back Trembling
> Lips."  Death had not yet been confirmed.  Man, I had to tell someone
> so I stopped in this redneck dive in White Marsh.  There were no
> patrons just an old hag behind the bar.  She just stared without
> responding.  "Aw ya old fart, if you don't believe me, turn on ya
> radio, if ya have one."  Whereupon I left.

I was in Elementary School in Canada.  We were called into a school 
gymnasium, were the news was broken, and classes were dismissed for the day. 
In retrospect, I really don't understand - or cannot recall - why an 
American president's death would cause our Canadian school to shut down for 
the day, but that was cool.  We got to play outside in the crisp red and 
orange maple leaves for the rest of the day.

>
> Buddy Holly: I was in 9th grade and moms told me when I returned home
> from school.

It didn't even register on my radar.  Too young.

- nilita