Where did you first learn about JFK's assassination?

*pannoni1* · 11-22-2013, 12:56 PM

50 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Most, if not all of us on this forum were born well after this event given that TMNT was even conceived until 20 years after this. That said, many parents of us fans really felt this event hard, similar to my generation and 9/11 that represented a general end of innocence, though with 9/11 there was terrorism in the '90s before it (including an attack at the WTC in 1993), so I feel in retrospective that JFK's assassination caused a larger paradigm shift than any other event. It sowed the seeds of the '60s/'70s social revolution.

For me, it was the 1989 song "We Didn't Start the Fire" where I got my first reference, with the "JFK Blown Away" line at the end of the fourth verse. I couldn't really remember the 25th anniversary in 1988 being just 3 3/4 years old, though some of you older fans may have. I then read it in history, but felt that I didn't get the "full" perspective until I visited JFK's presidential library in 2000. So for you, where did you learn about this historic event?

11-22-2013, 12:56 PM	#1
pannoni1 Foot Elite Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: USA Posts: 3,447	Where did you first learn about JFK's assassination? 50 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Most, if not all of us on this forum were born well after this event given that TMNT was even conceived until 20 years after this. That said, many parents of us fans really felt this event hard, similar to my generation and 9/11 that represented a general end of innocence, though with 9/11 there was terrorism in the '90s before it (including an attack at the WTC in 1993), so I feel in retrospective that JFK's assassination caused a larger paradigm shift than any other event. It sowed the seeds of the '60s/'70s social revolution. For me, it was the 1989 song "We Didn't Start the Fire" where I got my first reference, with the "JFK Blown Away" line at the end of the fourth verse. I couldn't really remember the 25th anniversary in 1988 being just 3 3/4 years old, though some of you older fans may have. I then read it in history, but felt that I didn't get the "full" perspective until I visited JFK's presidential library in 2000. So for you, where did you learn about this historic event? __________________ http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/sho...d.php?t=37065- MY WANT LIST TMNT FAN CLUB LINK: http://sot.ag/gCjK/ 30 years of Turtle Power!