If you are old enough, do you remember how eerily still America was after JFK was shot?

[rurallib]

The Saturday and Sunday when hardly anyone was moving about? I was @13,playing basketball with some friends on an outside court and the sounds would echo off the nearby buildings as we played.

If you were around for the polio years you parents not letting you do certain things for fear you would get polio. We couldn't swim in pools nor drink from public drinking fountains. They were also leery of crowds.

sounds like we may experience things like this for a while.

[rzemanfl]

1. Seems that way. I posted about polio here several days ago. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I asked my kid in Seattle what it was like there now

Says interstate going thru Seattle looked like 5 am traffic today. Hardly a car on it, at 1 pm.

The original Starbucks in the Pike Place Market was empty except for the barista. Usually has crowds 3 deep.

He's working from home now.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. I remember how eerily still America was the afternoon of September 11th, 2001

I drove home on the I-75/85 Downtown Connector in Atlanta that day and saw almost no other cars on the road; with the traffic information signs flashing "AIRPORT CLOSED - NATIONAL EMERGENCY" it felt downright post-apocalyptic.

[MotorCityBeard]

5. I'm considered a baby boomer, but born in 1964

So, no, wasn't here for Kennedy.

I was going to post about 9/11, though. Everything seemed so still, like everyone was holding their breath. Living near the airport, the no planes at all was very eerie.

[rurallib]

17. I had forgotten about 9/11. that was eerie also

[Srkdqltr]

4. I was working at JLHudson

After noon the place was deserted. They stayed closed until after the funeral.

[Srkdqltr]

16. Actually most of not all stores were closed.

Bars were open. I was 22 several of us went out to bars over the weekend.

[JHB]

6. Sorry, I'm in the "not even a twinkle in me'daddy's eye yet" cohort.

[Sherman A1]

7. Yes,

I remember the weekend.

[Golden Raisin]

8. I had just turned 14. One of the many things I

remember was after our Principal made the announcement over the school's public address system and we were all sent home, I remember the UTTER SILENCE, except for some crying, of the kids in the corridor. None of the usual slamming of lockers, shouting and horseplay. Just sombre, deafening, silence.

[milestogo]

9. I remember, but I was 7.

So what I mostly remember are the reactions of my 2nd grade teacher and my parents.

He was shot during the lunch hour and we heard about it on the way back to school. My teacher brought a big old radio into the room and turned it on, saying "Children, today is history". And she wept.

My parents had a similar reaction. When you are a child and the people you depend on are shaken, you know its bad.

[Raftergirl]

10. Yep and I was only six.

It’s seared into my memory.

[louis-t]

11. I remember the drums of the dirge playing on tv

as the caisson moved down Pennsylvania Ave. I remember the exact words of the principal, and the sound of her voice, coming over the loudspeaker. If I say them out loud, even now, I choke up.

I live near an air base, so on 9/11, the big planes were circling all night. I lay in bed and shook.

[MANative]

12. Or here in NYC right after 9/11

It'll look and sound like that soon, I fear.

[El Supremo]

13. I was also 13 and in...

DALLAS! The whole city was in total shock.

But it was more eerie during 9/11. No airplanes!

[Turin_C3PO]

14. My parents were in elementary school

when JFK was shot. Yes, they describe the aftermath as you did. For my part, I remember 9/11. I was in high school and everyone was shell shocked.

[Cirque du So-What]

15. I just realized

that no boomer was old enough to have voted for JFK. I was 9 when he was assassinated, so the oldest boomer would have been only 18.