When my son was 3, my wife , son and I came down with the flu. We went and got all 3 seasons of Gilligan's island and watched all three seasons in three days. By the last episode my son knew every word of the theme song. It still remains one of our favorite shows. I wish they made shows like that again.
I was in the 3rd grade. They sent us home too. I remember that in the weeks before Kennedy was shot , the girls jumping rope were singing a song that had the words "The President is dead" in it.
True, I remember hearing Sherwood Schwartz say that he had fans sending letters to him saying Gilligan's island could be their children's babysitter for half an hour.
Rest in peace, ALL of the Gilligan's cast. Yes, Tina (Ginger) is the last surviving cast member, at this time. It was already said above somewhere, but, most people at that time had their priorities in order. Compared to the instant gratification world that we live in today ran by the liberal & socialist idiots.
Worst of all, I understand she died from Covid related illness. We'll always be reminded of this terrible pandemic each and every time we watch a Gilligan's episode. How sad.
I was a teenager. I was washing dishes and listening to music on the radio. They cut into the music and said, "President Kennedy has been shot in Dallas." They went back to the music. I thought it was a cruel joke, but soon they told the news. Families across America stayed glued to their TVs, watching the shocking events as they unfolded.The whole world mourned him. He is ever my hero. In three and a half years, he accomplished so many great things, including my favorite, the Peace Corps! I still cannot talk about this without tearing up..
I was in the 7th grade. In my science class we heard the news as a classmate screamed. I'll never forget the overwhelming sadness we felt. A terrible day for the nation.
The secret behind the success of Gilligan's Island is that because the cast truly liked each other there was a subtle, but very real, chemistry that the audience intuitively picked up on.
I had just been hit by a car while riding a bike and was at home healing when Kennedy was shot. Years later, I fell and broke my back. While at home healing, 9-11 took place and I watched the 2nd plane hit the tower. These are the only times I have been home healing after an accident. I hope that I do not repeat for the 3rd time...
We will all pray for your continued good health, OK? Yes, I'm saying this with a little smile, but seriously, our health is not a joking matter. I've been fighting terminal cancer for 14 years... I know that one of these days the doctors are going to get it right - that part about only having 5 months to live, but not yet!!! Take care of yourself Dennis - we need all the help we can get!
@@cythiasbreant4324 Thank you so much Cynthia. And I'm sorry to hear about your brother and if it's OK I'll add him to my prayer list. He's lucky to have such a caring sister as yourself.
"Gilligan's Island" TV show was up there with " "Lost in Space", "Star Trek"and the "The Munsters". Those are just a few of the TV GREATEST populating the small screen. Thanks for the memories. Take care.
I was 4 years old and remember watching it on the TV in our living room. I didn't really understand what was going on, but I remember my parents and other relatives all watching intently. A few days later, I remember watching the casket covered by the flag pulled by a horse. That image has stayed with me my entire life. Somethings you just never forget.
My father was Gilligan script writer, Charles Tannen. He did work on the pilot. He was actually driving to CBS in Studio City to write, when this happened. He immediately turned around and came home.
What about the fact that "Gilligan's Island" filmed a SECOND pilot, which was effectively the same, but had Ginger, Professor and Mary Ann, that we were all familiar with.
I recall first seeing this pilot episode when they played it on The Super Station WTBS in 1992.I also recall watching episodes of Gilligan's Island when I was a little kid in the 1960s.
I think that's why it was so funny,because it was so absurd. Some shows are just plain stupid,but this one was so well done,the more stupid the better. I still enjoy watching reruns after all these years. This one hasn't lost a thing.
@Butter Bean The early polls are not good either but I'm guessing a lot of people will try and vote in person but they will probably close the polls using the virus as a crutch. apparently you can stand in line at Walmart waiting to get in and the virus is nowhere. try to vote in person and the virus scare alarm goes off lol..
I remember my Mother talking on the phone when the call was interrupted by an operator and announced this tragic event. My mother cried. I was 4 years old and today I remember this moment
I was born in 1968. I loved watching the reruns of this show when I was a kid!! Then as an adult, I got married to a man who was the son of the lighting technician on Gilligan's Island! So I got to hear stories.. he did say the woman playing Mary Ann was the sweetest person ever. Just as everyone suspected! 😄
@@TampaDave, Thank you for the reminder, I loved that program as a kid. I can't believe that with many, many TV channels that all those programs could have a slot
I remember the Cuban Missle Crisis ... the Kennedy Assassination and hearing about his death from Walter Cronkite and days later watching the funeral procession .... remember Martin Luther King Assassination ... remember Robert Kennedy Assassination ... I was 7 years old when President Kennedy was shot ... still remember them all ... still love America ...
I was 6 years old. It bothers me to no end I have no recollection whatsoever of hearing of the assassination. I'm guessing that I was in first grade and must have gotten sent home early, but I honestly don't remember a thing about it. For some reason this has always really haunted me.
Not only remember being sent home from school , Grade2 but we were all assembled outside on that warm November day to Say the Pledge of Allegiance first then sent home. My mother and sister 13 both crying for 3days with piles of Kleenex. Then Sunday we watched Ruby silence the Weird little man who say he didn't shoot anyone. Things were never the same.
Delta Tango Hmm. That is interesting. I heard while in third grade, and watched his funeral at home that November. Clear as a bell, to me today. My Father fought in WWII, in the South Pacific, as did Kennedy.
@@ivangranger8494 I do remember watching the funeral on TV with my mother and maybe one or two of my siblings, but it's very vague. The funeral possession is the only thing that stands out to me.
never noticed the flag at half staff very cool because i was at the hospital with my mother and my aunt was having her first child my cousin thanx guys
I was in the second grade. All teachers and staff were in tears.. they sent us home early. My mom was also in tears... (Dads went to work, Moms stayed home back then) We were all glued to our TV sets for days. Oddly enough, I was watching live when Oswald was shot. This is the kind of stuff that is seared into your memory forever. Enjoyed Gilligan's Island then and now!
@ The Sarge- It was exactly the same for me! The teachers were crying, I don't remember them telling us what happened but school was dismissed and my mother came to get me and my twin sister. She told us what happened. For the longest time, I'd be sad when Thanksgiving came around. I also witnessed Oswald getting shot. I couldn't believe what I saw. I thought it was a tv show. I hollered to my mom "a man got shot on TV". She came running in from the kitchen and turned it off!
Everyone where I lived was crying. I was just a few weeks shy of turning 4 yrs old so I only knew something really bad happened. At that age, when you see a grownup crying you knew something was very wrong. On top of that it was my brothers 6th birthday. I'm sure that is one birthday he always remembers.
*I Remember everyone was crying every where we went, and i ask my mom why, and she said someone assassinated JFK. I will never forget seeing John John at the funeral saluting his father as his casket went by, it was heart breaking*
I watched Gilligan's island every day after school my dad thought it was so stupid it drove him nuts. I remember once he came in the room going on about it, how many times am i gonna watch the same episodes, why don't i go outside and play. He was watching it for a moment and something made him laugh. That only made him madder then he stormed out of the room. lol. I never forgot that.
I was 8 years old at the time, and I can tell you in great detail, exactly where I was, and what I was doing when I first heard the news. I think that that is representative of the impact that the event had on an entire nation.
I remember it vividly. I was in 5th grade. There was nothing on TV but that coverage. It was right before Thanksgiving. It made for a very somber holiday.
Didn't you think about sex when you watched Gilligan's Island? Two beautiful girls, a handsome bachelor, Gilligan and the Captain in a REAL midlife crisis. Maybe that was just because they never showed us any sleeping quarters.
Flintstones, The Jeffersons, Sandford n Son, Jetsons, Laverne and Shirley, Facts of Life, Happy Days etc - All great TV. Now everyone is a blue haired transgendered oppressed person in need of reparations. TV has ruined society, especially the media! as well as these teachers that push their own agenda....
I find it so touching how many people included remembering that their parents and teachers were crying. We were all so innocent then. Things like this just didn't happen. No wonder the cast and crew weren't sure what to think.
It's something to think about too that when Kennedy was shot, he was the first president assassinated in 62 years, since McKinley. Two presidents had died in the meantime- Harding and FDR- but they had died of illness. Many people in 1963 would remember FDR's death, but you had to be pretty old (by 1960s standards) to remember McKinley's death. Plus, Kennedy was the first (and only) to die in the era of widespread television, where there was coverage and footage and photos of it everywhere. It was definitely a different world to the people of the time, I'm sure.
Ah, but what were you doing when you first heard about Challenger? Or as 9/11 started? People are still basically the same, it feels different when you're living through it.
A lot of the shock was that it shattered our picture of what America was. This couldn't have happened in the America we believed in, and it wasn't the America of the 50's anymore.
I was in kindergarten when the cleaning lady came in and told our teacher the President had been shot. She dismissed class and told us to pray for the President. The world stopped that day. Everyone was in the street silent. We were believers then. In our President and our country. Those days are gone.
I remember reading articles about that day...It was said that THAT was the day you could literally hear a pin drop in the world!Folks pumping gas and grocery shopping were crying...Such a sad day!
It was definitely a strange feeling. Even as a four year old I could feel that this was a big thing. During those days you rarely seen adults crying, especially an adult man. So when I seen many of them crying, I knew it was a big deal, and it scared me a little.
In many ways, from a historical perspective, the 50's ended on Nov 22, 1963. If the story they told us was true, then what would they POSSIBLY be needing to hide all these years? We already know that a murder with deep connections to the Agency, was investigated by one Allen Dulles. Who had been fired from his long-term position as director of said agency by (hold your breath) the miurder VICTIM. Does anyone know why you would get a major SUSPECT to be Chief Investigator, and control the investigation of the crime? Anyone see a red flag anywhere? That dog don't hunt.
@@TampaDave I agree 100%. That whole assassination stinks to high heaven. We know Oswald wasn't a lone gunman. They are just testing our intelligence when they say he is, and there is video proof that the head shot came from the front. Sure there were other shots fired from other directions but the one that finished it came from the front. I spent most of my adult life in the Military around weapons, but it doesn't take someone like me to see that the head shot came from the front. If they had to seal the documents, and hide them from the public, that is all I need to know, that tells me they are hiding something, and it's not where the shot came from that they are hiding. That part is obvious. They are hiding the "Who". I am sure the who includes the Government as well as the mafia and more probable, even the CIA. Honestly nothing would surprise me at this point in my life. There have been interviews with former CIA "affiliates" who said they were supposed to cancel the hit, and when it went off anyway, they said "we just screwed up". Quite the understatement if you ask me.
I wasn't born, but when I asked my parent's if they remembered where they were when Kennedy was shot, they recalled shopping at a market in Detroit when it was announced over the P.A. system. Everyone was so stunned by what happened that they just dropped everything and left the market to go home and find out what his condition was. She also recalls many of the businesses being shut down for a day once it was announced he was dead. Everyone was just in shock.
My mother told me later when they went to the movies and we were being babysat, the lights came on and over the p.a. announced the president had been shot and that was it. Nobody was going to go back to watching the movie at that point of course so, everyone left to go home to watch tv.
22 November 1963, I was 8 yrs old. We were in school when the announcement was made. The teachers started crying and some kids too. I remember going home and all 3 TV stations in the Charleston, West Virginia area were carrying the Assasination of President Kennedy. I remember no cartoons were on TV Saturday morning. This tragedy is etched in the memory and Im 65 yrs old. I also loved Gilligan's Island.
I was almost 9 -- that weekend was my birthday. I was in a math class when the news from the next classroom came (they had a TV). We all cried all the way home.
USMC 73-77 Yes absolutely. There are no words for that day. We lost many near us from TJX Corp. Another day for me is when the Challenger exploded. Christa McCauliff grew up in our town and I knew her sister. Very sad.
Me and my siblings watched every episode. It was a fun show. I remember when they added, 'the Professor and Marianne ' to the theme song. I was 5 when Kennedy was killed and I remember that too. It must have been a surreal experience for them being so remote. I've been to that port in Honolulu, I went because I learned Gilligan's Island's theme song was filmed there and it was fun to see.
This is quite interesting to hear how the cast and crew to reacted to one of the most days etched in history. Thank you very much for the video Rick, this was something I didn’t know about regarding Gilligan’s Island.
I didn't know the pilot was filmed on that day! I was in elementary school and the principal got on the PA system crying that President Kennedy had been shot and died. He closed the school. Since I only lived 2 blocks away, I rushed home. I also remember seeing Oswald shot by Ruby on live TV!
Thea Stewart : I bet it was. Every Nov. 22,, especially last November 22, when the anniversary was 56 years to the date and day, I wish I had been around to see all the coverage live and not on tape. I was born 12 days after that happened. My mother told me she was watching the funeral, and after it was over, she said she went into the kitchen and cried.
I loved that show as a child and still laugh today. I was in grade school on the pilot filming day. Mrs. Doubleday was called to the class room door. She came back in and said, " all of you will go home now, the president has been shot.' We gathered things togethers and headed to our buses that were already waiting. I got home and my mother was in front of the tv sobbing. I was only 8 years old and didn't fully grasp it all, but when I look back I remember how it took its toll on everyone. On 9/11/2001 I was a teacher in middle school. My wife, a journalist, called the school and asked to talk to me. She told me what was happening. I told the principal, he turned on the TV. Within 30 minutes 75% of the students had been picked up by parents. All were afraid that a school, near Washington DC, could be the next target.
Very moving about the cast praying . I was going to gym class when another student said to me "Kennedy was killed". I thought was he kidding me, but then who would kid about something like that. He was a great president.
I was in my first year of high school Over the intercom the principal said the president was dead go home. We left school wander home to an empty house thinking the world would never be the same and it wasn’t
We had no intercom but a kid brought a note from principal's office and 4th grade teacher teared up and choked and read it..15 mins later another note saying he dead and she turned and cried for 5mins. Everybody kept silent
Any powerful story bears repeating, especially from the man who told the story so beautifully in a previous video. Thank you for more details and greater insight into how the events of history affected the cast and crew of the show. Just shows we are all human, no matter what side of the television we're on.
@Richard Dixon just looked up those eps on imdb - definitely remember her (never knew she was sharon tate though). I was watching reruns in 1972/73 with my buddies (ages 11/12) and we all liked her. Funny how you remember a pretty face after all these years. Thx for that.
I was in 1st grade at that time. Mom had loaded us up in the station wagon to watch the presidential motorcade go by from Houston Intercontinental Airport (now Hobby Airport) the day before the tragedy in Dallas. We stood on the street corner in front of a Texaco gas station. We all walked to school back then and didn’t know why we were being sent home early. I got home to find my mother in tears. I’m 63 now but I remember that day like it was yesterday.
I was pretty young, but I remember all the adults in the house were crying and there was a lot of news on the tv. I watched Gilligans Island until I graduated from High School, thank god for reruns!
Andy Griffith was on set this day too. He got really upset. People say the most upset they have ever seen him. Everyone was sent home that day. Sad day all around. Thanks for posting. This is our generations 9-11. The whole you know exactly what you we’re doing at that time. ( me, I was in 10th grade, second period English class when I saw the second plane hit)
I was on vacation in Destin Fla getting ready to go on a scuba diving cruise. We started to get a little afraid worrying about traveling back home to Tennessee, gas prices, was it going to happen again while we were on the road? I still have all the newspapers I saved from FLA the next day with the huge headlines.✌🌸✌🌸😝
There were two huge events that happened while I was in highschool. 9-11 and the columbine school shooting. Both events I remember waking up those mornings with a gut feeling something bad was going to happen and stayed home from school because it was a feeling so deep it made me sick to my stomach.
Kennedy assassination was a year before I was born,10-64,I was tailing a large industrial bandsaw on 9/11very loud factory, very few radios, didn't know what had happened til later in the day
I was 12 years old and in sixth grade in a Roman Catholic Elementary School. The Sisters of Saint Joseph were our teachers and they were overwhelmed with grief. They released us from school to go home and be with our family. It was a Friday so we were home over the weekend and excused from school on Monday, November 25, 1963 to watch the funeral with our family. It was a very sad time for the people and the country.
I was born in August 1965. Knew a lot about the Kennedy Assassination, Oswald & Ruby, but I didn't know about this Gilligan Island fact ❗ Thank you, Rick ❗Much appreciated ❗
After a tragedy like that, I'm impressed they were able to pull off their acting abilities while this must have been weighing heavy on their hearts. But as P.T. Barnum once said; The show must go on. Proving these actors's dedication to their work. I don't know if I could have done it.
According to the video, they were not certain it was truth because of the limited coverage. They didn't learn until after it was his death and originally thought he was just wounded since he was taken to the hospital. Even on the West Coast, we knew within an hour of the original news flash of him being shot that he had died. But then we had excellent radio and television coverage and reception.
Hi Rick! I was four when this happened but I remember a little bit. What an historic decade it was. The President, Bobby Kennedy, Dr. King, the riots, The moon landing, the Beatles, I remember bits and pieces as much as you can as a child. Now my child will remember 911, this pandemic, etc...Thank you for sharing this video Rick. I did not know anything about this. They must have been so frustrated, being so far away and isolated from all of the story,/experience/rest of the country. Blessings - Judith 🎵🎭
I was born 4 years afterwards & my sister over a month after. While they had NO television and were far from the mainland, their reaction was likely MORE profound than some of those who WERE there. It still brings a sting to my heart as this anniversary as well as 9/11 draw closer. Also while 3 actors were re-cast to play those roles (they STILL had "character") Thanks Rick for sharing this video.
I was born in '57 so I do remember the tragedy. I remember my dad and myself watching the funeral. Everyone was so sad it was like someone pulling the drain plug from our country's future.
My mom was working for the US embassy in Beirut when this happened. She still remembers that day. She was in her 90's when she died, This is something you never forget.
Just came here ... reading all the comments below - it moves me, how we all remember the way we heard the news, in such detail, each of us in our individual way. It's one of those life-shaking events that burns deep into our psyche and remains with us forever. A tragedy shared by a nation.
fjbrady: It doesn't say "On-set Tragedy". It says "The Tragic Event That Took Place While Filming 'Gilligan's Island' ". I also thought that there was a terrible accident of some sort on the set when I read the title. It does sound a little confusing.
I was only five years old and I remember my mother crying. When I asked her what was wrong she told the president was dead. You never forget days when you see your mother cry.
I was four. Mom and Dad both wanted to leave our Michigan home and go to the funeral. Far too soon after, in 1968, my Dad died. Always remember when Mom cried. She's in Heaven now. She said one of the first questions she wanted to ask was who killed JFK. Neither parent believed the Warren Report.
I was just four years old. Mom had tuned into the CBS news. The image in my memory is that of Walter Cronkite removing his glasses and tearing up as he announced the death of JFK.
I was a kid when JFK was shot. It's like life everywhere just stopped, no school, parents home from work, everyone in a state of shock that seemed to never end. I can still feel it in Nov. even now. It altered life in America, the day innocence died.
i am not american but i was 8 years old when robert kennedy was shot. i remember a teach er from anothr class came to my class and i heard her tell my teacher. my parents discussed current affairs with us and read the papers everyday. so i at least heard of the kennedys.
Thinking back they were a family of sorts on the show. Mr and mrs Howell the adults. Skipper and Gilligan were the quarreling brothers. Giner and Marry were sister archetypes. and the professor was the smart uncle.
Rick, I know I'm repeating what many have already written. That was a sad sad day, many of us had similar experiences across the nation. I was in the third grade at a one room country school. One of the mothers called and told our teacher to turn on the radio. We kids were too young to understand the reality of what had happened to our nation. Our teacher sent us out for recess. I remember looking into the window and she was standing by her desk in tears. Mrs. Furguson, Wright School, Parma Township, Michigan.
I was only 3 or 4 yrs old at the time. Fast forward, just seeing that footage brings me to tears. It must've been surreal to the cast members. They showed professionalism and completed the project. Difficult as it was.
I was 9 years old in third grade in San Diego. We didn't start watching Gilligan's island until we actually went to Hawaii in the fall of 64 and stayed until the fall of 68. I didn't realize the pilot had different actors than the actual show, since the opening theme song showed the stars of the show.
I was in the sixth grade and remember my teacher, Mr Englishman, was absent from the class for a while, which was unusual, and when he got back he seemed upset. He said President Kennedy had just been shot and school was getting out early. It was Friday and that weekend was the most depressing in my young life so far. On Sunday I saw Jack Ruby shoot Oswald live on TV.
I asked my Grandfather to compare the JFK assassination to 9-11 to Pearl Harbor. He felt 9-11 by far was more of a shock. The only observation he added was their was no "glue" binding everyone together for 9-11 verse the other two. I sad to see him gone, but he does not have to see how fracked up America is now!
I think the reason people who were alive for all 3 (and my father was) feel that 9-11 was the worst is because 9-11 basically resulted in the death of innocent people. Pearl Harbor was an act of war which targeted a military base and sailors and soldiers ON that base. The Kennedy assassination, well, the president IS the head of a country as well as commander in chief of all our military. But the people in 9-11 were just ordinary Americans going about their daily business. We never saw anything like that before which ushered the world into a totally new kind of war.
@@retroguy9494 I would agree with that. Pearl Harbor was a military target, and America knew that war with Japan was inevitable in late 1941. President Kennedy, although very shocking, was certainly not the first U.S. President to be murdered in public; Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley's assassination occurred in front of many people. 9-11, the vast majority of the people who were killed that day were just ordinary people going about their day-to-day lives. It is a day I'll never forget.
@@josephstevens9888 My father still can vividly remember exactly what he was doing when he heard the news about pearl harbor. After church he went to his grandmother's house to listen to a football game on the radio with his uncle and they broke in with the news. My mother remembered exactly what happened with Kennedy. And I will never forget what I was doing when I heard about 9-11. I heard it on the radio while getting ready for work so we turned on the TV and saw the second plane hit the trade center live!
You and I are sure on the same page! My dad served in the Marines in World War II and I have been saying to anyone that will listen, as much as I miss him and my mom, I am thankful they are not here to witness this atrocity going on. I watched a WWII veteran talking about our current situation. It saddened my heart for him. For all of us.😞 GOD BLESS. Take care ✌🏻
I was a small girl when this happened. I was born in 1958. The only memory I have is during the funeral my mother cried when John John saluted his father! So young so tragic for him😢
So heartbreaking! I remember feeling a sort of kinship with these children who were famous and white (i had nothing in common) because now their dad was gone too. My dad had passed from lung cancer. I cried for them.
Wasn't born til 67... But it has always fascinated me how many people have anecdotes associated with the tragedy! One in particular involves Richard Matheson driving home from an early golf game when a truck tried to repeatedly run him off the road for no reason. When he pulled into a local police station to file a complaint... he was amazed at the 'you gotta be kidding me!' response he got. It was then he then found out about the assassination & that EVERY department in the U.S. had bigger fish to fry! (He later adapted his experience into the story 'Duel'!)
I have to give you props for choosing such a perfect title to get people to watch this video. This horrific news saddened and deeply affected everyone around our country, bringing everything to a halt, not just the the crew and cast of Gilligan's Island.
Yes. I remember that day. My mom was ironing my dad's uniforms. I was watching the news. I ran to her with the news, and at first she didn't believe me, but then she came to the TV set and watched the news. I remember both her and my dad crying. They explained who he was and why this was a tragedy.
I never saw the pilot for Gilligan's Island. As for the JFK assassination, my friend Billy McKay and I were in Citizenship class when Billy's mother, the school principal's secretary, set the radio on the intercom. The first words I heard were, "No one knows how many shots were fired. Some say two, some say three." From those words alone, I knew what would come next.
I strongly recommend you go watch the Pilot of Gilligan's Island. It's really amazing how it was a full episode. Featuring all elements of the show. With a calypso introduction. and, a few different cast members.
I was sitting in first-grade when the intercom came on and the teacher vigorously hushed us all. We listened intently as the Principal spoke those dreadful words over the intercom. I didn't really understand what it all meant, but I knew it was bad because someone important had died and my teacher was all upset. This is my earliest memory of a national emergency. Still makes me sad 57 years later.
I was in 2nd grade in Westechester County, NY. That afternoon we saw the school buses arrive a few hours early. We didn't know why and the teacher, who had tears in her eyes told us to go straight home. No explanation. I walked to school and was happy to be dismissed early. O usually stopped by to visit with my great aunt and uncle who lived across the street from us and Uncle Pete told me the President had been shot in Dallas and I should go home. I didn't know where Dallas was but knew the President was Kennedy. That is my recollection of the day. We sat glued to the TV and then my Dad drove over to a nice restaurant in Connecticut. Mom was too upset to cook.
@ Larry Baily. I was watching the events from home. I was a kid too, but I remember the Ruby shooting. Got to see it as it happened. I was upset about Kennedy, but I can still remember Oswell holding what looked like his side and falling over slightly when Ruby shot him. He was held up by the deputies that were in charge. I do remember a black top or sweater pull over with long sleeves which he wore, but it was a black and white TV so the sweater could have been of a different color. However, when Ruby charged at Oswald and shot him, everyone jumped and reacted quickly. I still remember Ruby charging like it happened yesterday. He came out of no where. Someone wore a large hat, don't remember if it was Ruby or the sheriff. I think it was the sheriff. I can still hear the announcer saying Oswall has been shot, Oswald has been shot. Guess I just needed to "talk about it". Never spoke about it before. Don't know why.
@@elsa7281 I remember my parents and there freinds saying that Ruby was a hit man to prevent Oswald from going to trial. Ruby was a seedy character but just happened to be of a patriatic mind to take justice in his own hands? They didn't buy into that as I recall.
@@randytim512 I remember people around me saying Ruby owned a bar where prostitution and gambling took place. I also remember when a TV crew showed his bar. But can't remember what the narrator said about it. So yes, I would say your parents were correct.
I was 18 and driving to Bridgeton, Missouri for a blind date with a friend of my sister's and listened to the broadcast as I was driving there, will never forget it.
I was in the third grade on the east coast of the United States. After the announcement of the assassination over the intercom, we were sent home early.
A very interesting video ..the whole world stopped that day..I was only 4 months old at the time ..but I have seen the old news reels ..very sad ..like 9-11 it will be forever etched in our hearts..good video!!!
I was 5 and I can remember that night my parents had it on tv and my whole family was watching. I was very sad because my parents were crying at the kitchen table and I thought this was the end of the world. Sticks in my mind all the time. It’s was an awful time in America.
I was 5 years old, watching TV and ran to tell my Mom (who was washing dishes in the kitchen). We were in absolute shock & glued to the news channel. The reporter, Walter Cronkite, shed tears on TV.
I was a nine year old Canadian schoolchild. We were all sent home. We took on the sorrow of everyone when this icon was assassinated. JFK was the best president of the United States, respected by all. I guess I watched Gilligan's Island into my teen years. Never missed an episode. very popular show!
I was in Jr High School (now middle school). In my German class. A note was delivered to the teacher who was German and who actually had been in Germany and had seen Kennedy’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech delivered at the Brandenberg Gate. She read the note and was totally in tears. The classes were all dismissed and the students sent home. I turned on the TV when I got there and watched it. The rest of the family came home and everyone was real upset. We watched tv all week end solid to find out as much data as we could and sat in front of the TV for the entire time during the funeral. It was very impressive with the casket on the wagon being pulled by black horses with boots turned backwards in the stirrups. I actually learned quite a bit which I otherwise would not have. Mom called it the lost week end and that’s what it felt like. I forgot how long we were out of school. It was several days. The flags were at half staff the entire time. When they were raised again, everything was slow to restart but it did. Oswald was said to have killed him and when he was killed, we all felt cheated for not having a proper trial. I disagree that Oswald actually did it. Did some research and wrote a paper much later. What a time!!!
I was 7 years old in 2nd grade. We were outside on a fire drill. While coming back into the school the teachers were all upset. My mother was volunteering in the small school library and told me what had happened.
I was 5 years old in living in Chicago at the time.I was getting ready for afternoon kindergarten, and my grandmother had the soap opera on As The World Turns. It was five minutes into it I think when they announced the 1st Bulletin I ended up having to go to school because nobody really knew how bad it really was. We found at school that Kennedy died, my teacher ran out of the classroom crying. When I got home that afternoon, my grandparents begin to collect newspaper articles magazine articles and covers because it was such a stunning event and made a scrapbook out of it. A lot of people did that; I still have it. It's a day that I will never forget and for so many that are still around who also remember that horrible feeling to think that the nation's leader was so brutally taken out in such a horrible manner. And everyone was concerned about Jackie and the children particularly Jackie because she witnessed that, not to mention 2 Days Later watching Oswald get murdered on National Television live. The news coverage was outstanding. The news media at that time particularly for television did not cover anything as major is that until that day and I would have to say they covered things so much better than they do now. Things really changed Rick, and life in America would never be the same for our nation, and for the world. I still feel that way today. Thanks for the great story!
My mother saved the newspaper and when I was younger I would take it out and read it. But then she threw it away. I thought it was one of the most stupid things she ever did. I used to go to the library and look at the microfilm. It was so strange to see that month of newspapers on microfilm. I borrowed a book from the library last year and one of JFK'S guards wrote the book and in one photograph there was a picture of John Jr, crying his heart out the day his daddy left for Texas. That was a heartbreaking picture.
I was three years old at the time, and I was and am visually impaired. I would sit right in front of the TV whenever Kennedy came on to speak. For some reason I was just fascinated with Kennedy, it must've been his accent. My family was living in Dallas at the time because my dad was stationed there. And they still have all the newspapers from that event, which are just fascinating to go through now.
The fundamental aspects of human behavior apply as time goes by. I'm just extrapolating from what the Democrats' reaction was when Lincoln died. Many, privately, were gleeful. Publicly, however, many were careful not to show their true feelings and expressed dread that the Republicans might want to exact revenge on them.
I was born on December 24, 1963. Being very pregnant with me, my mother told me she will always remember what she was doing when the news hit. She was in the living ironing clothes and listening to music over the radio. They interrupted the music to give the breaking news. It stunned her into complete inaction. She fortunately she snapped out of it to remove the iron off of the shirt before it burned it. She then turned on the TV and watched it for the rest of the day. She said my father came home from work about an hour after the news hit (he was a professor and all classes were cancelled right after the news hit) and he came in silently and just sat down beside her and they watched the TV the rest of the evening. It wasn't until the next day that she finished ironing the rest of the clothes.
I was a co-pilot on a B-47 bomber . My crew was in the “vault” studying our war plan preparing to go on Alert. The news was piped in over a loudspeaker. I felt like I had touched a live electrical wire. We were ordered to our airplane immediately, We gathered up our gear and headed to the flight line, once in our plane, we prepared it for immediate launch, if so ordered, We sat in our plane for two hours before we were cleared to return to the Alert facility, We all watched the news on tv, It was a very depressing and scary time for us, Who was behind this horrible act?
I watched a documentary about Pres. Kennedy's assassination here on You Tube. It Seemed very convincing to me and ( supposedly) solves who actually shot and killed him. You'd have to be the judge yourself.
The ones that had the most to gain were the see-eye-a , the non-federal no-reserves and the military-industrial-complex; in that order . Cui Bono ; follow the money the first rule of criminal investigation .
I remember every detail. I was in last period, Science, taught by Miss Jet. The intercom announced the shooting. A few minutes later it announced the death. My Mother picked me up from school & I asked if she had heard about President Kennedy being shot. She told me that was not a funny joke. The next several days was wall to wall TV coverage on our 19 inch b&w set. It was so sad & mesmerizing. My parents had voted for him. we lived in West Palm Beach. We saw the Honey Fitz Yacht many times from our small fishing boat & I had seen JFK one time on the back of the boat as we happened to be following the same direction. This was the first wall to wall news coverage & the first time I witnessed our entire nation mourning together. TgT
I was 7 years old and at school, I heard one kid talking to another very excitedly about some one being shot but I thought he was talking about a movie. In those days we had to be in line out side the door after lunch, girls in one line boys another. We were out there for a long time, normally we weren't aloud to talk but as no one opened the doors for so long we all started to ask what was going on. Finally another teacher who was not ours started opening up the door and she was crying something we kids never saw before. Yeah we were sent home and seen it all, no cartoons just news. Anyone go to Frank West school in Bakersfield? 1962 to 1966.
I was 6 years old, in the kitchen helping with preparing food then i remember my mom n grandmother screaming and crying for weeks and months after that, as they say you always remember where you were that day, i didnt know this fact about the show, i watched every Episode of it, now its kinda especial
I was living in Charleston, S. C. during that time and actually seen the show when it broad-caste for the first time. My parents and my brother and I used to watch it every week. Love it.
I was 6 when it happened. To be truthful my only genuine memory of that tragedy was watching the funeral procession traveling to Arlington National Cemetery a few days later and observing the riderless horse with the boots on backwards (I remember somehow or another that image stuck in my mind. Whether this was the result of hearing the television announcer pointing that out or whether it was a result of my seeing this tradition repeated on other occasions I can not tell). I also remember the plain, wooden gun carriage Kennedy's casket was riding on, the horses pulling the casket and the eternal flame where he was buried.
I'm Canadian, born in 1964 watch every episode of Gilligan island after school along with voyage to the bottom of the sea.
Flipper, Batman and Sea King also...thx for the memories!
@Brane Storm yes I love all those shows!!!
Me too exactly
july 64' here!
Oct 64 Canadian here, and also remember the friendly giant and rocketship 7 out of Buffalo New York tv station
When my son was 3, my wife , son and I came down with the flu. We went and got all 3 seasons of Gilligan's island and watched all three seasons in three days. By the last episode my son knew every word of the theme song. It still remains one of our favorite shows. I wish they made shows like that again.
Me too John!
I was in the 3rd grade. They sent us home too. I remember that in the weeks before Kennedy was shot , the girls jumping rope were singing a song that had the words "The President is dead" in it.
I remember Gilligan's island was always on reruns in the early 80's. Even if I already saw the episode I'd still watch and enjoy.
in the 60s we knew the theme songs to all the tv shows. every word. amazing isnt it? like zorro, flipper, the monkees tv show, etc.
The eventual cast, to me, was perfect chemistry. Very enjoyable far fetched fantasy; loved it!
Best show ever! How is this possible? No sex drugs or violence. Pure wholesomeness.
No sex, drugs?? Certainly not on camera.
@@mmojorissen Not off camera either, unless they were in their own separate homes.
True, I remember hearing Sherwood Schwartz say that he had fans sending letters to him saying Gilligan's island could be their children's babysitter for half an hour.
"Gilligan's" -- greatest show EVER!
Skipper tries to knock Gilligan's tooth out and instead knocks down a palm tree and hurts his hand.
Rest in peace to dawn wells
Ginger is the last castaway.
Rest in peace, ALL of the Gilligan's cast.
Yes, Tina (Ginger) is the last surviving cast member, at this time.
It was already said above somewhere, but, most people at that time had their priorities in order.
Compared to the instant gratification world that we live in today ran by the liberal & socialist idiots.
@@ericdunn360 And she won't ever play Ginger again. recently caught an episode of Married with Children and she had a guest spot on it.
@@BrotherPatriot Exactly right ✅ 👏
Worst of all, I understand she died from Covid related illness. We'll always be reminded of this terrible pandemic each and every time we watch a Gilligan's episode. How sad.
I was a teenager. I was washing dishes and listening to music on the radio. They cut into the music and said, "President Kennedy has been shot in Dallas." They went back to the music. I thought it was a cruel joke, but soon they told the news. Families across America stayed glued to their TVs, watching the shocking events as they unfolded.The whole world mourned him. He is ever my hero. In three and a half years, he accomplished so many great things, including my favorite, the Peace Corps! I still cannot talk about this without tearing up..
I was 11 years old, crossing the street before my school going back after lunch with my transistor radio on my ear when I heard the news.
I was in the 7th grade. In my science class we heard the news as a classmate screamed. I'll never forget the overwhelming sadness we felt. A terrible day for the nation.
The secret behind the success of Gilligan's Island is that because the cast truly liked each other there was a subtle, but very real, chemistry that the audience intuitively picked up on.
I like the way that made me feel. They really liked each other.... Maybe even loved each other.
@@allee190 Yes, with the exception of Tina Louise, who is the remaining surviving cast member, they were all best friends until they passed.
So, it was not just the Professor that was good in "chemistry"!
I had just been hit by a car while riding a bike and was at home healing when Kennedy was shot. Years later, I fell and broke my back. While at home healing, 9-11 took place and I watched the 2nd plane hit the tower. These are the only times I have been home healing after an accident. I hope that I do not repeat for the 3rd time...
We will all pray for your continued good health, OK?
Yes, I'm saying this with a little smile, but seriously, our health is not a joking matter. I've been fighting terminal cancer for 14 years... I know that one of these days the doctors are going to get it right - that part about only having 5 months to live, but not yet!!!
Take care of yourself Dennis - we need all the help we can get!
Oh,Gilligan...
@@thomream1888 my brother is going thru same thing
@@thomream1888 and God bless you
@@cythiasbreant4324 Thank you so much Cynthia. And I'm sorry to hear about your brother and if it's OK I'll add him to my prayer list. He's lucky to have such a caring sister as yourself.
"Gilligan's Island" TV show was up there with " "Lost in Space", "Star Trek"and the "The Munsters". Those are just a few of the TV GREATEST populating the small screen.
Thanks for the memories. Take care.
I was 4 years old and remember watching it on the TV in our living room. I didn't really understand what was going on, but I remember my parents and other relatives all watching intently. A few days later, I remember watching the casket covered by the flag pulled by a horse. That image has stayed with me my entire life. Somethings you just never forget.
Same here but just a year younger
My father was Gilligan script writer, Charles Tannen. He did work on the pilot. He was actually driving to CBS in Studio City to write, when this happened. He immediately turned around and came home.
What about the fact that "Gilligan's Island" filmed a SECOND pilot, which was effectively the same, but had Ginger, Professor and Mary Ann, that we were all familiar with.
Wow I loved that show your dad was awesome.. remember day do well.
Why in the song did it say " The Professor Ann , Mary Ann" ? Why was his middle name Ann too ? I never could figure that out
Se7en the Professor and Mary Ann
@@R.I.P. 😆
It was a time when we still had our priorities correct.
Thats right Green Acres, Adams Family, or Hawaii 5'O
Agreed
Then Liberals and socialists rose to power. Good ole days are gone.
Love to know what you think those priorities are
Things were MUCH better......that's for sure.
I recall first seeing this pilot episode when they played it on The Super Station WTBS in 1992.I also recall watching episodes of Gilligan's Island when I was a little kid in the 1960s.
The show was sooo stupid and rediculous. Never missed an episode.
I think that's why it was so funny,because it was so absurd. Some shows are just plain stupid,but this one was so well done,the more stupid the better. I still enjoy watching reruns after all these years. This one hasn't lost a thing.
Guilty pleasure.
That’s when comedy TV was made to make people laugh! Not to see how many times someone could use the “F” word!
Yeah it was so lame. I loved it too. Right after the Monkees and Dark Shadows. Or was it petty coat juntion,hey maybe Green acres! I loved arnold.
...that's because this show never tried to be anything else.
When people including celebrities actually gave a damn about the country.
@Butter Bean Agreed, totally different and good times I will always cherish. today is full of hatred and who you voted for.
@Butter Bean Agreed, but there is a lot that will support the Dems..I'm not so sure it's going to be a cake walk..
@Butter Bean The early polls are not good either but I'm guessing a lot of people will try and vote in person but they will probably close the polls using the virus as a crutch. apparently you can stand in line at Walmart waiting to get in and the virus is nowhere. try to vote in person and the virus scare alarm goes off lol..
TheDBCooperforum yup
TheDBCooperforum I agree they’re using this pandemic to their advantage
I was born in 1959 and remember my mom and dad crying that horrific day. Seen every episode of Gilligan's Island. Loved the lie detector episode.
I remember my Mother talking on the phone when the call was interrupted by an operator and announced this tragic event. My mother cried. I was 4 years old and today I remember this moment
Wasn't the pilot of Gilligan's island done in 1964 the JFK tragedy the year before
@@LindaMerchant-bq2hp the pilot was filmed late 1963
I was born in 1968. I loved watching the reruns of this show when I was a kid!! Then as an adult, I got married to a man who was the son of the lighting technician on Gilligan's Island! So I got to hear stories.. he did say the woman playing Mary Ann was the sweetest person ever. Just as everyone suspected! 😄
I am so glad to hear that, as that character completely stole my teen--aged heart. No one half as sweet as she was, came along again, until Mindy.
@@TampaDave,
Who's Mindy?
@@PurpleObscuration you don't remember "Mork and Mindy"?
👍 Radford Lot Studio City
@@TampaDave,
Thank you for the reminder, I loved that program as a kid. I can't believe that with many, many TV channels that all those programs could have a slot
I remember the Cuban Missle Crisis ... the Kennedy Assassination and hearing about his death from Walter Cronkite and days later watching the funeral procession .... remember Martin Luther King Assassination ... remember Robert Kennedy Assassination ... I was 7 years old when President Kennedy was shot ... still remember them all ... still love America ...
I was 6 years old. It bothers me to no end I have no recollection whatsoever of hearing of the assassination. I'm guessing that I was in first grade and must have gotten sent home early, but I honestly don't remember a thing about it. For some reason this has always really haunted me.
Same here,
blessings bro...
Pray we or America never sees something like that again.
Not only remember being sent home from school ,
Grade2 but we were all assembled outside on that warm November day to
Say the Pledge of Allegiance first then sent home. My mother and sister 13 both crying for 3days with piles of Kleenex. Then Sunday we watched Ruby silence the
Weird little man who say he didn't shoot anyone.
Things were never the same.
Delta Tango Hmm. That is interesting. I heard while in third grade, and watched his funeral at home that November. Clear as a bell, to me today. My Father fought in WWII, in the South Pacific, as did Kennedy.
@@ivangranger8494 I do remember watching the funeral on TV with my mother and maybe one or two of my siblings, but it's very vague. The funeral possession is the only thing that stands out to me.
never noticed the flag at half staff very cool because i was at the hospital with my mother and my aunt was having her first child my cousin thanx guys
I was in the second grade. All teachers and staff were in tears.. they sent us home early. My mom was also in tears... (Dads went to work, Moms stayed home back then) We were all glued to our TV sets for days. Oddly enough, I was watching live when Oswald was shot. This is the kind of stuff that is seared into your memory forever. Enjoyed Gilligan's Island then and now!
@ The Sarge- It was exactly the same for me! The teachers were crying, I don't remember them telling us what happened but school was dismissed and my mother came to get me and my twin sister. She told us what happened. For the longest time, I'd be sad when Thanksgiving came around. I also witnessed Oswald getting shot. I couldn't believe what I saw. I thought it was a tv show. I hollered to my mom "a man got shot on TV". She came running in from the kitchen and turned it off!
I remember watching live also
Everyone where I lived was crying. I was just a few weeks shy of turning 4 yrs old so I only knew something really bad happened. At that age, when you see a grownup crying you knew something was very wrong. On top of that it was my brothers 6th birthday. I'm sure that is one birthday he always remembers.
Thank you Rick. 👍 ~Marz
*I Remember everyone was crying every where we went, and i ask my mom why, and she said someone assassinated JFK. I will never forget seeing John John at the funeral saluting his father as his casket went by, it was heart breaking*
So Touching
I watched Gilligan's island every day after school my dad thought it was so stupid it drove him nuts. I remember once he came in the room going on about it, how many times am i gonna watch the same episodes, why don't i go outside and play. He was watching it for a moment and something made him laugh. That only made him madder then he stormed out of the room. lol. I never forgot that.
I was 8 years old at the time, and I can tell you in great detail, exactly where I was, and what I was doing when I first heard the news. I think that that is representative of the impact that the event had on an entire nation.
I was also 8! Born in 1955...3rd grade...Came home for lunch and my mom told me....
I remember it vividly. I was in 5th grade. There was nothing on TV but that coverage. It was right before Thanksgiving. It made for a very somber holiday.
I watched Gilligan Island slot. The good old shows. Now tv is bad news, soaps, sex, violence, and more. It's not what it use to be.
That's why you watch MeTV. It's all I watch.
Didn't you think about sex when you watched Gilligan's Island? Two beautiful girls, a handsome bachelor, Gilligan and the Captain in a REAL midlife crisis. Maybe that was just because they never showed us any sleeping quarters.
What's wrong with sex & violence?
Flintstones, The Jeffersons, Sandford n Son, Jetsons, Laverne and Shirley, Facts of Life, Happy Days etc - All great TV. Now everyone is a blue haired transgendered oppressed person in need of reparations. TV has ruined society, especially the media! as well as these teachers that push their own agenda....
I find it so touching how many people included remembering that their parents and teachers were crying. We were all so innocent then. Things like this just didn't happen. No wonder the cast and crew weren't sure what to think.
It's something to think about too that when Kennedy was shot, he was the first president assassinated in 62 years, since McKinley. Two presidents had died in the meantime- Harding and FDR- but they had died of illness. Many people in 1963 would remember FDR's death, but you had to be pretty old (by 1960s standards) to remember McKinley's death. Plus, Kennedy was the first (and only) to die in the era of widespread television, where there was coverage and footage and photos of it everywhere. It was definitely a different world to the people of the time, I'm sure.
Everybody loved JFK. Well, except for some evil ones.
Ah, but what were you doing when you first heard about Challenger? Or as 9/11 started? People are still basically the same, it feels different when you're living through it.
A lot of the shock was that it shattered our picture of what America was. This couldn't have happened in the America we believed in, and it wasn't the America of the 50's anymore.
I was in kindergarten when the cleaning lady came in and told our teacher the President had been shot. She dismissed class and told us to pray for the President. The world stopped that day. Everyone was in the street silent. We were believers then. In our President and our country. Those days are gone.
I remember reading articles about that day...It was said that THAT was the day you could literally hear a pin drop in the world!Folks pumping gas and grocery shopping were crying...Such a sad day!
It was definitely a strange feeling. Even as a four year old I could feel that this was a big thing. During those days you rarely seen adults crying, especially an adult man. So when I seen many of them crying, I knew it was a big deal, and it scared me a little.
In many ways, from a historical perspective, the 50's ended on Nov 22, 1963.
If the story they told us was true, then what would they POSSIBLY be needing to hide all these years?
We already know that a murder with deep connections to the Agency, was investigated by one Allen Dulles. Who had been fired from his long-term position as director of said agency by (hold your breath) the miurder VICTIM. Does anyone know why you would get a major SUSPECT to be Chief Investigator, and control the investigation of the crime? Anyone see a red flag anywhere? That dog don't hunt.
@@TampaDave I agree 100%. That whole assassination stinks to high heaven. We know Oswald wasn't a lone gunman. They are just testing our intelligence when they say he is, and there is video proof that the head shot came from the front. Sure there were other shots fired from other directions but the one that finished it came from the front. I spent most of my adult life in the Military around weapons, but it doesn't take someone like me to see that the head shot came from the front. If they had to seal the documents, and hide them from the public, that is all I need to know, that tells me they are hiding something, and it's not where the shot came from that they are hiding. That part is obvious. They are hiding the "Who". I am sure the who includes the Government as well as the mafia and more probable, even the CIA. Honestly nothing would surprise me at this point in my life.
There have been interviews with former CIA "affiliates" who said they were supposed to cancel the hit, and when it went off anyway, they said "we just screwed up". Quite the understatement if you ask me.
@@Colhogan06 I remember the spin-off show of X-Files called The Lone Gunmen, a play-off of Lone Gunman theory.
RIP all's the cast aways that have passed.
I wasn't born, but when I asked my parent's if they remembered where they were when Kennedy was shot, they recalled shopping at a market in Detroit when it was announced over the P.A. system. Everyone was so stunned by what happened that they just dropped everything and left the market to go home and find out what his condition was. She also recalls many of the businesses being shut down for a day once it was announced he was dead. Everyone was just in shock.
My mother told me later when they went to the movies and we were being babysat, the lights came on and over the p.a. announced the president had been shot and that was it. Nobody was going to go back to watching the movie at that point of course so, everyone left to go home to watch tv.
22 November 1963, I was 8 yrs old. We were in school when the announcement was made. The teachers started crying and some kids too. I remember going home and all 3 TV stations in the Charleston, West Virginia area were carrying the Assasination of President Kennedy. I remember no cartoons were on TV Saturday morning. This tragedy is etched in the memory and Im 65 yrs old. I also loved Gilligan's Island.
USMC 73-77 Same here. I was 6. It is forever etched in my memory as well.
I was almost 9 -- that weekend was my birthday. I was in a math class when the news from the next classroom came (they had a TV). We all cried all the way home.
@@theastewart6721 also September 11th, is another day, we will not forget.
@@MsBackstager yes September 11th is a day we will never forget too
USMC 73-77 Yes absolutely. There are no words for that day. We lost many near us from TJX Corp. Another day for me is when the Challenger exploded. Christa McCauliff grew up in our town and I knew her sister. Very sad.
That was the saddest 4 days ever! I was in 5th grade and I remember it like it was yesterday😢
I will never forget November 22, because that’s the day I was born!!
Me and my siblings watched every episode. It was a fun show. I remember when they added, 'the Professor and Marianne ' to the theme song. I was 5 when Kennedy was killed and I remember that too. It must have been a surreal experience for them being so remote. I've been to that port in Honolulu, I went because I learned Gilligan's Island's theme song was filmed there and it was fun to see.
This is quite interesting to hear how the cast and crew to reacted to one of the most days etched in history. Thank you very much for the video Rick, this was something I didn’t know about regarding Gilligan’s Island.
I didn't know the pilot was filmed on that day! I was in elementary school and the principal got on the PA system crying that President Kennedy had been shot and died. He closed the school. Since I only lived 2 blocks away, I rushed home. I also remember seeing Oswald shot by Ruby on live TV!
Wow! What am event to live through and remember.
Don Nicholas Yeah I saw that too! It was unreal.
I was in 4th grade when it came over the PA that President Kennedy was assassinated and we were also told to go home. I also added my own story above.
Thea Stewart : I bet it was. Every Nov. 22,, especially last November 22, when the anniversary was 56 years to the date and day, I wish I had been around to see all the coverage live and not on tape. I was born 12 days after that happened. My mother told me she was watching the funeral, and after it was over, she said she went into the kitchen and cried.
I loved that show as a child and still laugh today. I was in grade school on the pilot filming day. Mrs. Doubleday was called to the class room door. She came back in and said, " all of you will go home now, the president has been shot.' We gathered things togethers and headed to our buses that were already waiting. I got home and my mother was in front of the tv sobbing. I was only 8 years old and didn't fully grasp it all, but when I look back I remember how it took its toll on everyone.
On 9/11/2001 I was a teacher in middle school. My wife, a journalist, called the school and asked to talk to me. She told me what was happening. I told the principal, he turned on the TV. Within 30 minutes 75% of the students had been picked up by parents. All were afraid that a school, near Washington DC, could be the next target.
Today my town lost a family member. Dawn Wells has passed from COVID-19 complications. It’s a sad day here in Reno, NV.
I love her 😢
Jay, she was in a real beauty contest: and won! The 1959 Miss Nevada contest, at 20, and then she entered the 1960 Miss America contest.
RIP Dawn/Marianne
Very moving about the cast praying . I was going to gym class when another student said to me "Kennedy was killed". I thought was he kidding me, but then who would kid about something like that. He was a great president.
I was in my first year of high school Over the intercom the principal said the president was dead go home. We left school wander home to an empty house thinking the world would never be the same and it wasn’t
We had no intercom but a kid brought a note from principal's office and 4th grade teacher teared up and choked and read it..15 mins later another note saying he dead and she turned and cried for 5mins. Everybody kept silent
Any powerful story bears repeating, especially from the man who told the story so beautifully in a previous video. Thank you for more details and greater insight into how the events of history affected the cast and crew of the show. Just shows we are all human, no matter what side of the television we're on.
I’m glad agree about retelling this story.
I was 2 years old when President Kennedy was killed I loved Gilligan's Island...and the Beverly Hillbilly's
Oct 19 1961
Me too guys (01-31-61) and also about Beverly Hillbillies. I liked Jane Hathaway, but really liked Elly May (specially when she tied her shirt up).
@Richard Dixon just looked up those eps on imdb - definitely remember her (never knew she was sharon tate though). I was watching reruns in 1972/73 with my buddies (ages 11/12) and we all liked her. Funny how you remember a pretty face after all these years. Thx for that.
I was in 1st grade at that time. Mom had loaded us up in the station wagon to watch the presidential motorcade go by from Houston Intercontinental Airport (now Hobby Airport) the day before the tragedy in Dallas. We stood on the street corner in front of a Texaco gas station. We all walked to school back then and didn’t know why we were being sent home early. I got home to find my mother in tears. I’m 63 now but I remember that day like it was yesterday.
I was pretty young, but I remember all the adults in the house were crying and there was a lot of news on the tv. I watched Gilligans Island until I graduated from High School, thank god for reruns!
Andy Griffith was on set this day too. He got really upset. People say the most upset they have ever seen him. Everyone was sent home that day. Sad day all around. Thanks for posting. This is our generations 9-11. The whole you know exactly what you we’re doing at that time.
( me, I was in 10th grade, second period English class when I saw the second plane hit)
I was on vacation in Destin Fla getting ready to go on a scuba diving cruise. We started to get a little afraid worrying about traveling back home to Tennessee, gas prices, was it going to happen again while we were on the road? I still have all the newspapers I saved from FLA the next day with the huge headlines.✌🌸✌🌸😝
There were two huge events that happened while I was in highschool. 9-11 and the columbine school shooting. Both events I remember waking up those mornings with a gut feeling something bad was going to happen and stayed home from school because it was a feeling so deep it made me sick to my stomach.
@@Lizzypoohxosounds like u have a sixth sense...
any other times u felt like this?
thx for sharing
Kennedy assassination was a year before I was born,10-64,I was tailing a large industrial bandsaw on 9/11very loud factory, very few radios, didn't know what had happened til later in the day
The Choked Voice of WCBS Anchor Walter Cronkite,the way He took off his Bifocals and Wept was Heartbreaking.
I was 12 years old and in sixth grade in a Roman Catholic Elementary School. The Sisters of Saint Joseph were our teachers and they were overwhelmed with grief. They released us from school to go home and be with our family. It was a Friday so we were home over the weekend and excused from school on Monday, November 25, 1963 to watch the funeral with our family. It was a very sad time for the people and the country.
Kennedy's funeral was held on John-John's 3rd birthday.
I was born in August 1965. Knew a lot about the Kennedy Assassination, Oswald & Ruby, but I didn't know about this Gilligan Island fact ❗ Thank you, Rick ❗Much appreciated ❗
After a tragedy like that, I'm impressed they were able to pull off their acting abilities while this must have been weighing heavy on their hearts. But as P.T. Barnum once said; The show must go on. Proving these actors's dedication to their work. I don't know if I could have done it.
Agree! I still get tearful.... just thinking about that day!
Barnum said “there’s a sucker born every minute” not the other thing.
According to the video, they were not certain it was truth because of the limited coverage. They didn't learn until after it was his death and originally thought he was just wounded since he was taken to the hospital.
Even on the West Coast, we knew within an hour of the original news flash of him being shot that he had died. But then we had excellent radio and television coverage and reception.
Hi Rick! I was four when this happened but I remember a little bit. What an historic decade it was. The President, Bobby Kennedy, Dr. King, the riots, The moon landing, the Beatles, I remember bits and pieces as much as you can as a child. Now my child will remember 911, this pandemic, etc...Thank you for sharing this video Rick. I did not know anything about this. They must have been so frustrated, being so far away and isolated from all of the story,/experience/rest of the country. Blessings - Judith 🎵🎭
Very good point! They must have literally felt stranded on an island
I was born 4 years afterwards & my sister over a month after. While they had NO television and were far from the mainland, their reaction was likely MORE profound than some of those who WERE there. It still brings a sting to my heart as this anniversary as well as 9/11 draw closer. Also while 3 actors were re-cast to play those roles (they STILL had "character") Thanks Rick for sharing this video.
I was born in '57 so I do remember the tragedy. I remember my dad and myself watching the funeral. Everyone was so sad it was like someone pulling the drain plug from our country's future.
You said it! (I was born in '58 and remember it vividly.)
I was 12 years old and in school when it happened . Everyone was in shock, some crying. School was let out.
My mom was working for the US embassy in Beirut when this happened. She still remembers that day. She was in her 90's when she died,
This is something you never forget.
Just came here ... reading all the comments below - it moves me, how we all remember the way we heard the news, in such detail, each of us in our individual way. It's one of those life-shaking events that burns deep into our psyche and remains with us forever. A tragedy shared by a nation.
"On-set Tragedy"??
Click bait.
fjbrady: It doesn't say "On-set Tragedy". It says "The Tragic Event That Took Place While Filming 'Gilligan's Island' ". I also thought that there was a terrible accident of some sort on the set when I read the title. It does sound a little confusing.
Click bait, I agree and won't fall for this Chanel again.
@@jeanneplymette411 It says on-set tragedy in the thumbnail picture.
@@philliplawson4199 People can't read!! The Tragic Event That Took Place While Filming "Gilligan's Island!"
@@Trev359 The Tragic Event That Took Place While Filming "Gilligan's Island!" People can't read!!
I was only five years old and I remember my mother crying. When I asked her what was wrong she told the president was dead. You never forget days when you see your mother cry.
Agreed
I was four. Mom and Dad both wanted to leave our Michigan home and go to the funeral. Far too soon after, in 1968, my Dad died. Always remember when Mom cried. She's in Heaven now. She said one of the first questions she wanted to ask was who killed JFK. Neither parent believed the Warren Report.
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I was three years old and also recall my mom and two neighbors watching and crying in my living room in Queens NY.
Exactly what happened with me....
I was just four years old. Mom had tuned into the CBS news. The image in my memory is that of Walter Cronkite removing his glasses and tearing up as he announced the death of JFK.
I'm same age as you!
That was the only Day I Saw
My Father Cry!
JFK was War Hero and Man
Of the People! God Bless!
Same age too and i remember it very well
I was a kid when JFK was shot. It's like life everywhere just stopped, no school, parents home from work, everyone in a state of shock that seemed to never end. I can still feel it in Nov. even now. It altered life in America, the day innocence died.
Like now.
@@jerryhayes2351 It is amazingly similar but nothing is yet like that day, maybe 9/11
Three letter agency communist plot. Oswald was a patsy
@@kamakaziozzie3038 AGREE
i am not american but i was 8 years old when robert kennedy was shot. i remember a teach er from anothr class came to my class and i heard her tell my teacher. my parents discussed current affairs with us and read the papers everyday. so i at least heard of the kennedys.
i was 4 years old and seen it live on cbs,adults family members all started crying .i still remember it to this very day at age 62
Thinking back they were a family of sorts on the show. Mr and mrs Howell the adults. Skipper and Gilligan were the quarreling brothers. Giner and Marry were sister archetypes. and the professor was the smart uncle.
Rick, I know I'm repeating what many have already written. That was a sad sad day, many of us had similar experiences across the nation. I was in the third grade at a one room country school. One of the mothers called and told our teacher to turn on the radio. We kids were too young to understand the reality of what had happened to our nation. Our teacher sent us out for recess. I remember looking into the window and she was standing by her desk in tears.
Mrs. Furguson, Wright School, Parma Township, Michigan.
I was only 3 or 4 yrs old at the time. Fast forward, just seeing that footage brings me to tears.
It must've been surreal to the cast members. They showed professionalism and completed the project.
Difficult as it was.
I enjoyed every episode of Gilligans island and yes I was alive back then in 1963. A VERY VERY SAD DAY 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
I was 9 years old in third grade in San Diego. We didn't start watching Gilligan's island until we actually went to Hawaii in the fall of 64 and stayed until the fall of 68. I didn't realize the pilot had different actors than the actual show, since the opening theme song showed the stars of the show.
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I was 5 yrs old. My dad punched a hole in the wall. he was mad.
I was in the sixth grade and remember my teacher, Mr Englishman, was absent from the class for a while, which was unusual, and when he got back he seemed upset. He said President Kennedy had just been shot and school was getting out early. It was Friday and that weekend was the most depressing in my young life so far. On Sunday I saw Jack Ruby shoot Oswald live on TV.
I asked my Grandfather to compare the JFK assassination to 9-11 to Pearl Harbor. He felt 9-11 by far was more of a shock. The only observation he added was their was no "glue" binding everyone together for 9-11 verse the other two. I sad to see him gone, but he does not have to see how fracked up America is now!
My Mom vividly remembers Pearl Harbor, Kennedy assassination, and 9-11. She was most shocked by 9-11 as well.
I think the reason people who were alive for all 3 (and my father was) feel that 9-11 was the worst is because 9-11 basically resulted in the death of innocent people. Pearl Harbor was an act of war which targeted a military base and sailors and soldiers ON that base. The Kennedy assassination, well, the president IS the head of a country as well as commander in chief of all our military. But the people in 9-11 were just ordinary Americans going about their daily business. We never saw anything like that before which ushered the world into a totally new kind of war.
@@retroguy9494 I would agree with that. Pearl Harbor was a military target, and America knew that war with Japan was inevitable in late 1941. President Kennedy, although very shocking, was certainly not the first U.S. President to be murdered in public; Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley's assassination occurred in front of many people. 9-11, the vast majority of the people who were killed that day were just ordinary people going about their day-to-day lives. It is a day I'll never forget.
@@josephstevens9888 My father still can vividly remember exactly what he was doing when he heard the news about pearl harbor. After church he went to his grandmother's house to listen to a football game on the radio with his uncle and they broke in with the news. My mother remembered exactly what happened with Kennedy. And I will never forget what I was doing when I heard about 9-11. I heard it on the radio while getting ready for work so we turned on the TV and saw the second plane hit the trade center live!
You and I are sure on the same page!
My dad served in the Marines in World War II and I have been saying to anyone that will listen, as much as I miss him and my mom,
I am thankful they are not here to witness this atrocity going on.
I watched a WWII veteran talking about our current situation.
It saddened my heart for him. For all of us.😞
GOD BLESS. Take care ✌🏻
I was a small girl when this happened. I was born in 1958. The only memory I have is during the funeral my mother cried when John John saluted his father! So young so tragic for him😢
Kyle, I remember that too , one of the most heartbreaking photos of the last century.
So heartbreaking! I remember feeling a sort of kinship with these children who were famous and white (i had nothing in common) because now their dad was gone too. My dad had passed from lung cancer. I cried for them.
I was almost 5. I remember parts of the funeral. The riderless horse, John John and little Carolyn , Jackie crying. So sad.
Wasn't born til 67... But it has always fascinated me how many people have anecdotes associated with the tragedy! One in particular involves Richard Matheson driving home from an early golf game when a truck tried to repeatedly run him off the road for no reason. When he pulled into a local police station to file a complaint... he was amazed at the 'you gotta be kidding me!' response he got. It was then he then found out about the assassination & that EVERY department in the U.S. had bigger fish to fry! (He later adapted his experience into the story 'Duel'!)
Scary Duel!!!!
Cool story!
I have to give you props for choosing such a perfect title to get people to watch this video. This horrific news saddened and deeply affected everyone around our country, bringing everything to a halt, not just the the crew and cast of Gilligan's Island.
Yes. I remember that day. My mom was ironing my dad's uniforms. I was watching the news. I ran to her with the news, and at first she didn't believe me, but then she came to the TV set and watched the news. I remember both her and my dad crying. They explained who he was and why this was a tragedy.
I never saw the pilot for Gilligan's Island. As for the JFK assassination, my friend Billy McKay and I were in Citizenship class when Billy's mother, the school principal's secretary, set the radio on the intercom. The first words I heard were, "No one knows how many shots were fired. Some say two, some say three." From those words alone, I knew what would come next.
I strongly recommend you go watch the Pilot of Gilligan's Island. It's really amazing how it was a full episode. Featuring all elements of the show. With a calypso introduction. and, a few different cast members.
I was sitting in first-grade when the intercom came on and the teacher vigorously hushed us all. We listened intently as the Principal spoke those dreadful words over the intercom. I didn't really understand what it all meant, but I knew it was bad because someone important had died and my teacher was all upset. This is my earliest memory of a national emergency. Still makes me sad 57 years later.
That's exactly what happened at my school, too. I can still hear the principal over the P. A.
You appear to be the same age as me. I remember this the same way.
@@michaeltipton5500 I'm 64. I figure we're the same age, too. It was a pretty horrible day, wasn't it? It was my mother's birthday.
I was in 2nd grade in Westechester County, NY.
That afternoon we saw the school buses arrive a few hours early. We didn't know why and the teacher, who had tears in her eyes told us to go straight home. No explanation. I walked to school and was happy to be dismissed early. O usually stopped by to visit with my great aunt and uncle who lived across the street from us and Uncle Pete told me the President had been shot in Dallas and I should go home. I didn't know where Dallas was but knew the President was Kennedy.
That is my recollection of the day. We sat glued to the TV and then my Dad drove over to a nice restaurant in Connecticut. Mom was too upset to cook.
@ Larry Baily.
I was watching the events from home. I was a kid too, but I remember the Ruby shooting. Got to see it as it happened. I was upset about Kennedy, but I can still remember Oswell holding what looked like his side and falling over slightly when Ruby shot him. He was held up by the deputies that were in charge. I do remember a black top or sweater pull over with long sleeves which he wore, but it was a black and white TV so the sweater could have been of a different color.
However, when Ruby charged at Oswald and shot him, everyone jumped and reacted quickly. I still remember Ruby charging like it happened yesterday. He came out of no where. Someone wore a large hat, don't remember if it was Ruby or the sheriff. I think it was the sheriff.
I can still hear the announcer saying Oswall has been shot, Oswald has been shot.
Guess I just needed to "talk about it". Never spoke about it before. Don't know why.
@larry baily . Can't recall anyone thinking something isn't right. Everyone seemed to have believed it. But then again, I was just a kid.
@@elsa7281 I remember my parents and there freinds saying that Ruby was a hit man to prevent Oswald from going to trial. Ruby was a seedy character but just happened to be of a patriatic mind to take justice in his own hands?
They didn't buy into that as I recall.
@@randytim512 I remember people around me saying Ruby owned a bar where prostitution and gambling took place. I also remember when a TV crew showed his bar. But can't remember what the narrator said about it. So yes, I would say your parents were correct.
I was 18 and driving to Bridgeton, Missouri for a blind date with a friend of my sister's and listened to the broadcast as I was driving there, will never forget it.
I was in first grade the day Kennedy was shot. They sent everyone home early.
I don't recall going home early but I was in 1st grade watching the day the Challenger exploded.
I was 4 months old
I was in the third grade on the east coast of the United States. After the announcement of the assassination over the intercom, we were sent home early.
Ditto. I was in second grade. The next week the My Weekly Reader was printed in black and white with JFK’s image on the cover
@@brianfleury1084 Same here, I remember the teacher crying as well . .
A very interesting video ..the whole world stopped that day..I was only 4 months old at the time ..but I have seen the old news reels ..very sad ..like 9-11 it will be forever etched in our hearts..good video!!!
Yes, the whole world stopped that day!
I was 5 and I can remember that night my parents had it on tv and my whole family was watching. I was very sad because my parents were crying at the kitchen table and I thought this was the end of the world. Sticks in my mind all the time. It’s was an awful time in America.
God Bless! My Parents we're
So Sad in 63!, I still Remember
Everything and I was 6.yrs Old
We will always Love JFK.
I was in second grade , the teachers rolled in a black and white t v and we watched the whole thing unfold. I will never forget that moment.
I was 5 years old, watching TV and ran to tell my Mom (who was washing dishes in the kitchen). We were in absolute shock & glued to the news channel. The reporter, Walter Cronkite, shed tears on TV.
I was a nine year old Canadian schoolchild. We were all sent home. We took on the sorrow of everyone when this icon was assassinated. JFK was the best president of the United States, respected by all. I guess I watched Gilligan's Island into my teen years. Never missed an episode. very popular show!
I was in Jr High School (now middle school). In my German class. A note was delivered to the teacher who was German and who actually had been in Germany and had seen Kennedy’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech delivered at the Brandenberg Gate. She read the note and was totally in tears. The classes were all dismissed and the students sent home. I turned on the TV when I got there and watched it. The rest of the family came home and everyone was real upset. We watched tv all week end solid to find out as much data as we could and sat in front of the TV for the entire time during the funeral. It was very impressive with the casket on the wagon being pulled by black horses with boots turned backwards in the stirrups. I actually learned quite a bit which I otherwise would not have. Mom called it the lost week end and that’s what it felt like. I forgot how long we were out of school. It was several days. The flags were at half staff the entire time. When they were raised again, everything was slow to restart but it did. Oswald was said to have killed him and when he was killed, we all felt cheated for not having a proper trial. I disagree that Oswald actually did it. Did some research and wrote a paper much later. What a time!!!
I was 7 years old in 2nd grade. We were outside on a fire drill. While coming back into the school the teachers were all upset. My mother was volunteering in the small school library and told me what had happened.
I was 5 years old in living in Chicago at the time.I was getting ready for afternoon kindergarten, and my grandmother had the soap opera on As The World Turns. It was five minutes into it I think when they announced the 1st Bulletin I ended up having to go to school because nobody really knew how bad it really was. We found at school that Kennedy died, my teacher ran out of the classroom crying. When I got home that afternoon, my grandparents begin to collect newspaper articles magazine articles and covers because it was such a stunning event and made a scrapbook out of it. A lot of people did that; I still have it. It's a day that I will never forget and for so many that are still around who also remember that horrible feeling to think that the nation's leader was so brutally taken out in such a horrible manner. And everyone was concerned about Jackie and the children particularly Jackie because she witnessed that, not to mention 2 Days Later watching Oswald get murdered on National Television live. The news coverage was outstanding. The news media at that time particularly for television did not cover anything as major is that until that day and I would have to say they covered things so much better than they do now. Things really changed Rick, and life in America
would never be the same for our nation, and for the world. I still feel that way today. Thanks for the great story!
My mother saved the newspaper and when I was younger I would take it out and read it. But then she threw it away. I thought it was one of the most stupid things she ever did. I used to go to the library and look at the microfilm. It was so strange to see that month of newspapers on microfilm. I borrowed a book from the library last year and one of JFK'S guards wrote the book and in one photograph there was a picture of John Jr, crying his heart out the day his daddy left for Texas. That was a heartbreaking picture.
@ sandra sanders.... you want us to believe that your memory, at FIVE YEARS OLD, was mature enough to recall every piece of minutia from that day ???
rocketcab uhh why not I have clear memories from as early as the age of 3 I’m 50yrs old,some people are sobreude🤦🏽♀️
@@rocketcab Sounds like the family preserved the reports, which does make events more memorable.
I was three years old at the time, and I was and am visually impaired. I would sit right in front of the TV whenever Kennedy came on to speak. For some reason I was just fascinated with Kennedy, it must've been his accent. My family was living in Dallas at the time because my dad was stationed there. And they still have all the newspapers from that event, which are just fascinating to go through now.
A time when we all had respect for each other and cared rip to those days 😢
Very impressed that they said a prayer.
They were all Democrats. If Kennedy had been a Republican, things would've been different I bet.
@@georgcantor7172 I don't know, things back then weren't like they are today. Besides, JFK would be considered right wing today!
The fundamental aspects of human behavior apply as time goes by. I'm just extrapolating from what the Democrats' reaction was when Lincoln died. Many, privately, were gleeful. Publicly, however, many were careful not to show their true feelings and expressed dread that the Republicans might want to exact revenge on them.
I'm not so sure. People had more respect back then.
djolley61 agree! Totally agree!!
I was born on December 24, 1963. Being very pregnant with me, my mother told me she will always remember what she was doing when the news hit. She was in the living ironing clothes and listening to music over the radio. They interrupted the music to give the breaking news. It stunned her into complete inaction. She fortunately she snapped out of it to remove the iron off of the shirt before it burned it. She then turned on the TV and watched it for the rest of the day. She said my father came home from work about an hour after the news hit (he was a professor and all classes were cancelled right after the news hit) and he came in silently and just sat down beside her and they watched the TV the rest of the evening. It wasn't until the next day that she finished ironing the rest of the clothes.
Nicely told story!
I was a co-pilot on a B-47 bomber . My crew was in the “vault” studying our war plan preparing to go on Alert. The news was piped in over a loudspeaker. I felt like I had touched a live electrical wire. We were ordered to our airplane immediately, We gathered up our gear and headed to the flight line, once in our plane, we prepared it for immediate launch, if so ordered, We sat in our plane for two hours before we were cleared to return to the Alert facility, We all watched the news on tv, It was a very depressing and scary time for us, Who was behind this horrible act?
This is an amazing story and wonderful anecdote from you, Patrick! Thanks for sharing it
I watched a documentary about Pres. Kennedy's assassination here on You Tube. It Seemed very convincing to me and ( supposedly) solves who actually shot and killed him. You'd have to be the judge yourself.
Probably organized crime and or Hoover , Johnson and GB Sr
@@JoshuaCraigStrain you got exactly correct
The ones that had the most to gain were the see-eye-a , the non-federal no-reserves and the military-industrial-complex; in that order . Cui Bono ; follow the money the first rule of criminal investigation .
Interesting. What a day to be starting something new.
A time in life where decency and wholesomeness was vogue.
I remember every detail. I was in last period, Science, taught by Miss Jet. The intercom announced the shooting. A few minutes later it announced the death. My Mother picked me up from school & I asked if she had heard about President Kennedy being shot. She told me that was not a funny joke. The next several days was wall to wall TV coverage on our 19 inch b&w set. It was so sad & mesmerizing. My parents had voted for him. we lived in West Palm Beach. We saw the Honey Fitz Yacht many times from our small fishing boat & I had seen JFK one time on the back of the boat as we happened to be following the same direction. This was the first wall to wall news coverage & the first time I witnessed our entire nation mourning together. TgT
I was 7 years old and at school, I heard one kid talking to another very excitedly about some one being shot but I thought he was talking about a movie. In those days we had to be in line out side the door after lunch, girls in one line boys another. We were out there for a long time, normally we weren't aloud to talk but as no one opened the doors for so long we all started to ask what was going on. Finally another teacher who was not ours started opening up the door and she was crying something we kids never saw before. Yeah we were sent home and seen it all, no cartoons just news. Anyone go to Frank West school in Bakersfield? 1962 to 1966.
I was 6 years old, in the kitchen helping with preparing food then i remember my mom n grandmother screaming and crying for weeks and months after that, as they say you always remember where you were that day, i didnt know this fact about the show, i watched every Episode of it, now its kinda especial
I loved that show! And sang every time it came on. these pics look really early
I was living in Charleston, S. C. during that time and actually seen the show when it broad-caste for the first time. My parents and my brother and I used to watch it every week. Love it.
I was 6 when it happened. To be truthful my only genuine memory of that tragedy was watching the funeral procession traveling to Arlington National Cemetery a few days later and observing the riderless horse with the boots on backwards (I remember somehow or another that image stuck in my mind. Whether this was the result of hearing the television announcer pointing that out or whether it was a result of my seeing this tradition repeated on other occasions I can not tell). I also remember the plain, wooden gun carriage Kennedy's casket was riding on, the horses pulling the casket and the eternal flame where he was buried.
I was five years old and remember being irritated that my morning television programs had been pre-empted for new coverage
Lots of people are commenting that what they remember is, that Saturday there were no cartoons! Kids,lol
lazy homebody : No football games, either, I’ve read.
I was about 3 1/2 years old at the time. I vaguely remember everyone being sad watching a funeral on TV.
For such an iconic show where everyone no matter the age, young or old, has seen or heard about, it's hard to say it only ran for three years.
That’s because some network executives wife had the hots for an actor on Gunsmoke. Pathetic eh?
Charles, unfortunately crappy shows continue but great shows are soon cancelled. They cancelled Firefly after less than 1 season.
I hate Judge Judy. Cancel it NOW.