60 years later, Bozo Show contestant remembers the moment President Kennedy was shot
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Everyone of a certain age remembers exactly where they were when they heard president John F. Kennedy had been shot, Friday, Nov. 22, 1963.
But few have a story like Mary Jane Joyce-Byrne, who was at the WGN TV studios when the news broke. WGN’s Dean Richards helps deliver the memory, 60 years to the day.
I wrote a letter to Bozo the Clown when I was 6 years old. I voted for hamster number 2 in the hamster races😅 I waited, and I waited but an answer never came. Then one day I checked the mail when I was 17 years old and he sent me a letter back that said:
"Sorry son, but we don't make the show anymore"😄
Seriously? Hilarious story. 😂
Charlie Brown is that you?
Oddly, I was home from, school. sick, watching Bozo... Still seared in my memory. My mom didn't believe me when I told her the President got shot...
Lots of us remember that day. How could we not? This country hasn't stopped talking about it yet.
I was 12 years old back then and watching this show. Both of my parents worked and I was playing hooky. The assassination helped destroy my innocence.
I was in school and the teacher told us what happened, they let us go home early.
I was a 14-year-old freshman at my rural high school that day. We were attending a health class that was generally under the purview of one of the coaches, in this case, Coach Weaver. Someone knocked on the door and the coach opened it to this young female secretary who had a whispered conversation with Coach Weaver. After a moment this young woman disappeared back into the hallway. Coach Weave told us the rest of the class was suspended. It never dawned on me that the reason we were having it was because drug abuse of any sort was not known to the town in any respect. We were then dismissed to mingle about until our buses were prepared to take us home. We like everyone that day began to speculate about what had happened and who may have been behind the plot to kill such a young vibrant inspiring president.
Grew up in the Chicago suburbs watching Bozo and the rest of WGN’s kid entertainment.
I was six years old on that day. I was in my first grade class, when the announcement about President Kennedy came over the loud speaker. Can remember how sad my mom and dad were. In late 1960 Mr. Kennedy was campaigning outside at a shopping center near my town. My mother had packed us a lunch and we went and heard his speech. I remember a little of that day. During the Cuban Missile in 1962, I can remember my mom and dad listening to the radio. My folks were upset. I asked them if there was going to be a war. They said they didn’t know.
So to this day, President Kennedy and his role in history is still on my mind, 60 years later.
So... you learned to move or you're now living chiraq?
I was in 3rd grade. Remember the announcement like it was yesterday. 🥀💖
Same…3rd grade, all sent home
I was 4 years old when my parents took me to the Bozo show.. scared the shit out of me lol...
I was on the Bozo show in Boston about three years after that. I have vague memories, mostly of being intimidated by the TV set. When my mother heard the news of Kennedy's assassination, she was nursing me in a rocking chair. (Her memory, not mine, of course.)
I remember going to Bozo the clown show. He frightened me.
Me too, I remember being petrified that he might come near me. I spilt my chocolate milkshake all over my good dress in front of everyone & was reduced to tears!😭But when they gave me a prize, I forgot all about it.🙄😂
I was around 9 but remember it pretty well....I certainly remember Jack Ruby killing Oswald on TV.
I was 13 when Kennedy was assassinated. I remember it very well. It was a cloudy day in Michigan and I was in Jr. High in math class. They immediately let school out and sent everyone home.
The people who remember this announcement 📣 really took care of their younger selves but gotta to be old and hopefully lived a beautiful long life
OMG you have an incredibly high opinion of yourself. Born in 63 I'm a dreaded boomer and so happy about that. Back in the olden days we had two parents in the home. We learned a about work. And about how this incredible country was and is the greatest nation on earth. I've had a great life and I've actually deployed down range with others to defend her. We did what we could do. Now show us old people what you can do. My prediction is that they will once again try Marxism or some form of communism. Millions on both sides are ready to go.
What happened to the recording of this episode of Bozo's Circus?
Nov. 22, 1963, Walt Disney decided, while circling Orlando in his plane, that this would be the location for his new Walt Disney World. Rather than land in Florida he instructed the pilot to just head back to California.
They stopped to refuel in Texas and Walt got out to stretch his legs and smoke a cigarette. A young man ran across the tarmac to him and said, "Mr. Disney, President Kennedy has been shot".
I loved this show as a kid before school it came on....
...arent there like horrible stories about Bozo being drunk...etc...
Exaggerated urban legends, I'll bet. We have heard similar tales about Captain Kangaroo, Mister Rogers, 'Buffalo Bob' Smith, and so on. I lived in Cincinnati for a number of years and there were stories about 'Uncle' Al Schottelkotte (a local kid's show host in the morning, and TV news anchor at night).
Stories like that get started when a celebrity gets exasperated at a particularly bad time. In the case of Al Schottelkotte, during a live newscast, there was apparently some mondo f__kery going on the the control booth, and after the newscast concluded, he launched into a profanity-laced tirade - not realizing the TV cameras were still on. Shit like that can really fuel ignorant speculation....
They caution you to never have expectations of TV and film stars. They're not always glamorous.
If you lived in Chicago, you know that it was rare to see baseball announcer Harry Carey sober, though.
I don't have a distinct memory of when he was shot and killed, but I know my first verifiable dateable memory was of his funeral... I was just shy of turning 3...
The Bozo Show was awesome.
I remember.. I was 10 and a half and in 5th grade.
We were in Gym class and were told to go back to our classroom. We were told about President Kennedy was shot.
I cannot remember the rest of the day.. But everyone all over were in shock. Some people cried.
I remember watching the news.
Getting shot back then was very rare and a huge deal.. Especially for a President to be shot. Even at 10 years old it was shocking.
I was 3.
In chicago the school was dismissed , so maybe by the time she got back to the school the teachers set up the tvs to watch because i remember being dismissed for the day after they told us about the president
In Chicago, the news of the president being shot was broadcast during what would have been lunchtime for elementary schools, noon-1:00pm. Most elementary schools didn't have lunchrooms back then so everybody went home for lunch. The news that Kennedy was dead, was announced after 1:00pm, this means kids would have been back in the classroom when people found out JFK was dead. I'm pretty sure, public schools didn't let out early because of the assassination, in fact, public schools were open the following Monday but few students showed up. The schools were supposed to have an assembly during the morning in honor of the former president. Back then Chicago public schools never closed for any reason, not for snow, rain, nor sub-zero weather.
Ned Locke tell about it and while I know BC was live its first 20 years I understand episodes were taped though eventually erased but because of that I wonder why they didn't continue?
For the real small kids these things are not easy to understand and I'm sure many of the moms didn't want there kids to hear about it,
I went to the Bozo show in San Francisco with my Blue Bird group❣️ I remember being on the show and it was a highlight in my childhood❣️
I was seriously little when JFK was shot--I was a few months shy of turning three years old. People have often said, "There's no way you can remember back that far; you were too young!" But it was such a shocking, sad and unsettling thing to happen that it is burned into my memory. I didn't quite understand it all, but I remember his funeral procession being televised for the next three days. It's something I remember vividly and can't forget. The innocence of that moment was shattered for me and millions of other Americans.
A 3 year old knows. People are so braindead when it comes to recollections & remembrances. You have a good brain.
We were all bozo show contestants on that glorious day
What’s funny is I was living near Los Angles at that time, was watching “Sheriff John” when the announcement was made that JFK was shot. I was three years old. I was PISSED that they interrupted Sheriff John right when he was in the middle of singing “Put another candle on the birthday cake”……..
Why’d it take her 60 years to remember?
I was one and a half years old when this segment aired
...so?
Recollections of a small girl enhanced by time. What else you got?
She looks amazing for 68.
Now Bozo IS the president!
Who the hell cares any more?
I was eight in third grade and the teacher didn't tell us anything but told us to go home. I remember the spot where a friend told me JFK was dead. It was strange weekend. We all got tired of what they had on TV and my dad was upset there wasn't going to be any football. So that Sunday we went hiking and had a real good time. Sixty years later I do remember that weekend. Not good for the country. Johnson became president and he was a horrible person and a lousy president.
Wow it's so cool to see this lady as a little girl and now; and she remembers the day. I was 3 back then and do not remember. I do remember that we had a dog named Bozo back then!
We didn’t see her, they say during the video that footage of her episode doesnt exist anymore 😢 shame cause it would be cool to see her
@@UnwrittenSpade Oh no, you're right! They did say that footage was from 1962. LOL Well that little girl was very cute. Reminds me of one of my cousins. Time sure flies!
@@donnagelina8548 oh don’t even remind me haha it’s actually scary how time seems to speed up as we get older. Ir sucks haha
I always wanted to be on Bozo the clown show. My Aunt took my cousins my mom wouldn't let me miss school. 😢😢
That’s a super messed up set of priorities, but that’s how a lot of our parents and grandparents were. We can’t get our kids to take enough days off school.
I went to the famous Chicago Bozo Circus Show once. I was terrified that the magic arrows would land on me for the grand prize game. These shows were Live Television and me being on TV would have scared the crap out of me. I got my toys from Bargain Town so I didn't care about winning prizes.
Us "Boomers" remember that day well. I was an 8 year old cub scout, living in Shreveport, LA. Our vice-principal rushed into the room holding a kleenex to her nose. She whispered something into our teacher's ear and they both walked quickly out of the room. When the dismissal bell rang 3 minutes later, we all went home. I found out about it when I got home. The pack meeting that night was more like a wake. A prayer was said and we were dismissed.
Wow. I'm 41 so i know nothing about it. It's truly amazing how much he was respected. The world would not have stopped like that if Trump was shot, for instance.
@@tyarnold4088wow amazing. You just have absolutely no clue about history do you. I'm so incredibly happy that you are not my neighbor. Good luck to you and your's
Then three days later everyone was watching the funeral, and learned that Oswald had been shot. Just unreal.
@@ReedIJones How uncalled for, shame on you! Ty said nothing wrong!
@@tyarnold4088 Or LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Carter, in short, not like for President Kennedy. He and Jackie were our fantasy couple, the handsome husband and his lovely wife. A huge amount of the cracks came out years after he died as in becoming well known. Your average Mr. & Mrs. American and their 2.5 kids had no clue what a cheater he was on up to how she had been shacking up with a married man for may years before her death.
A time of Camelot and how it died when he did. I'm a Boomer pushing 70, these have been very historic decades in the US. Most of the last Century was historic in fact. For sure in the case of your family, they got to meet you!
In decades ahead you will talk about 9/11 as we Boomers do about this event. We Boomers have the excitement of the Moon landing too, a good thing and something President Kennedy believed we could do.
P.S. Don't think for a second that there aren't people that want to see President Trump dead, just like some wanted to see President Kennedy dead. Just for different reasons. All evil.
I loved JFK and love DJT! (warts and all) One final tidbit, Reagan, Kennedy and Trump all have one thing in common, they were and are "America 1st" presidents.
Bozo the Clown scared the crap outta me😱
I didn't like him either.
Wow. I was to little at 3 to understand. Not till 1966 did I comprehend any type of news. And soon there were the 68 assassinations
I was 12 in 6th grade Catholic school when it happened. We had just got TV's in the room and was watching PBS when the announcement was made. The teacher switched to channel 2 and we watched Walter Cronkite announce the news that Kennedy was dead. I remember it was the first time I saw a teacher cry.
I am age 56 now. My mom says I saw Bozo as a child. I as a kid had a bozo watch. Good memories.
I was in the 5th grade, at a Catholic School and the Head Sister Superior went into all the grades and announced that Kennedy was shot. Then our teacher had us kneel on the floor beside our desks and recite Hail Mary's aloud for about 10 minutes. By the time we got on the school bus at 3pm President Kennedy had already passed on and that's what all the kids were talking about on the ride home. This was the Friday before Thanksgiving by the way.
Other events that same day….the Ford family buys the Detroit Lions, ensuring at least 61 years of losing, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley died.
I was 12 school Announce over the speaker we all were sent home.. While walking out in the hall way I heard students laughing I scolded at them and said our President got shot. I went home glued to the television sad sad day.
I was only 5 years old, but the "Kennedy's Been Shot" announcement and all the news coverage after it, remains my most vividly retained early memory. I don't believe I would have been watching Bozo though, from a Green Bay station?!? Where we lived at that time, Kindergarten wasn't available, so I still hadn't gone to school, and happened to be watching TV. - Walter Cronkite - in black and white - for days.
(note: my mother was Irish Catholic and idealized Kennedy too.)
I had an unexpected reaction to JFK Jrs death and lingered on that event's coverage more than... I might of. Reflecting on the experience, I can only think that that first trauma (even being only a young child) had more of an effect on me than I knew. ...the end of innocence for me as well as the country.
I remember where I was, playing the red light - green light milk drinking game with Engineer Bill 😂😂😂😂
I was in elementary school when the principal came into the class room and made the announcement that the president had been shot and we were sent home.
I was only three and a half…but I remember seeing my mom crying.
I’m a graduate of f Krusty the clown -clown college. 1995. Here’s a funny word for you. Every cloud should use it … Cucamonga.
I'll raise ya Pomona. Anaheim???? BWAHAHAHAHA
I was in first grade of my Catholic school.
The cast of thousands...
I had just woke up and was in the middle of a bong rip when my roommate called me to say turn on the TV a plane just flew into the World Trade Center.
Wholesome.
i hate when that happens
Man oh man I wanted to play that game!
We have made a lot of progress though. We can actually elect a clown as president.
He is running again. Failed 1 term president Trump
I was 5 it was the first time I saw my mother cry,just wept as hard as a person could
I watch it on channle 9,Cedar Rapids,Iowa at 330.
I was in 10th grade Biology, Miss Sidells class, when we were informed of President Kenny's murder.
I went to te bozo show also when it was the bozo show Nashville tn. I played game also dont know which one. But ihave a paper from the bozo show it was fun.
I was in first grade. I came home for lunch with my mom. After we found out I did go back to school. It changed the world.
I was watching Ricochet Rabbit on the Sherrif John show. It made me cry 😢
Everyone remembers where they were. I was in my biology class.
Like it or not, JFK's dad Joe was a Gangster.
Wow! I was at the Bozo show, a few years after! Thanks for sharing this 🙏
I watched it every day and I always wanted to be on the show. I just knew I could win the bucket game!
Wow! I'm a genuine Bozo myself!
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She was 8; I was 9. I was not on the Bozo show when the news was announced, mostly because it was during school, but also because I never liked Bozo. However, I can vividly remember the loudspeaker announcement in my 4th grade classroom during our morning break.
Amazed anyone remembers Bozo. She has to be close to my age.
I'm surprised it wasn't April 30th?
❤❤❤Vote for peace love hope truth justice mr rfk jr 024 us presidential election ❤
A vote for RFK jr is stupid and will get Trump back in office. RFK jr’s own family aren’t supporting him. He’s nothing like JFK or Bobby don’t be fooled.
She is just repeating old information, nothing new here folks!!
Shut up.
She was telling her story!
Move along. Move along.
@@phoenixrising4532 Her story is repeating old information.
Oh no, not another JFK moment.
Footage is hard to find. Much like any and every visit to the moon...oops