I was in West Berlin when he became president, and there when he gave his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. The Berliners loved him. I also remember the exact moment when I heard of his assassination.

I remember spending time with my ‘republican relatives’ in the hills, watching him on black & white tv, asking that we kids be quiet so they could hear him. Stating, “Though we didn’t vote for him, he’s still our president.” That’s the kind of ‘republican’ I was raised as… Move ‘ahead’ to President Obama.. and the disrespect I’d hear from ‘republicans’ made me sick…

...the good ones die ..and evil wins ~

I was in junior high gym class when somebody came into the locker room and told us all that the president had been assassinated. Later on, my mother--a Republican--broke down and cried at the library, where we had gone after she picked me up at school. We watched all the TV about the assassination and funeral and then got the AP coffee table book that came out immediately afterwards. I think it was called "The Torch Is Passed."

Although the man certainly had his imperfections and in some respects wasn't all that liberal, I was proud that he was our president, and even my Republican parents thought so, too. How have we come to where we are now from this??

I remember his presidency somewhat. I remember the tension during the Cuban missile crisis. I surely remember the day he was shot. I was in 3rd grade in a Catholic school, the nuns just flipped. The whole country was in shock. Now any real details came later, in hindsight when I was older, & as history, even if fairly recent history. Mostly remember emotions from the actual time.

I remember where I was (at work) and we all just stopped working. After a half hour or so workers started drifting away and we all went home to be with our kids..

I know who he was - as, I'm sure, most people will, his image being one of the most iconic in recent history - but I can't remember his presidency on account of not being born until eleven years after his assassination, which I feel is a reasonable excuse.

Of course. He died when I was 7 months old. Don't remember but I've obviously heard a lot about him. I wish he, or someone like him, was president now.

Just, my father cried the day he was assassinated, I can still remember what I was doing when I first heard of it. Given I am in Oz, will give you some kind of idea how well known he was, my parents saw him as the saviour in their generation.

He was great! he wanted us out of Viet Nam, he wanted World Peace - and he was assassinated for it!

I was 15 when he ran and was elected. At the time I thought he was a good man and went door to door handing out flyers and got folks to vote for him. Then, stayed up half the night watching the election results all excited when it looked like he was winning. When he was killed I was a little older and wiser........in a different way. I was working in Springfield, Il. and happened to be stoned in my hotel room when the old desk clerk called on the hotel phone and told me the president was shot dead. I didn't take ir so bad, in fact probably didn't care too much. I read lots of books on the subject and not sure what to believe. MalcolmX summed it up be saying, "The chickens have come home to roost".

Know who he is, wasn't alive for it, hope he's not the last President Kennedy... talking about Joe Kennedy of MA right now.

Was not here...heard that it was different....

I just watched the movie "LBJ" last night. I actually think JFK was our best "modern" president. I can't help but believe that Senator Richard Russell had some motive to murder JFK, even though he was critical of the Warren Commission. We will probably never know what the real reasons for JFK's assassination were, or who was behind it though. It's been 54 years and we are no closer to knowing.

I wasn't born when he, er, ah died, but I hear he liked a good cuppa chowdah.

Sure, I remember when he was assassinated.

Know who it is, but he was assassinated before I was 2 yers old.

I was 2 when he was assassinated. However, I've read countless books and watched many documentaries on his life and Presidency. A flawed individual to be sure, but a true statesman and leader. Something we are sorely lacking today, from the top on down.

Was Born on the day This Man was Elected president !

Of course !

He was assassinated three years before I was born.

I was 3 when he died

I know who he is. too young to really know what he did at that time

JFK, of course. I remember the day he was assassinated. Sad. Very sad.

I was a year old when he died.

I remember some of the Cuban Missile Crisis and parts of his funeral. Pretty good since I was born at the end of 1958.