I was born in the late fifties and went to grade school in the early to mid sixties-
JFK was asassinated in 1963- Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy asassinated in 1968.
I used to believe that all US Presidents died by asassination.
A childhood belief about politics
others believed things like this
- I used to believe Martin Luther King chose your birthday.Anon
- When a "mean girl" in early grade school asked me if I was a virgin I answered "no I am catholic."— Hilary
- I used to think that my teacher lived at school until she came to school late one day. I was shocked!— Wow, you have a life?!
- I used to think that a Mormons were an alien race from a fifties sci-fi film.— Katherine
- When my son was about six or seven, he asked my Dad who was in his sixties then, if he was the first man ever.— Lisa
- I used to believe bobby pins were named after my father.— Erin