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tonebender wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 6:14 pm Well, I was around but I was only 5 years old and a year away from school. My only memory is not the moment of notice but I remember the adults being upset.

mickey wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 3:33 pm 60 Years ago I was in high school.
4th period (lunch) was two hours long.
Half the school went to lunch the first hour, and had class the second hour.
The other half of the school had class the first hour and had lunch the second hour.
The lunchroom was in the main school building & when you finished lunch you went to the gym which was a separate building.
The gym had a radio tied to the PA system, the main school building did not.
I had stopped between the buildings for a cigarette when a guy came running out of the gym.
He had been sent to the office to tell them the President had been shot in Dallas, or so he told me.

I've heard that if you were around back then you will always remember where you were & what you were doing.
But I don't believe it!

bc rich wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 11:25 pm

Our President Kennedy was not just shot in Dallas, he was gunned down / assassinated in in cold blood, was it a lone terroist or a coup ?
A lots of facts are now freely available . That said it was a terrible day for America and indeed everyone, a very dark fork in the road.

That was a bit before my time , But i do remember the Sputnik 1 orbit because it was the biggest headline i had ever seen in our newspaper, if it was on page two it would have gone right over my head

mickey wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 6:22 pm

tonebender wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 6:14 pm Well, I was around but I was only 5 years old and a year away from school. My only memory is not the moment of notice but I remember the adults being upset.

OK, I assume you were around and remember where you were when the pilot of Space Shuttle said "Roger, go with throttle up."

OR

Where you were when you saw a plane fly into the World Trade Center.





















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mickey wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 6:22 pm

tonebender wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 6:14 pm Well, I was around but I was only 5 years old and a year away from school. My only memory is not the moment of notice but I remember the adults being upset.

OK, I assume you were around and remember where you were when the pilot of Space Shuttle said "Roger, go with throttle up."

OR

Where you were when you saw a plane fly into the World Trade Center.



Oh, I definitely have distinct memories of those events. I was working at the asphalt plant and was in the lab listening to the radio when the Challenger launched. There were 3-4 o us there but I was the only one that walked outside to watch it as you can see it from this side of Florida. I had seen them go up before and I knew something went wrong based on the exhaust pattern. I ran back inside, announced to everyone that something was wrong and I turned the radio up. We all know what happened.

When the towers were hit I was in a continuous education cert class in Orlando. The class was at a hotel. When the first tower was hit people in the class started getting pages. The instructor called for a break and we went across the hall to the bar where the TV was on and we all stood there a watched the second tower get hit.



















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toomanycats wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:59 am I was just an itch in my Daddy's pants in November of 63, so I can't recollect anything about JFK's assassination. However, I do have a clear recollection of where I was when . . .

Elvis died in 77
John Lennon was killed
Reagan was shot
The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded
Stevie Ray Vaughn was killed in helicopter crash
The World Trade Center was bombed in 93
The Rodney King riots happened
O.J. Simpsons Bronco chase was televised live
The towers were destroyed on September 11, 2001
"Shock and Awe" in March of 2003 occurred
Bush proclaimed "Mission accomplished" in May of 2003

I pretty much stopped watching television after this.

So, anything interesting happen since then?

toomanycats wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:59 am I was just an itch in my Daddy's pants in November of 63, so I can't recollect anything about JFK's assassination. However, I do have a clear recollection of where I was when . . .

Elvis died in 77
John Lennon was killed
Reagan was shot
The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded
Stevie Ray Vaughn was killed in helicopter crash
The World Trade Center was bombed in 93
The Rodney King riots happened
O.J. Simpsons Bronco chase was televised live
The towers were destroyed on September 11, 2001
"Shock and Awe" in March of 2003 occurred
Bush proclaimed "Mission accomplished" in May of 2003

I pretty much stopped watching television after this.

So, anything interesting happen since then?

Tonray's Ghost wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 6:57 pm

toomanycats wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:59 am I was just an itch in my Daddy's pants in November of 63, so I can't recollect anything about JFK's assassination. However, I do have a clear recollection of where I was when . . .

Elvis died in 77
John Lennon was killed
Reagan was shot
The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded
Stevie Ray Vaughn was killed in helicopter crash
The World Trade Center was bombed in 93
The Rodney King riots happened
O.J. Simpsons Bronco chase was televised live
The towers were destroyed on September 11, 2001
"Shock and Awe" in March of 2003 occurred
Bush proclaimed "Mission accomplished" in May of 2003

I pretty much stopped watching television after this.

So, anything interesting happen since then?

You forgot 'The Day Al Gore invented the Internet"

toomanycats wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 8:32 am

Tonray's Ghost wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 6:57 pm

toomanycats wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:59 am I was just an itch in my Daddy's pants in November of 63, so I can't recollect anything about JFK's assassination. However, I do have a clear recollection of where I was when . . .

Elvis died in 77
John Lennon was killed
Reagan was shot
The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded
Stevie Ray Vaughn was killed in helicopter crash
The World Trade Center was bombed in 93
The Rodney King riots happened
O.J. Simpsons Bronco chase was televised live
The towers were destroyed on September 11, 2001
"Shock and Awe" in March of 2003 occurred
Bush proclaimed "Mission accomplished" in May of 2003

I pretty much stopped watching television after this.

So, anything interesting happen since then?

You forgot 'The Day Al Gore invented the Internet"

I believe there's some people who worked at the Xerox Research Center in Palo Alto California in 1972 who would contest that.