Wouldn’t it be nice if they brought that back...

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> On Jun 28, 2019, at 3:45 PM, Robert Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> & it was a legal requirement that news provide _both_ sides of an issue every 
> evening at 5pm, in return for their free access to the airwaves.
> 
>> On 06/28/2019 02:05 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
>> And Walter Cronkite told us how thing were each evening and that is the way 
>> they were.
>> *From:* Ken Hohhof
>> *Sent:* Friday, June 28, 2019 2:54 PM
>> *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
>> *Subject:* [AFMUG] OT - photo brings back memories of the JFK era
>> News sites are reporting that Caroline Kennedy has put Jackie’s Martha’s 
>> Vineyard estate up for sale, and they are including some historical photos.
>> Probably most of you were born after Nov. 22, 1963, and don’t have the same 
>> emotional reaction I did when I saw this photo.  But it brought me back to a 
>> time when the country felt united and optimistic, and you could turn on the 
>> TV without being deluged with partisan politics.  Things weren’t perfect, 
>> there were issues with racial and gender equality, and all that Cold War 
>> stuff, and yes there were divisions and politics.  And while youthful and 
>> inspiring, the President was still a white male.
>> But damn, I had forgotten what Lee Harvey Oswald took away from us, and how 
>> things have changed in 50+ years.  I’ve also come across my dad’s home 
>> movies from the 50’s and 60’s, and those really were more optimistic and 
>> unified times (although I notice nobody is on their phone). People like my 
>> dad and uncle had come back from the war and were just raising their 
>> families, having backyard barbecues and birthday parties for the kids.  No 
>> Fox News or MSNBC, and when the President went on national TV, everyone 
>> watched because it was something important for the whole country. 
>> Unfortunately that could be the Cuban Missile Crisis.  Or an assassination 
>> in Dallas.
>> Maybe a nice July 4 parade and some fireworks will cheer me up.
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