My grandmother was watching some soap opera when JFK was shot. When Cronkite announced JFK's death, she was heartbroken.
On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 11:39:46 AM UTC-4, PGage wrote: > > Perhaps my earliest memory like this was watching Bobby Kennedy get > murdered. I was precociously interested in politics, and my mother took me > to hear all of the Democratic nominees for president that year. She was a > Eugene McCarthy girl, and the first we saw but then we went to see Bobby > speak, a week or two later and I was mesmerized. I could decode his speech > enough to get his opposition to the war, and support for racial and > economic justice, but his charisma really got through to me, and the crowd > at the college campus where my dad taught was going wild. I got the chance > to shake his hand, and declared myself a Bobby man to my mother on the way > home, as we had a satisfying debate. She of course was old enough to > remember the old RFK, who had been a “Red-Baiter” and his brother’s son of > a bitch, and she never trusted him. > > The night of the California primary she let me stay up to watch the > results. I remember staying awake long enough to see that Bobby had won, > then fell asleep during his speech. I was awakened shortly after by the > sound of my mother’s screams and then crying, saying “not again” over and > over, as he was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador hotel. I was > heartbroken and inconsolable. > > I am just old enough to remember where I was when his brother was shot, > but we heard that announcement live on the radio, not TV, on the way to > taking me to the doctor. My mother pulling over to the side of the San > Diego freeway to cry, and my grandmother in the back seat screaming > (extremely uncharacteristically, as she was very refined): “God Dammit! God > Dammit! I knew he shouldn’t have gone down there!” > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:13 PM daniel anderson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I was watching the World Series in 1989 when the Earthquake happened. I >> can still remember hearing Al Michaels say "I'll tell you what, we're >> having an earth-" before the feed cut out. I remember ABC airing something >> else for a few minutes, before Ted Koppel came on form Washington(where he >> was hosting Nightline). >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/cfc7388a-734b-46d7-8501-4395409f05ceo%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/cfc7388a-734b-46d7-8501-4395409f05ceo%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a2794511-549b-4ce3-935f-06b1e7004009o%40googlegroups.com.
