Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Luggers, I was in third year Commerce and head of the University radio station. Somebody phoned me about the assassination. We had a fixed line feed from one of the local radio stations that was broadcasting bulletins from the American networks every few minutes. We plugged into that and broadcast to all the campus lounges and cafeterias. To check the sound I walked out from the station to the main lounge outside where people were usually smoking and drinking, laughing and talking. To this day I remember the stunned silence. Howard > Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:38:21 -0400 > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Titanic and Kennedy > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > I was a freshman in college and a senator was spending the day at > Huntingdon and speaking later that day. When we were all at lunch, a huge > crowd gathered around his table for the breaking news. There was no > internet, cell phones, etc. so we all went to the dorms to tune in to CBS > news. My husband says he was on the roof of a house working when John > Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were killed. He thinks > somebody should pay him to stay off of roofs. :-) It may just mean that > he worked a lot on roofing during those years! What amazes me is that so > many people that I communicate with on the internet were not even born when > Kennedy was killed. Almost unbelievable. > > Tina