Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/18

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Subject: [Leica] Titanic and Kennedy
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:43:52 +1000
References: <9848C85F-F05F-4DB5-9594-257FB58D9E44@mac.com> <1952998049.2165191334766175524.JavaMail.root@dsmdc-mail-mbs12>

When the news of the Titanic sinking arrived, Ted had already finished his
photo lecture cruise duties and had rowed ahead to New York for his next
assignment where was supposed to cover the ship's arrival!

Cheers,
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman



On 19 April 2012 02:22, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:

> I was in German language class.
>
> gene
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist3 at mac.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:12:59 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Titanic and Kennedy
>
>
> On Apr 18, 2012, at 3:49 AM, H&ECummer wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> I was in a third year high school latin class
> when the news came over the PA system.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
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