On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 8:08 AM daniel anderson < danielanderson2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My grandmother was watching some soap opera when JFK was shot. When > Cronkite announced JFK's death, she was heartbroken. > Heartbroken because he was shot, or heartbroken because they interrupted her stories? My grandma loved her stories. > 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 <danieland...@gmail.com> >> 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 tvor...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a2794511-549b-4ce3-935f-06b1e7004009o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a2794511-549b-4ce3-935f-06b1e7004009o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4DBqf8dJpoVhi1sChHYjmp_nPt3QC5pwJke5hYpB-0EeQ%40mail.gmail.com.
