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| Thread ID: 135593 | 2013-11-21 18:00:00 | Where were you when Kennedy was shot | kenj (9738) | PC World Chat |
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| 1360482 | 2013-11-21 20:15:00 | (16 year old girls cry at the drop of a hat, well they seemed to in those days.) Not often that ladies give away their age so easily ;) I dunno for sure where I was, but probably in bed in Paraparaumu. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1360483 | 2013-11-21 20:44:00 | Not born yet. +1 - still sad. A friend did a speech about him in school. Sad really. Interesting to hear about the different theories too. Apparently (from what I heard on TV recently) he was wearing a brace of some sort that held him upright and if he hadn't been wearing it he would still be alive? |
lordnoddy (3645) | ||
| 1360484 | 2013-11-21 23:14:00 | I was up at Lake Sumner in North Canterbury. We had been taken in there by the Army, and just before the trucks left the Army guys heard about the assassination on the radio and told us. They then left (taking the radio with them, thus leaving us isolated from the outside world), and we had a week of wild speculating before they came back to pick us up... All sorts of fantasies like "The Russians must have done it" were discussed and I remember some of us joking about whether we would see Russian bombers going overhead to bomb the crap out of all the Western nations. First questions when the Army trucks came back to pick us up were along the lines of "Has WWIII started?". | John H (8) | ||
| 1360485 | 2013-11-21 23:27:00 | I was at Terrace gardens in Wellington. Always a bit of a shock these things, like Diana affair. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1360486 | 2013-11-21 23:30:00 | I was an apprentice surveyor working on a road construction site just south of Kaitaia (before you go up the hill going south) and the 6:00am news featured it. Subsequently in 1993 - the 30th anniversary - an essay I wrote on the subject (more on what JFK meant to me personally and the world in general) was selected by the New York Times as one of 100 contributions world wide and published in the on-line edition, so that's my claim to fame. |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1360487 | 2013-11-21 23:55:00 | I was at Terrace gardens in Wellington. Always a bit of a shock these things, like Diana affair. Oh that one I remember - I was playing a FIFA game on a friends SEGA Master System II at the time his sister came in and told us - Didn't believe her at the time until I got home and Mum was crying :( she's quite the Royalist (even dressed up for the live TV stream of Will + Kates wedding). Also the Terrace Gardens is great place. Subsequently in 1993 - the 30th anniversary - an essay I wrote on the subject (more on what JFK meant to me personally and the world in general) was selected by the New York Times as one of 100 contributions world wide and published in the on-line edition, so that's my claim to fame. Pics or Links or it didn't happen ;) |
lordnoddy (3645) | ||
| 1360488 | 2013-11-22 01:34:00 | Pics or Links or it didn't happen ;) Check out the NY Times; 20 years ago - while you were a babe in arms? LOL - they didn't archive stuff to the extent they do now. I'm on my 4th PC since then and all has since been lost into cyberspace. :p |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1360489 | 2013-11-22 01:37:00 | Bummer dude. I requested an article from a Magazine a friend of mine did an interview in in the 80s off their website - they sent me a fresh print of it. Maybe you should Email NY Times. | lordnoddy (3645) | ||
| 1360490 | 2013-11-22 06:47:00 | I was in Christchurch and wondered why the flags at the airport were flying at half mast. I ran and bought a newspaper which had huge headlines. | Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1360491 | 2013-11-22 17:54:00 | As I was in nappies, I never did understand the fuss over that particular assassination. He wasn't the first US president to be shot, nor the last. Or a case of he died so no-one got to find out how he would have done therefore assume miracles? |
pctek (84) | ||
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