A fateful day of history that many older people can still remember clearly. Can you guess these facts about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?
By all accounts, the Kennedy assassination is one of those events where, if you were old enough, you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you found out. It was before my time.
For me there are 3 events that stick in my mind like that:
JFK - in my fourth grade classroom, kept asking my classmate, "are you sure it was the President" - and went home to see my mother sitting in front of the TV crying.
Challenger - in lunch room at work, kept asking whether it was really the space shuttle and not the Delta shuttle which was a short flight between NYC and Boston at the time
9/11 - At a work conference with my wife calling me from time to time with updates with my constantly asking - are you sure it was both towers and did they actually totally implode
Father passing - crossing over the George Washington bridge in NYC trying to get back to Boston before it happened.
Just have always had a hard time believing stunning news
I was in first grade when the Challenger happened, and we were watching it live on TV at school. When the shuttle exploded they hustled us out of the room really fast and I didn't really understand what had happened until a few years later.
Bush Jr. was room-mates with de Mohrenschildt's nephew. De Mohrenschildt himself was possibly acquainted with Bush Sr. (he was Oswald's friend at the center of many conspiracy theories) It's a small world, though, when it comes to oil barons and political superpowers. It's also a small world when it comes to people at the centers of conspiracy theories, since there is a Bush attached to many of them.
9/11. I was 14 or so, at a boarding school in Scotland, afternoon I suppose, and walked in to a normally-empty TV room that was strangely full. The assistant house-master was standing there, he swore and left. He was American. Don't remember anything specific after that...
But yeah one afternoon out of 1,000's and it's etched into my mind.
Memories are funny things. I sincerely believe my memories noted above. However, for 50 years I believed, and would have sworn in court, that I met my high school sweetheart at the beginning of senior year and then the other day I saw a high school yearbook that contained a picture of us together at an extracurricular club meeting during junior year. Still shaking my head.
yeah, exactly. I have memories of past events that to me seem pretty clear, and then I'll go read an old journal entry I wrote the same day about what happened and discover that my memory is completely wrong. This happens all the time. People can be tricked into remembering things that never even happened pretty easily. And they trick themselves unwittingly. Every time we try to remember something our brain creates a new story for us to play in our minds, constructed of little fragments of various memories, some related, some not. Each time we try to access the memory it's a combination of read and write. Perform too many write actions and I think the original memory probably gets completely overwritten or at least so badly mangled that it's not at all like what really happened. This is why good cops, detectives, lawyers, historians, and reporters (emphasis on good, those are rare) place very little weight on eye-witness testimony. It's the worst kind of evidence there is.
I was staying with the family of a BBC employee who got a phone call not long after the car crash happened instructing him to fly to Paris. So I found out long before it was reported on the morning news. The outpouring of grief that followed hadn't really been seen in the country before.
Good quiz, brought back some memories for me also. I was working in the outback of Australia, in the Northern Territory and it came on the radio news early morning. Later I would visit the JFK grave at Arlington and also see LBJ driving (being driven) around Washington DC. I never believed the Warren Report in total or that Oswald was so clever and such a great rifle shot as the report would try to convince the public.
My Mom started crying while watching a soap opera. I kept asking her, "Mama, what's wrong?" She kept repeating, "they killed our president," and would cry more. To this day the moment I hear the first note of soap opera music playing I bolt to change the channel. I was 4 years old.
The "Day of the Year" question should be altered, IMHO, to "Month and Day of the Year". I entered "22" and it would not accept the answer, only "November 22" was accepted. Good quiz otherwise!
As much as I hate conspiracies, anybody who's ever done a bit of independent thinking or research on the topic, can ascertain that Oswald was not the assassin, or even fired a shot on that day. After all these years he is still in fact, a patsy.
RFK's two oldest boys--Joe and Bobby Jr.--went to my school. That Friday afternoon we were watching a movie in General Assembly when the school secretary went on the intercom to ask Joseph and Robert Kennedy to come to the Principal's office. I remember thinking "More special treatment for those two."
The news only hit us after school was let out. I felt as if my father had been killed, so I went to the half-finished house they were building on the lot behind our home and threw stones through every window. I didn't know then and don't know now why I did.
For me there are 3 events that stick in my mind like that:
1. The Challenger Space Shuttle disaster
2. The 9/11 WTC/Pentagon attacks
3. When my father passed away.
JFK - in my fourth grade classroom, kept asking my classmate, "are you sure it was the President" - and went home to see my mother sitting in front of the TV crying.
Challenger - in lunch room at work, kept asking whether it was really the space shuttle and not the Delta shuttle which was a short flight between NYC and Boston at the time
9/11 - At a work conference with my wife calling me from time to time with updates with my constantly asking - are you sure it was both towers and did they actually totally implode
Father passing - crossing over the George Washington bridge in NYC trying to get back to Boston before it happened.
Just have always had a hard time believing stunning news
But yeah one afternoon out of 1,000's and it's etched into my mind.
I was staying with the family of a BBC employee who got a phone call not long after the car crash happened instructing him to fly to Paris. So I found out long before it was reported on the morning news. The outpouring of grief that followed hadn't really been seen in the country before.
Using the word "Date" would have been better.
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The news only hit us after school was let out. I felt as if my father had been killed, so I went to the half-finished house they were building on the lot behind our home and threw stones through every window. I didn't know then and don't know now why I did.