60 years ago
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This morning, during the stationary bike ride, I started watching the new Paramount+ documentary: JFK: What the Doctors Saw
The events of that day through the eyes of the doctors who were in Trauma Room 1.
After a few minutes of watching, I realized today was the anniversary.
I was in the 4th grade. Back then we still had the nuns. They all spent the rest of the day in tears. JFK was a local boy, a Catholic.
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I too was at home and down a cold or flu. Pretty sure I was in grade 2 at the time. My grandmother was in my bedroom reading the previous day’s newspaper when the phone rang and my mother answered. It was my father calling from work. I recall her saying “No, oh No” several times before hanging up the phone. She then rushed into my room telling her mother, “President Kennedy has been assassinated!” I then remember grandmother dropping the newpaper with a groan and shaking her head. As for myself I just wanted to know what the word “assassinated” meant.
I learned a new word that day.
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Nice note.
George - do you remember where you were?
How about you, Jolly. You were a tyke but probably old enough to remember.
@jon-nyc said in 60 years ago:
George - do you remember where you were?
Sure.
I was in 7th grade, Mrs. Miers' class, I believe. I was seated on the left side of the classroom, aisle to my left. I was 3 seats from the back when the announcement came over the PA.
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@Copper said in 60 years ago:
Judge, Jury and Executioner, the taxpayers owe Mr. Ruby a great deal.
Yeah, sure. Mr. Ruby was only responsible for 60 years of conspiracy theories.
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I just learned his original last name was Rubenstein, both parents orthodox Jewish immigrants from Poland.
I wonder how distant a relative Arthur Rubenstein was?
@jon-nyc said in 60 years ago:
his original last name was Rubenstein
Jacob Leon Rubenstein born on or around March 25, 1911, in the Maxwell Street area of Chicago, the son of Joseph Rubenstein and Fannie Turek Rutkowski
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