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In reply to the discussion: Did You Watch Oswald Get Shot By Jack Ruby On Live TV ??? [View all]Major Hogwash
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The calender for 2013 is the same calendar that was used for the year of 1963.
So, I know exactly where I was on November 21st, 1963 -- I was home sick from an abscessed molar.
I missed school that day.
So my mom called around to some dentists to see if they would have me as a patient since we didn't have a regular dentist.
The dentist I wound up going to told my mom that he didn't particularly specialize in working with children, but he would see me since he wasn't busy the next morning, and so he told her that he had an opening at 9 o'clock in the morning.
He told my mom that he was still building his patient base up, so he thought it would be a good idea to have me as one of his patients.
So, early the next morning, on Friday November 22nd, 1963, my mom took me to that new dentist that was located close to our house.
The dentist she picked to take me to had to be located close to our home since my mom didn't like to drive in Boise.
She told me that since Boise was so much bigger of a town than she was raised in that the volume of traffic here really bothered her.
I had to have that tooth pulled.
I distinctly remember that I bit the dentist.
I was in the 2nd grade, and I have been biting dentists ever since.
I missed school that day also, and I watched tv while I recuperated.
My mom turned on the tv so I could watch one of the soap operas, I think it was "As the World Turns".
But, as I was laying on the couch, moaning and groaning, and really regretting to have to watch that soap opera, that was when Walter Cronkite broke in with the terrible news of President Kennedy being shot.
In the meantime, my mom's parents were driving up from Colorado to stay with us for Thanksgiving that year.
But, no one told me they were coming.
So, when they arrived late on Friday evening, I was stunned.
I still had a little bit of fever, so I kept asking my grandfather why they were here.
For some reason, I thought they had driven clear from their farm in Colorado to our house in Boise because the President had been killed.
And then, of course, we all sat in the living room that weekend and watched the funeral for the President, and then we watched as Oswald was murdered, live on tv.
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