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In reply to the discussion: Did You Watch Oswald Get Shot By Jack Ruby On Live TV ??? [View all]Neutrino_603
(33 posts)106. Yes
I was at the time a ten year old Boston, Massachusetts area Catholic boy, son of a WWII Navy PT boat sailor. We, I think, suffice it to say worshiped President Kennedy. With horrified fascination, sitting on the livingroom floor three feet from the TV screen, I saw it all. The momentarily almost comical look of complete shock on the face of that cop in the little cowboy hat next to Oswald was all it took for me to realize that something horrible had just happened again. That expression is what registered in my ten year old brain and caused me to realize that what l had just watched happen was horribly real.
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I was four years old. All I remember is watching the funeral procession on live TV...
Tx4obama
Nov 2013
#2
It was 7 years before my birth. However, my father worked for the Milwaukee Journal...
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2013
#3
I'm by no means a conspiracy theorist but that Ruby hit still gnaws at me.
Hassin Bin Sober
Nov 2013
#73
Yup. My father said that since I liked history so much, I better be watching all the coverage.
Comrade Grumpy
Nov 2013
#22
Yes. I was at a friend's house. I was the only one in the room at that time. When he got
alfredo
Nov 2013
#55
No, my daughter was 3 days old and I was visiting her & her mother in the hospital
tularetom
Nov 2013
#84