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In reply to the discussion: Generation JKF About to Re-Live the 60's in Their 60's: Are You Experienced? [View all]HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)46. I watched the Nixon-Kennedy Debates at 12
Stayed up half the night watching the Election Returns. "But, Mom, California's results haven't come in yet"! My parents (Democrats), and my Teachers (Nuns), thought I was crazy.
JFK was assassinated when I was a Sophomore in HS. I can even remember I was in Geometry class when we were told about it. My HS was near Macy's Herald Square. I walked home instead of taking the subway.
People were walking around in a daze. Some were openly crying on the streets. I saw strangers consoling and hugging each other. Surreal on the streets of NYC.
We of this generation lost our innocence that day.
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Generation JKF About to Re-Live the 60's in Their 60's: Are You Experienced? [View all]
McCamy Taylor
Apr 2017
OP
Oh yes. Graduated HS in '66. If the mountains crumble to the sea, let it be. It ain't me.
ancianita
Apr 2017
#11
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom,
struggle4progress
Apr 2017
#24