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Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:36 am to gumbo2176
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The Cuban Missile Crisis when JFK was in his first term as President.
I've got something to tell you...
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:37 am to rpg37
I have vague memories of Vietnam, Apollo missions and Watergate.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:38 am to rpg37
Reagan attempted assignation and then Challenger explosion.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:41 am to rpg37
The sniper at the Howard Johnson's in New Orleans. Dad had just retired from the Air Force, and we just moved to Louisiana not many days earlier. I remember being scared it would happen in our area.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:47 am to rpg37
JFK shooting on TV. I was 3.5 years old
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:54 am to rpg37
The Kennedy assassination. I was 6. Watched his funeral on a 12” black & white tv.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:54 am to rpg37
Space Shuttle Challenger.... That one really got to me as a preteen.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:56 am to rpg37
I was at my grandma's house in Southern Illinois when my uncle came running in the living room telling us that Princess Diana had just died. I had just turned 8.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 12:15 pm to HogPharmer
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I've got something to tell you...
Please do. Kennedy took office for his first term as President in 61. The Cuban Missile Crisis took place in late 62 when photos showed the Soviets installing missile launching equipment in Cuba.
He was assassinated in 63 in Dallas when he was on the campaign trail and preparing for the election to try to secure a 2nd term.
Nowhere did I insinuate he had multiple terms as President. Every newly elected government official has a first term, no matter how many of few afterwards.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 12:17 pm to gumbo2176
The context in which you phrased it implied that there was a second term.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 12:18 pm to HogPharmer
Don't ask my why, but I can still vividly remember standing in our front yard with all our neighbors watching Sputnik going across the sky back in 1957. I was a little over two year old at the time, but during the Cold War that was a scary time.
The next big event was probably JFK's assassination.
The next big event was probably JFK's assassination.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 12:22 pm to rpg37
I remember black and white cinema news reels regarding actions/developments during the Korean War.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 12:27 pm to rpg37
In addition to the Challenger explosion, I remember the World's Fair stuff in NOLA 1984.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 12:32 pm to rpg37
Okc bombing I was in 4th grade. I remember everyone upset about kids school/daycare being involved
Posted on 11/12/25 at 12:33 pm to LCBayou
Kurt Cobain's suicide but that was more a product of having an older brother having MTV on all the time
OJ and OKC were things i have vague memories of like my dad complaining about the rockets game getting pulled from TV.
now that i have kids around the age i was when OKC/OJ happen, this thread has me thinking about what they are absorbing
9/11 is the first one that i can tell you beat for beat what i did that day
OJ and OKC were things i have vague memories of like my dad complaining about the rockets game getting pulled from TV.
now that i have kids around the age i was when OKC/OJ happen, this thread has me thinking about what they are absorbing
9/11 is the first one that i can tell you beat for beat what i did that day
This post was edited on 11/12/25 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 11/12/25 at 12:34 pm to rpg37
Either the OJ Trial, Waco Siege or OKC Bombing
I'm 40
I'm 40
Posted on 11/12/25 at 12:38 pm to rpg37
We watched the launch and subsequent explosion of the shuttle Challenger in when I was in Kindergarten.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 12:41 pm to Islandboy777
Genesis of my claustrophobia
Posted on 11/12/25 at 12:42 pm to rpg37
Remember a little bit about MLK and RFK's assassinations. I was 6.
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