- "I Saw John Wilkes Booth Shoot Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1965)" - 1956 I've Got A Secret on YouTube [10/18/2012]
Posted on 08/07/2020 5:03:55 PM PDT by simpson96
You had the chance to have met people who remembered the Civil War, Reconstruction, were former slaves, remembered the Wild West, Little Big Horn, Spanish American War, etc.
My great uncle (born 1847) gave all of of his family history info to my Dad who passed it on to me. I have a hand written document written by my great-uncle’s grandfather, who witnessed it, of my four time great-grandfather last words before he died in 1830. He fought in the Revolutionary War in a Virginia Militia.
In 2012 when I returned to Kansas to see relatives, my wife and I saw an Amish couple in a horse drawn buggy near the town of Yoder between Wichita and Hutchinson.
As a kid, I did not know to ask things. We just went fishing.
Most others were so dirt poor when young, best not to recall things.
Just as my grand mother on my Mom's side did not have quilts...sign of being poor and best forgotten.
"Somebody told us Wall Street fell, we were poor, we couldn't tell"
It was/is not ever seen in Washington State.
This article precludes Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
That is a great regret I have in my life. I didn't know what to ask and the adults didn't ask the questions for me.
WoW!!
Yes - What’s My Line - Arlene Francis, Bennett Serf and Dorothy Kilgallen.
Dorothy seemed to die under suspicious circumstances (claiming barbiturates and alcohol as reason) but she was looking into the irregularity of the Kennedy assassination. She was a very intelligent woman.
I remember my fourth birthday and some random events that took place before then. My memory improves from that point. Some people can remember their third birthday and recite their childhood from there.
‘I was about 6 or 7.’
I was 14, and sitting in 7th period algebra class (learning nothing), when a burst of radio static came over the loudspeaker, then nothing for a few minutes...our principal’s voice followed, very somber, and told us of Kennedy’s shooting...
reactions ranged from shock and utter disbelief, to raucous clamoring, with one nutty kid pretending to fire a machine gun...
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