Thank you for posting this.
Thanks for posting that.
I was at the doctor's when the news came over the radio,
The entire staff and all the patients just stopped and listened to the news.
I then had to get on the trolley and go into the city and the entire car was abuzz all the way into Boston.
It was a memorable day!
This is the first time I have seen this.
Thank you so much for posting this. I hadn't seen it before.
Thank you so much for posting this.
On that day I was working for an electronics retailer in Madison, Wisconsin and heard someone comment that the President had been shot. Of course my first reaction was to disbelieve it - but then I noticed a pronounced migration of customers and staff to the television department where there was a display of perhaps 200 televisions tuned to the same station. When the camera shot changed - each screen changed, and since your entire field of view was nearly filled by this mosaic of televisions screens the effect was mesmerizing. The subject matter was even more mesmerizing - very little information was available in the first 1-2 hours after the shooting and it was very difficult to formulate an expectation about his chances.
This account was fascinating, some new facts from a perspective I hadn't read before. I am convinced that so much that came from his administration depended on him specifically. Imagine what would not have been if Hinckley's aim had been more true. Somehow - I cannot believe that G.H.W.B. would have been as steadfast in support of SDI or in the face to fact with Gorbachev. How so much hangs from such a slender thread.