What year? In New York City?
I’m not kidding. Flyover country didn’t see or hear it.
This was when movies had NO nudity and TV had twins beds for married people. TV didn’t even use the word “pregnancy” then. Girls attending college had to live on campus or at home, no apartments. No one lived together without being married.
1962, just a few months before Marilyn died. I watched with my Mom on our little black and white three channel portable TV in our home in NW Pa., equidistant between Buffalo and Cleveland. We were definitely in flyover country. Mom and I thought Marilyn’s performance was the most amazing thing. We noticed she must have been sewn in her dress before we learned about that later. We were pretty naive about JFK at the time. We thought he must have been embarrassed, and handled the situation well.
We watched the evening news as a family every night, even when we were very young. First John Cameron Swayze, then Huntley and Brinkley. When we got our first TV, NBC was our only channel. We needed rabbit ears for CBS once it became a available. ABC came along later.
Other than that, I remember that time much the same as you did. We had curfews and enforced quiet study hours. We needed a signed parental permission slip to even visit anyone in an apartment. There were suspensions and expulsions for violations. By 1968 everything changed on campus, but we still wouldn’t have been able to imagine what college is like now.