[bgill]

We had just got our first tv. I remember going with my parents to buy our first tv about 3 months before the assassination. It was a b/w RCA 27 (?) inch on a wobbly metal rolling cart, but no remote. The first show we watched on it was “I Dream of Jeannie” on the one channel we got off the tv’s antenna. Well, there was a station in Mexico that would broadcast bullfights on the weekends and then be off the air. That tv lasted 30 years.

I was in kindergarten when the nuns rushed in at nap time and rolled in a tv so we could all watch the news of the assassination. I remember Walter Cronkite getting emotional and later Ruby shooting Oswald.

[luvbach1]

We had a black-and-white Packard Bell that blew tubes bi-monthly. It had a clunky remote control connected by a clunky cable to the tuner. We have come a long way electronically. Politically, we have come a long way too, down hill.

[zigmeisterxiv]

Funny how the memories of youth work. The other day talked to a guy who was 8 and remembered missing “Gilligan’s Island” because of the assasination coverage ... told him I don’t think that was on yet (1964). Then, your post about “I Dream of Jeannie”, which began 2 years later in 1965.

- zig