[Sabertooth]

At that time of our life, my wife and I were news junkies and watched the evening tv news nightly. Neither of us remembered this event.

It was a busy news cycle. The Vietnam War "ended" three days earlier, the Watergate hearings were picking up major steam, and the Miami Dolphis had just won the Super Bowl after going 17-0. Plus, if you were in CA at the time, Santa Cruz had two high profile serial killers in action, with bodies turning up almost every weekend.

I don't even remember the Tyrone Marshall trial, Watergate was so dominant that Summer. That was also the year of Secretariat.

[js1138]

It was a busy news cycle.

That can happen. In 1968 my college town had a gas explosion that completeleveled a city block, killing 80 people. It was the biggest U.S. disaster of 1968, but never made national news.

It happened a couple days after the Martin Luther King assassination.

So this should be a lesson to all political assassins: wait for an overloaded news cycle.

[Grampa Dave]

"It was a busy news cycle. The Vietnam War "ended" three days earlier, the Watergate hearings were picking up major steam, and the Miami Dolphis had just won the Super Bowl after going 17-0. Plus, if you were in CA at the time, Santa Cruz had two high profile serial killers in action, with bodies turning up almost every weekend."

You are are totally correct in the above. Watergate was getting very big, and we live in N. Cali at that time.

My wife has a great memory about these things, and I asked about the shooting of the senator last night. She could not recall it even after I brought it up.