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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:18 PM Original message |
Poll question: How old were you when you became aware of President Kennedy? |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. the man or the myth? nt |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. In any way unless you are a blood relation. |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Do you think today... |
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burrowowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:16 PM Response to Reply #8 |
98. HELL NO! |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:25 PM Response to Reply #98 |
100. JFK was expansive, not conservative. I agree. n/t |
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burrowowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:34 PM Response to Reply #100 |
104. He was for social justice |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:41 PM Response to Reply #104 |
108. I don't know about Senator Kennedy but imho neither candidate |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:25 PM Response to Reply #98 |
101. I just found that page... |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. he wasn't yet President Kennedy |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:24 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. I was four and remember the jokes about will he show up in long pants. |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
3. I was 14 when he was elected in 1960. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. That my mother shared her grief with me, with all of us |
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MoJoWorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 08:18 AM Response to Reply #3 |
118. I was 15, and campaigned door-to-door for him. |
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Liberal In Texas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 08:38 AM Response to Reply #3 |
121. I was 11 when he was elected. I remeber watching the debates on TV. |
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Fed_Up_Grammy (923 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
4. I voted for him. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:26 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Lucky lady. |
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Island Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
5. He was assassinated when I was three months old, |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:27 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. Can you remember when? My brother was two weeks old. |
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thunder rising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
6. School closed early that day ... my dad was in Vietnam .. it was a bad day |
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goodgd_yall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:56 PM Response to Reply #6 |
62. Where were you going ot school then? |
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thunder rising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:11 PM Response to Reply #62 |
73. I was in a little town of Adrian TX (50 mi west of Amarillo) only paved road was HW 66 |
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Garbo 2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:28 PM Response to Reply #62 |
102. Not regional. I was in a Sac City school & we were sent home on 11/22/63. n/t |
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trashcanistanista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 07:27 PM Response to Reply #62 |
156. I was in third grade in a school in New Jersey and |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
9. I was just under two when he was assassinated. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:47 PM Response to Reply #9 |
94. My mom had to stop nursing my brother when JFK was assasinated. |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
10. I started high school the year he was elected President. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:27 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. Do you know that from the dates or from something you remember? |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:32 PM Response to Reply #17 |
27. I remember watching the Democratic and Republican |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:35 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Same here. There would always be a discussion at the kitchen table |
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flamingyouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
11. I honestly don't remember being unaware of him. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. Wow. You're a kid! |
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flamingyouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:41 PM Response to Reply #22 |
40. Thank you! |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:43 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. (The secret of life is knowing that forty is your BEST year.) |
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DemoTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
15. Not a well designed poll. Two questions: One JFK, the other President Kennedy. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:29 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. Everybody wants to be a critic. |
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samdogmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
18. I was five during the 1960 election and vividly remember listening to |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:31 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. You and I are about the same age. My mom used to buy me |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
19. I was five when he was elected. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:36 PM Response to Reply #19 |
89. About the same timeline here. |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 08:59 AM Response to Reply #19 |
167. I was five too, but my mother (god bless her soul) told me |
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soleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
20. When I was a kid, we had these plastic statues of all the presidents |
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
21. The night before he was assassinated I asked my mother what would happen |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:32 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. Did you mean the president or that president? |
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:37 PM Response to Reply #26 |
34. Must have meant Kennedy since he was the only president I knew. |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
23. I was probably about 4 or 5. My parents had the First Family Comedy album, |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:33 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. What is the First Family Comedy Album? n/t |
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WritersBlock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:37 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Vaughan Meader, I think his name was. We had it, too. |
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:38 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. I loved that album |
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WritersBlock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:40 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Yeah, me too. |
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bigbrother05 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:41 PM Response to Reply #28 |
39. Vaughn Meador, made a living doing JFK |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:45 PM Response to Reply #39 |
46. Thank you, bigbrother05. |
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goodgd_yall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:53 PM Response to Reply #23 |
58. I still have my copy of that album. |
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bigbrother05 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:01 PM Original message |
Picked up a copy at a garage sale |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
74. I still remember the line "Well let me say this about that," in the Kenndy MA accent |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:14 PM Response to Reply #23 |
97. ROFL. I think I actually have that album somewhere around here! My boyfriend & I used to ham it up-- |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:39 PM Response to Reply #97 |
107. Yes he did. It was satire but it was gentle and friendly satire. I don't think |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:38 PM Response to Reply #97 |
136. My mom didn't have that but she had an album of his speeches. |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 05:06 AM Response to Reply #136 |
163. I also have that one, or one very similar: I think mine has a black background. His inaugural speech |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 09:04 AM Response to Reply #136 |
168. I think my parents had the same album. |
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Ishoutandscream2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
29. I have had so much contact with people |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:40 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. Wow. That's quite a story. But you know, even if many of us |
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kskiska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:00 PM Response to Reply #29 |
65. There's an interview with June Oswald Porter |
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Ishoutandscream2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:44 PM Response to Reply #65 |
93. Oh yes, that's June alright |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
30. I lived in an Irish-American neighborhood-- he was akin to a saint. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:42 PM Response to Reply #30 |
41. Check it out: we lived in an Irish Catholic neighborhood in Daly City. |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:48 PM Response to Reply #41 |
50. That's Meghans, old school. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:53 PM Response to Reply #50 |
59. Oh, man! Was it EVER! |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
31. I was 17 when he was elected |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:44 PM Response to Reply #31 |
45. So, did you know about him before that or did you get to know him |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
36. I was six when he was running for President. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:47 PM Response to Reply #36 |
49. I was in second grade in a Catholic school run largely by |
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951-Riverside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
42. I was only 1,962 years old when I found out about John |
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Neshanic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
44. When my first grade teacher came in and told us and started crying. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:48 PM Response to Reply #44 |
139. How frightening. My second grade teacher went into a huddle |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
47. Got to see him as a candidate |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
48. I was a sideboy for him when I was 19. I was in high school when he was inaugurated. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:49 PM Response to Reply #48 |
52. Please tell me what a sideboy is unless it will embarrass the Party. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:55 PM Response to Reply #52 |
60. It's a naval honor guard for a dignitary coming on board a ship. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:59 PM Response to Reply #60 |
64. Damn. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:04 PM Response to Reply #64 |
69. Yup. It was quite something. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:17 PM Response to Reply #69 |
75. If FG had been set in San Francisco, I'd feel the same way. |
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bigbrother05 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
51. 8 years old in 1960 |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:55 PM Response to Reply #51 |
61. You remember more than I do. I remember only black and white images |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
53. I was 5 when I heard of his assassination |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:21 PM Response to Reply #53 |
79. so was I |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
54. 1983, I was nine |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:57 PM Response to Reply #54 |
63. I think that's when my oldest son first got to hear / watch the story, too. |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:01 PM Response to Reply #63 |
67. Do you remember which comic said, |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:04 PM Response to Reply #67 |
70. No, I don't. Who was it? n/t |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:07 PM Response to Reply #70 |
72. I wasn't quizzing you--I thought you might remember |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:19 PM Response to Reply #72 |
77. I have no memory at all from 1976 to about '85 because we had rugrats. |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:37 PM Response to Reply #77 |
90. Yeah, I was about fifteen before Tonight passed to the fat-chinned slob |
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goodgd_yall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
55. I was 6---no category for me. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:00 PM Response to Reply #55 |
66. I was an adult before I knew that some people didn't consider Catholics Christians! |
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Jensen (866 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
56. I had just turned 12 when I saw him and Jackie in New York....He had just been elected! |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:03 PM Response to Reply #56 |
68. Do you remember what you thought? |
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Jensen (866 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 03:10 PM Response to Reply #68 |
175. I was "Star" struck !!! What a gorgeous couple! |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
57. I was 15 when he was assinated. |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
71. I can tell you EXACTLY, San PAT!1 I was |
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caraher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
76. I was born on his birthday the year after he was killed... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:20 PM Response to Reply #76 |
78. When did you find out about the clippings? My mom kept them all, too. |
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caraher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:35 PM Response to Reply #78 |
88. I'd guess around age 6 |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:40 PM Response to Reply #88 |
92. Gotcha. When I was 11, my grandmother and I went on a visit |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
80. I saw Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald on live television |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:30 PM Response to Reply #80 |
84. A lot of us saw that. |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:36 PM Response to Reply #84 |
105. The next place |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:47 PM Response to Reply #105 |
109. My family had a turquoise sectional. We live there, too, you are right. |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 10:30 AM Response to Reply #80 |
124. I did too. I just turned 12, 5 days before. It was surreal, as was the assassination and funeral. |
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Liberal In Texas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 09:05 AM Response to Reply #80 |
169. Me too. And when I came to Dallas years later and walked into a TV station for my job interview, |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
81. I actually shook his hand when he came to speak in Los Alamos, when I was in high school. |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
82. I was 8. My parents loved him and they drove the whole family to one of his railroad |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:31 PM Response to Reply #82 |
86. That's cool. We never went to a campaign stop. |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 10:25 AM Response to Reply #86 |
123. I forgot to mention, that when we went, my brother, then 14 met Bobby, and shook his hand. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:09 PM Response to Reply #123 |
131. The summer went dark. It was just too much. |
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davekriss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
83. I was 5, it was the day he was assassinated |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
85. 9 or 10. My Dad was an LBJ Democrat, my Mom a JFK Democrat. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:34 PM Response to Reply #85 |
87. You were lucky, pinto. |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:37 PM Response to Reply #87 |
91. I was and it was fun. (They split, eventually - but politically, the deed was done...) |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
95. Thanks, everyone. It helped a lot to remember today why |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:10 PM Response to Original message |
96. I was 13 when he was elected, by 14 I was inspired. I sent away for the Peace Corps packet... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:23 PM Response to Reply #96 |
99. He wasn't just a myth and that's, imho, why his story is so powerful. |
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ConcernedCanuk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
103. 11-TEEN - you left some gaps there - - why? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 11:37 PM Response to Reply #103 |
106. Always happy to hear from our neighbors to the north, |
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Hatchling (968 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 01:52 AM Response to Original message |
110. I was in fourth grade. |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:01 AM Response to Reply #110 |
111. I was in school at the time, as well. Massachusetts. Apparently the staff |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:12 AM Response to Original message |
112. I was 12 and I see you didn't put my age group on your poll. Why |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 08:06 AM Response to Reply #112 |
117. You're right. Technically, 11 and 12 are not teens but pre-teens. |
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MiniMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 07:45 AM Response to Original message |
113. I was 5 when he died. |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
114. 1956, when he crossed the National radar as THE "Catholic" politician. |
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Girlieman (399 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
115. What kind of question is this? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 08:26 AM Response to Reply #115 |
119. JFK was very much a character in the stories of his public life |
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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
116. I was probably about 8 years old. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 08:28 AM Response to Reply #116 |
120. At least the first president you remember isn't Nixon! |
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pdxmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 08:42 AM Response to Original message |
122. I was almost 5 years old, and I remember the funeral very, very clearly. It |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
125. I was a child during the 1960 campaign |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 10:49 AM Response to Reply #125 |
126. I remember that and now wonder how real it was or if it was |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 11:07 AM Response to Reply #126 |
127. Oh, anti-Catholic prejudice was a real phenomenon |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 11:13 AM Response to Reply #127 |
129. The Catholic Agenda! As a child, I was in parochial school. |
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LeftHander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
128. Bene Geserit mother drank water of life....I knew in the womb....nt |
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Snarkturian Clone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 08:20 AM Response to Reply #128 |
164. The bile of the Shai Hulud? NT |
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Snarkturian Clone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 08:20 AM Response to Reply #128 |
165. dupe! |
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mulsh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
130. I was around 3 or 4 when I first became aware of Kennedy |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:14 PM Response to Reply #130 |
132. Hi there, mulsh. |
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unc70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
133. Age 8 in 1956 watching Dem convention |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:36 PM Response to Reply #133 |
135. Wow! I was only months old. What do you remember? |
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unc70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 05:53 PM Response to Reply #135 |
153. I remember a lot, even the commercials |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
134. ten when he was assassinated |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
137. I was 10 and this was the first election I had any concept of |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:51 PM Response to Reply #137 |
140. You were already a big troublemaker at that early age, weren't you? |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 03:47 PM Response to Reply #140 |
147. Actually no, I was one of these serious kids who |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 03:49 PM Response to Reply #147 |
148. She obviously knew that reading was dangerous to your health. |
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marlakay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
138. I was 7 in second grade |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #138 |
141. I know. The day Bobby was assassinated, my mom walked |
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RedEarth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
142. I was in a ninth grade Spanish class when he was assassinated |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 12:23 AM Response to Reply #142 |
159. Was that when you first learned about him? |
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Cabcere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
143. However old I was when we learned about him in school, I guess. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 03:11 PM Response to Reply #143 |
144. My kids (that I had when I was ten, lol) might say the same thing. |
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Cabcere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 03:23 PM Response to Reply #144 |
145. I don't really remember |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 03:32 PM Response to Reply #145 |
146. Sure! I'm going to call one of my sons and ask him, too. |
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Cabcere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 05:00 PM Response to Reply #146 |
152. It's really hard for me to even imagine something like that. |
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Jimbo S (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
149. Kindergarden. My school was named after him. |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
150. I saw him in a motorcade in New Haven, CT. Not sure of the year. |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
151. In my teens, about 15 years or so after his death. |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
154. I remember hearing about Senator Kennedy in 1956 |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 12:22 AM Response to Reply #154 |
158. That was fifty years ago. Where does time go. |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 03:20 AM Response to Reply #158 |
160. Where indeed? |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 07:22 PM Response to Original message |
155. Depends what you mean aware |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 12:19 AM Response to Reply #155 |
157. He did all of those things, you are right. He ran as a hawk |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 03:29 AM Response to Original message |
161. My first recollection of President Kennedy (or learning of him) |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 04:52 AM Response to Original message |
162. It was before my twelfth birthday, when he was running |
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countryjake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
166. Not sure exactly how old I was, but it was his book, not his story... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 02:39 PM Response to Reply #166 |
171. Your parents sound like they know what they value. My mom |
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RFKJrNews (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
170. What a wonderful topic! so glad I found this! |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 02:45 PM Response to Reply #170 |
172. Hey, there. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
173. WTF? Who is that? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 02:57 PM Response to Reply #173 |
174. Now, there's a book concept! |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
176. I was barely 2 yrs old when he was murdered. |
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RFKHumphreyObama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
177. I was about 8 or 9 |
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Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 11:59 PM Response to Original message |
178. I was home sick from school |
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