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I was going telephone work in Saint Francis Hospital,work shop,when JFK was shot and Walter Cronkite came on the air crying announcing JFK had been shot and had passed.
I guess I might as well add this one,Cuban Missle crisis.I was working in Kaman Aircraft in CT when they locked down and all aircraft went to Nebraska,it was ery.They search us as we left.
I was in Australia when the news came through about the JFK assassination. The news was all over the place for a while, and we were getting conflicting reports until everything had been sorted out. First it was that Robert Kennedy had been shot and wounded. Then it was that Robert Kennedy had died from gunshot wounds. Then the truth finally came out that it was JFK who had been assassinated. The first I heard was when mom came into my bedroom in the morning and told me that Robert Kennedy had been shot. When the facts began to emerge via the TV/radio news service later in the day, I think it would be fair to say that the whole country (Australia) was in a state of shocked numbness.
Perhaps of interest, had a Prime Minister of Australia been assassinated I think that I can safely say that this would hardly have registered a blip on the International News Service. I remember when Australian PM, Harold Holt, disappeared in 1967. He was presumed drowned. While this was, obviously, big news in Australia, the only article I saw that appeared in an American newspaper was given a tiny slot on page 2 and even then, they got his name wrong. He was referred to as Harold Hoyt.
Earlier this year during the war now going on in Ukraine the Russian artillery were shelling a nuclear power station which was being defended by the Ukrainian Army. How crazy can it get ???
I dont remember what I was doing when Chernobyl happened Moderator cut: Off topic remarks removed.
Perhaps a future thread titled
Do you remember where you were when the Apocalypse finally happened ?
How crazy indeed...we are the same page there, James.
I was in college and I remember hearing something about it but not paying too much attention to it. It seemed so far away and I had lots going on as most college kids do.
I do, however, vividly remember being in the Student Center and watching news coverage of the Challenger Disaster in January of 1986. I had been in that same building cramming for an exam and sipping on black coffee when Joe Theismann broke his leg in Nov 1985. I also vividly remember watching coverage of Baby Jessica's rescue out of the well in Oct of '87.
But Chernobyl really didn't resonate with me for some reason.
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I was 10 years old and heard it on the news. I lived in Sweden at the time.
Sweden was the first country to detect the Chernobyl meltdown, if I remember correctly.
The Ukraine was part of the USSR then, and Russia was not at all swift in reporting the news. I was going to college for nursing at the time, and we discussed it.
Fifteen years later, when I first visited Ukraine, I turned down the opportunity, if you want to call it that, to visit Chernobyl. I was also told by our interpreter from the adoption agency I worked for, to avoid eating too many mushrooms and berries. Many older women would sit in Kyiv selling berries and mushrooms. The day before, I bought both and I'd already eaten them!
Anyway, the news of Chernobyl came to us in a piece meal fashion, as all news from the USSR did back then. I don't think Russia is any less secretive now than it was then.
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