Where were you when J.F.K. was shot?
In school wondering who he was and why all the kids around me were crying.
Where were you when Nixon died?
Is he dead?
L.B.J. ?
Is he dead too?
Reagan?
Uh, I have no clue but my aunt gave me a book about Mrs. Reagan once for Christmas.
Gerald Ford?
Here in this chair considering what to post to blogger.
Presidential assassination attempts?
Of assassination attempts I remember very little. A vague memory of Jodi Foster being stalked by someone and then was it that same someone, Mark Shepard? or Mark Chapman? perhaps who tried killing off one of the presidents, I'd have to look that one up.
MSNBC is showing an interview with Gerald Ford on his assassination attempts by Squeaky Fromme and Sara Jane Moore. I remember the Manson family but have no clue who Sara Jane Moore is; nor when either attempt happened.
I remember hearing that James Brady (a senator? Arkansas? Alabama?) got shot and paralyzed and his work for gun control afterward but no clue as to when or where or why or who.
I seem to have a good memory for programs I see on the history channel and for historical bits explained to me by my husband in conversation. I think I will have to seek out more info on these events that I lived through but have forgotten. An easy thing to do these days with any proficiency in skating the net.
sapphoq on life
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