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[poliphilo]

Twerking: isn't that pretty much what Elvis was doing over 50 years ago?

I was doing my homework in my bedroom when Kennedy was assassinated. My parents were watching TV or listening to the radio downstairs and the news filtered up to me through the floor.

I was reading some of Kipling's late stories yesterday evening: such delight in language. such energy.

My blood tests came back normal. Hooray! I've still got a hell of a bruise in the crook of my elbow where the needle went in.

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I'd have been six then and we didn't have a telly, so I found out that some grown up had been shot the next day in the paper my grandad was reading- he being a good man of the left, it was the Daily Mirror.

I don't think people quite understand now how 'un-instant' news coverage was back then, especially from a land far away about which we knew little.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

I hate needles!

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

I was 7 when it happened, and it was a tumultuous day for me. It was my first day at a new school, but my mom had fallen and had gone to the emergency room. I was in the school office waiting for them to finish processing me so I could go to class, and I heard it on the radio. I'm going to write a long blog entry about it later on in the week (today is much too packed). My mom loved Kennedy.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I disagree.

Thanks to radio and TV British audiences followed the events of the Kennedy assassination more or less as it happened.

And I reckon we were pretty well informed about America. After all, it was the source of a great deal of our entertainment.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I look forward to reading your post.