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[GSCole]

Remember well both the announcement of JFK's assassination, and the
three workers to whom I next conveyed the news.

Also, I distinctly remember the moment of the TV announcement of the
Martin Luther King, Jr., assassination.  Recently out of the service, I
was visiting a newly married friend.  When the news came on TV, my
friend's wife was finishing up some work in the kitchen, preparing to
come in and join our conversation.  We exchanged a few comments about
what was just shown on TV, but there was no further conversation; I
left.  In a lengthy telephone conversation just before this past
Christmas, he and I agreed on our memory of the specifics of that
moment.  We were trying to figure out why the details of the event had
stayed with us.

George S. Cole   gscole at ark.ship.edu
Shippensburg University