[Ads-l] Speakers recall events of 1860s and '70s

[Jonathan Lighter]

Leander Herron (1846-1937) was born in Fallsington, Pa. Interviewed by
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker (a familiar name to those of a certain age), he
carefully enunciates events of 1868.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAwLLF8n7UE

Rickenbacker was born in 1890 in Columbus, O.

Photographer William H. Jackson was born in Keeseville, N.Y., in 1843. He
was 98 when interviewed. (Listen for his approximation of "Brooklyn"
"foist.") Age sometimes makes him hard to understand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ab5nv4Suc

YouTube provides a number of exx. of 19th century accents, some of which
I've previously posted.

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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