<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On Nov 21, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>> I was eight, and was—from knowledge picked up from reading technical books from SAMS and other publishers at our local public library—fascinated with how it was all being put together.</div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I offer:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I had just turned 13. I was in high school; 8th grade. We'd just returned from lunch. Some confusing intercom chatter was followed by the vague announcement that all classes were cancelled, telling us all to go home. I didn't find out what had happened until I got to the parking lot and heard about it on a car radio. Girls were crying, football players were trying to comfort them. By the time I got home, the TV was already on. It stayed on for the weekend.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Oswald was killed while I was in Sunday School. I heard about that on the way home, also from a car radio. But we all watched the funeral live on Monday as it happened. No school that day, of course.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>11 years later, I was working in Columbus, GA watching Geraldo Rivera on ABC showing the Zapruder film for the first time ever. I still have a tape of that program.</div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> NBC Today Show, New York<br><br></div></span></span>
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