Re: [asa] Moonwalk

John Burgeson (ASA member) wrote:
> Thanks so much for the reminder. Our family "watched" the moon landing
> on an old radio in a remote Vermont cabin.One of the few times in
> history (12/7/41 and JFK's assassination I can remember where I was.
> Oh yeah -- the day FDR died.
>
Hm I remember watching the moonwalk with our two young children. We
lived in Ottawa at the time and the TV was black and white or maybe the
world was black and white back then as Calvin's dad in the cartoon claims.

JFKs assassination occurred during the only time I cut class for a
couple of days at a stretch. I was studying at the Univ of Waterloo,
where engineering was by far the dominant faculty back then. In fact my
first year class was bigger than the rest of the total student body.
My uncle was quite poor and had built himself a roofed basement and I
had gone to do the electrical wiring so they could have power. Since I
was sleeping at the house of nearby friends with a TV, I remember the
shock of his assassination as it played over and over. A few years later
I recall being almost as shocked, when on a business trip to Dallas, a
vp of the company we were visiting, expressed pride that Dallas was
honored by JFKs assassination having taken place there. Camelot was
important to us back then.

FDR April 12 1945 Now that I do not remember as I was four at the time
and we had neither TV nor likely even radio as things were rationed and
money was tight. My dad was an attached civilian working as a weather
forecaster at an Air Force base that trained pilots for the war in
Europe and we lived in a small town called Brantford. Mother would call
up my dad at the office and ask if he thought she should do the laundry
and naturally hang the clothes out on the line and he would answer no
the forecast looked like rain, thus mother would know to take an
umbrella etc when we went shopping or even if she should just stay
home. Even forecasts in Canada were not published at that time, at
least not very detailed ones. Given the lack of accuracy of forecasts
we probably should have mailed them to the Germans as they were likely
confusing.

Dave

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Received on Wed Jul 15 13:13:06 2009