46 years ago today

[BOSSHOG]

The first televised presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy took place in Chicago.

[babylonsister]

1. We've come a long way, baby, but I'm thinking that's not a

good thing.

[Double T]

2. Agreed. Who would have ever thought the media,...........

including television, would have been taken over and manipulated for political gain by the RW NEOCONS.

[Botany]

3. If I could I would dig up Nixon's evil bones and do a SCI-FI

mad scientist # on them and bring him back from the dead if Dick would take over for bush.

[sweetheart]

4. A very significant time

Electronic technologies have transformed information, societal interconnection,
and politics along with it. What was once a common sense public that won ww2
for the betterment of mankind, has become a mentally unstable authoritarian state
of fearful people swatting at their own lies. Without any leadership at the
national level, except that of opportunist electioneers and warmaking federalists,
television has become an insideous weapon that has decimated a culture in to
a vegetable patch.

Pray the internet revives the next generation from the drip, or between cable and
oil, mummies will be unnaturally preserved in future with black blood and black hearts.

[filer]

5. I remember that debate.

I remember watching Nixon sweating under the hot camera lights while Kennedy seemed so cool. My parents were for Nixon, so at eleven years old, I was too. What followed was the first election I remember where "my side" lost. At the time I was astounded that my parents could end up on the losing side of an election. Now, all these years later, after countless elections lost, I feel astounded when "my side" wins one.

[BOSSHOG]

6. My first recollection of any news event on TV

was Kennedy's funeral. I don't quite recall the debate, I was 6 at the time and not too interested in politics. But Kennedy's assassination and funeral were awesome TV events.

[babylonsister]

7. We must be the same age, BOSS-

(well, I might have a year on you ;) I remember the day Kennedy was shot like yesterday; I was on my way home from school, on a bus, and a woman ran across the street crying and informed the bus driver.
For the next week my parents and all of us kids (sporadically, I'm sure) sat in front of that little tube watching the funeral unfold. I remember the sadness in our home.

[BOSSHOG]

8. I was born

in May 54 and in September 1960 my efforts were put toward collecting baseball cards and doing whatever I could to get my older brother in trouble. I do recall the assassination though. The nuns told us to put our heads down on our desks. I thought the funeral was incredible. It had a heckuv an effect on me. Especially lil John saluting the casket.