This Day in History - Page 57

xoxoxoBruce · 01-29-2019, 10:29 AM

JFK.

Undertoad · 01-28-2019, 05:04 PM

50 years ago today, O.J. Simpson is the first pick in the NFL draft and goes to the Bills.

Carruthers · 01-29-2019, 04:07 AM

What worries me is that I remember an event like the Challenger disaster as if it were yesterday and it's called 'history'.

We pass this way but once and it's going too fast for my liking.

Gravdigr · 01-29-2019, 09:22 AM

Weep not, for it can go faster.

Gravdigr · 01-29-2019, 03:25 PM

Bruce, I'm always interested to hear the Where I Was stories.

I was w/my best friend John's mother when the Challenger 'sploded. No, not like that, I was in science class, she was my science teacher. They went around gathering the students up and cramming as many of us into a classroom as would fit, then turned on the tv. No preamble or nuthin'. We all learned about it together, teachers and students.

Where were you when JFK was shot?

Diaphone Jim · 01-29-2019, 06:03 PM

On certain space shuttle flights (the "scientific" ones) the reentry orbit came right over my house.
On clear nights, they were impressive. Columbia came over in cloud cover, but we could hear the distinctive double sonic booms. If it had been clear, I think we would have seen the beginning of the break-up.
What always amazed me was that by the time I got back in bed after viewing them, they were already on the ground in Florida 3000 miles away. The ones that didn't blow up, that is.

For JFK, I was a senior in college working on my dirt bike.

Undertoad · 01-29-2019, 07:29 PM

For JFK, I was being brought home from the hospital, having been born a few days earlier.

~ I do not directly remember this, or anything else from that day ~

xoxoxoBruce · 01-30-2019, 12:01 AM

I was walking across campus from a drafting class when two guys started shouting out of a second floor window of the main building at us that JFK had been murdered in Dallas. I don't think they really knew he was dead yet, just that he'd been shot, so thinking about it over the weekend I thought there's was a strange choice of words.

It was a pretty grim weekend in Boston, I decided not to go home and the dorm was like a morgue, so I spent a lot of time at the apartment of some working girls on Beacon hill.

The shuttle I was listening to on the radio at work. It was my first week back at Boeing after I quit in '67.

Gravdigr · 02-03-2019, 11:02 AM

February 3, 1961

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^Boeing EC-135C Looking Glass^

Operation Looking Glass begins. A plane capable of taking control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of SAC headquarters destruction is kept in the air 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, for the next 37 years.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-04-2019, 06:48 AM

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In such an event, the general officer aboard the Looking Glass serves as the Airborne Emergency Action Officer (AEAO)[2] and by law assumes the authority of the National Command Authority and could command execution of nuclear attacks.

Oh goody, for AEAO I nominate Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper.

Carruthers · 02-04-2019, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Oh goody, for AEAO I nominate Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper.

What could possibly go wrong?

Diaphone Jim · 02-04-2019, 11:51 AM

Someone had to stop the impurifying of our precious bodily fluids.

Gravdigr · 02-07-2019, 08:18 AM

February 7, 2013

The state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.

glatt · 02-07-2019, 12:06 PM

Hey, at least they did the right thing eventually.

Says the guy from Virginia who is trying to forgive people's past if they are doing a good job now. Like the Governor, and Attorney General.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-08-2019, 01:50 AM

It depends on what they did in the past, spitting on the sidewalk is hardly grounds to crucify someone.

01-29-2019, 10:29 AM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	JFK. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-29-2019, 04:07 AM	#3
Carruthers Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Buckinghamshire UK Posts: 4,059	What worries me is that I remember an event like the Challenger disaster as if it were yesterday and it's called 'history'. We pass this way but once and it's going too fast for my liking. __________________

01-29-2019, 09:22 AM	#4
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Weep not, for it can go faster. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

01-29-2019, 03:25 PM	#5
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Bruce, I'm always interested to hear the Where I Was stories. I was w/my best friend John's mother when the Challenger 'sploded. No, not like that, I was in science class, she was my science teacher. They went around gathering the students up and cramming as many of us into a classroom as would fit, then turned on the tv. No preamble or nuthin'. We all learned about it together, teachers and students. Where were you when JFK was shot? __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

01-30-2019, 12:01 AM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I was walking across campus from a drafting class when two guys started shouting out of a second floor window of the main building at us that JFK had been murdered in Dallas. I don't think they really knew he was dead yet, just that he'd been shot, so thinking about it over the weekend I thought there's was a strange choice of words. It was a pretty grim weekend in Boston, I decided not to go home and the dorm was like a morgue, so I spent a lot of time at the apartment of some working girls on Beacon hill. The shuttle I was listening to on the radio at work. It was my first week back at Boeing after I quit in '67. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-28-2019, 05:04 PM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	50 years ago today, O.J. Simpson is the first pick in the NFL draft and goes to the Bills.

01-29-2019, 06:03 PM	#6
Diaphone Jim Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northern California Posts: 2,122	On certain space shuttle flights (the "scientific" ones) the reentry orbit came right over my house. On clear nights, they were impressive. Columbia came over in cloud cover, but we could hear the distinctive double sonic booms. If it had been clear, I think we would have seen the beginning of the break-up. What always amazed me was that by the time I got back in bed after viewing them, they were already on the ground in Florida 3000 miles away. The ones that didn't blow up, that is. For JFK, I was a senior in college working on my dirt bike.

01-29-2019, 07:29 PM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	For JFK, I was being brought home from the hospital, having been born a few days earlier. ~ I do not directly remember this, or anything else from that day ~

02-03-2019, 11:02 AM	#9
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	February 3, 1961 ^Boeing EC-135C Looking Glass^ Operation Looking Glass begins. A plane capable of taking control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of SAC headquarters destruction is kept in the air 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, for the next 37 years. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

02-04-2019, 11:51 AM	#12
Diaphone Jim Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northern California Posts: 2,122	Someone had to stop the impurifying of our precious bodily fluids.

02-07-2019, 08:18 AM	#13
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	February 7, 2013 The state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

02-07-2019, 12:06 PM	#14
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Hey, at least they did the right thing eventually. Says the guy from Virginia who is trying to forgive people's past if they are doing a good job now. Like the Governor, and Attorney General.

02-08-2019, 01:50 AM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It depends on what they did in the past, spitting on the sidewalk is hardly grounds to crucify someone. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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