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1968 RCA Color TV built into Cabinet |
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Our First Color Tv had Record Player on top of TV |
This site will encapsulate memories and photos of Garden Grove, CA from the 1960's, 1970's through the 1980's. Now, I'm thinking about the assassination of John F Kennedy.
Thinking about the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of JFK (before we were born or that we were barely born at the time), I asked my mom what her memories of that November 22 were. As a school teacher, the day was a Friday and they were having parent conferences. A parent who lived across the street, ran to the school shouting, "kennedy has been shot". The school had 1 small, black and white TV in the library. They plugged it in, and watched in horror, in between their parent conferences, the news unfold that JFK had been shot and had died. She said the mood was so somber. When the school day ended, she went home and sat on the floor in front of the TV (even though we had a sofa) riveted to the unfolding events. In an era of TV being off the air by 11 pm and having maybe 1 hour of news, she said the news of the events was on day and night. All weekend, she sat in front of that TV - 6 months pregnant with me! Then, on Sunday, she and my dad watched live Ruby kill Oswald. And, then they watched the funeral on Monday as all school was cancelled for Monday, November 25, 1963. Thinking of her story, I found an old picture of our RCA TV which we had for 20 years. Albeit this wasn't the set she watched in 1963, it was similar.
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