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JFK... sitting in class when a another student who had just come from the office opened the class room door and said Kennedy was shot..

MLK...was sitting in my Middle School cafeteria having our 10 AM (PDT) break..where I was talking to a friend and said, "That guy (MLK) in Memphis is going to get shot." Later that day he was..

RFK..watching the CA primary returns and RFK's victory speech broadcasted live and a few moments later he was shot...so it was in the moment real time coverage.

The 92 LA riots....watched that 24/7 in real time...

Detroit 67 riot...was on a city bus at 8 PM from the Book Cadillac hotel downtown out to Grandma's house out on Van Dyke and 5 mile rd...you could feel the tension in the air...a black guy was heckling the black bus driver, complaining that he couldn't get the back door open at his stop. The black driver came back and kicked the door open. At about 2 AM the riot started.

On Sunday while visiting family the news said a riot had started the night before, going back to Grandmas house late that night we crossed Woodward Blvd which was ablaze, passing a burning gas station. That week I saw the army come in and leave, they were stationed right behind GM's house at what was then Detroit City airport. Going back to Willow Run airport to go home we passed a lot of burned out buildings on that same bus route that we took to get to GM;s house. Detroit was never the same.

The LA riots in 65...couldn't see the smoke plumes from where we lived in the burbs as you could see them from GM's house in Detroit. Watched that on TV.

The Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile crisis when JFK came on TV...Sputnik, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Gus Grissom loosing his capsule, Neil Armstrong, Nixon Resigning. John Lennon's assassination. Winston Churchill's funeral.. GW coming on TV and say we is in a melt down crisis.

WTC 1 in 93, talking to a Paki financial adviser while watching the breaking news about the attack..who cryptically said, "They don't know what they are doing." He knew full well who was behind the attack.

The 2000 election fiasco...

The original Berkeley student protests over a park that was to be developed...64, 65.

Patty Hearst, and the SLA shootout and burning of the house that they were in, in S Central LA...74. Was at a Muntz Stereo store in Covina, CA..buying records..