[jcwade]

The older I get, the more I forget from today and the more I remember from my childhood. Give me a year or two and I'll remember back to my birth.

Things I DO remember from the late fifties and early sixties:
Froggy from the Andy Devine Show. I now know it was called Andy's Gang, thanks Google.
Lightning bugs in the evening in upstate NY. None in California, more's the pity.
Lying on the package shelf in the back window or the car with my little sister while on the Sunday drive. Try that today.
My father fixing a flat, in the middle of nowhere, by prying the tire off the wheel to patch the tube.
Seeing JFK at Eleanor Roosevelt's funeral in Hyde Park NY.
Being an altar boy when the mass was in Latin.
Third grade, St. Monica's School. Miss Orange crying and telling us that Kennedy had been assassinated.

False memory: Kennedy's funeral with the slow, somber drumbeat. Watching it now on YT, the beat was rather fast.