I Read The News Today, Oh Boy ! ( Oct. 5, 1969 )

[wantsomecoffee]

how it works confounds me. what a great line.

[buzzclick500]

We all have things it's hard to forgive ourselves for...I saw a newspaper in an antique store in 1997, sealed in a plastic cover, from the day President Kennedy was assassinated--and didn't buy it. &%#$.

[nanlisa]

October 5, 1969. It was three days after my 12th birthday, I had started at a new school, and my sister was born exactly one year later (1970).

[manhatin]

FriendLondonFriend , You mean, the more things change the more they tend to remain the same ?

[FriendLondonFriend]

The thing about reading old newspapers is that each article needs the contemporaneous knowledge of the reader (the reason the reader chose to read that particular article).

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Without this, as the today reader is, there is no context, and all newspaper stories start to be timeless; they are just standardly reported opinions of the journalists of the day then and now.

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Cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[manhatin]

lesah5, Back in the days when we bragged about how few miles per gallon our cars got.

[lesah5]

cool video! The Booston Store is one place as a little child I remember going alot.