D12, #100WorkingDays Where was I?

 As technology advanced we acquired a television. In a wooden cabinet with a 9 inch screen and  viewing in black and white. There were the children's hour programs such as Bill and Ben and Muffin the Mule. Before that there was the radio with Listen with Mother, where we are asked if sitting comfortably. The BBC were the channel of choice though they were pretty much all there was to begin with. I’ve mentioned world events before and the stand out one from early on was hearing the news that President Kennedy had died, following the assassination in Dallas. My mum and my grandma were discussing the news of the shooting on the phone - which must of impressed on me the gravity of what had happened. When the announcement came that he had died I went to the hall to tell mum. I think Jack Kennedy had meant an awful lot to people around the world and the new age was dealt a blow. 

Later humankind reached the moon after he had issued the challenge. Before that though came the funeral of Winston Churchill a televised event of importance in the UK. Having watched that it was a few days later that mum found my sister and I carrying a teddy bear in a shoe box on our shoulders as though it was a coffin. We must have understood the coffin we’d seen contained his body. These were events that stand out for me, with clarity. When I mentioned to one team more recently that we use as the code to a new locked cupboard the year Kennedy died, I was met with blank looks. That idea didn’t work, events though do remain in the memory and where we were is perhaps a key to who we are.