16-08-2013, 07:25 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Al, interesting memory about the sewer news story. I've never seen anything like that in all the contemporary news accounts I've collected.
I've always wondered what the origin of that information was, but this was I believe a live radio broadcast they had piped over the intercom. It would be interesting to do some research. I was living in Indianapolis at that time. It was really early news, because I remember it as being around 1 PM. Is that possible? It was probably more like 2, since Indianapolis was supposedly on eastern time in 1963 (talk about local recalcitrance, check out the time zone history of Indiana).
Come to think of it, I probably remember 1 PM because of the time of JFK being officially pronounced dead; so that's not a valid indicator of when I heard the news.