Comments by "Andrew Brendan" (@andrewbrendan1579) on "First report of JFK assassination from WFAA" video.

A lot. I was born in 1961 and it was common when I was growing up to see pedestal ashtrays about three feet high and cylindrical standing ashtrays with white sand in them in lobbies and waiting rooms/receptionist areas and I think that some auditoriums had ashtrays built into the back of the seats. Cars had ashtrays in the dashboard areas and in the arm rests of the doors and some cars had small ashtrays that could be opened and closed built into the backs of the front seats. People could smoke even in hospitals. I started taking college classes at Indiana University in 1979 and you could light up in class and ashtrays were built into the walls outside of classrooms. Dorm rooms had built-in desks and on each desk was an ashtray. There were also ashtrays attached to the walls in the corridor of the dorm where I lived and I believe you could smoke in the dorm cafeterias. I remember a cigarette vending machine the Student Union building. I come from a family of smokers and when I was learning how to read, some of the first words I could read were "Lucky Strike"!
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It really was. It was a huge event for many people and I think it could be truthfully said that for some people JFK's death was a paradigm shift, it changed how they saw the world.
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So much time has gone by and so many people with information are now dead that I doubt we'll ever know the truth about Marilyn Monroe's death. I've read and watched a lot about her and I'm inclined to think that her death was a tragic accidental overdose of medication (maybe mixed with alcohol she drank) administered in an enema by her housekeeper and/or psychiatrist. Marilyn did have some connection with the Kennedys but it appears that it wasn't as much or as lurid as some have said. You might be interested in the life and mysterious death of Mary Pinchot Meyer who was known to be very involved with President Kennedy and asked too many questions after his death and was too critical of the CIA and was murdered a year after JFK. Mary Meyer was around some of the early users of LSD and may have have been involved in drug use with JFK though it's unknown if they used LSD.
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@urbaniteurbanizer1612 In those days it wasn't bad manner. It was normal for people in interviews and settings such as talk shows to light up while they were speaking. Smoking on TV almost disappeared in the early 70's then got going again in maybe the 1990's.
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Yep! Old enough that not only did I start smoking in high school but stopped smoking in 1981 while Ronald Reagan was President!
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I believe 1961 was also the year that long-distance calls could be dialed (when we still dialed) direct. Also that year Marilyn Monroe received the Golden Globe for being the most popular female entertainer of the year or maybe most popular entertainer overall.
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Only cigarettes. Quite a while after the death of my grandfather I put his pipe, that hadn't been used in I don't even know how long, in my mouth and even from that cold pipe with no tobacco in it there was an awful burning my mouth. My first and last experience with a pipe though the tobacco from a pipe or cigar can have a nice aroma.
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I have to disagree. The news from Dallas was about such an enormous event that something such as a discussion of clothing was so trivial in comparison that there was no reason to wait for the fashion lady to finish speaking.
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@urbaniteurbanizer1612 I think it was around the time that cigarette ads were banned from American TV (1971, as I recall) and when anti-smoking public service announcements were shown that smoking nearly disappeared from TV for a long time. One of those little things that stays in one's memory for some reason: in the late 70's I was watching "The Merv Griffin Show" and I was surprised to see his guests Lindsay Wagner and David Soul, both in popular TV shows at the time, light up and smoke. The cigarettes and lighter may have been on the coffee table in front of the host and guests. I don't recall either of them taking out a pack of cigarettes. By that time smoking on TV had become unusual. You rarely see anyone smoking in a mid- to late- 70's TV show. I don't remember about the earlier part of the decade. I think Madonna did smoke a cigar on some occasion but I didn't and don't pay much attention to her. I do recall an anti-smoking PSA with Brooke Shields who later acted in a TV show in which she was smoking and I think it was a cigar.
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I really haven't looked into the JFK assassination, haven't read or watched much. There are so many theories and so many people who have been called suspects along with Lee Harvey Oswald that, as with Marilyn Monroe the previous year, I don't think we're going to know what really happened and who was involved. An interesting theory is that President Kennedy wasn't doing what others wanted him to do (Mary Meyer made a comment about this but wasn't very specific), becoming too independent, and was killed by the CIA. One theory involving organized crime sounds like it may have substance. As far as the number of shots fired, I really don't know but I'd say that more than one shooter is a reasonable possibility.
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That I don't know about. The name Jean Hill isn't familiar to me.
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@Crezelltree4261 This is simply one thread among many comments, not the whole discussion.
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