Dogs of C-Kennel by Mick & Mason Mastroianni for June 04, 2023

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Not always. When I was a kid I recall seeing Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinated and the moon landings and the Zodiac killer, all while I was still at single digits age.

This makes more sense in dog years. Body counts on the nightly news was messed up, but not boring.

When I was a kid the news was Cuban Missile Crisis; Khrushchev pounding his shoe and shouting, “We will bury you!”; Kennedy assassination; Vietnam war.

The news was never boring for me. I went through the assassination of JFK, Watergate, Nixon and Vietnam. My mom suffered WWII. It never ends! I decided to let go of the drama and enjoy my own life!

The Alaska earthquake, Jack Ruby murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Studebaker dropped Packard then closed down automobile operations, maybe the ugliest thing I remember was Lyndon Johnson riding in an open Esdel convertible with commentary by Chet Huntley.

Don’t forget Leon Jaworski and Abe Fortas and the Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean song, and lawn darts and clackers and streaking…

Look up the pictures of Lyndon Johnson picking his beagle up by its ears.

They use to never try to entertain…just give the news

I can still hear Walter Cronkite saying, “And that’s the way it is.”

Just a few years before I was a kid, the news was WWII, which ended with an atomic bomb.

We only get half of the network news.

Apparently we can’t handle the truth.

The news back then was only boring because you didn’t understand what was going on. You would’ve been just as horrified

Nuclear tension, nope, news weren’t boring when I was a kid, either.

And it’s about to get a lot worse. War is a very profitable business.

When I was a kid the news was about possible nuclear war, so no I wouldn’t exactly call it boring

Yeah, that whole five decades of Cold War brinkmanship was a real doze fest.

Don’t watch the news, then.

You mean the boring nightly death toll from the Viet Nam War, the boring Summer Race riots, and the real boring potential Nuclear Destruction between the US and Soviet Union. Those were the days my friend, we’d thought they’d never end…..

Yes, now it’s like a horror movie, you’re right!

Maybe you should be out chasin’ squirrels instead.

NO.

I was just short of 3yo when I say JFK shot (I remember because it mad my mama cry, I’d never seen her cry before).

My parents banned the 6 o’clock news for most of my childhood due to them bringing the Vietnam War into everyone’s home in gruesome detail (and yes it was a war, I don’t care if it was undeclared.)

I remember Watergate hearings in the afternoons.

I remember Civil Rights marches and the horrific police responses described in the newspapers.

But then, it’s pretty horrific now, too.

I started paying attention to the news in the 60s. Hot and cold wars, civil rights, Hollywood scandals and partisan politics. The descent into chaos continues.