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A Ramble About Cold War and Cuba

The longer you fight a war in your heart or mind the longer it wears on you and changes you. Eventually you forget what you were even fighting about in the first place. Perhaps the cold war of our souls should end so we can all live anew.

History is a good teacher but it is also something that holds us down from doing something new.

It’s past time for us to stop fighting the Cold War of the past and forge a new future with Cuba. It’s a place with a proud people who in other places in the world are treated better than they are by the old, tired guard of the USA. To create change there you must change here. 

Local radio & TV reactions to JFK’s death, 1963: “Is this for real?” | David Carroll’s Chattanooga Radio and TV

On November 22, 1963 Chattanooga had three TV stations, each with only a handful of news reporters.  There were about a dozen radio stations, mostly on the AM band, all live and local.

Source: Local radio & TV reactions to JFK’s death, 1963: “Is this for real?” | David Carroll’s Chattanooga Radio and TV

This is a great article on the local perspective of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy back in 1963. David Carroll works for our NBC TV affiliate here in Chattanooga. He is an experienced broadcast professional.