People in an electronics store watching President Kennedy address the nation on the Cuban missile crisis on October 22, 1962.

Can you identify the sets?

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The one that is facing us that is showing President Kennedy is obviously a Magnavox.

I remember the story Mom told me when JFK was shot, she was at lunch and remembers going to an electronics store to see the beginning of the TV coverage. She then got back to the office and told everyone, first they thought she was joking until someone came up with a transistor radio and they followed it fro there. I think she went home early that day.

I remember the story Mom told me when JFK was shot, ...

I was in 4th grade, but home sick from school that day. I was probably watching cartoons or such on TV, then the news bulletins broke, and then it was non-stop coverage for the next 4 days.

thats pretty much how I saw the 9/11/2001 coverage, I was living in Cass City MI, and had no TV at home- too far out in the boonies. So hit Schneeberger's TV on my way home from work to watch the news. later on I dug out my 21" portable B%W zenith out of the closet, only thing I had with a good enough tuner to pick up a couple channels. I was about 60 miles from the nearest station.

I was in 4th grade, but home sick from school that day. I was probably watching cartoons or such on TV, then the news bulletins broke, and then it was non-stop coverage for the next 4 days.
I was at work, when the shooting occured. Someone from the office came out with the news. I was listening to a music station and tuned to a news type station, to hear all the reports.
On Sunday morning, I was laying in bed and I turned the TV to see what was going on. They were showing the transfering of L.H Oswald, to the other jail or where ever they were taking him to, when he was shot. It was live at the time.
I said to myself, "Is this F'n real", or what! :sigh:

The one that is facing us that is showing President Kennedy is obviously a Magnavox.

The one on the right, seems to be a Magnavox, as well.
The one on the left, could be an Olympic. :scratch2:

The people in the photo have somber expressions. It was a scary time. 1 year and one month later President Kennedy was gone.

It has been said that people remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when the news of the assassination occurred. I was in study hall in high school, junior year and the the speakers came on with the radio broadcast.

The center set looks to be a black and white model, possible with remote control.

I was 2 months old, mom must have had our Motorola turned off when a man delivering the baby pictures from Sears rang the doorbell, telling mom the president was just shot in Dallas. Mom said she didn't beleive him and he got pretty upset. She felt pretty bad once she turned the TV on.

BTW - I see the backs of several more Mags with those "conveniently located" thumbwheel controls for brightness, contrast vertical, etc.
That is a Westinghouse heater to the left of the lady with the porcupine hat.

The people in the photo have somber expressions. It was a scary time. 1 year and one month later President Kennedy was gone.

It has been said that people remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when the news of the assassination occurred. I was in study hall in high school, junior year and the the speakers came on with the radio broadcast.

The center set looks to be a black and white model, possible with remote control.

Mom told me it was a scary time. My father served two years in the Army, 1955-57 and when you got out, you were on inactive reserve for 5 years. She was scared my father would end up getting called up for service but he received his final discharge during the Cuban Missile Crisis. If things were different, I might have never been born. I'm sure a lot of people then were lugging transistor radios with them.

Yes, back in the late 50s, and early 60s, were quite a scary time for me, and I guess it continued on until the 70s, when finally the Vietnam war ended. Yes, I was just a kid, (now almost 65), and my dad said if Russia or Cuba were to attack, they would likely hit Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue NE, just south of Omaha where I lived growing up. I remember sitting in class in grade school, and every time a plane would go over, I got scared that we were being bombed. Then the announcement that Pres. Kennedy had been shot, and my homeroom teacher actually started crying as I sat in class in 7th grade. Then the Vietnam war came about, and seemed to never end. I had a student deferment after high school as I was in electronics trade school here in Omaha, and was sure I was going to be drafted. Luckily I never did have to go, but it was a very tense time for me. I remember the "bomb drills" in grade school where we all would have to go into the basement and duck and cover, and then when they installed the "air raid" siren on the school I attended, that made it even scarier. We listened to a small transistor radio in class, during the first man in orbit, and the moon landing. We had B&W TV, and radio, and a small mono kids record player. I grew up loving electronics. Started back when my Dad brought home a old B&W Motorola 17" TV, that I tinkered with forever trying to get it to work, which I never did get it going, but it was fun, and probably a couple of jolts. I decided in the early 70s to start repairing TVs, etc, and it became an income, although never made any really great profits. I guess life for me always had been tense, and now it's not so much about being bombed, drafted, etc, it's about getting old. Always some problem to run to the doctor for, but fixing and restoring these old TVs, etc. keeps my mind active and give me something to do with my spare time. My parents have long passed away, my dad with Alzheimers, and my mom due to a stroke. I just hope I don't have to suffer and linger like they did. Technology has changed so much over my years, it's hard to even take in. Internet, cable, GPS, 3D color TV, cell phones, high tech audio and more. Something I could have never imagined back in the 50s and 60s.

Speaking of the cold war, back in college in 1976 I acquired a fallout shelter sign from the dorm basement. One student from South America asked "what if we have a nuke war?" "That's not gonna happen" I replied. So far, I'm correct...