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To: ManyMoose who wrote (178471)	5/16/2009 2:45:59 PM
From: Justin C	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

Stalin died in 1953, and I remember my parents talking about his death. That same year, I remember listening to Morgan Beatty and his News of the World radio program one evening when the execution of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg was imminent. As his program ended, he said "And we wait ......", but the executions weren't announced until shortly after his program ended. Ten years later, I was in college and didn't have a TV, but I heard the announcement on the radio, "John Fitzgerald Kennedy is dead. He was the 35th President of the United States." Stalin is dead.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (178471)	5/16/2009 2:55:36 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 225578

Here's a couple more of the News of the World - MovieTone... youtube.com The Star Spangled Banner (1942) Movietone News youtube.com 1951 Movietone Newsreel: Day the Earth Stood Still

To: ManyMoose who wrote (178471)	5/16/2009 2:56:45 PM
From: SmoothSail	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

You're right - Movietone News. We went to the neighborhood theater for 11 cents and 25 cents at the Pantages up on Hollywood Boulevard. We'd get a week's worth of news in 5 minutes. Those were the days when L.A. had 2 morning papers and 2 evening papers. The Times and Examiner in the morning and the The Mirror and Herald in the afternoon. The Times became the Times Mirror and the Herald because the Herald Examiner, but it eventually disappeared. Now there's just the Times, which is on a death watch. Don't expect it to be around in the future. No loss there. I still subscribe but that's because I want the Sunday crosswords. So they send the rest of the paper for the price of the Sunday paper.