Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/18

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Subject: [Leica] Titanic and Kennedy
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:47:04 -0700
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+1 Best story yet!

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> When the news of the Titanic sinking arrived, Ted had already finished his
> photo lecture cruise duties and had rowed ahead to New York for his next
> assignment where was supposed to cover the ship's arrival!
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
>
> On 19 April 2012 02:22, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> > I was in German language class.
> >
> > gene
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist3 at mac.com>
> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:12:59 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Titanic and Kennedy
> >
> >
> > On Apr 18, 2012, at 3:49 AM, H&ECummer wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Luggers,
> > > I was in third year Commerce and head of the University radio station.
> > Somebody phoned me about the assassination.
> > > We had a fixed line feed from one of the local radio stations that was
> > broadcasting bulletins from the American networks every few minutes.
> > > We plugged into that and broadcast to all the campus lounges and
> > cafeterias. To check the sound I walked out from the station to the main
> > lounge outside where people were usually smoking and drinking, laughing
> and
> > talking. To this  day I remember the stunned silence.
> > > Howard
> >
> > I was in a third year high school latin class
> > when the news came over the PA system.
> >
> > Regards,
> > George Lottermoser
> > george at imagist.com
> > http://www.imagist.com
> > http://www.imagist.com/blog
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


In reply to: Message from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] Titanic and Kennedy)
Message from grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com) ([Leica] Titanic and Kennedy)
Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Titanic and Kennedy)