[Magdalen] Where Were You?

[Jo Craddock]

I was eight and remember having to take an early bath and getting into 
pj's during landing preparation, then laying on the rug in the living 
room, watching on an RCA black-and-white television whose home was a 
chrome roll-around cart with black plastic wheels. Walter Cronkite 
features prominently in my memory, too, Lynn.

It was not long before my dad proposed that we should get a color 
television to follow these events, but mother held him off for another 
couple of years, responding that the space broadcasts were always in 
black-and-white, so what good was a color television? (They also had 
rule between themselves that any such "luxury" item should be 
accompanied by a tithe of its cost to the church, but he won out by, at 
least, mid-1971.)

Peace,
Jo