Lindsay said (partial quote only):**
. . . Also JFK.,JR was known mostly for living in his father’s shadow. When he died, the local telly tried to get people to go on the tv and weep. It didn’t work as well as they hoped. No one under 60 or 70 cared. . . . That was so pathetic. Among the 20 year olds, their reaction was who was he? . . .**
At the risk of branding myself some kind of JFK Jr. crusader (since I “defended” him in some other kindly person’s Pit thread), I must ask where you get your information. “Living in his father’s shadow”? You’ve got to be joking. And any 20-year-olds who have to ask “who was he?” in reference to him, well, perhaps they should get their heads out of the sand and read a newspaper sometime. I mean, they don’t have to be authorities on His Life and Times, but to not even have a clue as to who he was? (Or so you say. The 20-year-olds I know were well aware of the existence of the person JFK Jr., but maybe I interact with people of a higher intellectual caliber than you do.)
I am curious as to how you are able to remember what so many people’s reactions were at the time of JFK Jr.'s, Princess Diana’s, and Marilyn Monroe’s deaths, considering that you, by your own admission, cannot remember to whom you have talked from day to day or what the content of any post is for more than 5 minutes after reading it.
