And if you think about it, why would a talk show like Donahue be booking random business executives? Doesn’t exactly fit with the concept of the show.
To the contrary … CNN’s live camera was firmly fixed on the shuttle when the solid rocket boosters failed:
Go to 1:37 and you’ll see it plain as day. Sort of funny given the topic here, that you were firm in your belief that no one could have seen it live on TV. Welcome to the club. 
Well, I’ll be darned. It happened to me today.
A friend needed to give me something and said he was bringing his daughter to some kind of kindergarten near my place. We had met there a year or two ago so “you know where I mean”. Sure. Fine. See you there.
I go. And wait. And wait. I have no doubt I am at the door of the right place. It says it right there: “Children’s development R US”. Finally I call him on the phone and he says he is at the door. No, I am at the door. We finally figure we are about a block apart. I tell him where I am and he comes over.
He informs me he has never brought his daughter to this place. The right place is further down the street. Nope. I have a clear and distinct memory of picking up his daughter here. No doubt in my mind. Absolute certainty. We argue a bit. Finally I told him “look, if there were money involved I would have no doubt you were lying to me but since you have no interest in this I have to assume I somehow imagined this happened and it became part of my memory”.
Later we go to pick up his daughter and my memory is jogged. Yes, that is the correct place but it is a plain building, not the “develoment kindergarten”. Since I pass that way quite often it seems my memory began conflating the original event with the new location which made more sense. After some time I had no doubts whatsoever and I would have sworn it happened. It was photographically etched in my mind and yet it never happened.
As we say in Spanish:“It could well be true and never have happened”.
there’s a lot of misremembering out there… esp. from media. Burns & Allen never did the joke “Say goodnight, Gracie.” “Goodnight, Gracie.” But it’s considered their signature line.
I find this whole story fascinating. How likely, I wonder, is it that a photo like this could have been published somewhere during the 20th century and would not turn up after much dedicated searching?
Could you describe the image as you recall it please?
From another forum someone has described the image as:
The picture I remember seeing was an enormus eagle nailed to the inside of a barn wall with six men in western garb standing in front of it fingertip to fingertip to show the width of the wingspan.
Did Dooku/Morbo ever make those rare scenes available?
About four years ago, when I was in high school, I was driving to work from a friend’s house when I passed a disoriented old lady walking on the side of the road in her underwear. It was a horrifying sight.
I told my friends about it a few days later. About a year ago, one of those friends told the story as if he was the one who passed the old lady in his car. He was convinced it was him but I know it was me.
Slight hijack: “Obviously a major malfunction” (heard from the NASA guy right at the end of that clip) has to go down in history as the biggest understatement ever uttered.
Actually, it’s from an episode of a not-so-obscure TV show, “Burke’s Law”: http://s98.photobucket.com/albums/l269/hosmackah/beauty/?action=view¤t=img002.flv
Yeah, and speaking of Woodstock, if you believe every claim that someone saw the Woodstock Baby being born, or knows them, or is them, the festival would have produced an entire kindergarten class. In fact, there’s no proof that even one baby was born at Woodstock.
And I should think that with the trend that’s grown between then and now – that of tracking down every historical footnote – more would be known about this mythical infant. Not necessarily hir name, but where the parents were from, why they chose to go to the festival when mom was about to pop, who assisted with the birth, if there were any complications from being born in effectively a disaster area, and so forth. And heck, they would be forty this year, so why not go public now! (If they do, I’ll gladly retract this post.)
I hope it is okay to bump this request as no reply was posted.
I saw some grainy, black-and-white footage of this on an ESPN program a while back. It looks like (and some commentators would argue) that he is pointing his bat at the Chicago Cubs’ dugout, since they were taunting him.
As he trots around the bases he is clearly pointing and gesturing into the Cubs’ dugout some more. Apparently a lot of the Babe’s competitors got a kick out of calling him ‘N-----lips’ as he was in the box, and the Cubs (especially Hack Wilson) were no exception.
Or did I see that footage? Maybe I’m just remembering incorrectly.
Not specifically related, but amusing nonetheless:
I just thought I’d add that the Discovery Channel ran a series of investigative shows debunking certain common beliefs.
In one, they use helmet-mounted cameras to see exactly what a group of hikers see. The hikers are told it is a study to see how well they notice wild animals, but they come across a staged “UFO crash” with some vague debris and an armed guard who tells them all to move along. In the eyewitness reports given two weeks later, the hikers report things that never happened, including: saucer-shaped UFO, shots fired by the guard, multiple guards, and dead alien bodies.
From a more personal background, my wife is a police volunteer and has gone through training for observation and crime scene reporting. In that training, they show a series of slides and then ask questions about what you saw. The majority of people wind up filling in all kinds of details that may be logical implications of the slides, but are not actually shown. For example, one slide shows a kid approaching a cart of oranges. The next shows the oranges falling on the ground. A large number of people “remember” a slide in which the kid knocked the oranges down.
My brother and I (only 15 months apart in age) were once reminiscing about many of our childhood events. We changed the subject pretty quickly - in too many cases, we had totally different recollections about what happened, when/where it happened and who was there. Both of us were absolutely convinced our version was right. (I kind of suspect that it’s more likely we were both wrong)
I had an episode of this regarding an item on the news crawl of NECN, the cable news channel in Boston. It was around August 20, 2001. I was getting ready to head out to work, and glanced at the screen and remembered a crawl item in which Colin Powell had made a statement to the effect that we had indications of an increased risk of terrorist attack. Not a news flash sort of thing, just an item in the sequence of news items in the crawl.
Of course, come 9/11, I’m racking my brain to determine if this was real, and there was a warning that was made generally known. I never could corroborate this with anything, though.
For the record, I’m one of them, and this freaks me out to no end. I still have a vivid memory of it AND the book I remember seeing it in. Of course, when I read that story a while back I went and checked. Not in there. But I was probably misremembering the book, I’d swear I knew that photo from when I was a kid.
Is this proof of somebody going back in time and changing the past? Most likely! 
I know I have a false memory. It is a memory of me at 1 year old being told by my brother that we have a baby sister. I am sitting on the ground, playing with a toy fire truck.
I know it is a false memory, because my brother told me what I was doing when he told me we had a sister. And my memory is from his point of view - I am looking down at myself.
Yet I have had this memory for decades and any time I think about the topic I clearly remember it.
I also have been confusing myself over events that happened in TV shows and my reactions. Several of those are posted in threads on Cafe Society.
Somebody is nude during about the last minute and a quarter of the opening credits, as shown here: (link disabled because of some nudity)
http://w ww.youtube.com/watch?v=m76uV2rK8KY
Is it a body double or something? I’ve never been good with faces but it looks like Fonda to me.
Think again & follow this link:
A taster from the thread:
The Milwaukee Journal has confused the 8mm film taken by Marie Muchmore with the Zapruder film. UPI purchased the Muchmore film, LIFE magazine purchased all rights to the Zapruder film. (Yes, I have read the link.)