Just curious, if you were alive 50 years ago today

[gopiscrap]

where were you, what were you doing? I was in Frankfurt, Germany and was playing in the high rise complex we lived in and because of the time difference King came on late in the day and I was allowed to stay up to hear the speech. Even tho I didn't understand some of it both because of language and content, I think my parents wanted me to absorb the moment and import of the occasion.

[kelliekat44]

1. I was at the March. nt

[gopiscrap]

4. How cool

how old were you? What did you think...please tell us about it!

[jwirr]

2. I was at home in Iowa with 2 of my three children watching on the tv. I was overjoyed at what I was

hearing and seeing.

[MuseRider]

3. I was only 9

but I remember hearing about it. My parents would not have cared one way or the other so I must have heard about it at school.

I remember thinking at the time that he was an amazing and very brave man and I had a lot of respect for him.

[Jenoch]

5. We had just moved to a small town in rural Minnesota.

We only got 2 television channels. I don't remember much about MLK's speech. Of course, I was only 18 months old at the time and was pretty much into myself.

[lumpy]

6. I was a busy mother with young children 50 years ago. I managed to watch most of Dr. King's

most important speech. It was awesomely inspiring and formed a permanent belief in my soul that we must come together in harmony.

[rurallib]

7. Home watching the TV in Iowa

about to start high school.
Wrote about it here:
http://www.blogforiowa.com/2013/08/24/fiftieth-anniversary-of-the-march-on-washington/

[gopiscrap]

8. Hey that's cool thanks!

[shanti]

9. I was 7

And living on an AF base in Japan. MLK jr was an unknown to me.

[liberal N proud]

10. I was driving my mother nuts

I would have been 4 years old and totally unaware of anything in the world outside my yard.

The only world events I recall from that era is watching President Kennedy's funeral on the black and white.

[Lugnut]

11. I was 17 years old.

I had just graduated from high school in June and was headed to cosmetology school.

[ananda]

12. I was about to begin my second year of high school...

... and I liked the new uniforms.

[gopiscrap]

14. Welcome to DU

we lived at Bassler Platz about 8 blocks from the Hauptbaunhof.

[beveeheart]

15. I was about to begin my junior year in college

and my father had warned me to stay indoors that day because there was no telling what could happen to me if I went out where the "coloreds" were.

[Ohio Joe]

16. No... It would be about another 30 days until I was born

Yeah... The big five-oh for me next month

[kestrel91316]

17. We lived in Japan. The only tv we got was all Japanese except for one show, I think

The Avengers?? I was 6, so any news of him would have passed over my head anyway.

I never heard of MLK until the late 60s when we lived in NY.

[olddots]

18. there were about a dozen of us trying to get a ride to the march

we were in our early teens , nobody would let us ride with them so we found an older kid who had no idea what was going on and tried to bribe him to make the long drive from the Boston area to D.C. in his 56 ford station wagon . We didn't make it and had no idea there would be TV and film cameras there ---when people returned we saw a few minutes of the speech on TV and knew we missed a very important part of world history that should never be forgotten.

[gopiscrap]

20. Wow good for you for trying!

[ConcernedCanuk]

19. Today? -50 years ago?

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I'd be 12 then - either playing baseball in a neighbor's orchard,

having apple fights at home (we had 3 apple trees),

or playing "cowboys and indians" with my 3 siblings.

OR -

I could have been on our annual summer camping trips our parents took us every summer for 5 weeks to the East coast and back.

Fond memories.

CC

[Bluzmann57]

21. I was alive.

I was 5 years old and am not really sure what I was doing. Maybe outside playing with my trucks or something. I do sort of recall my parents discussing the Great man though. They were, and are, great admirers of Dr. Reverend King.

[Rex]

22. No.

nt.