[Melinda in TN]

😁 Mine was the same. I think Walter Cronkite was on the 6:00 news each night. We weren’t allowed to bother Dad while the news was on, but I could hear him from my bedroom. We didn’t come between Dad and Walter unless we wanted swatted.

[Beowulf9]

Cronkite’s voice was soft and I remember laying on the rug in the middle of the floor when he came on and being happy to listen to him knowing it would lull me to sleep.

Of course maybe this is not how Cronkite saw his on air presence...

[GaltAdonis]

"...We weren’t allowed to bother Dad while the news was on..."

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Yeah. That's the way it was for me when my parents and I were moving
to our new house and had to stay with Grandpop & Grandmom
for that one month during the move.

Our TV was packed up / being moved, and Granddad had only
one TV to watch - and of course Wall Street Week took precedence
over Mr Roger's Neighborhood - so the poor little tyke (me)
had to learn about self-denial early...

But of course, had I learned all about investing starting at age 4, instead of
watching Mr. Rogers, things would probably have turned out differently, eh? (LOL)

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