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- From: lind@ils.nwu.edu (Jeff Lind)
- Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
- Subject: Re: Mr. Plow: Cronkite Ref.
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:00:26 GMT
- References: <168A511C3E.FC084801@ysub.ysu.edu> <102777@bu.edu>
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- In article <102777@bu.edu>, abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky) wrote:
- >
- > In article <168A511C3E.FC084801@ysub.ysu.edu> FC084801@ysub.ysu.edu (Bob Hogue, Computer Info. Systems) writes:
- > +an eerie reference when news anchor Kent Brockman was
- > +updating everyone on the avalance situation. The scene was a
- > +nearly-exact copy of the on-the-air tape of Walter Cronkite as
- > +he delivered the bulletin officially confirming JFK's
- > +assassination
- >
- > Right you are. I thought about this when I watched the broadcast, and
- > checked it again this morning. Cronkite was, I believe, announcing that
- > JFK had been pronounced dead "...some 30 minutes ago.".
- >
- > +It was a rather unnerving ref.
- >
- > Sure was. When I saw Brockman in shirtsleeves with the heavy,
- > black-framed specs (which I do not recall seeing before) I was
- > startled, so eerie was the similarity to Uncle Walter.
-
- Yes, they also gave Kent rather silvery hair, as I remember, which he
- doesn't normally have. And his face does the same things as Cronkites. He
- checks something down to his right (the wire?) pauses a moment (Cronkite
- later said he was holding back tears) and then pulls off his glasses and
- says the news.
-
- --Jeff
-