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Apocalipstic · 10-12-2010, 04:13 PM

I was born in June before JFK died.

My first clear memory of the President of the US was Richard M Nixon and Watergate...and in Argentina the return of Juan Peron in 1973, complete with casket of dead wife Evita paraded around to all the provinces, embalmed for 20 some years in an open casket.

I also remember being very upset and frightened by the Cold War and Nuclear proliferation. That the US is who dropped the bombs all suppsedly in the name of Peace still seems too horrible to really contemplate.

I do very vaguely remember about Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King being killed...it was a very frightening time we were born into.

What I remember most clearly was the fighting in the streets of San Juan and Buenos Aires leading up to Peron's election and then his death and the subsequent reign of terror of his fifth grade educated wife Vice President Estellita. I remember her on television declaring Martial Law and I remember the coup when she was removed from office. I remember our school guards with uzis and people being kidnapped right and left.

We moved to the US with Gerald Ford as President and filled with hope as Jimmy Carter insisted on walking part of the innagural parade.

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