for boomers only and beyond.

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7. I hadn't started school yet, or at least was not

in school all day. (Kindergarten was half a day.) By the time I was in third grade, several more families had a TV. I remember walking home from school with a group of friends talking about what we had watched the might before, like Leave it to Beaver.

As late as 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, there were still people who did not have a TV, or who were working or shopping in the evening when Kennedy made his televised speech about surveillance films finding Russian missiles in Cuba. There were people who went to stores to watch it on display models. The movie, 13 Days, shows this very well.