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Browse archive audio and memories of the Today Generation听of an era that witnessed the Big Freeze, Churchill's funeral and Kennedy's assassination.
Funeral听of Winston Churchill -听30 January 1965
The end of the war era.听Churchill's funeral听attracts a听crowd of thousands.
From the archive: Churchill's funeralJudy Petran on childhood summers
"I mainly remember the endless summer days of childhood - playing in the garden, finding a kitten stuck in a tree, riding my tricycle down the street trying to keep up with my brothers' bikes."
Ian Denyer on town life
"There always seemed to be people about the street in a way we don't get down in our part of Brighton these days: the horse听and cart of the rag听and bone man, the daily milkman, a bike-riding French onion-seller."
Kennedy assassinated - 22 November 1963
The world reels after the killing of John F Kennedy, the charismatic American President.
From the archive: a report on the assassinationNeville Merritt on exploding toys
"My bedroom was festooned with planes dangling from fishing lines. Any casualties of the duster were finished off with a banger up the fuselage."
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