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As a kid I learned piano from someone who experienced personal panic during the original broadcast. Only now did I make the connection in my mind between her s

• teddyh 5y ago
  Your second-hand anecdote proves nothing to anyone except to you. And even you should be wary of trusting random people with personal stories to tell of how they were involved in some well-known historical event. Especially when there was major news coverage starting the very next day which exaggerated the event way out of proportion. People’s memories are affected by what they read. It’s at least very disputed if any significant amount of people were actually affected: https://www.snopes.com/collections/debunker-10-30-2019/ https://www.snopes.com/collections/debunker-10-30-2019/
  • nitrogen 5y ago
    Why do people have a fascination with proving others' real life experiences "wrong" using some aggregated idea from a self-appointed authority figure? Statistics and summaries don't remotely represent or contradict individual experiences. Try telling someone who was struck by lightning that, no, they really weren't, because lightning strikes are rare.
    • teddyh 5y ago
      The original claim was “widespread panic”. I provided a link which argued against it. You said “Snopes "debunking" something doesn't mean it didn't happen at all.”, which I took to mean that you argued that widespread panic did happen. Do you mean to say that the only thing which you are claiming is that at least one person panicked? Because that is something we can agree on. But that’s not what the topic was about.