Most people remember exactly where they were when they heard that JFK had been assassinated in 1963 or when passenger airliners hit The World Trade Centre in 2001. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I saw Archie Gemmill score the third goal against Holland in the 1978 World Cup Finals in Argentina. I have often asked myself the question “where did it all go wrong” and “was this the start of the slippery slope”. 40 years ago, next summer, I will be remembering the 1978 World Cup in Argentina (I guess we all will). This is the football tournament that Scotland will never forget and the one that has affected us ever since. It turned one of the best sides in Europe into she
Meet Jacqueline Bouvier who became Mrs. Jackie Kennedy when she married JFK in 1953. It is now 54 years since that day in Texas when her husband was shot dead by an assassins bullet. I’ve been watching a lot of stuff on the internet about the assassination and it never ceases to amaze me just how much interest there still is in this event which took place over half a century ago. In the Zapruder home video you get a very good view of what happened in the last seconds of her husband’s life. He emerges from behind a road sign and immediately his arms rise at a very strange angle to his throat where he has been shot. Jackie leans forward to help him and then the final bullet rips through his he
