Interesting to consider the dots you can join just from scanning the events of a given year, like Adam Curtis' filmed cork boards.
I'm looking at '77 now and this is the entry for January 18th:
- Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
- Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.
- SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1977 - Wikipedia
November 22
- British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
- The TCP/IP test succeeds, connecting 3 ARPANET nodes (of 111), in what eventually becomes the Internet protocol.
Set the scene by mentioning it's the JFK anniversary, jumble something together about speed/technology and the real and the virtual via Concorde and ARPANET, throw in a comment about the Atlantic or the "special relationship" going supersonic, then cap it off by making a vague statement about the 60s truly being over and you have your suggestive podcast segment and your listeners will fill in any blanks with their own associations.
