I was 4 years old then...but I don't remember anything about it. There were not too many televisions in those days...and I don't remember listening to the radio...

If anything it was records.

1949 was the year I graduated from high school.. I remember the name but not the details. Of course I couldn't tell you what I ate for lunch yesterday so that describes my memory.

jude

I was 7 but don't remember either.
No, TV in our family.

We lived in CA at that time and yes I remember quite a bit. Did google her time to refresh my memory. Was in HS and during and afterwards, lots of people went around filling up old well holes. It was a tragic event. We were glued to the radio, but I think we did have a black and white Tv--can't remember.
Marie

I remember it very well. It happened around Easter that year. I was 12. I believe it was the first big story covered by live television. I followed it via our daily newspaper as we got our first tv in 1951. People went down all hours of the day & night to stores selling tv's to follow the story in their store windows. Radio covered it quite heavily also.

I think the odd part of the story, if I recall correctly, was that Kathy's father worked for a Southern CA utility company & he had testified in Sacramento earlier about the danger of uncapped wells such as his daughter not much later died in. Nobody remembers for sure exactly the site of the well & her death---I think it's believed it's where a high school football field currently is. So much of So. CA has changed since 1949.

I remember it--actually I was too little to understand, but my mother talked about it any number of times. I think it was one of the first live TV broadcasts.

She was such a pretty child---there's a photo of her at the Find A Grave website. I didn't realize that not only do we share the same first name, but her birthday (Aug. 21, 1945)was just one day after mine---though not the same year.

I understand that people listened to the events on
the radio as most didn't have a TV in 1949.