Headline is bullshit - she was no eye witness of the Titanic desaster.
Did they have tv back then?
My sister once asked my dad why old tv shows were in black and white and he told her it was because people used to not be able to see in color. He then told her that his mom couldn’t see colors and it made my sister really sad for our grandmother.
The end.
Calvin’s dad said the same thing
Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s
So no, not really.
If you believe the story told by someone who claimed to know him in the documentary about him, Leon Theremin invented a form of closed-circuit color television in the 1920s.
Yeah, I mean you could “well actually” my comment because a couple images had been transmitted over RF by then. But in the sense of “could this random 3 year old have learned about the Titanic from the 11 o’clock news?” it didn’t exist.
Elizabeth Francis says the key to living a long life is to ‘speak your mind and don’t hold your tongue’
We should respect our elders!
She puts my teeth to shame. How do I get a smile like that? 😁
Owned a coffee shop, took the bus to work. What a fat cat. She’s probably not even rocking $500, base model dentures like the rest of us centenarians.
Not going to lie. 115 years as a black woman in the deep south sounds like Hell
Yeah. A bigger deal than the titanic is that she most likely met people who fought for the south in the Civil War. It ended in 1865, only 44 years before she was born. An 18 year old soldier in the civil war would have been about 62 when she was born. They would have been old men, but she probably ran into a few of them in her life.
Aside from that, the Tulsa Race Massacre would have happened when she was a pre-teen. Her teenage years would have been filled with countless stories of lynchings. Then she would have had to deal with the great depression in her 20s, then WWII in her 30s.
