Freddy Mercury

Prince

JFK, Bobby, and MLK were quite a run when I was young. My parents were shocked and all the uncertainty with the Cold War and the threat of nuclear war not to mention all the tension of race relations in the country.

Michael Jackson.

Yeah, that's a rough patch for America. I couldn't imagine the impact that would have on me as a citizen.

So was there conspiracy theories about the CIA plotting the murders? What was that like?

Derrick Thomas affected me the most personally. I was most surprised by Michael Jackson I guess? The way Payne Stewart died on that plane really bothered me.

Jerry Garcia

Dick Howser, Donnie Moore, Bo Diaz, Steve Olin, Tim Crews, John McSherry, Mike Darr, Darryl Kile, Steve Bechler, Cory Lidle, Nick Adenhart, Oscar Taveras, Jose Fernandez, Yordano Ventura, Roy Halladay, Tyler Skaggs

I was young 6 going on 7 it seems the conspiracies happened a lot later. Mostly my family trusted our Government. The mistrust I feel didn't come along till the end of the 60s and most the 70s. The Zapruder film wasn't shown widely till the late 60s. So people I feel accepted the Warren Commission report.

We as kids went on being kids doing what we did then. We did pick up our parent's concerns at the dinner table.

2pac and Kurt Cobain

Yordano is a good one. That hit hard.

Derrick Thomas. Seemed like he was getting better. I was even having pipe dreams that he'd be able to recover and play again and then one of my buddies called to tell me he was gone.

Robin Williams, Brad Delp of Boston and comedian Richard Jeni, because they were all suicides.

And even though he was really old, Leonard Nimoy, just because he was Leonard Nimoy.

I remember a lot of them but the only one that impacted me emotionally was Pau Dones.

I know most of you won't know who he was but his music was a big part of my life and I always liked hearing him speak in interviews. I was lucky enough to see him in concert a few years ago and he was so charming on stage. Smiling, laughing, blowing kisses to the crowd... all knowing he had terminal cancer.

He gave an interview just a couple of weeks before his passing. The cancer had withered him physically and he was on oxygen and he still spoke positively about living life to the fullest. An inspiring man.

Descanso en paz, Pau.

I remember Radar announcing Col Henry Blake helicopter crashed and no survivors :deevee:

That actually may be the worst one. I was only probably 13 or 14 and had never experienced a television character dying.

In terms of real celebrities, I generally don't connect that much with celebrities so I don't really get upset or anything. I remember the DT thing because it was unexpected, but even then he'd had the injury before the death so the death itself was dampened.

When Danny Federici died as the first member of the E Street Band, that may have been the one that affected me the most. But again, I wasn't devastated or anything.

I was out to dinner when the Princess Diana thing happened. I got home and turned on the TV, and had no idea what was happening because the news coverage was showing the car and doing a lot of "they're at the hospital" talk, and they weren't saying who was in the accident since I was joining the coverage late. So I was watching that coverage somewhat intently because I knew it must have been someone famous, but I didn't know who.

Princess Diana was a bit stunning because it was so unexpected. Am I remembering correctly... was Diana the same day as the Grbac to Rison 4th quarter game winning bomb?