Showing posts with label banging shoe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banging shoe. Show all posts

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Remembering Khrushchev

Perhaps readers who are my age or older recall Khrushchev banging his shoe on a desk at the U.N. in 1960.

Now, I'm wondering if I remember the incident correctly.


Meesha put some pictures from that time on his blog, and that made me remember the shoe incident. Surely I could find a picture of this on the vast Internet. Right?

I could not. But there's always Youtube. Maybe I'd find an old news clip there. I'm positive I remember watching the news and seeing Khrushchev bang his shoe.

Meesha included a picture of Nakita with the fabled shoe in hand, in answer to a comment I made. But did he bang the shoe, or merely wave it?


Perhaps my memory isn't so sharp after all. I could have sworn I saw him bang that shoe on his desk on the black-and-white TV news.