I worked on 6th avenue then at a commerical photgographers
studio ,the whole city seeemingly shut down by the afternoon.
We also had newspapers delivered to new stands known as the afternoon edition .

I love the first guy interviewed on the 2nd clip- "I don't feel expert enough to express an opinion..."

If only today's "Moron on the Street" interviewees felt the same. Or Faux News anchors, for that matter.

2010 - she just saw a rat w/huge balls hanging out of a guy's mouth on the 6 train

Hehehe-that made me crack up :-)

yeah, good one.

1963 impala in the background, so the JFK is probably right.

Definitely the day of JFK's assassination. 11/22/63.

Don't recognize the newspaper typeface. That automatically makes it before 1968 for me. The cars suggest early 60s, as do the hats.

The JFK assassination sounds about right. The coats suggest that it could be Novemeber.

1959, didn't want her picture taken.

1957. she ran out of gin.

+10 for dramatic motivation

There seem to be lots of these kinds of pictures of people reacting to the JFK assassination taken from the inside of television storefronts. We have one of my grandmother watching a television broadcast taken from inside a shop window.

Using the same logic as the above guessers: if it's already in the newspapers and she's this shocked by the level of crazy, maybe it's Jack Ruby's shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963.

I would say the attack on Pearl Harbor, but the cars in the background don't fit 1941.

So I'll jump on the JFK assassination bandwagon, 11/22/1963

Don Draper was wearing a hat in the Christmas episode of Mad Men two weeks ago, and that was supposed to be 1964.

The cars say 1960's which means JFK, but were guys still wearing hats back then?

She looks like Lois Lane.

You're right. Noel Neil finds out George Reeves is dead and she's out of a job.

It HAS to be JFK. But since that's been guessed, I'll go with RFK.

May 1, 1947, the most beautiful suicide