E-MailPeter O'Farrell -- In Memoriam
Grief spreads on the wings of communication. When George Washington died on 14 December 1799, news of his death was carried by word of mouth and newspapers on horseback and on boats across America, and took weeks (months) to reach all parts of that very sparsely populated country. Only 65 years later, word of Lincoln's death took just minutes to cross the continent, carried by the first electronic communication, the telegraph. A hundred years later, word of John Kennedy's assassination came to me from a television monitor seconds after it was announced in Dallas as I walked across a restaurant lounge in Chicago. On 14 December 2005, news of the passing of Peter O'Farrell came to me via a cellphone call from my friend Lou Mazzucchelli. The time for tragic information to move from source to destination has shortened dramatically over the last two centuries but the effect is still the same.
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