September 23

One of the pillars of my understanding of how the world works was The Jetsons, which premiered on September 23, 1962. Considering the amount of space The Jetsons have rented in my head it was somewhat unsettling to discover that the show was only on the air, in its original run, for 24 weeks. It went off the air on March 3, 1963. Heck, Kennedy wasn’t even dead then. I’m not one to easily subscribe to conspiracy theories, but let’s look at the timeline: March 3, 1963, the Jetsons are canned; October 7 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and the Dominican Republic killing over 7000; October 9 the Vajont Dam in Italy collapses and more than 2000 die; October 14 the British Press coins the phrase Beatlemania; November 2 South Vietnamese President Diem is assassinated, November 9, an explosion in a mine at Miike, Japan kills 458 miners, November 22 President Kennedy is assassinated. I really think Congress should look into just who was behind the cancellation of The Jetsons and those people should be held accountable.