Meryl Streep, actress, age 14 on Nov. 22, 1963:
Streep is known as the most nominated actor in the history of the Academy Awards.
I was a sophomore in French class and some kid said, “Should we duck under the desk?” That’s something I vaguely remember. That’s what we did in New Jersey. We’d practiced all that with the bomb. And then I remember going to my friend’s house—they were the only people who had a color TV—and we watched the funeral.
