A point about Bev Nelson - who "didn't have a phone in her room"

[hexola]

Let me shed a little light for the youngsters who don't recall how life worked back in this era...

No - she didn't have a phone in her bedroom...Totally believable...and probably true.

And the implication is "she's lying - because she said she made the call from her bedroom"

But - back in this era - it wasn't uncommon for a phone to have a LONG cord - that would reach various places - commonly, a teenagers bedroom!

Moore's supporters keep presenting this phone story like it's some dagger to the heart of her story.

It's not - it's EXACTLY what you would expect!!!

[JustAnotherGen]

1. It was even

True in the late 80's and early 90's. Our parents just didn't go around giving us cell phones in 1990 (when I was 17).

[kcr]

2. If this is 1990 we're talking about, I think cordless phones existed by that time as well.

They had the telescope radio antennas.

[Brainstormy]

3. Of course they did!

My husband had a car phone! It was the size of a a tank and had to be permanently installed in the trunk, but telephone technology wasn't as neanderthal as they make it out to be. The Princess phone came out in 1959. Every girl I knew had one in her bedroom in the late 60s.

[hexola]

4. Bev Nelson was assaulted in 1977...

This was clearly "phone with cord-era"...

[kcr]

5. Hence my if.

I don't know when this took place and no one has a link. Someone else was talking about the 90s. She still could have brought the phone into her room via cord.

[hexola]

6. If you don't know the basic facts of the issue...

Dont waste your time posting off topic.

[obamanut2012]

7. I was in high school ten years after this happened

And my parents had the phone company give us a HUGE cord that could stretch from the kitchen down the hall into my bedroom, so they wouldn't have to me whispering and girl shrieking for hours.

[mercuryblues]

8. yup I said this 1st thing

How I hated it when my Mom bought a new cord because the old one was stretched out straight. Our struggles were real.

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[displacedtexan]

9. Don't forget the beloved phone jack!

In the 60's, before I had my own phone line and pink princess phone in my bedroom, someone would call, and you'd ask them to call back in 5 minutes. Then you unplugged the phone cord from the livingroom jack and plugged it in to the one in your room or nearby hallway.

These Roy Moore defenders want people to ignore the many realities of the time period in question.

[karynnj]

12. Modular jacks started in the mid 1970s - so her house could have been wired to allow a phone to be

plugged in as you describe. (I looked this up because I knew that the phones were hard wired by the phone company in 1972 when I moved to my first apartment.) It was not long before they did. By the early 1980s, I had two lines both wired to modular jacks in several rooms - so I could use one for work (for AT&T) using a very slow 300 baud modem.

Here is Wikipedia on modular connectors - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_connector

[world wide wally]

10. There were also extensions which shared the same phone number

[jberryhill]

11. In the 1970's my parents added a second line just for the kids

....and we put jacks in the bedrooms so that teenage phone conversations wouldn't tie up my parents' line or disturb the peace.