What's the first major news story
you remember from childhood?
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JFK funeral. All the cartoons were cancelled on all 3 networks. At 5 that was hard to understand.
ReplyDeleteI was eight and I remember discussing the presidential election in 1951 in my school. I was an unaware kid. There was WWII and the Korean War and I cannot say I remember any news about them.
ReplyDeleteJim Jones!
ReplyDelete1969 First landing on the Moon. I was 7 years old at the time.
ReplyDeleteVietnam, JFK, MLK were the biggest in my memory.
ReplyDeletePresident "Ike" being bitten by a mosquito. I was thinking....big deal.
ReplyDeleteFDR announcing. Attack on Pearl Harbor.
ReplyDeleteJFK assassinated:(
ReplyDeleteKennedy's assignation. I was 10.
ReplyDeleteThe Cuban Missile Crisis.
ReplyDeleteEisenhower wins re-election.
ReplyDeleteJFK's death. What a horrible turn of events for America. I do remember having him as President and really liking his "...we do them because they are hard" speech. What a great leader. I was 9 when he was shot.
ReplyDeleteThe Death Of Elvis Presley !
ReplyDelete1968 Presidential Election.
ReplyDeleteNixon Wallace & Humphrey.
JFK being killed.
ReplyDeleteGreat times if you are a high paid government office or a Board of Education employee. I'll bet they aren't loosing their possessions or property!
ReplyDeleteThere are many empty and abandoned homes in the county as well. Very east to spot. Grass is high and there are trees growing up the sides of some of the homes. Even my next door neighbor recently had his pickup truck and ATV repossessed.
Sunday Dec 7th listening to President on radio telling about Pearl Harbor.
ReplyDeleteHurricane Agnes. I was 6.
ReplyDeleteThe Challenger explosion
ReplyDeleteJFK killed
ReplyDeleteThe attack on Pearl Harbor. I was 7 yrs. old
ReplyDeleteRelease of American hostages from Iran after Reagan took over.
ReplyDeleteHurricane Hazel, "I Like Ike", JFK assassination were my earliest
ReplyDeletev j day ww II thanks sjd
ReplyDeleteThe assassination of JFK.....
ReplyDeleteHouston, Tranquility Bay here... the Eagle has landed. On my parents brand new COLOR TV. I was 5.
ReplyDeletePresident Reagan getting shot :-(
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ReplyDeleteKennedy's assignation. I was 10.
July 25, 2017 at 8:54 AM
Was that the one with Marilyn Monroe?
My earliest was the Bay of Pigs when I was 6 followed a year later by the Cuban missile crisis.
Trump getting elected.
ReplyDeleteKennedy assination. Saw it at school and then for 3 Days when school was closed for the funeral.
ReplyDeletethe eagle has landed.
ReplyDeleteBaby Jessica being pulled up alive from being stuck in a well for days.
ReplyDeletePlane crash 2/3/59 involving Holly, Valens, Big Bopper. Heard it on the radio riding in my uncle's Renault Dauphin with him and my Mom. I was six and still remember how upset they were.
ReplyDeleteThe space shuttle Challenger exploding and as an adult the planes crashing into the World Trade Center I can remember exactly what I was doing and where I was at like it happen this afternoon on both of those days
ReplyDeletethe tank running through LA and OJ
ReplyDeleteCuban Missile Crisis
ReplyDeleteSputnik
ReplyDeleteThe moon landing. I was almost 5.
ReplyDeleteRussia intentionally crashing the Luna rocket into the moon in 1959.That should have scared the heck out of a lot of people because it could easily have contained a nuke.A nuke strategically placed in our moon & detonated could have jarred it slightly out of orbit & wreaked havoc here on Earth.
ReplyDeleteOj Simpson innocent verdict in school
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