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Post by VAN on Jul 6, 2016 13:54:35 GMT -8
Challenger disaster. I was like 2-3 years old and we were on the east coast of Florida. I don't specifically remember anything except all the adults watching the TV and standing around outside watching smoke. My dad had a commemorative challenger license plate for 20 years after.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2016 14:06:13 GMT -8
St Helens.
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Post by RumiDude on Jul 6, 2016 14:26:53 GMT -8
I remember all the stuff about the early space race; Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glen, etc I remember about the Telstar satelite, which was a big deal as well. But I think the first big news event which kinda struck home was the Cuban missle crisis. I remember my parents and other adults huddled around the TV sets and I got a sense of their worry about it. People were actually talking about the end of the world and stuff. I picked up on that worry and anxiety over the events and started following it as well. I was almost exactly ten years old at that time, October of 1962.
Next after that was the assassination of John F. Kennedy and that mess. Then the 1964 elections. The assassination of Martin Luther king in April of 1968 followed by Robert Kennedy in June seemed to take the steam out of all the feelings of hope. The 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago only added to that gloomy atmosphere.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2016 14:50:34 GMT -8
Kennedy inauguration. "ask not...
My mother's maiden name was Kennedy and she was born in Ireland so it seemed like we must somehow be related. I thought that was pretty cool. I would have been 5 then.
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Jul 6, 2016 14:58:25 GMT -8
The Iranian embassy hostages
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Post by texasbb on Jul 6, 2016 15:00:00 GMT -8
The death of the Apollo 1 crew. I remember my first grade teacher talking about it in class.
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Post by Hikin Mike on Jul 6, 2016 15:17:18 GMT -8
I remember watching the Apollo landings, but I don't think I understood the significance (I was 4) of them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2016 15:55:13 GMT -8
January 1959: Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. It was several months before I began first grade. I remember it so well because my mother ranted about it with the neighbors. The second national-news event that I recall was something I was actually a part of. That was the Yellowstone earthquake of August 1959. My family, including my siblings and myself, were in Yellowstone camping when the earthquake hit.
After that were more troubles in Cuba, the Red Scare, Alan Shepard in space, and the entire space program — which fascinated me to no end.
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Post by paula53 on Jul 6, 2016 18:28:48 GMT -8
I remember the duck and cover drills we had to practice when I was 6. The explanation given was, the Russians could attack us. It made me very fearful.
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Post by tallgrass on Jul 6, 2016 18:50:08 GMT -8
I was 9 or 10 for Desert Storm. I can still recall the CNN intro footage of soldiers running along trench lines. I surely didn't have context for anything on that scale at 9 or 10 y.o., but it definitely left it's mark. I was 19 on 9/11, and that's definitely the root of my news junkie beginnings. I remember asking my mom "why do they hate us", which seems so silly and ignorant in retrospect. but, I was. I think for me, it must be the Berlin Wall falling or the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Hello fellow Oregon Trail Generation. I think I can remember Challenger, but it could've been things about it later. I can vividly remember watching the Berlin wall go down. Rare to see both my parents glued to the TV like that. 9/11 was definitely a news junkie moment. We had the biggest TV on our dorm floor. Entire floor was in our room watching it. We hauled several others in there as well to get the different news stations.
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Post by starwalker on Jul 6, 2016 20:44:01 GMT -8
My first "news" memory was the Udall, Kansas tornado that pretty much wiped out the town. That was May 25, 1955 (I looked it up). I think I remember it partly because we were sitting on our front porch looking at the storm which was 20 miles south-east of us. (Leave it to a kid from Kansas to remember a tornado as his first.) The first national event was Eisenhower having a heart attack while golfing in Denver, Colorado (September 25, 1955). I looked that up too.
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Post by froggiebecky on Jul 6, 2016 20:57:47 GMT -8
I was 9 or 10 for Desert Storm. I can still recall the CNN intro footage of soldiers running along trench lines. I surely didn't have context for anything on that scale at 9 or 10 y.o., but it definitely left it's mark. I was 19 on 9/11, and that's definitely the root of my news junkie beginnings. I remember asking my mom "why do they hate us", which seems so silly and ignorant in retrospect. but, I was. I think for me, it must be the Berlin Wall falling or the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Hello fellow Oregon Trail Generation. I think I can remember Challenger, but it could've been things about it later. I can vividly remember watching the Berlin wall go down. Rare to see both my parents glued to the TV like that. 9/11 was definitely a news junkie moment. We had the biggest TV on our dorm floor. Entire floor was in our room watching it. We hauled several others in there as well to get the different news stations. Another "Oregon Trail"-er here. I remember the Challenger. Grew up in Houston, and I was home, eating my lunch when it launched. It cut over to the news anchor and mom quickly changed the channel. I would have been about 5 at the time. I also remember the Berlin wall coming down, and the launching/press release of Windows. Dad recorded the press release/demo from TV and watched it later, I think he bought it shortly after. 9/11, I had just gotten out of one of my meteorology classes, and my roommate met me along the sidewalk to tell me what happened (on her way to a class). Went to the (packed) dormitory common room to catch up on the news.
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 6, 2016 21:11:05 GMT -8
The Vietnam War, though I don't think I really understood the significance. This would be it for me, too, though it wasn't any particular news story or broadcast (well, it wouldn't have been. We didn't have a TV). Probably the first single event that I remember and to some degree understood was Watergate. Oddly, I don't really remember the moon landing, etc., though the whole space race made an impression. Maybe I didn't get to watch any of the launches etc. on TV?
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Post by cweston on Jul 7, 2016 4:53:45 GMT -8
The Apollo 11 moon landing, I guess. I was five: I'm sure I remember earlier things (coverage of Vietnam war, race riots, etc), but I remember that pretty clearly. We got to stay up past our bedtime to watch.
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Jul 7, 2016 4:57:45 GMT -8
Japanese leftist riots being put down with tear gas (on Japanese television) when my Dad was stationed there ('72-ish), though putting news into context came when I heard Saigon fell in 1975 over the car radio stateside, .. about the age everyone else seems to be aware of what news means.
Up to then I remember now classic rock music on the radio, Saturday morning cartoons, ... being especially fond of Wiley E. Coyote vs. Roadrunner cartoons and McDonalds burgers flying into Los Angeles at night. Not fond of the latter anymore.
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