What is your earliest childhood memory of a 'news' event?

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July 30, 2017, 12:16 PM

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What is your earliest childhood memory of a 'news' event?

Cuban Missile Crisis on black & white TV.
Walter Cronkite was the big guy on the news back then since we only received CBS.
The next big event was when JFK was killed. That seemed to last about a week and during that we saw Oswald shot on TV by Jack Ruby and the funeral in DC.

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July 30, 2017, 12:16 PM

recoatlift

1954, end of Korean War,Tinker AFB Midwest City Ok. & TV news coverage & seeing all the USAF men come home and their families so happy. I was 6.

July 30, 2017, 12:18 PM

joatmonv

Watergate in 1972. I was young but I remember sitting around the TV with my grandmother and parents.
Only 3 TV stations back then.

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July 30, 2017, 12:21 PM

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Originally posted by qxsoup:
Challenger explosion. I was in the 4th grade and watched it live in the cafeteria along with the rest of my elementary school.

Same here.

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July 30, 2017, 12:25 PM

RogueJSK

The earliest one that comes to mind was the news coverage of the celebrations surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

July 30, 2017, 12:26 PM

bettysnephew

Coronation of QE2 on tv. We had just gotten the tube and mom demanded we watch it. I do not think it was live but may have been.

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July 30, 2017, 12:32 PM

sigfreund

In general, I have vague recollections of the Korean War coverage. The first separate event that I recall specifics about was the Sputnik launch. I was already 11 years old by then, but I have poor memories of my childhood—unlike some people who claim to be able to remember what kind of cake they had for their second birthday.

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July 30, 2017, 12:36 PM

JALLEN

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Originally posted by bettysnephew:
Coronation of QE2 on tv. We had just gotten the tube and mom demanded we watch it. I do not think it was live but may have been.

My mother sat up far into the night listening to her wedding, in 1947 on the radio, and again to the Coronation. There wasn't much TV in 1947, and not much more in 1953, but it didn't matter as we did not have a TV until years later.

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July 30, 2017, 12:42 PM

ArtieS

I remember the moon walk, the Six Day War and the SALT I talks. Next, I remember the meeting between Nixon and Brezhnev and then the Watergate break-in and the Nixon Impeachment Hearings. I started to pay attention to politics after Nixon's second term election.

I was born in 1965.

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July 30, 2017, 12:48 PM

recoatlift

Gosh JALLEN, I thought we were poor, but we had a small TV in '54. We'd sit around & watch the Indian head test pattern And when the National Anthem came on with F-86's flying over, dad would have us stand up straight, hand over heart, in silence til finished. Glad I grew up in that America with a Pa like that.

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July 30, 2017, 12:56 PM

DaBigBR

The first one that comes to mind is the OJ circus, but I'm sure there are others. The first one that comes to mind that actually mattered was the Oklahoma City bombing.

July 30, 2017, 12:58 PM

Jimbo54

The Kennedy/Nixon debate because my parents made my brother and I watch it with them. They thought it was the most important election since Roosevelt.

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July 30, 2017, 01:01 PM

PorterN

I either wasnt interested in news or my parents tried to keep me from the bad news. I do remember Princess Diana's death, but dont remember hearing about columbine a few years later.

Prior to that, i remember some of Clinton's 1996 campaign, and my parent's dislike for him.

9/11 was the first MAJOR event of my childhood that i was *very* aware of.