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What is your earliest childhood memory of a 'news' event?
July 30, 2017, 01:03 PM
FenderBenderWhat is your earliest childhood memory of a 'news' event?
The Berlin wall coming down, I was 3 I know I saw Gulf war coverage, and at least one debate from the '92 election, I liked Perot.
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July 30, 2017, 01:33 PM
George43VJ day. and a parade afterwards.
A gun in the hand is worth more than ten policemen on the phone.
The American Revolution was carried out by a group of gun toting religious zealots.
July 30, 2017, 01:34 PM
V-TailDecember 7, 1941. A few weeks before my fifth birthday. It was a Sunday, we were at my grandmother's place on Beverly Road in Brooklyn. The whole family was listening to the big floor-standing console radio.
Observing the adults, I knew that something very serious was happening, but I did not comprehend what it was.
That day is the last clear memory I have of my father. He died a few months later.
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים July 30, 2017, 01:40 PM
PHPaulSputnik, and DDE's re-election.
Sputnik in school, DDE from listening to Dad talking with neighbors.
I can also remember Dad cussing FDR for "a damned socialist". Didn't think much of HST either.
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
July 30, 2017, 01:42 PM
ZSMICHAELOn Dec. 1, 1958, a fire consumed Our Lady of the Angels grade school on the West Side of Chicago, killing 92 children and three nuns. I remember the pictures of firefighters carrying dead kids. It terrified me at the time.
July 30, 2017, 01:43 PM
gw3971one of the moon landings. It wasn't Neil or Buzz but one of the crews after them.
July 30, 2017, 01:46 PM
Browndrakequote:
Originally posted by walker77:
quote:
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. I was in 3rd I think.
This is my first major news memory. I also was in the 3rd grade.
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- 1 Corinthians 16:13-14
July 30, 2017, 01:46 PM
roustaboutFor me, Korean War news dominated most other coverage. I don't recall a lot of details about it, as I was only four years old when the armistice went into effect. It's at once sad and amazing that we are still, 64 years later, having to deal with the Kim family of gangsters leading North Korea.
July 30, 2017, 01:47 PM
pwelch001For me i remember a shooting at the courthouse here where an inmate escaped and killed a hostage. I vividly remember the woman being dragged by the animal. Late 70's i believe.
July 30, 2017, 01:52 PM
WaterburyBobThe Sputnik launch in October 1957.
"If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards
July 30, 2017, 01:56 PM
JALLENquote:
Originally posted by 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.
There wasn't much reason to have a TV back then out in the sticks. I remember sitting in front of the Sears store after supper. Sears had a TV in the glass show window. The curb on that block was filled with parked cars, all of us "poor folks" watching this strange device. There was no sound. The street had a curb and hitching posts, in case of need.
My folks didn't require that formality, but you had to respect things like that or suffer.
We got a TV in 1955 or 56. The first program was Mickey Mouse Club, where a Mousekateer named Annette caught my, errr, eye.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown July 30, 2017, 02:01 PM
SigJacketquote:
Originally posted by DMF:
The fall of Saigon.
Likewise. I remember the footage of NVA armor on the news, and the helicopter evacuation.
July 30, 2017, 02:02 PM
LunaseeKennedy assassination.
July 30, 2017, 02:02 PM
k5blazerHawaii becoming a state.
July 30, 2017, 02:03 PM
Lunaseequote:
Originally posted by Lunasee:
John F. Kennedy assassination.
July 30, 2017, 02:16 PM
flashguyWhat's with this "watching" business? There was no TV when I was a young child, and at those ages I didn't see movie newsreels, either. Probably the first "event" I was aware of (although did not understand) was Pearl Harbor. My parents and I were living in California at the time and I was just 2 weeks shy of 4 years old. I knew my folks were very worried about something that had happened a long way away. The next "event" I recall was the day President FDR died--again, the extended family had gathered and were concerned about something that had happened. (They were NOT fans of FDR, however--I think their concern was about the effect his death might have on the war effort.)
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth July 30, 2017, 02:18 PM
rat2306President Kennedy's assassination.
July 30, 2017, 02:18 PM
darthfusterKennedy's funeral and my aunts crying while watching.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier July 30, 2017, 02:23 PM
46and2quote:
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.
That's probably my first, too.
July 30, 2017, 02:23 PM
flashguyquote:
Originally posted by 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.
I still do that when Fox News plays the National Anthem at 0358 on weekend nights--but I salute (I'm a veteran). (My cats think I'm crazy because I bolt from my lounge chair and spring to attention--usually dumping at least one cat.)
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth