What is the first news story you remember?

[reecejackox]

For me it was either 9/11 or the queen mothers funeral , I watched the second one on TV in primary school.

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

The hostage crisis in Iran

 

[DLmama]

OKC bombing is the first one I remember, but 9/11 is the first time that I actively watched any news coverage.

 

[chartle]

Apollo 1 astronaut's funeral on TV. For years I thought it was JFK's but I would have been too young for that.

 

[georgina]

Nixon resigning. I feel like it should be the 1969 moon landing (I was born in 1962), but my parents did not seem to care much about world events and we did not discuss them at home.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

The hostage crisis in Iran

Same here! it was actually when they were released that I remember seeing on TV. That and when Regan got shot were the earliest news memories for me.

 

[SG131]

OJ Simpson car chase

 

[Southernmiss]

OJ Simpson car chase

I was in the hospital for the birth of my oldest son.


I think I remember a lot of Jimmy Carter's news conferences breaking into my mom's soap operas in the 1970s.

Seems like there was one every day.

 

[mousefan73]

For me it was either 9/11 or the queen mothers funeral , I watched the second one on TV in primary school.

feel old now

 

[mousefan73]

Might be Elvis's funeral.. Did they show that on TV?

 

[KevM]

The Challenger explosion.

 

[Summer2018]

Watergate.

 

[RedAngie]

Something about the Vietnam war, possibly the My Lai incident.

 

[GreatLakes]

The Challenger. I remember more about the days immediately after it than the incident itself.

 

[piglet too]

The Chicago-area Tylenol tampering/murders in 1982.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Something about the Vietnam war, possibly the My Lai incident.

For me, hearing the last of our troops were pulling out.

 

[lovin'fl]

Born in 73. Probably first I remember was 1981....attempted assassination of president Reagan and then, a few months later, the awful story of Adam Walsh. My mother had the news about Adam on all the time and used it as a lesson to be aware of stranger danger. Big news year as I also remember the wedding of Charles and Diana.

 

[kimblebee]

The Challenger explosion.

This is mine too.

 

[NHdisneylover]

John Lennon's assassination.

 

[karmic]

I am old! I remember watching President Kennedy inauguration- I was 6!