What is the first news story you remember?

[Alberta bound]

The moon landing.

 

[Neesy228]

I’m another that would say The Challenger explosion. It was on the tv in science class...and when it exploded they unplugged and rolled that big tv cart out of the room.

 

[mrsv98]

I was outside playing and my DDad made me come in and watch Nixon resign, he said I would always remember, and I have!

 

[amcnj]

I guess it must be the JFK funeral, but mainly because none of my cartoon shows were on and every channel had that same program on instead!

 

[UncleMike101]

It was Eisenhower's second run for President.
We didn't have a TV back then but it was on Radio a lot.

(Does anybody remember when the Radio was the #1 source of news???)

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

I was born in 1986.

I didn't really ever watch the news. So I guess the first one I remember actually seeing and understanding was the OJ Simpson chase.

 

[antmaril]

The asssassination of John F. Kennedy. I was 12.

 

[weluvdisneyx4]

Mine was all the news coverage of Watergate. I remember it interupting my Grunny and Granddaddy's soap (Days of Our Lives) all the time. **I still watch Days (and get mad when the news interupts!! LOL!)

 

[luvsJack]

It must have been the moon landing. i thought it was so very boring. (I was less than 6)

I do remember seeing the Vietnam War and seeing some of the POWs coming home.

My dad watched the news every night. We would watch it together and he would explain things to me in a simple way that a kid could understand.

 

[Gary M]

I'm really old. The first news story that I remember is the end of the Korean War in 1953.

 

[#1hoosierfan]

I was born in 1972. I vaguely remember hearing about the Mt. St. Helens eruption.

 

[loves to dive]

The day Kennedy was shot. I was in first grade but we were home from school for Thanksgiving break. They interrupted my Mama's talk show and I was ironing my Daddy's handkerchiefs.

 

[Kitty 34]

The assassination of JFK.

 

[Lilacs4Me]

TV news coverage was the Princess Diana wedding (I was 6)

Newspaper headlines was the day after the Detroit Tigers won the 1984 World Series. My dad was/is a HUGE Tigers fan and got my sister and I into it that year. We watched the World Series with him, and I will never forget Kurt Gibson's home run, or the newspaper picture of him on the front page of the Detroit Free Press the next morning. I still enjoy seeing that picture!

 

[poohfriend77]

The Challenger explosion.

I know we watched in 3rd grade, but I only have vague memories of this.

The other major news story I remember from my childhood was Baby Jessica in the well. She was rescued during my birthday party sleepover. We all watched, and my friends and I were cheering. My mom was sobbing, which seemed crazy because it was a HAPPY ending (of course now I'm the biggest crybaby ever, so I totally get it... but it seemed weird when I was 10, lol)

 

[J'aime Paris]

When President Reagan was shot.

 

[dotfurio]

I think it's the space shuttle Challenger explosion. We were watching it live on t.v. in the school library.

 

[tvguy]

The day Kennedy was shot. I was in first grade but we were home from school for Thanksgiving break. They interrupted my Mama's talk show and I was ironing my Daddy's handkerchiefs.

I was in first grade also. But he was assassinated a week before Thanksgiving. We only got Thanksgiving and the day after off so I wasn't on Thanksgiving break.. But we got Monday of that week off school for the funeral. Just had school Tuesday and Wednesday that week.

 

[Belle_Ann]

I’d say the first vivid memory of news was the Challenger explosion. Same as someone else said - we were watching at school and they wheeled out the TV cart.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

I remember a lot of news, I remember images of cars lined up for miles during the oil shortage of the 70's. I remember the Iran hostages. But the two stories that affected me for life... I was 10 years old during the Blizzard of '78 in New England. A 10 year old boy went missing during the storm. They found him a few days later buried in a snow bank. He had been hit by a snowplow that didn't know it hit anything.

Another news story I became obsessed with, it was a local story that may have gone national. A little 3 year old boy named Chad Green was terminally ill. His parent's did not want him to continue any more chemo. There was an experimental drug they could get in Mexico, that had not been tested in the US, that might save his life. His Doctor took the family to court, but they ultimately fled with him. Kidnapped their own baby. I had newspaper clippings taped to my wall..I just thought he was the world's cutest little boy and I could not believe he was dying. I was again, about 10 years old.

Being a child and hearing another child died stayed with me. How do kids die? Dying is for when you are old.