Thread: First Big News Story You Were Aware Of As A Kid?

Bobby Kennedy's assassination in 1968. I was 7. I barely remember watching the funeral procession with my parents freaking out about what was happening in the country.

And the 1st moon landing in 1969. My Dad got me up at like 3 in the morning to watch it live and I was mad at the time but I'm really glad he did.

Originally Posted by slim

Elvis dying. I think I was six at the time.

A few months later, the Broncos beat the raiders in the AFC championship game to make their first super bowl.

Ha! You're older than me. I thought we were the same age.

Reagan being shot or maybe the Iran hostage crisis are the first news memories I have.

Elvis died just before my third birthday. I was a huge Elvis fan as a kid, but didn't realize he was dead until I was 5 or 6. I was heartbroken when I found out.

Originally Posted by MasterShake

Like a few others here the Challenger exploding was the one that sticks out. Even worse new evidence suggests the crew didn't perish until well after the initial explosion which makes it much more somber:



http://gawker.com/thirty-years-ago-t...and-1755727930

Damn. I never saw that. I always hoped that it ended pretty quickly for them.

For some reason the one that sticks out in my head was the little girl who got trapped in a well. Probably because I was a little 3 year old kid and it resonated with me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McClure

Originally Posted by Buff

For some reason the one that sticks out in my head was the little girl who got trapped in a well. Probably because I was a little 3 year old kid and it resonated with me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McClure

I remember my Mom using this as a cautionary tale for us, mostly my younger sister. You were only three in 1986?

Originally Posted by Davii

I remember my Mom using this as a cautionary tale for us, mostly my younger sister. You were only three in 1986?

I was only 2 in 1986- I was 3 in October 1987 when she fell in.

Originally Posted by Dapper Dan

I'm not sure. I guess when Dale Earnhardt died. I don't remember very much before I was 11 or 12.

I remember that too now that you mention it. I didn't realize it happened before 9/11.

How old are you now?

I remember the Reagan shooting...and I remember as a kid being scared of Godoffi, fearing he would start WW3. Those are the two earliest things I remember regarding world news.

Originally Posted by NightTrainLayne

Ha! You're older than me.

You forgot wiser and better looking

Originally Posted by slim

You forgot wiser and better looking

No I didn't.

You son of a .....

Originally Posted by slim

You son of a .....

Wait. . I think you misunderstood. I didn't forget that you are wiser and better looking.

When the Challenger disaster happened I was living in AZ and I was in an elementary school with this weird year long schedule, you'd go to school for 3 months then have a month off and repeat. So I just happened to be home from school and my mom called me, and told me to turn on channel 5 because the shuttle was just about to take off and I should watch it. She came home from work after it happened because she was afraid she had traumatized me for life.

The thing I remember about the OKC bombing that is noteworthy is that I think that was the first time I ever conceptualized the idea of a terrorist attack... I can remember asking my mom who did it - and thinking as a 10 year old that it must have been another country who did it to us, I remember asking, did Japan bomb us again? Because at that point in my life, the only bombings we'd heard of were Pearl Harbor or war related.

Originally Posted by Hardwired

Bobby Kennedy's assassination in 1968. I was 7. I barely remember watching the funeral procession with my parents freaking out about what was happening in the country.

And the 1st moon landing in 1969. My Dad got me up at like 3 in the morning to watch it live and I was mad at the time but I'm really glad he did.

I vaguely remember the RFK assassination. I was 6 (technically 5 since it happened a month before my birthday).

You're an old man.