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re: What is your most interesting event witnessed on live TV?
Posted on 8/29/15 at 8:31 am to ChunkyLover54
Posted on 8/29/15 at 8:31 am to ChunkyLover54
A lot of good answers here, most of which I watched live also. A surreal one that sticks in my mind is the Somalia intervention, when the recon element swam ashore loaded for bear, and the news media was standing there on the beach waiting for them.
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Posted on 8/29/15 at 8:33 am to ChunkyLover54
Besides 9/11.. The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Janet Jackson's boob, Hurricane Katrina and the hunt for the Boston bomber.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 8:33 am to ChunkyLover54
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Alldrin on the moon, 9/11, Challenger catastrophy, in sports the Bluegrass Miracle.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 8:37 am to windhammontanatigers
The night shite went down in Iraq '91.
I was a kid. At the time it was the most amazing and frightening thing I had ever seen.
I was a kid. At the time it was the most amazing and frightening thing I had ever seen.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 9:02 am to ChunkyLover54
As far as unexpected events go, I'd say the Challenger explosion or the World Series earthquake. I watched both of those happen in real time.
Just from a media coverage point of view, I'll throw out the fall of the Soviet Union and the Oklahoma City bombing.
Just from a media coverage point of view, I'll throw out the fall of the Soviet Union and the Oklahoma City bombing.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 9:10 am to brmach
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World Series earthquake
Remember that as well, it was crazy.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 9:24 am to ChunkyLover54
1) 9/11. Was watching CBS's Early Show where Bryant Gumble was in mid-interview with someone (I was a Senior in HS but rolled in 30 min late most days). When they were still calling it an accident I had a feeling it wasn't. I left for class as soon as the other plane hit, and drove faster than I ever have.
2) Princess Diana dying. Was at an all-night skate (yeah I know).
3) OJ chase. Interrupted 20/20 when I was home on a Friday night at age 10.
4) Katrina coverage when the levees broke. Was celebrating in Shreveport with a group of people who came from Baton Rouge & New Orleans and on the phone with many others. Elated that the city had been spared. Then the news changed.
5) Kerry Wood setting the single game strike out record. My brother was in town and said "you might want to stick around to watch this."
2) Princess Diana dying. Was at an all-night skate (yeah I know).
3) OJ chase. Interrupted 20/20 when I was home on a Friday night at age 10.
4) Katrina coverage when the levees broke. Was celebrating in Shreveport with a group of people who came from Baton Rouge & New Orleans and on the phone with many others. Elated that the city had been spared. Then the news changed.
5) Kerry Wood setting the single game strike out record. My brother was in town and said "you might want to stick around to watch this."
This post was edited on 8/29/15 at 9:43 am
Posted on 8/29/15 at 9:30 am to GaryMyMan
The dad that shot the pedophile in the head at the BR airport. The dad was fake talking on a pay phone and turn and popped the dude in the head as he walked by.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 9:35 am to theantiquetiger
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Space Jump a couple years ago
1st night of Operation Desert Storm
Miracle on Ice
Toppling of the Berlin Wall
Live Aid concert
Mary Lou and other gymnast in 1984
Holy shite. For me, I can't think of a better list than that.
As a child, it was ANYTHING that Evel Knievel did.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 9:50 am to ChunkyLover54
Nixon resigning
Several space program launches
Challenger while in college
9/11 but that was on the radio, what was eerie was I was working just north of Intercontinental Airport and not hearing planes every couple of minutes
Several space program launches
Challenger while in college
9/11 but that was on the radio, what was eerie was I was working just north of Intercontinental Airport and not hearing planes every couple of minutes
Posted on 8/29/15 at 9:59 am to ChunkyLover54
Two events:
Howard Johnson snipers / Mark Essex
It was the Christmas/new Year holidays and I had the flu. I laid on the sofa watching it on TV. The first policeman killed was our neighbor.
Howard Johnson sniper
Rault Center fire:
Rault Center
Howard Johnson snipers / Mark Essex
It was the Christmas/new Year holidays and I had the flu. I laid on the sofa watching it on TV. The first policeman killed was our neighbor.
Howard Johnson sniper
Rault Center fire:
Rault Center
Posted on 8/29/15 at 10:08 am to ChunkyLover54
Lawrence Taylor breaking Joe Theisman's leg on Monday night football.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 10:14 am to ChunkyLover54
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I was having all you can eat Rocky Mountain oysters.
Ghandi ate more than that.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 11:12 am to hobotiger
quote:I never knew about this. I was in New Orleans for that Mardi Gras, too.
The live Saturday Night Live episode from New Orleans
Here's an interesting article about the whole ordeal. Sounds wild as hell. I'd love to see this episode now.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 11:21 am to Titus Pullo
At the gym watching the first Iraq war begin. Desert Shield?
I KNEW I was going to get drafted.
shite my pants.
Dad just laughed. He was drafted for Vietnam. He just chuckled, "they are t drafting for that bullshite!"
I KNEW I was going to get drafted.
shite my pants. Dad just laughed. He was drafted for Vietnam. He just chuckled, "they are t drafting for that bullshite!"
Posted on 8/29/15 at 11:50 am to fatboydave
I'm pretty sure that is BugaPainTrain7's grandpa
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The dad that shot the pedophile in the head at the BR airport.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 12:37 pm to ChunkyLover54
I was randomly tuned in when Ron Artest went into the stands in Detroit.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 12:40 pm to boogiewoogie1978
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Holyfield Bowe II parachute incident
Got a chance to meet the Fan Man. He lived in Valdez for a while then moved to Anchorage. He hung himself in the woods near Hope, Alaska.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 12:41 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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Berlin Wall coming down, 9/11
ah, forgot that one. For those growing up in the Cold War era, it was phenomenal.
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