re: What’s the first memory you have of a major news story?

I have memories of the Bicentennial celebrations and Elvis's death. The one news story that really stuck in my memory at the time was watching coverage of the Tenerife air disaster in the Canary Islands that killed almost 600 people.

Then a few months later the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash was on the news. For several months my 6/7 year old brain just knew that every plane that flew over was about to crash and burn!