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re: What is the first major news event you recall watching?
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:00 am to rpg37
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:00 am to rpg37
Im 41. I remember watching the Berlin wall falling coverage. Didn't know what was going on but remember seeing people standing ontop the wall and walking thru it. Next thing was Rodney King 2 or 3 years later.
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Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:02 am to rpg37
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Or whatever form of media - be it radio, tv, internet, etc. I am 38. The OJ Simpson bronco chase was the earliest news event I recall.
I’m sure it’s been posted but that baby in the well was the first thing I remember. I was 6
Remember it being a really big deal back then.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:04 am to rpg37
Our 5th grade class watched the Challenger explosion live
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:06 am to rpg37
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The OJ Simpson bronco chase
Same for me.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:08 am to rpg37
Hostage rescue mission Iran ‘79(?)
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:08 am to rpg37
Reagan assassination attempt in 1981. I was 9.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:08 am to rpg37
Vietnam as a very young kid.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:08 am to rpg37
JFK funeral.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:08 am to rpg37
Don’t remember specifics, but I remember a televised NASA splashdown. My parents thought it was a big deal. Just a capsule with 2-3 red and white parachutes. When the capsule door popped open audible cheers could be heard from the tv audio and my parents seemed pleased and proud as well. It was in the very early 70s and was no older than 4.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:09 am to rpg37
Watergate, just remember Nixon being all tv all the time. Had no idea what was going on.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:11 am to rpg37
Iran hostage crisis.
For a while I thought I was a curse. Every time I skipped school I was watching some disaster or event on TV.
- 1983 barracks
- Challenger
- Hank Gathers dying (Loyola Marmount was so fun to watch)
- Len Bias dying right after the Celtics drafted him
For a while I thought I was a curse. Every time I skipped school I was watching some disaster or event on TV.
- 1983 barracks
- Challenger
- Hank Gathers dying (Loyola Marmount was so fun to watch)
- Len Bias dying right after the Celtics drafted him
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:11 am to MamouTiger65
I remember watching Reagan getting sworn in as President. I think I was in 2nd Grade. Teacher brought a TV into the classroom to watch. I think I was more impressed that a TV could be moved like that.
I remember the Iran-Contra hearings as well. Probably the first major news event outside of the Space Shuttle crash I can recall. It was on every afternoon for a while when I came home from school. That was also about the time I began thinking joining the Marines was what I wanted to do after high school and watching Oliver North on TV looking like I can take whatever the frick yall can throw at me and give me some more made me think damn the Marines are some hardcore motherfrickers.
I remember the Iran-Contra hearings as well. Probably the first major news event outside of the Space Shuttle crash I can recall. It was on every afternoon for a while when I came home from school. That was also about the time I began thinking joining the Marines was what I wanted to do after high school and watching Oliver North on TV looking like I can take whatever the frick yall can throw at me and give me some more made me think damn the Marines are some hardcore motherfrickers.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:14 am to rpg37
76 here, Hurricane Flossy hit NOLA area when I was 7 in 1956, we lived in a low area, Nash Roberts said we should turn over our dining room table to use as a raft if the levees break.
I remember Sputnik in 1957, my little sister born in 1958, and Kennedy elected in 1960.
I remember Sputnik in 1957, my little sister born in 1958, and Kennedy elected in 1960.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:16 am to rpg37
Sinking of the Andrea Doria back in the 50s…yea, I’m old !
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:21 am to rpg37
The Cuban Missile Crisis when JFK was in his first term as President.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:25 am to rpg37
Challenger explosion. I was in Kindergarten and was watching it with my classmates in our lunchroom.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:30 am to rpg37
I remember watching the Challenger explode as we watched on TV in my 2nd grade class.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:47 am to dred24
I watched that one live in Clearwater.
I pulled off US19….A string of cars pulled behind me. You see them when they got a few thousand feet up. Vapor trailer as they went up. It blew up and I turned to run back to the car. One man asked “What was that?” I yelled back “It blew up!’”
I pulled off US19….A string of cars pulled behind me. You see them when they got a few thousand feet up. Vapor trailer as they went up. It blew up and I turned to run back to the car. One man asked “What was that?” I yelled back “It blew up!’”
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:54 am to rpg37
I'm 58. I vaguely remember Vietnam stuff, and Watergate on TV. Challenger explosion is the first one I remember vividly where I was. I was late teens I guess.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:55 am to rpg37
Probably when baby Jessica was rescued from the well.
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