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re: What is the oldest news story you can remember watching as a kid
Posted on 8/9/20 at 3:40 pm to CatsGoneWild
Posted on 8/9/20 at 3:40 pm to CatsGoneWild
Ford v Carter Presidential election. So 1976, old
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Posted on 8/9/20 at 3:57 pm to CatsGoneWild
I’m gonna show my age here...but I remember the news coverage of the sinking of the Andrea Doria in July, 1956. I was 6 years old.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 4:05 pm to evantiger
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Had to go back and check the date but I remember watching the news that night with my Mom and I have never forgotten seeing her cry over these astronauts that she did not know which in turn got me to crying after seeing her cry , but the Apollo 1 disaster that took place on January 27 , 1967 when all three astronauts were killed that day. Still haunts me some 52 years later.
I remember my dad being really shaken up when that 727 crashed in Kenner. That was the closest I've ever seen him to tears, other than when his own dad died.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 4:07 pm to CatsGoneWild
Evel Knievel attempting to clear the Snake River Canyon in Southern Idaho in a glorified grenade launcher. He failed.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 4:07 pm to CatsGoneWild
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Posted on 8/9/20 at 4:08 pm to CatsGoneWild
Watergate. I was hoping to see Seseme Street but it was off the air. I asked my grandma why the people on television was talking about water. I think that was around 1972/73.
This post was edited on 8/9/20 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 8/9/20 at 4:19 pm to KwoodTiger
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Elvis dying while visiting my grandparents house. Random.
Mine too. I remember momma seeing it and taking me and my brother to our aunt's house. They sat and cried as me and my cousin went outside and threw an Elvis frisbee.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 4:26 pm to msudawg1200
I asked all these young kids in my pool and they say Kasey Anthony/BP oil spill
Posted on 8/9/20 at 4:28 pm to CatsGoneWild
Rodney King beating and subsequent riots after the jury verdicts. That got me hooked on watching the news at age 11.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 4:42 pm to CatsGoneWild
Elvis dying while visiting my grandparents house.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 4:44 pm to CatsGoneWild
JFK assassination. I had just turned five.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 4:48 pm to geauxpurple
JFK blockade of Cuba.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 5:03 pm to CatsGoneWild
Pretty sure it was the start of the US's involvement in Vietnam. "Operation Rolling Thunder" was when LBJ started bombing North Vietnam in 1965. He said it would break the North Vietnamese's will to fight, and bolster the South Vietnamese army. Less than a month later they sent ground troops. From that point on, Walter Cronkite gave the kill count every night at 6pm.
Couldn't find any CBS coverage, but here are some good videos I did find.
Operation Rolling Thunder and the US sends troops(1965) on Smithsonian
2nd March 1965: USA launches Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam on History Pod YouTube
Last one is a 50 minute lecture:
Douglas Kennedy of the U.S. Air Force Academy taught a class on Vietnam’s War’s “Operation Rolling Thunder” on c-span
Couldn't find any CBS coverage, but here are some good videos I did find.
Operation Rolling Thunder and the US sends troops(1965) on Smithsonian
2nd March 1965: USA launches Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam on History Pod YouTube
Last one is a 50 minute lecture:
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Vietnam War's "Operation Rolling Thunder"
Douglas Kennedy of the U.S. Air Force Academy taught a class on Vietnam’s War’s “Operation Rolling Thunder” air campaign, which took place from 1965-68. He described goals of the campaign, such as destroying North Vietnam’s transportation system, but also discussed the limitations put in place to avoid antagonizing other communist powers such as the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China.
Douglas Kennedy of the U.S. Air Force Academy taught a class on Vietnam’s War’s “Operation Rolling Thunder” on c-span
Posted on 8/9/20 at 5:07 pm to CatsGoneWild
Reading a week old newspaper in my dad's garage that Reagan was shot. Sure was nice being oblivious.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 5:11 pm to CatsGoneWild
Challenger Explosion and Pan Am Flight 759
Posted on 8/9/20 at 5:12 pm to The Spleen
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The US boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Ron Galimore was an All-American gymnast at LSU who was the first Black gymnast to make the US team. It was for that Olympics.
Before TitleIV, LSU had top 10 men's gymnastic and wrestling teams.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 5:15 pm to chinese58
Some speech by George Bush about the 1st Iraq war. He said Americans were the best fighters in the world. I got so pumped I ran around the house and jumped pn the kitchen table to celebrate.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 5:20 pm to CatsGoneWild
Hacksaw Jim Duggan planting cocaine and marijuana on The Iron Sheik after pretending to be his friend and give him a ride to the next town
Posted on 8/9/20 at 5:23 pm to carguymatt
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Rodney King beating and subsequent riots after the jury verdicts. That got me hooked on watching the news at age 11.
I was about the same age at the time and remember watching Reginald Denny on tv driving up to that intersection and me and my dad are both saying “keep driving, don’t stop, keep driving, don’t stop.” Dude stopped and the rest is history. Teachable moment that carries forward to this day, especially.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 5:27 pm to CatsGoneWild
Some hurricane, don't remember which one. My mother ran over to borrow something from a neighbor and I was mad because the man on TV said for everyone to stay inside.
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