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Posted on 8/9/20 at 5:37 pm to CatsGoneWild
Does Michael Jordan’s father being murdered count?
Posted on 8/9/20 at 8:09 pm to KwoodTiger
Vietnam war
Watergate
Apollo-Soyuz
Watergate
Apollo-Soyuz
Posted on 8/9/20 at 8:10 pm to CatsGoneWild
Berlin Wall coming down
Posted on 8/9/20 at 8:11 pm to CatsGoneWild
I remember my mom pumping gas and me seeing a black dude and starting to screech because I thought it was OJ Simpson coming to murder me
Posted on 8/9/20 at 8:22 pm to CatsGoneWild
Watching the newscast about the Bush 1 war. watching the night vision stuff come across in green stuck with me.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 8:23 pm to CatsGoneWild
Carter being elected.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 8:26 pm to HempHead
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Did you see that at the movie theaters? Or were you one of those rich kids with the first TVs?
It was in the papers. My grandfather sat at the kitchen table drinking coffee reading the Picayune incredulous that one bomb could wipe out an entire city.
BTW, there were no commercial tv stations in Louisiana at that time.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 8:49 pm to BlackAdam
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Booth shooting Lincoln.
I only go back to September, 1938. You've got me a few years.
This post was edited on 8/9/20 at 8:50 pm
Posted on 8/9/20 at 8:52 pm to CatsGoneWild
Vague remembrance of family talking about Elvis dying. First solid memory of a major news event is Reagan being shot.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 8:59 pm to CatsGoneWild
JFK's funeral on a black and white TV, full coverage played most of daytime hours over 2 days I think, rare on those days.
Got me hooked on news and current events.
Got me hooked on news and current events.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 8:59 pm to CatsGoneWild
Elvis dying
Posted on 8/9/20 at 9:28 pm to Maytheporkbewithyou
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I remember watching some politician commit suicide on live tv. Guy was in trouble for something and pulled a gun out and killed him self during his press conference.
Budd Dwyer, Pennsylvania State Treasurer, 1987. There is an excellent documentary about this story on Amazon Prime, “Honest Man: The Life of R. Budd Dwyer“.
Convicted of bribery. Poor guy was innocent in my mind. I remember seeing the video and people begging him not to kill himself, he was well-liked. Sad story.
Honest Man article
Posted on 8/9/20 at 9:28 pm to KwoodTiger
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Elvis dying while visiting my grandparents house. Random.
I was also visiting my grandparents house when Elvis died. I remember going into the room my parents were in and telling them. I don’t remember if they already knew or not.
But the earliest news stories I remember have to do with Vietnam POWs being released. Very vague memories of those stories.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 9:59 pm to CatsGoneWild
JFK getting assassinated.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 10:05 pm to BowDownToLSU
It was something involving Mike Tyson's rape charge. I dont know if it was him getting charged or convicted or what
This post was edited on 8/9/20 at 10:06 pm
Posted on 8/9/20 at 10:06 pm to 03GeeTee
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Oklahoma City bombing
This is it for me too. I slept on the floor of my parents bedroom thinking we were going to get blown up. All I kept hearing was that there was a daycare inside and a bunch of kids were killed. I was 5.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 10:09 pm to CatsGoneWild
Gulf war 1. I was mesmerized at the AA firing up at the sky in night vision.
Posted on 8/9/20 at 10:12 pm to CatsGoneWild
baby Jessica in the well
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