re: What is the oldest news story you can remember watching as a kid

The Reagan assassination attempt.

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Elvis dying while visiting my grandparents house.

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That’s odd, I thought he died at Graceland.

Probably watergate. I knew it was bad and on the TV all the time. I remember my grandmother and my parents discussing the whole saga. Then next would be the fall of Saigon because daddy came back from Vietnam in 1969 and I remember him being upset that we tucked tail and ran from Vietnam with the fall of Saigon and the airlift. I was born in 67.

Berlin wall

Challenger explosion is my earliest memory of watching and kind of understanding what was going on.

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My first memories are of the Gulf war, like I said, but the first real shite that I vividly remember was the Clinton impeachment, and 9/11. I didn't exactly spend my childhood days parked in front of the TV watching news.

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The Clinton Impeachment is probably the third major story I remember outside of OJ and Princess Di. Reason I remember it pretty well is my parents wanted to reluctantly have "The Talk" with me due to this... but they were too big of pussies to do it. So they get one of my uncles to do the job for them. I was 10 at the time, and my uncle was half in the bag and he tells me. "Look, I know at this point you know about sex, so here's my advice to you: if you've got a condom, and she's hot, frick her." I had no idea what he was talking about either.

post of the thread!!!!!!!!

I remember that little girl trapped in a well. Baby Jessica. I was born in 81.

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JFK

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Even before the assassination I can remember the news reports on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Scary times.

JFK assassination