The First NEWS STORY You Remember?

[Dirtybird12]

What was the first news story you can remember hearing for yourself?

[milliehatchett]

Nixon's resignation....

[LOAF]

Hmm, I guess the first big headline would be the challenger explosion

[Furtherman]

I remember seeing the picture of Elvis on the front page of the paper when he died.

[AnnoyedGrunt]

Wow, good question. The earliest I can remember was the Ben Johnson Olympic steroid scandal. It was a big story in Canada, anyway. I remember hearing it on the news and then having to ask my mom what they meant.

[jetdog]

I remember seeing Reagan and Gorby on TV but I don't remember the specifics, I'll have to go with the Challenger story for something that really stuck in my head.

[ChimneyFish]

Challenger.
I was 11 at the time.

[Sarge]

Elvis's death was probably the first story I remember as well. I heard it on the radio at a family barbecue, my grandmother started crying.

[MrPink]

The first news story I remember is OJ going to court for allegedly killing his wife.

[JPMNICK]

Challenger for me. I was 5 or so at the time, so I really did not understand what was going on. But I remember seeing it so many time being replayed on the news. and I remember everyone in my house talking about it and trying to explain to me what was going on. I think it was a big deal in school too because a teacher was on there. the next big one i remember is berlin wall coming down.

[lleeder]

Black vans kidnapping kids or was that just an urban legend?

[cupcakelove]

The first Gulf War. It started on my 8th birthday. I'm sure if I thought harder I could come up with something else.

[johnniewalker]

I remember a cut in during teen wolf of the 88 election. That would have put me at 5.

[Mike Teacher]

Wow I'm the fossil who saw Neil and Buzz walk on the moon.

Cmon I was not quite six and it was a Sunday night and they moved up the time of the walk earlier so Neil said his thing about 11pm on a summer sunday evening.

We moved so much you know I remember watching the TV but can't remember exactly where we lived. Either Miami or Chicago.

Cronkite: "There he comes down the ladder, they said it would be shadowy, now he's at the foot of the ladder. Neil Armstrong, 38 year old American, standing on the surface of the Moon, on this July 20th, 1969...' and then Neil cuts in with his words. Thats from memory.

[MrPink]

Wow I'm the fossil who saw Neil and Buzz walk on the moon.

Cmon I was not quite six and it was a Sunday night and they moved up the time of the walk earlier so Neil said his thing about 11pm on a summer sunday evening.

We moved so much you know I remember watching the TV but can't remember exactly where we lived. Either Miami or Chicago.

Cronkite: "There he comes down the ladder, they said it would be shadowy, now he's at the foot of the ladder. Neil Armstrong, 38 year old American, standing on the surface of the Moon, on this July 20th, 1969...' and then Neil cuts in with his words. Thats from memory.

You know you saw Armstrong walk on a movie set.

[PapaBear]

I remember watching the first moon landing, but that wasn't actually on the news (unless it was a special report). I also remember looking at a newspaper from when Nixon won his last election. I remember pointing out to a neighborhood girl, that Nixon looked happy because he won, and McGovern looked sad because he lost.

[Don Stugots]

Challenger.
I was 11 at the time.

i think i was 8. a woman ran up to me in the street and told me, but for me it was the Pope getting shot. Face Pope not Heel Pope. I was in first of second grade and the lunch ladies were running around screaming about it and the Asst. Prin. Mr. Quinlan had to almost smack her to get her to calm down.

[Marc with a c]

for some reason the only ones that are coming to mind are those tourists in florida that were getting killed years ago, and the new female condom.

[Dan G]

The attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. I was 6 when it happened and actually wrote him a get well letter. A few weeks later, I received a reply back.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/7254/ronaldreaganrn1.jpg

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Challenger.
I was 11 at the time.


Agreed I was 10 myself

[Mike Teacher]

I remember watching the first moon landing, but that wasn't actually on the news (unless it was a special report).

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I think at least Cronkite/CBS carried the landing, Neil's steps and the call from Nixon live. Neil's steps were broadcast around the world, on TV and radio, to audeinces esteimated in the billions. I think the entire week was one long special report, again not sure for the other networks, but regular TV was cut into a few times for live TV transmissions, the astros talk about being nervous about being nervous for these, esp Buzz, who worried over every word.

[ChimneyFish]

i think i was 8. a woman ran up to me in the street and told me, but for me it was the Pope getting shot. Face Pope not Heel Pope. I was in first of second grade and the lunch ladies were running around screaming about it and the Asst. Prin. Mr. Quinlan had to almost smack her to get her to calm down.



I think you were around 13. (I was born in '76)
The pope was shot in 81. I remember hearing about it at some point years after.



As for the Challenger, I was in school at the time.
I remember them wheeling in a tv, so we could watch it.
I don't remember feeling anything about it. I don't know if it was my age, or that I was a sociopath even back then.

[SatCam]

I remember watching the first moon landing, but that wasn't actually on the news (unless it was a special report). I also remember looking at a newspaper from when Nixon won his last election. I remember pointing out to a neighborhood girl, that Nixon looked happy because he won, and McGovern looked sad because he lost.

was she hot?

[Captain Rooster]

Vividly? The lead up to the Challenger launch with all the Christy McCauliffe(sp?) aboard ... and then the Explosion. My fifth grade teacher ... as if I were there right now ... running into the room and screaming, "THE CHALLENGER JUST BLEW UP!" Also, my first experience with shock and trauma.

[Don Stugots]

I think you were around 13. (I was born in '76)
The pope was shot in 81. I remember hearing about it at some point years after.



As for the Challenger, I was in school at the time.
I remember them wheeling in a tv, so we could watch it.
I don't remember feeling anything about it. I don't know if it was my age, or that I was a sociopath even back then.

i was born in 73.

[patsopinion]

1989 sf earth quake

blew my mind
they made it look like the end of the world
cars falling of the bay bridge
fucking nutz

[bigredd]

Hmm, I guess the first big headline would be the challenger explosion

I was in the 6th grade and I'll never forget my teacher crying about something that didn't have to do with what fucking turds we were.

[bigredd]

1989 sf earth quake

blew my mind
they made it look like the end of the world
cars falling of the bay bridge
fucking nutz

Ooooh, I remember that one too. I was watching the World Series on TV and was PISSED because I thought something was wrong witht the TV or TV station. This post was unnecessary but it got me to 100. Sorry.

[IamFogHat]

I would have to say the beginning of the first Gulf War is the first news story I remember consciously hearing about on the TV.

[furie]

I remember some of the Iran hostage stories from 1979-1980

[DonInNC]

I have fuzzy memories of Saigon falling to the North Vietnamese (75) and of the Viking I landing on Mars (76).

More vividly, I remember Jimmy Carter's election. I was against him because a kid on the bus started a rumor that he was going to make us go to school on Saturdays. I stayed up to watch the returns.

[led37zep]

Timeline is a little iffy so you get two.

Challenger explosion
or
Random news story about AIDS in Chad. (its my name....AIDS..not chad.

[Judge Smails]

I guess it would be The Iran Hostage Crisis Version 1.0. I knew it was a big deal because everywhere you went you'd see bumper stickers, posters or t-shirts with Mickey Mouse flipping the bird and saying "Hey, Iran!" It was the little magnetic yellow ribbon on the car of it's day.

Or, not sure if you'd consider it a "news" story per se, but I have vivid memories of the Bicentenial, even though I was only six. "Those tall ships really lifted the nation's sprit after Watergate!"

[Bob Impact]

Imus gets in trouble for calling the Rutgers basketball team "nappy headed."

[Mike Teacher]

I have fuzzy memories of Saigon falling to the North Vietnamese (75) and of the Viking I landing on Mars (76).


I dont remember any of Viet Nam proper, not Saigon or anything, but I do remember seeing the planes returning to US soil, B-52s or something, and a lot of guys were walking off and a lot were on stretchers, not sure if they were POWs.

I remember being not able to see Evel Knievel not jump the Snake River Canyon and listening on radio. Evel was pretty huge back then, even with that Waterloo.

[scottinnj]

For a TV news story I first remember the failed attempt of rescuing the hostages from Iran in 1979 with the collision of the helicopters in the desert. Still can't figure out why Carter got every ounce of blame for that.

For my first Newspaper story I remember is the mass suicide in 1978 of the People's Temple Cult led by Jim Jones down in Jonestown, Guyana. To this day when I think of it I remember the front page-a photo taken from a helicopter or a plane, looking down into the compound, with hundred of bodies laying everywhere.

[BLZBUBBA]

That moon-landing thing was the first big news story. It has gone downhill from there. No wait. When did George Wallace get shot? That may have come before. So old...my memory fails me...Come to think about it there was another news story.

Cowboy wide receiver Lance Rentzel supposedly pulled out his weiner and showed it to a little girl...or pissed in front of her...or something.
Big news in Texas...God's team tainted. I laughed and laughed as the Cowboys did the damage control thing.
All the parents trying to "talk around" the incident was a trip.
Mommy...Why isn't Lance Rentzel playing for the Cowboys anymore?
..."He did a very bad thing."
What did he do mommy?
..."We can't talk about it."
But mommy...He was a good player. What did he do?
..."I said to drop it."
But mommy...
"Alright...He URINATED in front of a little girl."

And to this day I still don't know exactly what happened. One thing for sure. He was married to Joey Heatherton (one smokin' piece of ass) and I don't get jeopardizing that...AT ALL.

[PapaBear]

was she hot?
She certainly grew up to be hot.

[waltermitty]

The 1989 San Fransisco World Series EarthQuake... I was 7 and a half.... After that, The next thing i can remeber is the start of Desert Storm in Jan. 1991... I was about to turn 9....
It's weird the things (News events and Meaningless Events) that we remember from our childhood....

[detectivemike]

Dave's engagement announcement. I was sitting indian style in my living room reading comic books with LL Cool J. Seems like yesterday!

[A.J.]

Nixon's resignation....

Ditto.

And reports from Vietnam. I was a precocious tot.

[Dirtybird12]

I remember being in the car when "Smash" or "Cerph" on DC101 broke the news to us locals that John Belushi died.

Elvis dying was probably the first "headline" that moved me.

[Kathleen From The Bronx]

Big Paul Castellano getting gunned down outside of Sparks Steakhouse when I was eight, I think that's one the first news stories I was really aware of....... The subway was packed and i had a seat...and i vividly recall seeing the front pages reporting the assasination on all of the Posts or the Daily News that peoples were reading while standing...... I got all kinda obsessed with that story...and John Gotti....all that gangsta shit...

[badorties]

thurman munson's plane going down ...

[Chip196]

As for the Challenger, I was in school at the time.
I remember them wheeling in a tv, so we could watch it.
I don't remember feeling anything about it. I don't know if it was my age, or that I was a sociopath even back then.

Same for me ... it's the first one I remember, and I was in school and we were all watching. I felt I was too young to grasp it and couldn't understand everyones reaction. Or like you, I was a sociopath.

[drjoek]

The end of the Civil War and Lincoln being shot.
It took a few days to get the news here to CT
but I remember we were very sad
:sad:

Fuck Im really old
:glurps:

[OneEyeJack]

I remember when James Dean lost it all to a 1953 Ford.

[Ritalin]

The hostage taking at the 1972 Olympics in Munich...I was 6

[StupidGirlllll]

Hmm, I guess the first big headline would be the challenger explosion


Mine also, I was in the 7th grade & in the Peer group at the time..we where coming from Lunch & I laughed..I got in so much trouble with my teacher(who is now a nun) she made me read something to the entire class.. I was never so mad before in my whole life.

[WhistlePig]

I remember reports on the TV news about Cambodia and the Vietnam war around 1970 when I was 5 but not one specific story. The first full story I remember hearing about was the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation. My dad still has the newspaper from that day.

http://www.panopticist.com/graphics/nixon_resigns.gif

[PapaBear]

The Nixon resignation reminds me. When it happened, I remember my dad and my oldest brother asking "Who the heck is Gerald Ford?" I was like, how the hell can they not know who the Vice President is? I'm only 8 and I know who he is!