First Major News Story

[BIKER13]

 

[BIKER13]

Cuban missile crisis comes to mind for me.

 

[Kman]

Elvis's death. Had no idea of who he was, but people were freaked out.

 

[Buckeye76]

Something about a white bronco driving real slow down the interstate.

 

[antique41]

The end of WW II

 

[Amplifize]

There's a man on the moon

 

[Plinker66]

Walter Cronkite naming the fallen servicemen in Vietnam every night at the close of the news. “And that’s the way it was...”

He got such a reaction they don’t let em do that anymore.

 

[jcountry]

Elvis's death. Had no idea of who he was, but people were freaked out.

I remember that pretty clearly. I was 6.

Remember shows earlier than that, but that's about the first news story I remember.

 

[Poppa Mike]

JFK's assassination

 

[jaybees]

space shuttle challenger blowing up killing all 7 astronauts