First Major News Story

[Plinker66]

@antique41 fer the win! @Badger fer a close second!

 

[dakota port]

the first story remembered in any great detail was the world trade center collapsing. the whole school pretty much stopped to watch

 

[spencer60]

Not a specific day or event, but I clearly remember Walter Cronkite talking with the death toll from Vietnam up behind him on screen.

I must have absorbed the JFK assassination though, because when my Grandma died my Mom says I asked if she was shot too.

 

[November Sierra]

9/11

 

[GeauxLSU]

Watergate. I was 7. I thought it had something to do with water... and a gate.

 

[coach482]

JFK assasination.

 

[palmettomoon]

Space Shuttle Challeneger Distaster.

I was just commissioned, remember it well. Horrifying.

 

[fslc94]

Elvis then Reagan attempted assanation

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

Some of you cats are OLD! Makes me feel better.

 

[moonie]

I was born Sept 1, 1964, roughly 9 months after the JFK assassination ..... OMG ewwwwwwww I'd never put that together before!

Well there REALLY wasn't anything else on tv during that time!!!