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Post by mikef6 on May 4, 2018 15:20:02 GMT
An elementary school teacher assigned my class to watch an evening news program and report on what they learned. I watched The Huntley–Brinkley Report on NBC that night (not realizing that this was a new program that had only been on for about a month – it ran until 1970). Their main story was what is now known as the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. After a revolution that overthrew the Communist government, the Soviet Union seemed to accept the result. But in November, a huge Soviet army of men and tanks invaded and crushed the incipient Democracy. I saw film of tanks, destroyed buildings, and people running through streets to the sound of gunfire. It was seared into my brain.
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Post by Aj_June on May 4, 2018 19:24:05 GMT
An elementary school teacher assigned my class to watch an evening news program and report on what they learned. I watched The Huntley–Brinkley Report on NBC that night (not realizing that this was a new program that had only been on for about a month – it ran until 1970). Their main story was what is now known as the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. After a revolution that overthrew the Communist government, the Soviet Union seemed to accept the result. But in November, a huge Soviet army of men and tanks invaded and crushed the incipient Democracy. I saw film of tanks, destroyed buildings, and people running through street to the sound of gunfire. It was seared into my brain. Monica Seles stabbing comes to mind.
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Post by bravomailer on May 4, 2018 21:30:50 GMT
By chance, I had an elderly neighbor who covered the Hungarian Revolution for CBS.
The first news story I recall was the launching of Sputnik. The folks took us in the backyard to watch it fly over. It seemed ominous.
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Post by twothousandonemark on May 4, 2018 21:32:33 GMT
Challenger explosion, January '86. Even then, I didn't react much. To me, NASA still felt like risk was inherent, it simply happened to be on tv with a school teacher involved.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 23:15:39 GMT
The MLK assassination was the first one I can remember paying any attention to. News was boring to me. If my father got home after the news came on I would already be watching Soupy Sales which was far more entertaining. Otherwise Dad would turn on Huntley and Brinkley and I would go do something else. I remember constantly hearing "President Johnson this"..."President Johnson that" every time the news was on but I couldn't care less what he was doing. I thought he was one of the ugliest looking men on television along with Chet Huntley and I didn't care to look at either of them. I thought his first name was President and his last name was Johnson. Some years later I saw him in a book of presidents and thought "Oh, that guy. Now I get it."
What was I talking about, MLK? Oh, yes. I saw the funeral on television and actually paid attention to the news coverage of that and the capture of the assassin afterward.
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Post by MCDemuth on May 4, 2018 23:39:10 GMT
Challenger explosion, January '86 I would have to say, that one is at the top of my list too... I know I heard about it while I was at school, and then when I got home, the first thing I did, was ask my Mom is she had heard. She had.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 5:11:58 GMT
Challenger explosion, January '86 I would have to say, that one is at the top of my list too... I know I heard about it while I was at school, and then when I got home, the first thing I did, was ask my Mom is she had heard. She had. I guess you guys are younger than me. I remember when that happened I was changing my drivers license from NY to NJ. A friend of mine picked me up in his truck after I got out of the DMV and told me he had heard it on the news. I remember what a damn cold day it was in NJ that day. When we got home from Phillipsburg to Hackettstown I stopped at the Clarendon, a really fancy restaurant, for lunch. I sat at the bar so I could watch television and that was all they showed the whole time. I remember a lot of what I did that day, just because of the big news surrounding my activities. By the way, I had wienerschnitzel for lunch.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 5, 2018 8:13:33 GMT
The REAL (NON-HOAXED) Moon landing of Apollo 11.
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Post by kls on May 5, 2018 12:17:51 GMT
Nixon and the Watergate Scandal/resignation.
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Post by MCDemuth on May 5, 2018 13:32:41 GMT
I guess you guys are younger than me. Contrary to popular beliefs, we are ALL different ages around here. That's why people need to take more care in how WE communicate around here. Half the time, I don't understand what the College Age folk are talking about... Also, this ALPHABET SOUP that people have learned from Chat Rooms and Texting just goes over my head... It's no wonder there are so many mis-understandings and fighting on these boards.
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Post by deembastille on May 5, 2018 16:39:14 GMT
we are the world.
new coke
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Post by bravomailer on May 5, 2018 16:48:33 GMT
I recall watching John Cameron Swayze deliver the news.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 16:50:12 GMT
Fall of The Berlin wall
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Post by DarkManX on May 5, 2018 18:05:48 GMT
The Oklahoma World Trade Center bombing.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on May 5, 2018 18:57:36 GMT
Launch of the space shuttle Enterprise where a couple of Star Trek actors were present, handing out ST toys. But if that isnt major news worthy, then Elvis dying.
I remember seeing it announced on tv.
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Post by marianne48 on May 8, 2018 1:07:17 GMT
The Vietnam War was an ongoing news story during my childhood. Every evening, the local news was filled with war footage and a nightly scroll of names of casualties, accompanied by a solemn military drumbeat as the names went by. The iconic photo of a Viet Cong prisoner being executed by a Vietnamese police chief was also filmed by news cameras and broadcast on the news; I was 5 years old at the time and still remember watching the footage of the guy being shot in the head and falling over into the street. I remember wondering if he was dead (I was too young to understand that people getting shot in the head are generally killed outright, since all the cartoons had characters getting shot in the head all the time and nothing much happened). That story was used as an example of the brutality of the South Vietnamese against the persecuted Viet Cong; years later the full story came out about who the "victim" really was--the leader of a brutal gang which tortured, raped and killed civilians, including children. The police chief, although justified in executing the gang leader, was treated as something of a pariah for the rest of his life. Every picture may tell a story, but in this case it was an inaccurate and misleading story.
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Post by MooseNugget on May 9, 2018 6:10:14 GMT
9/11
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Post by vegalyra on May 9, 2018 20:14:13 GMT
A strange memory for me (and I don't know why I remember this so vividly) was my parents watching the evening news and Jimmy Carter announced that the USA would boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. I was really young but for whatever reason I remember it.
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Post by QueenB on May 10, 2018 5:38:00 GMT
I'm think it was the Challenger explosion for me as well.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on May 10, 2018 15:50:09 GMT
Probably Vietnam, or maybe Watergate.
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