What's the first major news story you remember?
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BUT...this other world event memory is very strong. My parents sent me to visit my grandparents in Memphis TN in the summer of 1977 for a couple weeks. I had just turned 8 yrs old. I was at ground zero when Elvis died and i still remember the stillness in the air wherever we went around town. I was too young to understand just how big Elvis was, so i remember being confused by it. I remember asking my grandfather if he was the President of something.
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I honestly can't remember a single news story of note prior to being 13 years old. Mostly because we didn't have a TV until I was like 11, but even then, I never really watched much TV. Unless it was to try and get a peek at that scrambled channel with the boobs on it. And Benny Hill, of course.
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Apollo 11 when I was five, the actual walk on the moon. I was ossified in front of the TV as it was happening, and it turned me into a space geek for life.
I have vague memories of stories about Vietnam on the nightly news that my dad always watched before that, but can't remember any specific events from that, just the name 'Vietnam'. My dad's habit of watching the nightly news became my habit pretty quickly and was fully ingrained by the time I was 10 years old. I very distinctly remember watching the news the day Saigon fell, including seeing on a broadcast the iconic photo of the helicopter on the roof of the US embassy with the long line of people waiting to get on. That one really affected me (the whole story, not just the photo), seeing a country fall to communism like that since my mother and her family defected from East Germany when she was a kid. I knew what the losers were in for.
I have vague memories of stories about Vietnam on the nightly news that my dad always watched before that, but can't remember any specific events from that, just the name 'Vietnam'. My dad's habit of watching the nightly news became my habit pretty quickly and was fully ingrained by the time I was 10 years old. I very distinctly remember watching the news the day Saigon fell, including seeing on a broadcast the iconic photo of the helicopter on the roof of the US embassy with the long line of people waiting to get on. That one really affected me (the whole story, not just the photo), seeing a country fall to communism like that since my mother and her family defected from East Germany when she was a kid. I knew what the losers were in for.
