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This is an interesting one.

The first news story I remember clearly is the Kuwaiti oil fires. 1991.

How about you?
08:01 PM - Mar 26, 2024 (Edited)
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David J. Fielding
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The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre. Didn't really understand what was going on at 9 years of age.
But I do remember the end.
"They're all gone."
02:55 PM - Mar 30, 2024
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Thee NW F#@&ing Magpie
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In response to David J. Fielding.
That had to be chilling. 😨
03:11 PM - Mar 30, 2024
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Paulette Hawkins
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In response to dani.
I remember the news talking about the end of the Korean War, or at least getting our troops out of it. That was the early 50s.
I know, I know....I'm really old.
01:42 PM - Mar 30, 2024 (Edited)
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Thee NW F#@&ing Magpie
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Oh, and my mom's birthday? April 4th.

Guess what we always remembered--along with her birthday.
07:46 PM - Mar 27, 2024 (Edited)
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Thee NW F#@&ing Magpie
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In response to dani.
The earliest news story I can remember is Nixon's resignation in 1974. I wasn't quite 4 years old.

The next one was the fall of Saigon, 1975, and that will never leave my memory.
07:41 PM - Mar 27, 2024
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Char
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In response to dani.
That's mine, too! Nothing before that was really memorable.
11:51 AM - Mar 27, 2024
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dani
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In response to Char.
Hello fellow youth 👋🏼
11:55 AM - Mar 27, 2024
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Pam I
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In response to dani.
I was young and I remember all my aunts, my grandmas and everyone crowded around our b&w tv, all crying when JFK was assassinated.
10:59 AM - Mar 27, 2024 (Edited)
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Chris Gray
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In response to dani.
The Moon landing
Famine in Biafra
Currency decimalisation in the UK
04:26 AM - Mar 27, 2024
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Steven McDermott
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In response to dani.
MLK assasination. Apr 4, 1968, the day before my 5th birthday. We lived in the DC suburbs and could see the smoke downtown from the fires. That was followed by RFK assasination in June. Really bad times
11:06 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Debbie Lu
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In response to Steven McDermott.
Yes! The MLK and Kennedy assassinations are not memories of news stories, they are lived memories along with the violence and protests of forced desegregation busing. Scary and confusing times for little kid me. I remember us being glued to the TV following the Apollo 11 moon landing.
11:46 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Tara Spouts
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In response to dani.
The Iran Hostage situation. I was terrified that the Ayatollah Khomeini was going to kidnap me during the night. I was 6.5 years old…maybe sneaking downstairs to watch the 10 o’clock news wasn’t such a good decision 🫣🤔
10:56 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Thee NW F#@&ing Magpie
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In response to Tara Spouts.
When Ted Koppel began his nightly broadcast of "America In Crisis," my mom told me I could stay up and watch it with her so we would both keep up on what was going on with the hostages in Iran. I was about 8 at the time.
03:15 PM - Mar 30, 2024
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mizblueprint
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In response to dani.
Sputnik, October 1957, first grade. It was a seismic event. Duck and cover drills for nuclear war shortly thereafter.
10:48 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Chris
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In response to dani.
1st news story I remember was the naming of the 1st astronauts. How exciting that was to my 6 yo imagination!
10:34 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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NellyHammond
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In response to dani.
Beatlemania, I was 4.
10:23 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Sue Wright
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In response to dani.
Staying with Aunt in Falls Church, Virginia, summer of 68'. Upstairs when I hear the most god awful screaming coming from my Aunt downstairs. TV news was reporting Bobby Kennedy had died.
10:17 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Angela Baker
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It was 1974, our television was black and white & it was on during the day which was unusual. I watched Tricky Dick & Mrs. Nixon walk from the White House to helicopter w now President Ford & Mrs. Ford. I remember him waving goodbye in a weird way.
10:11 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Jack Handy
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In response to Angela Baker.
I couldn't help but think of this..

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10:16 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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dmark
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In response to dani.
My parents were very political so I remember the 60 Presidential election.
09:47 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Thomas Dukes
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In response to dani.
The assassination of JFK and my father crying uncontrollably.
09:40 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Rosetta
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In response to dani.
I remember sitting in my 3rd grade class in 1963 and my teacher just started crying. She just received news that President Kennedy had been assassinated.
09:33 PM - Mar 26, 2024 (Edited)
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Thomas Dukes
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In response to Rosetta.
All the kids in class were in shock. I was a safety patrol and we had to lower the school’s flag to half mast.
09:43 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Thee NW F#@&ing Magpie
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In response to Rosetta.
My mother was at work that day. They shut the factory down, and she said every parent fled to pick up their kids from school, terrified of what might happen.
07:45 PM - Mar 27, 2024
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Monica Loegel
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The day President Kennedy was shot. In school and the nuns actually told us about it and I think rolled in a tv. I remember fear and shock in all our faces.
09:32 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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C. Shuy (she/they)
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In response to dani.
Nadia in the Montreal Olympics in 1976 getting the first 10.00.

Reagan being elected in 1980 and my having the sense this would be bad
09:26 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Dıanna
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In response to C. Shuy (she/they).
Olga in '72
09:30 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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C. Shuy (she/they)
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In response to dani.
Nadia in the Montreal Olympics in 1976 getting the first 10.00.

Reagan being elected in 1980 and my having the sense this would be bad
09:26 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Diana
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In response to dani.
I was a preschooler but I distinctly remember watching the news (my parents always watched the news in front of us at night) after Challenger exploded. I also remember watching the baby Jessica coverage a couple years later.
09:26 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Dıanna
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In response to dani.
"I am not a crook."
Watergate
09:25 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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🤘 Raymond M. Black 🤘 🐉
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In response to dani.
I remember Jimmy Carter running for president. I distinctly remember all the exaggerations of his smile.
09:21 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Jacqueline Wallace
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In response to 🤘 Raymond M. Black 🤘 🐉.
Among my mental health peers he was roundly critiqued for anxiety and “sketchy” smile. I was so mad but I didn’t say anything. I regret that. Mr Carter is a fine person. Always has been. God bless him. 🙏🏾👏🏾💪🏾❤️
09:33 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Melissa Griffith ☕ aka Masker
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In response to dani.
I guess mine the day Princess Diana was married.
09:19 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Ronald Alexander
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In response to dani.
It was The Watergate Hearings and even though I didn't understand what was going on it preempted my regular programming on PBS. Remember there were only 4 stations back then B.C Before Cable
09:18 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Deb
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In response to dani.
The first major event I remember seeing is the moon landing. The first time I heard The Eagle has landed.
09:15 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Chetan Kamdar
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In response to dani.
When Copernicus first proposed the heliocentric theory 😜
09:13 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Thomas Dukes
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In response to Chetan Kamdar.
I remember the town crier announcing it.
09:36 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Aly C
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In response to dani.
I remember seeing Nixon resigning 😳, I remember footage of the fall of Saigon and the rooftop evacuations…
09:06 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Sue Lee
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In response to dani.
President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and funeral. I was in half-day kindergarten and saw my Mom watching the events unfold on our Black and white TV and sobbing.
08:52 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Pat Sullivan
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In response to Sue Lee.
Same almost exactly for me, but I wasn't quite yet in kindergarten. I'll never forget my mom sobbing.
09:36 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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Audrey W
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In response to Sue Lee.
I was thinking, probably me also. I remember watching the funeral on B&W TV, because we got the day off from school. I was 7.
11:21 AM - Mar 27, 2024
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Jason Carton
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And Challenger
08:43 PM - Mar 26, 2024
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