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What was the first news story you remember as a child

I remember asking if the President was ok when he got shot (Regan). I think I was 5.
 
cavaretta4444 said:
Dewey vs. Warren, in the Republican 1948 convention. (I was born in 1942). I heard it on radio.

The second thing was the Korean War, and after that the Army/McCarthy hearings in 1954. They were broadcast on TV, so I watched them instead of Howdy Doody.

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the Oklahoma bombing happened when I went to Disney World

or when my first grade teacher's sister's killer got the death penalty
 
I recall being very irritated by the frequency with which Sesame Street was interrupted by special reports on the Iran-Contra affair. To this day I despise Ollie North for this disruption of my childhood.
 
Lord, y'all are making me feel old, and I'm not even thirty!
 
Cool thread.

I have a memory of this one local news broadcast (from a Dallas, TX station) at the 6:00 hour (local news time in Central area, at least in TX and the midwest). As near as I can guess now, the story was about that there were "enemy" missiles (Soviet) that would be capable of hitting the Dallas/Ft. Worth area in something like 8-15 minutes after launch. When I was actually watching the story, my interpretation was that they were saying that there were missiles on the way and they were going to hit Dallas in 8-15 minutes. This worried me because I had a cousin who lived in the Dallas area (we were 60 miles away, which was an incomprehensibly large distance for me at the time). I asked my mother about it and she said, no, there weren't missiles coming. This wasn't the cuban missile crisis because I wasn't born until 1963. As a matter of fact, I don't think it was about a particular "crisis" at all.

I also have some memories of news coverage of the RFK assassination, or at least, the trial of Sirhan Sirhan.
 
Quebec referendum 1995, I remember watching Mansbridge deliver the results. I did not fully understand what was happening, but I witnessed the day that the human race decided to vote against the barbaric ideals of ethnic nationalism. Hopefully Quebec will be a chapter in human history that tells of a time when human beings started to embrace multi-culturalism and tear down the borders that race creates.
 
My parents being over the moon that Eisenhower was elected. I don't know whether it was 52 or 56. Probably 52 because I would have been six at the time.
 
^ I think you're confusing Hoof-And-Mouth disease (Aphtae epizooticae) with Mad Cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
 
The F5 tornado which hit Flint, Michigan on June 8, 1953. Per wikipedia, 116 people were killed in that one tornado.

I don't remember the F4 tornado which hit Worcester MA the following day, killing nearly as many people, nor do I remember the Waco tornado in May.

I probably remember the Flint one only because of its proximity (60 miles away). Even to this day, any time I ever hear any reference to the city of Flint, "tornado" is invariably the first word that comes to my mind.
 
President Kennedy's assassination .... I was 9 at the time.
 
This is surreal, but the first news report I remember seeing involved (of all things) moths. I don't remember at all what the story involved. I think perhaps that San Francisco had suddenly found itself in a moth infestation. But they gave a phone number to call for more information, which was "555-MOTH"', and I remember thinking it was neat that they could give a word to help remember a phone number.

Why I remember this 35 years down the road is beyond me.

Lex
 
Hmm ... I can't put my finger on one particular story as first, but there are a number of things I remember seeing on TV news ...

Patti Hearst getting kidnapped and held for ransom...

The moon landing (I think that's the earliest news story; I was three)...

Footage of Vietnam, and wondering why we were fighting there at all (yeah, guess I was a pacifist liberal even then)...

Mark Spitz in the 1972 Olympics *|* ...

The draft ending in 1974, and the reporter burning his draft card on the local evening news...

Local protests of Vietnam at the military bases on the edge of town (and still wondering why we were fighting there at all)...

Watching Nixon resign over Watergate (I stayed home to watch that one)...

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hotdog1846 said:
Hmm ... I can't put my finger on one particular story as first, but there are a number of things I remember seeing on TV news ...

Patti Hearst getting kidnapped and held for ransom...

The moon landing (I think that's the earliest news story; I was three)...

Footage of Vietnam, and wondering why we were fighting there at all (yeah, guess I was a pacifist liberal even then)...

Mark Spitz in the 1972 Olympics *|* ...

The draft ending in 1974, and the reporter burning his draft card on the local evening news...

Local protests of Vietnam at the military bases on the edge of town (and still wondering why we were fighting there at all)...

Watching Nixon resign over Watergate (I stayed home to watch that one)...

Cool thread. ..|
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I remember all of those except the draft ending and the "local protests."

We got home from a vacation just in time to unload the car and watch Nixon resign.
 
the O.J. Simpson murders and trial, I lived in so Cal at the time. oh and when Tonya Harding beat that other skaters leg with a bat. Don't ask me why I even remember that
 
m1thousand said:
What is your earliest memory of a new story that you remember?

I was 8 when I asked about Watergate because I didnt understand it.

But I think I may have memories of the Manson trial when I was 5 because it was a huge court case.
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So I'm not the only one who thought it was a gate made out of water. :bj:
 
A story in The Enquirerer about an abortionist using babies to fertilize her roses, accompanied by a black and white photo of a fat, grandmotherly woman in a plaid dress standing near some bushes. Which I read while sitting on our porch next to the rose bushes of the fat old woman next door who always wore some sort of print dress.
 
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