What is your earliest memory of watching the news on t.v.?

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48. the civil rights marches, JFK being killed, LBJ taking office, LBJ signing the acts

the civil rights marches, JFK being killed, LBJ taking office, LBJ signing the acts
are some of the oldest tv memories all of which were watched in glorious black and white

I remember my transistor radio was left on overnight and I woke up to the news Bobby was shot right when it was announced(being in NYC it was I believe shortly after 3am eastern, midniight in L.A.)

and years later on, at I remember watching tv and at 11:11 on my clock which might have been off a little, announcing that John Lennon was shot and frantically turning on WNEW-fm to hear details on the same day we had taken the kids to see the Christmas Tree lighting in Rockerfeller center. Imagine that

whatever happened to the News?
anybody here seen my old friend Dan Rather, can you tell me where he's gone?(to paraphrase Dion) The news on tv died the day Dan was character assasssinated and the last man standing stood no more, and no one had Dan's back. (and the commision that caused his firing never did find any proof that the message was not true, the message that was never denied by the Bush's). It still steams me