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86. 1986 (I think) Reagen bombing Libya

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 06:28 PM

Sep 2012

Either that or the Challenger space shuttle blowing up (whichever happened first, I remember both).

I loved Ronald Reagen and I remember this vividly. I was scared shitless. It was very scary for a 6 year old to realize that I could die if some foreign country decided to send bombers to our country to bomb us.

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What is your earliest memory of watching the news on t.v.? [View all] Butterbean Sep 2012 OP

Seeing the first person to walk on the moon a geek named Bob Sep 2012 #1

+1 tk2kewl Sep 2012 #83

My mom wouldn't let me watch Vietnam footage, as a kid a geek named Bob Sep 2012 #150

understandable tk2kewl Sep 2012 #151

Thank you for the concern. a geek named Bob Sep 2012 #152

wow tk2kewl Sep 2012 #155

Thank you! a geek named Bob Sep 2012 #156

Huntley and Brinkley. Walter Cronkite. The Civil Rights Movement. cbayer Sep 2012 #2

hoses turned on blacks, same era Hamlette Sep 2012 #145

They left an indelible impression on me as well. cbayer Sep 2012 #148

Moon landing. I have a vague impression of Nixon winning in '68. onehandle Sep 2012 #3

me for the moonwalk too and Vietnam ending DonRedwood Sep 2012 #122

I remember the adults watching the Watergate hearings and trying to explain to me... Ian David Sep 2012 #4

Oh dear. I remember watching the Macneil/Lehrer report every night with my dad. Butterbean Sep 2012 #16

Richard Nixon resigning from the Presidency. Lex Sep 2012 #5

Walter Cronkite on JFK assasination pkz Sep 2012 #6

Iranian Hostage Crisis trailmonkee Sep 2012 #7

Huntley Brinkley elfin Sep 2012 #8

Same here Sherman A1 Sep 2012 #136

The Challenger space shuttle blowing up on launch. Initech Sep 2012 #9

Oh holy crap. My sister was home sick from school that day and watched it live. Butterbean Sep 2012 #14

That's so wierd....so was I. all american girl Sep 2012 #66

My sister was 15 when it happened, she said she thought to herself Butterbean Sep 2012 #68

It was during takeoff; Columbia (2003) was the one that exploded on re-entry Scootaloo Sep 2012 #31

Yeah, I got his (her) gist though. I remember that so well. I also remember Butterbean Sep 2012 #50

I was only four Scootaloo Sep 2012 #117

Thank you. n/t Egalitarian Thug Sep 2012 #174

you are young! Liberal_in_LA Sep 2012 #91

I'm 32. I was six years old when that happened. Initech Sep 2012 #112

I remember the Challenger Shuttle blowing up on launch, back in 1986 a geek named Bob Sep 2012 #159

Me too. The Challenger launch was on my birthday. Zoeisright Sep 2012 #179

sorry about the nasty birthday present... a geek named Bob Sep 2012 #180

Me too. wickerwoman Sep 2012 #198

Wow. I feel like a bean sprout when here I thought it was weird that I remembered Butterbean Sep 2012 #10

A vague memory of John Lennon's death on the CBS Evening News Spider Jerusalem Sep 2012 #11

Watching the McCarthy hearings as a wee pup LiberalArkie Sep 2012 #12

Army Mc cCarthy Hearings, too mitchtv Sep 2012 #109

Same here alfredo Sep 2012 #158

we also had the giant magnifier mitchtv Sep 2012 #175

Yeah, but they were a great source of fun for us kids. alfredo Sep 2012 #177

Hearings were early: McCarthy, organized crime, plane crashes , 54-55 unc70 Sep 2012 #163

Kennedy edhopper Sep 2012 #13

The Eisenhower VS Stevenson presidential campaign. Speck Tater Sep 2012 #15

Whoa, cool. I remember watching Mondale and Ferraro on the Dem convention and being Butterbean Sep 2012 #22

I was preschool and coached by my dad Warpy Sep 2012 #37

I do recall family being upset at the outcome, elleng Sep 2012 #96

I remember that mainstreetonce Sep 2012 #100

1952, when we got our first TV. MineralMan Sep 2012 #17

And then the preacher said a prayer, they played the national anthem, and Speck Tater Sep 2012 #108

I was too young to stay up for the Anthem and the prayer. MineralMan Sep 2012 #118

How about Captain Video? Speck Tater Sep 2012 #132

Yah. All of those things, plus Sheriff John and MineralMan Sep 2012 #138

Dont' forget Vena Ray (Rocky Jones) and Annette on Mickey Mouse Club. Speck Tater Sep 2012 #173

Hey Spec Tater: I do remember those shows Vox Moi Sep 2012 #154

I remember Crusader Rabbit, but not the others. Speck Tater Sep 2012 #171

and: musette_sf Sep 2012 #172

I had an old 45 record of Merry Mailman songs Art_from_Ark Sep 2012 #185

and others: Vox Moi Sep 2012 #186

That Conelrad was a helluva detective!!! lastlib Sep 2012 #193

President Eisenhower press conference or announcement in black and white... PCIntern Sep 2012 #18

My mom standing in front of the TV crying after JFK was killed DJ13 Sep 2012 #19

Oh how awful. :( Butterbean Sep 2012 #25

I remember my mom crying ... I was gonna post that kevinmc Sep 2012 #162

Brinkley and the Munich Olympics? X_Digger Sep 2012 #20

The moon landing nadinbrzezinski Sep 2012 #21

"rabies"? PCIntern Sep 2012 #27

Freudian slip on her part, I hope. LOL. Butterbean Sep 2012 #32

Something between labors strikes (heard Teamster a lot) Skidmore Sep 2012 #23

The nightly body counts from Vietnam on the Evening News with Walter Cronkite... markpkessinger Sep 2012 #24

Sweet Lord. I was talking to my mom about that the other day, when we were Butterbean Sep 2012 #29

And what we see now is a whole lot milder than what was shown during Vietnam... markpkessinger Sep 2012 #101

Agreed. Vietnam war coverage was BRUTAL. Nothing like the lily-ass coverage of the present Nay Sep 2012 #161

That's the idea. Control the content and control the people. yardwork Sep 2012 #168

"The Eastern world, it is explodin'..." lastlib Sep 2012 #195

+1 n/t lumberjack_jeff Sep 2012 #104

John Cameron Swayze and Douglas Edwards lpbk2713 Sep 2012 #26

Douglas Edwards and the News on CBS early 50s. immoderate Sep 2012 #28

NBC vs CBS Graybeard Sep 2012 #64

Yeah! Swayze did the smoking. immoderate Sep 2012 #70

I'm pretty sure I saw tv news before 1963, but nothing sticks in my memory. kestrel91316 Sep 2012 #30

The first satellite relay in Japan was of the Kennedy assassination news, Art_from_Ark Sep 2012 #129

Edward R. Murrow and his chainsmoking. Feh. Warpy Sep 2012 #33

Remember CBS News in the field during Vietnam War Va Lefty Sep 2012 #34

I had exactly the same experience as you Art_from_Ark Sep 2012 #131

Vietnam...I think Roger Mudd was talking about the DMZ BeyondGeography Sep 2012 #35

November 1963. RagAss Sep 2012 #36

Vietnam....Cronkite, Huntly and Brinkley.. AzSweet Sep 2012 #38

I distinctly remember Nixon resigning. n/t BeeBee Sep 2012 #39

WOW. Butterbean Sep 2012 #42

Yup, me too. The I am not a crook speech. n/t RebelOne Sep 2012 #79

JFK's death and the moon landing. n/t RebelOne Sep 2012 #82

That wasn't the same speech truebluegreen Sep 2012 #169

1957: Eisenhower's second inauguration (and the conventions that preceded) frazzled Sep 2012 #40

This message was self-deleted by its author 1GirlieGirl Sep 2012 #41

Some guy saying Iran this and Iran that. 2ndAmForComputers Sep 2012 #43

Korean War coverage is the first I recall, after we got a TV 1-Old-Man Sep 2012 #44

I'm just a few months younger than President Obama. Definitely the moon landing. Chiyo-chichi Sep 2012 #45

Not my earliest, but the earliest that made a COLGATE4 Sep 2012 #46

That's probably the first "adult" thing on TV I remember Art_from_Ark Sep 2012 #139

Huntley and Brinkley. cordelia Sep 2012 #47

the civil rights marches, JFK being killed, LBJ taking office, LBJ signing the acts graham4anything Sep 2012 #48

Army - McCarthy hearings...'54 annabanana Sep 2012 #49

Holy crap. I just still can't even wrap my head around the fact that those hearings Butterbean Sep 2012 #54

February 20, 1962 slackmaster Sep 2012 #51

That's so cool. It strikes me that most of my burned-in-my-brain memories from the news Butterbean Sep 2012 #59

Yes--the space program Freddie Sep 2012 #146

John Chancellor talking about "Watergate"... tridim Sep 2012 #52

Chet Huntley and David Brinkley with Sander van Oecher in Washington HubertHeaver Sep 2012 #53

September 1957 PlanetBev Sep 2012 #55

We didn't yet have a TV until I was 5 in 1950. Lugnut Sep 2012 #56

John Cameron Swayze on NBC - his program was 15 minutes long Glorfindel Sep 2012 #57

1960. News was 15 minutes back then. ChairmanAgnostic Sep 2012 #58

Huntley Brinkley and Cronkite and the Vietnam War and the hippies. MadrasT Sep 2012 #60

The coranation of Queen Elizabeth II 1953 Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2012 #61

I believe you win. Butterbean Sep 2012 #62

Kennedy/Nixon debates, 1960 maveric56 Sep 2012 #63

my first memory of tv news was the 1960 election Douglas Carpenter Sep 2012 #65

Walter Cronkite Sienna86 Sep 2012 #67

Jerry Dunphy and "The Big News" hunter Sep 2012 #69

Walter Cronkite and Watergate n/t DearHeart Sep 2012 #71

Vietnam and Uncle Walt LuckyStrykes Sep 2012 #72

earliest I remember was the Cuban missile crisis... mike_c Sep 2012 #73

Pres. Ford pre-empting Horton Hears a Who. Something about Nixon, I think. n/t porphyrian Sep 2012 #74

I was five Aerows Sep 2012 #75

That is amazingly detailed. You have memories like me. Butterbean Sep 2012 #81

I can remember where the Easter basket was Aerows Sep 2012 #90

Who always signed off with "And that's....the way it is." I cannot for the life of me remember. Butterbean Sep 2012 #76

Paul Harvey Aerows Sep 2012 #78

Thanks! That was making me nuts. Ah, my dad listened to Paul Harvey too. Butterbean Sep 2012 #85

He also once said Aerows Sep 2012 #105

It wasn't Paul Harvey who said that-- it was Walter Cronkite Art_from_Ark Sep 2012 #144

Watching Vietnam new reels... nebenaube Sep 2012 #77

I'm a youngling... either the Challenger or Iran/Contra. moriah Sep 2012 #80

1*56 political conventions - then blacks being firehosed rurallib Sep 2012 #84

1986 (I think) Reagen bombing Libya Victor_c3 Sep 2012 #86

Earliest news I remember mainstreetonce Sep 2012 #93

An airliner crash Cirque du So-What Sep 2012 #87

Local channel in Wichita, Kansas, 1950's. MissMarple Sep 2012 #88

Army/McCarthy hearings, as a kid. elleng Sep 2012 #89

Me too. mia Sep 2012 #181

Cuban Missle Crisis catbyte Sep 2012 #92

walter cronkite annoucing cindyperry2010 Sep 2012 #94

walter conkrite. no particular news event, just remember parents watching him everyday Liberal_in_LA Sep 2012 #95

Reagan being shot... I was very young, but I remember it on TV.. The one that glowing Sep 2012 #97

I was three when Apollo 11 landed. Callmecrazy Sep 2012 #98

Kennedy-Nixon election Faygo Kid Sep 2012 #99

Cuban Missile Crisis.... WCGreen Sep 2012 #102

Yep. blue neen Sep 2012 #153

I think it is why, in the end, that I wanted to get involved... WCGreen Sep 2012 #190

Vietnam body counts. n/t lumberjack_jeff Sep 2012 #103

Huntley-Brinkley Report covering Nixon/Kennedy, 1960 (n/t) William Seger Sep 2012 #106

Must've been the assasination of Yitzhak Rabin (1995) or the reelection of Clinton (96) sakabatou Sep 2012 #107

John Charles Daley - first one on my evening news riverbendviewgal Sep 2012 #110

MLK funeral Go Vols Sep 2012 #111

"Who Will Win??" CanisCrocinus Sep 2012 #113

The moon landing. Later, I remember my grandfather watching the Watergate hearings. n/t cynatnite Sep 2012 #114

Martin Luther King's speech at the Washington Monument mahina Sep 2012 #115

Huntley and Brinkley - Vietnam jberryhill Sep 2012 #116

Kennedy assassination. yardwork Sep 2012 #119

Same here n/t Glitterati Sep 2012 #160

Sad introduction to TV news, wasn't it? yardwork Sep 2012 #166

I don't know if I watched this on TV, but I suppose I must have ballabosh Sep 2012 #120

That's not my first memory cpwm17 Sep 2012 #137

The SALT negotiations in the early 70s. Codeine Sep 2012 #121

When my mom first told me about periods, I thought it was a little Butterbean Sep 2012 #134

Huntley, Brinkley and Walter Irishonly Sep 2012 #123

Cold war stuff in Latin America... a la izquierda Sep 2012 #124

I vaguely recall Huntley and Brinkley and Cronkite treestar Sep 2012 #125

JFk being shot. robinlynne Sep 2012 #126

When the Soviets shot down the 007 airplane bluestateguy Sep 2012 #127

The Vietnam War when I was 7 or so. Louisiana1976 Sep 2012 #128

The 1952 election - Eisenhower vs Stevenson aint_no_life_nowhere Sep 2012 #130

President Kennedy's funeral. I was four. notadmblnd Sep 2012 #133

I remember watching when Reagan got elected. LittlestStar Sep 2012 #135

The space race, early '60s, President Kennedy Still Sensible Sep 2012 #140

Bobby Kennedy assisination PD Turk Sep 2012 #141

CNN - Desert Storm ghurley Sep 2012 #142

I remember that night very clearly, but don't remember the newscast. Butterbean Sep 2012 #149

5 yrs old. Vietnam on the news every night. ncgrits Sep 2012 #143

John Glenn Orbiting The Earth... WillyT Sep 2012 #147

The Mercury launches. Vidar Sep 2012 #157

I think I was 5 - my dad turned it off in a huff and shouted, Lisa0825 Sep 2012 #164

The coronation of Queen Elizabeth. tavernier Sep 2012 #165

Staying up late to watch election returns truebluegreen Sep 2012 #167

The first news item I remember noticing LadyHawkAZ Sep 2012 #170

Cronkite and Vietnam, then it was the bussing issue, gas crisis, and watergate. pepperbear Sep 2012 #176

JFK funeral in 1963 Zoeisright Sep 2012 #178

I'm a bit of a youngin browntown Sep 2012 #182

The overthrow of the Marcos regime in the Philippines in the mid-1980s RFKHumphreyObama Sep 2012 #183

I remember seeing one of the moon walks. I would have been about 4 I think. applegrove Sep 2012 #184

The Suez Canal crisis in 1956 murielm99 Sep 2012 #187

david garroway...original today show... spanone Sep 2012 #188

Oswald CitizenLeft Sep 2012 #189

John Glenn's Mercury flight--I was four. lastlib Sep 2012 #191

My history teacher, who was a diehard Democrat Art_from_Ark Sep 2012 #196

Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster in 1986 IrishEyes Sep 2012 #192

That was mine too. Jennicut Sep 2012 #194

Jonestown, Milk/Moscone muders and the White Night riot. RexDart Sep 2012 #197