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

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:35 PM

Sep 2012

I watched had a big impact on me was the Challenger exploding... A teacher was on that flight. We were in this contest to try and name the shuttle. One of my teacher's was in the top running to be on that flight.

I was home with my mom and sister.. I think we were sick. We watched it live. The rest of the students at school were supposed to have a parent run in a copy of the tape into the school... Still no cable in that town. My mom was on the school board and called in immediately. They didn't show it at the school that day. They waited for the kids to go home and have their parents around to deal with the tragedy... Then a few days later we all huddled together in the school and watched it and the memorial to "heal and deal" with the tragedy.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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Cuban Missle Crisis catbyte Sep 2012 #92

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

The Mercury launches. Vidar Sep 2012 #157

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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