I didn't see it on TV. I was in second grade and for some reason only third graders and above got to watch it. Everybody was talking about it as we got out of school though. I don't know if I already knew about Christa McAuliffe carrying her son's toy frog with her or if I found out about it later, but that really drove the tragedy home for me and made me understand how this news event connected to actual people.
― how's life, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
I remember the Reagan assassination attempt mostly because the news coverage prevented me from seeing Captain Kangaroo the next day.
My earliest memory of a news event was when my cousin and I built a snow cave and tried to collapse it in each while playing a game we called "the shah escapes from Iran".
― joygoat, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
Collapse it on each other, that is
― joygoat, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
That reminds me of a former coworker who said she would play good guys/bad guys with her brother when they were kids and the bad guy was always Idi Amin.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
i ticked no in case Plato was right
― Chimp Arsons, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Dad had an Ayatollah dartboard.
― pplains, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
i still have my osama bin laden toilet paper
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mMYuG3Gma6bXtWCChGZXYvQ.jpg
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
A co-worker had a "Buy Iraqi War Bonds" bumper sticker then (Iraq was fighting with Iran), and I remember wanted to zing him on it when the Kuwait thing happened, but I think it was already long gone.
― nickn, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Sixteen old people. One present and accounted for.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
Two.
― Aimless, Thursday, 9 October 2014 03:25 (nine years ago) link
3
― nickn, Thursday, 9 October 2014 04:01 (nine years ago) link
my earliest "i remember that" memory is the challenger exploding,
I was in school, a friend was not (this was exam time, I had some, he didn't), he saw the live TV coverage. Apparently, the coverage showed the big explosion, and a bystander close to the TV camera/mic said "ooh.... Is it *supposed* to do that?"
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 October 2014 11:03 (nine years ago) link
Schoolfriend comes over one spring afternoon. Him: Kurt Cobain died yesterdayMe: Who?Him: (puts on Territorial Pissings)Me: Oh right!
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Thursday, 9 October 2014 11:25 (nine years ago) link
My 7th grade science teacher was a teacher in space finalist and we were in his class, watching the launch when the Challenger exploded so I definitely, definitely remember that.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 9 October 2014 13:07 (nine years ago) link
O_O
― how's life, Thursday, 9 October 2014 13:07 (nine years ago) link
The earliest big, big news story I remember for sure is the Jonestown mass suicide. Someone in my father's unit had a relative there and had to be given emergency leave to go home from Germany.
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 October 2014 13:09 (nine years ago) link