Alan46
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If we’re talking live I remember, Lee Harvey Oswald being killed live! Born in 46.
9/11 I was just getting ready to roast 10 bushels of red peppers. It came on the radio. Most of the day was in front of the tube.We all know where we were when 9/11 happened, and probably Challenger... maybe even Columbia. Same with Waco, and at least for those of us anywhere near Philly, The Move. Many here are old enough to remember the assassinations of Kennedy and MLK Jr.
My earliest memory of a major news event was the death of Elvis in 1977, mostly because that breaking news interrupted whatever cartoon I was watching, and I remember my mother (prime age to be an Elvis fan) shushing me to hear the news on the TV.
I guess I should remember the John Lennon assassination, but since my parents were too old to be into the Beatles, that one didn't even get honorable mention in our house. The Ronald Reagan assassination attempt was much bigger news, at least in our house.
What's the earliest major news event you remember experiencing, live? Anyone here old enough to remember FDR dying in office? Harding? VE or VJ day?
That ad came out in 1984! I Just asked Siri!Where's the beef?
I remember watching JFK's funeral on TV. When I asked my mother what was going on she said "A great man has died." Talk about a gross understatement. I was almost 5 at the time. A couple of weeks before that my aunt and uncle were killed in a car crash. Nov 1963 was not a good month in my family.We all know where we were when 9/11 happened, and probably Challenger... maybe even Columbia. Same with Waco, and at least for those of us anywhere near Philly, The Move. Many here are old enough to remember the assassinations of Kennedy and MLK Jr.
My earliest memory of a major news event was the death of Elvis in 1977, mostly because that breaking news interrupted whatever cartoon I was watching, and I remember my mother (prime age to be an Elvis fan) shushing me to hear the news on the TV.
I guess I should remember the John Lennon assassination, but since my parents were too old to be into the Beatles, that one didn't even get honorable mention in our house. The Ronald Reagan assassination attempt was much bigger news, at least in our house.
What's the earliest major news event you remember experiencing, live? Anyone here old enough to remember FDR dying in office? Harding? VE or VJ day?
That reminds me, the guy I was hired to replace as technical director at my prior company, was a USAF bomb and missile tech during the Cuban missile crisis. He had some interesting stories of loading planes with various ordinances during that week, first removing the nukes to load conventional weapons, and then later removing those conventional weapons to reload the nukes. Things apparently got pretty hectic on base, and he almost overturned a forklift carrying a rack of bombs or missiles, at one point in the midst of it all. Said he spent that whole week just trying not to crap in his pants every 5 minutes.I was in the USAF stationed in Biloxi, MS during the Cuban crisis (Oct 1962) From dusk to dawn military vehicles heading to FL on US 90 and very few during daylight hours.
FDR was president when I was born.
Those stick with me just fine, but I can't remember my blood type.