That's my first news event memory.
Mine was a moon landing. I'm not sure if it was THE moon landing, but it was one of the ones they broadcast.
Similar to the Waldorf salad?
Yes, but with wingnuts instead of walnuts.
I fed off a flowerperson, and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
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Frankenbuddha - Jul 28, 2006 9:44:28 am PDT #8717 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Sophia Brooks - Jul 28, 2006 9:49:36 am PDT #8718 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My first news event memory is the hostage situation in Iran. My grandpa really hated Jimmy Carter AND we watched the news at the dinner table...
Kathy A - Jul 28, 2006 10:19:50 am PDT #8719 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
First vague news memory was the 1972 Olympics--I have dim memories of Olga Korbut and the Israeli hostages. First definite news memory was Patty Hearst. Reading the transcripts of her taped messages to her father shocked me, because I couldn't imagine someone talking like that to her dad!
JenP - Jul 28, 2006 11:06:26 am PDT #8720 of 10001
Huh. I don't remember my first news event memory. We were in Germany during Watergate, but I do remember hearing about it. Asked my dad why the President was resigning, and he growled, "Because he lied." I don't remember the first moon landing, but I was only two.
I certainly remember the Iran hostage crisis, but that wouldn't have been my first news memory.
Keeping in mind, of course, that this light is NOT from trains or angels, just the daylight that indicates of the end of one time of your life.
Bwah! Good point. Actually, I thought I was in Bitches for some reason when I posted that; I don't usually apprise the FF thread of my medical stuff. Ah, well.
Typo Boy - Jul 28, 2006 11:45:32 am PDT #8721 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
First news I remember was Cuban missile crisis. The adults and kids were fairly calm about it, but all the teenagers in our neighborhood were all "we're gonna die! Oh dear god! we're gonna die".
DawnK - Jul 28, 2006 12:17:56 pm PDT #8722 of 10001
giraffe mode
My first news memory is JFK being assassinated, I was 6.5 and old enough to get the death part but too young to understand all of it, but I knew it was bad.
SailAweigh - Jul 28, 2006 12:20:48 pm PDT #8723 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
First major news event I remember actually watching on TV was President Kennedy's funeral. I'm sure I'd watched the news before that, as my father was addicted to TV news, but that's the first time I remember really paying attention to it and that was first grade. Having seen those news clips forever, over and over since then, I sometimes wonder just how real that memory is anymore? I did have quite a crush on John-John.
Aims - Jul 28, 2006 12:24:31 pm PDT #8724 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The first major news event I remember watching was Princess Diana's wedding.
Shocking, I know.
tommyrot - Jul 28, 2006 12:54:34 pm PDT #8725 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I remember watching the last moon landing. But at that age, non-space news was boring, so I don't really remember Watergate. I have a few memories of the Ford administration, such as my teacher's anger when he pardoned Nixon.
Zenkitty - Jul 28, 2006 2:20:41 pm PDT #8726 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I was born a few months before Kennedy was shot, and I feel like I remember it because my mother talked about it for years. I think I remember watching the moon landing. I was six. I may just be retro-remembering from seeing it rerun on tv years later. I know I was around and conscious for Reagan and Watergate and Carter and Cuban missile crisis and hostages and Patty Hearst and all that, but the first news event that sticks in my mind, that I remember where I was and what I was doing, was the Challenger explosion. I dropped a sack of groceries and started to cry.