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.
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".
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.
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.
The first major news event I
remember
watching was Princess Diana's wedding.
Shocking, I know.
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.
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.
I did have teeth pulled for braces on the day of Sarah and Prince Andrew's Wedding...
Speed of lightning, roar of thunder! Fighting all who rob or plunder!
"Underdog" always makes me think of the excellent Season 1 Scrubs episode "My Hero".
I vaguely remember watching the news about Dukakis losing the 1988 election and feeling really sorry for him, but I'm not sure why. I certainly didn't know anything about American politics.
My first concrete news memory is the Tiananmen Square Massacre. I also remember riding in a bus that went by/through the Square when students were already there protesting, some time before June 4. It's both funny and disturbing to think how differently I saw the whole event back then, with state-controlled media telling me day and night how evil the students were.
