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.
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
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.
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.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 28, 2006 3:04:11 pm PDT #8727 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I did have teeth pulled for braces on the day of Sarah and Prince Andrew's Wedding...
KernelM - Jul 28, 2006 3:05:51 pm PDT #8728 of 10001
Ankh-Morpork Watchman, Dreamer, Scooby, Minister of Grace, Still Flyin' in a Zoo2 World
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.
Jen - Jul 28, 2006 3:20:43 pm PDT #8729 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Jen was Jen (hi, Jen!)
Hi! t waves
libkitty - Jul 28, 2006 4:26:58 pm PDT #8730 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
My first concrete news memory:
I remember the evening news showing white and black balls (ping pong ball size) in big glass jars to show presidential candidate's current standing in the polls. I don't remember what presidential election it was for, though. Seems like it should have been for the 1976 election, but Ford v. Carter doesn't seem right, so it must have been earlier. My parents were majorly involved in the McGovern campaign, so 1972 was probably it. I was five.
Kessie - Jul 28, 2006 4:40:06 pm PDT #8731 of 10001
The thing about life is :You can rehearse it all you want,
But nobody else ever sticks to the script. So why bother?
First concrete news memory:
Mine would be Chernobyl, I still can remember the broken building etc and how we were forbidden to play outside. ( I´m in Germany and apparantly the cloud came over here or something or was supposed to - can´t remember that really.) Though back then I was hardly allowed to watch TV being only 5 years old.
tiggy - Jul 28, 2006 4:52:48 pm PDT #8732 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
i'm pretty sure my first "news" memory is when the Challenger exploded. i was six. feel free to tell me you have shoes older than me. i'm used to it.
Jars - Jul 29, 2006 1:51:58 am PDT #8733 of 10001
First major news memory is the Berlin wall coming down. I knew it was important, but I was very fuzzy on the details.
Volans - Jul 29, 2006 8:32:12 am PDT #8734 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Hmm...images of Vietnam are my earliest news memory. I kind of got the Nixon thing by osmosis, I guess; I don't remember seeing it on the news. Ford is the first president I remember knowing was president.
A guy we know in the Foreign Service was one of the Iran hostages and the first person to arrive at the scene of the Jonestown massacre. When we were talking story with the intern and mentioned that, we discovered she'd never heard of either happening.