First news story on TV you remember as a Kid?

[Sunni Man]

For me it was Pres. Kennedy's assassination.
I didn't want to go to school that day, so I told my mother I felt sick and she let me stay home. I fully expected to kick back and watch kid shows on TV.
But suddenly, every channel was about Kennedy being shot and the events of that tragic day.
A little later I could hear the sounds of all my friends playing outside. The principle had closed the school and sent all the kids home.
In my house there was a rule.
If you stayed home and missed school, you weren't allowed to go out side and play for the whole day.
My plan had backfired big time. ...

 

[JustAGuy1]

JFK here too.

 

[Lastamender]

Same here except I was in school. We were sent home as soon as they heard about it. I was in 4th grade. A lot of kids started crying. I wonder if they would today?

 

[westwall]

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For me it was Pres. Kennedy's assassination.
I didn't want to go to school that day, so I told my mother I felt sick and she let me stay home. I fully expected to kick back and watch kid shows on TV.
But suddenly, every channel was about Kennedy being shot and the events of that tragic day.
A little later I could hear the sounds of all my friends playing outside. The principle had closed the school and sent all the kids home.
In my house there was a rule.
If you stayed home school, you weren't allowed to go out side and play for the whole day.
My plan had backfired big time. ...

Sorry, my first news story I can remember came from the radio....no TV when I was a kid, they existed, just not for peons like us! Anyway it was the invasion of South Korea by the North Koreans.

 

[BackAgain]

The President Kennedy assassination.

 

[Darkwind]

Robert Kennedy Assasignation. Or it was MLK jr. The topic was fuzzy. It was an assassination, just not sure who's.

 

[MisterBeale]

I have terrible memory.

I think the first story I remember. . . the Jan. 6th special congressional investigation?

 

[deannalw]

JFK. I was 3. I mostly remember being pissed there were no cartoons and how upset all the adults in my life were for a bit.

 

[hjmick]

July 20 & 21, 1969.

 

[Billo_Really]

JFK assasination.

 

[deannalw]

July 20 & 21, 1969.

Moon?

 

[konradv]

Nixon-Kennedy debates

 

[hjmick]

Moon?

Yep. I was 4 years, 8 months. It's a vague memory, but it's there.

 

[lg325]

Death of Winston Churchill. The funeral was broadcast world wide. We were all standing up in front of the T.V. almost the entire funeral. I was 6 or 7 years old at the time. Before that it was as I remember civil rights workers being killed.

 

[Flash]

I can vaguely remember hearing President Eisenhower talk about the Steel Strike. I definitely remember the Presidential campaign of 1960, including the debates.

I would have been nine years old for the 1956 election but I don't remember anything about it or any of the national or international news stories of that time.

Some vague recollection of weather events that made the news during the mid to late 50s but nothing I can think of specifically.

 

[surada]

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For me it was Pres. Kennedy's assassination.
I didn't want to go to school that day, so I told my mother I felt sick and she let me stay home. I fully expected to kick back and watch kid shows on TV.
But suddenly, every channel was about Kennedy being shot and the events of that tragic day.
A little later I could hear the sounds of all my friends playing outside. The principle had closed the school and sent all the kids home.
In my house there was a rule.
If you stayed home and missed school, you weren't allowed to go out side and play for the whole day.
My plan had backfired big time. ...

Suez crisis on radio.

 

[surada]

Moon?

I remember the news about Sputnik and the death of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud.

 

[Mr Natural]

I remember seeing Khrushchev banging his shoe on his desk at the UN and wondering what this is all about yet finding it quite funny.

 

[JoeB131]

RFK's assassination.

 

[Failzero]

JFK Funeral procession( Remember Jr saluting as I was just a year older than him roughly )