What are your earliest memories of TV News

[Hedji]

Iran Hostage Crisis for me.

[MIB41]

Unfortunately my most vivid memory of the news as a youngster was the Manson murders in '69. I had a brother with a twisted sense of humor. He enjoyed scaring the crap out of me by dragging me down into the basement and turning the lights off while blaring the Beatles Helter Skelter. I was only 5 years old. Suffice to say, it took a looooooong time before I could listen to that song within it's proper context.

[HardyGirl]

Man, that's terrible!

Unfortunately my most vivid memory of the news as a youngster was the Manson murders in '69. I had a brother with a twisted sense of humor. He enjoyed scaring the crap out of me by dragging me down into the basement and turning the lights off while blaring the Beatles Helter Skelter. I was only 5 years old. Suffice to say, it took a looooooong time before I could listen to that song within it's proper context.

[Relic]

I was born in 1967 and in Canada the big thing I remember was the 1972 Soviet hockey series. A TV was set up in our Kindergarten class and we cheered when Paul Henderson scored the winning goal in the final minute of the final game in Russia. This event polarized Canada as a nation. It is still talked about 40 years later. As for US news I remember Nixon resinging, Ford being shot at by Sqeaky From. Also remember going to Target store in Duluth Minnesota for summer vacation and being able to pick one Mego. My brother picked the Green Goblin, I picked the Hulk.

[bgrimm77]

I apologise my 1st post was meant to be silly, but after thinking about it.... I was born in 1977 and the 2 things that stick in my mind was: when Reagan was shot, the Challenger blowing up in what I think was 85, but most of all the Iran Contra Hearings.

[mego73]

I was born in 67 and remember snippets if the watergate hearings because it was cutting into regular shows and my did was glued to them.

[clemso]

Watching an episode of William Hartnell Doctor Who on the then Black & White TV. Sorry i misread, i thought you said earliest tv memories.

[madmarva]

^ it's cool. Earliest TV memories is a cool topic, too. Popeye and Reruns of Spider-Man cartoons are my earliest TV memories.

I remember Elvis' death vividly. I grew up just across the Mississippi River from Memphis and I remember the News cutting into the Brady Bunch in the afternoon to announce he had died at Baptist Hospital. Their live coverage preempted Batman that afternoon. When he was buried, the TV stations in Memphis all carried live coverage of the funeral.

Likewise, the coverage of the 76 election I remember well. I didn't like Jimmy Carter as a kid because it seemed his news conferences were always on Tuesday nights, knocking Happy Days off the air. He had a slew of those news conferences because of the Iran hostage situation.

I was too young to remember the Manson coverage live or maybe don't recall it. I do remember him being in the news after he was already in prison and being scared by that lame CBS TV movie and Phil Donahue episode about him.

My biggest memories of Gerald Ford were more of from Saturday Night Live skits of Chevy Chase, mocking him for always falling down. He was made a joke, but historians give him a ton of credit for holding things together after Nixon stepped down because of Watergate. The Watergate hearings where always on, it seemed. Never understood it as a kid.

[THE FALCON]

Wow Clemso, so you've been watching Doctor Who since the beginning.

[PNGwynne]

I recall Watergate--I was I think 7.

[Red Hulk]

Either Three Mile Island or the botched hostage rescue in Iran,but the Reagan shooting and the oil crisis are are pretty vivid as well.

[Mikey]

I remember sometime in the 70's a really bad New York City blackout and the police (and/or National Guard) were given the controversial orders to shoot on sight in some instances.

[palitoy]

Probably something to do with a fire in Cheektowaga....

[nvmbrsdoom5]

I clearly remember when Lennon was shot, I was at my grandparents' house with all of my family, my aunts and uncles were in their early Twenties and were big fans so I remember their shock and disappointment. I was familiar with the Beatles but wasn't really a fan yet, it was all of the tv exposure from this that really made me interested in checking out Lennon and his music more. I also clearly remember Reagan being shot and Belushi dying. I think my earliest memory of being conscious of the news was when the channel 2 Chicago weatherman Harry Volkman came to my school, circa 1979. I was in first grade, and we all had to draw pictures for him to view that they posted along the long entrance hallway. For some reason I decided to draw him with an umbrella and wearing swim trunks singing, "Singin' In The Rain", I have no idea why the heck I chose that of all things to illustrate LOL I remember the teacher telling me and my mom that Mr. Volkman got a good chuckle out of it when he saw it.

[Bionicfanboy66]

The last moon landing(1972), Viet Nam coverage, the '72 Olympics tragedy, Watergate, Nixon's resignation, 1976 winter/summer games, the 1976 election, Jimmy Carter's inauguration. Too young to understand the early stuff, but old enough to remember it. Oh yeah, Freddie Prinze's suicide, Elvis' reported death, and the death of Bing Crosby. Bing's passing was really big here in the Puget Sound area since he was born in Tacoma, WA.