An event that you will always remember.

[5Stars]

Aside from 911, what television event do you remember what it was and where you were. What day sticks out in your mind from watching it on TV or the news.

 

[cowboyeric8]

When we found Saddam. It was a random night, and late in the night at that. My dad and I randomly decided to turn the channel to CNN and there was footage of the men who found him. I just remember that because it was with my dad and we didn't even know what was happening until we changed the channel to CNN, which I doubt we really have since, ha.

 

[Tabascocat]

The first night of Desert Storm when the bombs started flying in the early 90's. I must have stayed up all night watching CNN, waiting to see what was gonna happen next. The mental picture is when the missiles (Tomahawks I think) were lifting off the destroyer in the middle of the night.

 

[TheSport78]

1. Parent's divorce
2. 9/11
3. Father's death
4. Bobbled snap

 

[FloridaRob]

JFK getting shot-They came on the loud speaker in class in the third grade.

Challenger Blew Up-I remember listening to the news that morning and about it being delayed but thinking they need to go ahead and send it up because it had gotten so routine. I turned the radio off and when I got to an appointment that morning in Deridder, La the home owner came out of his house telling me the space ship blew up. The rest of the day was a blur.

 

[Bill Wooten]

Aside from the obvious, big moments.

-Nightly bomb damage assessments from Desert Storm
-The Minister of Information from Iraq. That guy was priceless.

 

[Kingsmith88]

Aside from 911, what television event do you remember what it was and where you were. What day sticks out in your mind from watching it on TV or the news.

Challenger explosion

 

[67CowboysFan]

Marilyn Monroe found dead
JFK assassination
Space shuttle disaster (both)

 

[YosemiteSam]

Challenger explosion

This. I was in home room watching the launch in 7th grade.

 

[Cowboys&LakersFan]

9-11. I think I was in 1st grade then.

 

[Hostile]

Challenger without a doubt. I was in a camera shop in Provo, UT and the store owner and I watched it unfold. We both were numb.

The Oklahoma City Bombing. I was working on a house and the owner came outside and told me to come inside because something big had happened.

When Reagan was shot. My 11th grade History Teacher loved current events. Kids came running into class with the current event of the year. There was no class instruction that day. We listened to the news over the PS system for the entire class period. We left class not knowing if Reagan was alive or dead. His assignment for us was to write about how this event made us feel.

 

[Tabascocat]

I would have said the shuttle explosion as well but I was in 10th grade at the time and it was during school. It wasn't something I watched unfold, as some of the other answers here.

 

[wittenacious]

Apollo 11, specifically: the launch; the lunar landing; Neil Armstrong's first step on the surface of the moon; the planting of the American Flag.

http://images02.olx.com/ui/11/77/05...il-Armstrong-NASA-FIRST-MOON-LANDING-1969.jpg​

I was young but very aware of it all. Still have clear memories of events, like where I was, family interactions about it, etc. My whole family was tuned in to as much of it as we could watch each day.

Big deal back then.

 

[Hostile]

Apollo 11, specifically: the launch; the lunar landing; Neil Armstrong's first step on the surface of the moon; the planting of the American Flag.

http://images02.olx.com/ui/11/77/05...il-Armstrong-NASA-FIRST-MOON-LANDING-1969.jpg​

I was young but very aware of it all. Still have clear memories of events, like where I was, family interactions about it, etc. My whole family was tuned in to as much of it as we could watch each day.

Big deal back then.

Yes, this one too. What I remember most was that my Grandpa was convinced it was a hoax. He had lived through the War of the Worlds scare.

 

[Kingsmith88]

This. I was in home room watching the launch in 7th grade.

:laugh2:
8th grade home room


Forgot two things. Regan being shot I was mad Scooby Doo wasn't on and when John Lennon was shot I was at the laundromat with my mom.

 

[lane]

the hail mary game

cowboys winning superbowl 12.

cowboys winning the 92 nfc championship.

the morning news telling me john ritter died....loved john ritter.

the morning news telling me george carlin died...loved george carlin.

challenger explosion

the summer of 1977 when the ticker on the bottom of the screen of the show i was watching announced that elvis presley was dead at 42 years old.

 

[Jammer]

There's a lot I remember where I was when it happened.

First and last moon landing. I didn't think it was that big a deal back then, but I never dreamed we wouldn't go back up there.

Lennon getting murdered

Reagan shot

Challenger explosion - I was stationed in England and I read daily reports of the teacher going through all her training exercises until I was sick of them. I really felt badly after that

There's more, but that's the ones that quickly come to mind.

 

[wittenacious]

Yes, this one too. What I remember most was that my Grandpa was convinced it was a hoax. He had lived through the War of the Worlds scare.

Re: your Grandpa... that's so funny, but true of the times.

Reminds me of having watched an obviously older gentleman — late 80s, early 90s I'm guessing — shown being interviewed on TV, outside in the daytime, being asked to look up at a high flying jet and its contrail. I think it was during the Apollo 11 pre-launch media buildup.

The reporter asked him what he thought about the whole mission to fly to the moon and land on it. I remember him saying something like, "Oh, I don't believe men can fly." The reporter, again pointing skyward to the jet passing high overhead, asked, "What about planes?" He looked up and answered, "I don't really know what that is. If it's a plane... well how can it stay in the air? No, I don't believe it."

Something along those lines. We got a good chuckle out of it. My dad was an Air Force jet pilot, so we paid attention.

Obviously they'd intentionally found an elderly man who was not too in touch with the outside world or modern (for the time) flight, much less understanding of space flight. It was hard for the older folks to understand or be willing - or even able - to believe in. A percentage of them, anyway.

Wonder if he'd been adversely affected by H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds radio broadcast, too? It's sure possible.

 

[trickblue]

I was working a show in New Orleans one time...

One of the guys I worked with called me and wanted to attempt standby (pre 9/11)

That weekend was the opening of Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffet...

I was running late and I dashed out of the cab and flat out FLATTENED the guy right outside of the cab...

It was nose to nose... and it was Jimmy Buffet... to this day I wonder what he thought about that... I flat out bowled him over like a steam roller... at 6'1" 200 I am not a small guy...

The look on his face was horror... I told him I liked his music and proceeded on to the flight...

 

[SMASHMOUTH9473]

9/11 & the mt. carmel assault here in Waco are vivid memories. ...personally, the deaths of my parents and the heart surgeries of my son will always be remembered.