What's The First Big News Story You Were Aware Of As A Kid?

[Reds Fanatic]

I remember the death of Elvis well as we were on a family vacation passing through Tennessee at the time and I remember every radio station regardless of format playing Elvis music that whole day. I also remember well the assassination attempt on Reagan. Another story I remember around that same time was the Atlanta Child Murders where a serial killer named Wayne Williams killed over 20 children in the Atlanta area over a few year period late 70s and beginning of the 80s.

[Assembly Hall]

I'd plum forgotten about it, too.

That's one more reason that this thread rocks.

LOL and I concur.

I was telling the wife about this thread and she brought up something that I had completely forgotten about. When the Ford Motor Company was on trial for the Pinto in the little town of Winamac, Indiana.

[membengal]

I distinctly remember, in what was a huge local to Cincinnati story, the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire coverage. I was six, and have a clear memory of the news coverage and the shots of the fire burning. To this day have a fear of fires and crowded places.

[Reds Fanatic]

Another big story I remember from when I was a kid was the US hostage crisis in Iran

[westofyou]

I distinctly remember, in what was a huge local to Cincinnati story, the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire coverage. I was six, and have a clear memory of the news coverage and the shots of the fire burning. To this day have a fear of fires and crowded places.

My folks had tickets for the next nights show

[OesterPoster]

I'd have to say the Miracle on Ice in 1980. I was 6 and remember taping together some Christmas wrapping paper rolls to make a hockey stick. I scored a ton of goals in our kitchen while my mom and dad watched the game in the living room.

[Yachtzee]

I distinctly remember, in what was a huge local to Cincinnati story, the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire coverage. I was six, and have a clear memory of the news coverage and the shots of the fire burning. To this day have a fear of fires and crowded places.

I remember that. We were visiting family in Cincinnati at the time. I remember we would listen to WLW to and from Lima, where we were living at the time. I remember every time got in the car on that trip, they would talk about the Beverly Hills Supper Club. I was six at the time and because of the name of that place, it made me think that Beverly Hills was a suburb of Cincinnati until a few years later, when the Beverly Hillbillies reruns taught me that it was actually in California.

1976 was the first year I really started understanding the news and what was going on in the World. That was the first season I really got into listening to baseball on the radio with my dad. We would get in the car and drive around listening to Reds games because he couldn't get good reception of WLW in the house. So I remember a lot of news stories from WLW during that period. Mostly I remember the Bicentennial Celebrations and the Presidential Election, The Reds World Series, the Summer Olympics, and Patty Hearst getting sentenced to prison (who I thought had tried to assassinate President Ford, confusing her with Sarah Jane Moore and Squeaky Fromme).

[RFS62]

Earlier in this thread, I said the Cuban Missle Crisis. I was reading something online yesterday about Sputnik, and I realized that was my first memory. I remember my mom taking me outside and gazing at the cosmos looking for Sputnik.

[marcshoe]

The first local story I remember might be the first specific story as well, but I didn't think of it until I saw a reference earlier this evening: the Silver Bridge collapse in Point Pleasant, WV, in December 1967. 46 people were killed.

[westofyou]

The first local story I remember might be the first specific story as well, but I didn't think of it until I saw a reference earlier this evening: the Silver Bridge collapse in Point Pleasant, WV, in December 1967. 46 people were killed.

Exactly, for me it was the Detroit riots in 67, the ones in 68 made me go.... ummm is this normal?

[westofyou]

I remember that. We were visiting family in Cincinnati at the time. I remember we would listen to WLW to and from Lima, where we were living at the time. I remember every time got in the car on that trip, they would talk about the Beverly Hills Supper Club. I was six at the time and because of the name of that place, it made me think that Beverly Hills was a suburb of Cincinnati until a few years later, when the Beverly Hillbillies reruns taught me that it was actually in California.

1976 was the first year I really started understanding the news and what was going on in the World. That was the first season I really got into listening to baseball on the radio with my dad. We would get in the car and drive around listening to Reds games because he couldn't get good reception of WLW in the house. So I remember a lot of news stories from WLW during that period. Mostly I remember the Bicentennial Celebrations and the Presidential Election, The Reds World Series, the Summer Olympics, and Patty Hearst getting sentenced to prison (who I thought had tried to assassinate President Ford, confusing her with Sarah Jane Moore and Squeaky Fromme).

1976 was the year I moved to Cincinnati, I had a great and odd time that year.

[membengal]

My folks had tickets for the next nights show

Good lord. So few remember how bad that fire was (165 people died).

A few links:

https://creepycincinnati.com/2014/05...per-club-site/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverl...pper_Club_fire

http://www.iklimnet.com/hotelfires/i...ire/bhfire.jpe

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[SunDeck]

Earlier in this thread, I said the Cuban Missle Crisis. I was reading something online yesterday about Sputnik, and I realized that was my first memory. I remember my mom taking me outside and gazing at the cosmos looking for Sputnik.

My dad was training to be an Army Security Agency morse code high speed interceptor at a base in Massachusetts and he was scanning channels with other trainees, listening for Sputnik, when he heard a faint "blip, blip". Turns out, he was the first American to detect it; his class got to speak with Eisenhower as a result.

[WrongVerb]

Good lord. So few remember how bad that fire was (165 people died).

A few links:

https://creepycincinnati.com/2014/05...per-club-site/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverl...pper_Club_fire

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That's a good one. I remember that now and it is one of the first big stories I was aware of.

[TRF]

The time for me between news stories gets muddled. Crappy home life, moved a lot. I seem to recall few newsworthy items after Elvis' death and before the 84 Olympics. But some stick out. Something about the Iran Hostage Crisis. Here is why: I was 11, I think, and they broke into the debut of Battlestar Galactica. For an 11 year old, that was criminal. Then skip ahead a couple of years, The Who concert in Cincinnati. My mom tried to get tickets, but couldn't.

I moved to Cincinnati during the teacher's strike. That was a very long school year for me. 4 schools when I was in the 6th grade, 2 in Arizona, 2 in Cincinnati.