What Is The First Major News Story You Remember?

[staninoodle 173]

Kennedys assassination,vivid because Id never seen my Mum in tears before,she was very shocked and emotional,I was just a young kid,but I recall it clearly watching a grainy b/w tv in our living room.

I remember Churchills funeral too,the commentator mentioned his horse which walked behind the gun carriage carrying his coffin,and I just felt so sad for the poor horse with its ownwer dead and the sombre music of the death march,I doubt I really knew who Churchill really was,but I was very moved by the pictures again on a b/w tv

[fatrajah 10]

I was about 4 years old when I heard of the death of King George the 6th in February 1952. I heard it on my Dad's Ex-WD radio set.

Edited December 17, 2019 by fatrajah

[St Petre 85]

Derek Dooley's career ending injury in 1953.

[TWhits 11]

14 hours ago, staninoodle said:

Kennedys assassination,vivid because Id never seen my Mum in tears before,she was very shocked and emotional,I was just a young kid,but I recall it clearly watching a grainy b/w tv in our living room.

I remember Churchills funeral too,the commentator mentioned his horse which walked behind the gun carriage carrying his coffin,and I just felt so sad for the poor horse with its ownwer dead and the sombre music of the death march,I doubt I really knew who Churchill really was,but I was very moved by the pictures again on a b/w tv

I also remember Churchill's death as one of my earliest news memories.  There were posters up outside Glossop Road swimming baths where our school was queuing up for our swim lessons - we were queuing ages and so had plenty of time to read them getting rather bored.  I didn't understand who he was or his significance but it stuck in my memory for some reason.

[Hair island 10]

Not sure if they were the earliest news stories I remember but the most vivid I remember from my childhood are Challenger exploding, Terry Waite being kidnapped, and the Herald of free enterprise capsizing.

I was 6 years old when Challenger exploded.

[Markstevo 10]

Lennon shot dead.

[scousemouse 10]

The Munich air disaster.  I can still see Sir Matt Busby in an oxygen tent in my mind.

[jane2008 15]

Vividly imprinted on my mind as well as Lesley Whittle is the storming of the Iranian embassy in London

[hobinfoot 25]

On 01/12/2019 at 22:16, ianparkin said:

Aberfan for me 

Same here I was 10 at the time and remember mum and other adults crying.

Edited December 22, 2019 by hobinfoot

[treeko1 10]

Balcombe Street siege(1975) 

[bathbun 10]

Daily Express front page headlines read "Churchill steps down". Dad was reading the sport on the back page. About 1955 I think.

[dpjbown 10]

I remember Kennedy being shot it was on the telly ( we were posh then) and my mum shouted at me for lying