1,052,056
JFK shooting. And death of Marilyn Monroe.
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
187,002
When Abe Lincoln was killed, it was years after of course in primary school. I remember one girl in particular who cried a little.
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Anna "Banana" Kruchten
Phoenix, AZ
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Ryan Huggins - Thousan...
Thousand Oaks, CA
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
2,178,533
In the news? The assassination of JFK. But that wasn't the first major event I remember.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Raj Taj
Lake Bluff, IL
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
5,583,278
When I was 10, 1956, I remember the slogan on radio "I like Ike"....
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Raj Taj
Lake Bluff, IL
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
6,392,899
Big news items, Tet, Kent State.
As far as big projects like the moon landing
Unfortunate that visionaries are no longer in demand, and visions have been replaced with division.
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
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Raj Taj
Lake Bluff, IL
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
1,513,143
JFK winning the Presidency.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Greg Large
Grove City, OH
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
4,571,881
I do remember a teacher in elementary school coming in and telling us JFK had been shot.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Raj Taj
Lake Bluff, IL
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
5,104,931
Well, 50 years ago I was finishing college, so I'd have to go back much further than that... we didn't have a TV till I was 8 or 9 so wasn't all that clued into major news events. Probably the one major event that left an indelible impression on my mind was the assassination of JFK... even though I was in high school then. Although I do also remember the Kennedy-Nixon TV debate and the election of Kennedy... that was big when it happened. And like Candice A. Donofrio I clearly remember the headlines announcing Marilyn Monroe's death... that was a real shocker. I also remember Krushchev banging his shoe at the UN in 1960.
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Raj Taj
Lake Bluff, IL
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
679,404
I remember 50 years ago the Moon Landing and I was watching TV when JFK was shot and Harvey Oswald shot Jack Ruby
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
5,772,575
Tammy,
So many, the Berlin Wall coming down! A
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
7,835,293
Long before the moon landing.
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
1,543,235
Evil Kenevil jumping the Grand Canyon
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Ryan Huggins - Thousan...
Thousand Oaks, CA
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Greg Large
Grove City, OH
1,197,022
JFK being shot. I was playing in the front yard and my mom called me in.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
2,390,010
I clearly remember the JFK assisination when I was in the 6th grade Tammy Lankford, . Our home was very strongly Republican yet I remember the horror we all felt that a US President was murdered. OH HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED! Today hate runs so strong that the party not in power wishes for the death of our President daily and without shame.
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
805,799
It was the assassination of JFK.
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
757,885
Ayatollah Khomeini & the Iranian hostage crisis. 1979-1981
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
5,048,728
JFK assassination, and a few years later Martin Luther King
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
5,229,328
Big two - easy!
The assisination of JFK and the moon landing!
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Raj Taj
Lake Bluff, IL
1,502,868
That's because we learned it wasn't made of cheese, so there was no point going out and getting further disappointed!
Mine was when we landed on the moon. My second memory is my mom telling me we were moving to Earth instead to blend in with the humans.
Oh and the Iran Contra Hearings w/Ollie.
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
1,844,171
Kennedy, Moon Launch, Beetles.
I wish they would spend time 'fixing' things at home instead of craping up the entire universe. I say that because all those astronauts left 90+ lbs of dung on the moon. We polute everywhere we go. It's disgusting.
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
643,875
JFK election
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
628,734
Assassination of JFK & LBJ taking the oath of office
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
3,587,835
I think that would be the JFK murder in grade school. Shocked us all.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
3,344,906
The shooting of JFK. It may not be the first but the one that I remember as the first.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
1,390,113
Definitely the moon landing is my earliest memory of major news. And my grandfather dying, a few months earlier. I was 4.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
4,882,355
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. I was sad for those children living without parents.
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Steve Higgins
Kelowna, BC
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
5,216,284
So long ago. Ike being re-elected in 1956!
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
1,712,676
Probably came from The Weekly Reader.
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
536,943
JFK News. This sticks out more than anything else as my teacher broke the news in 5th grade and tears were streaming as she spoke. Then the television news after I got home. So many people were so sad of the news.
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Tammy Lankford,
Eatonton, GA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
5,868,372
1,598,452
763,783
4,935,556
1,311,072
I remember the Eisenhower/Stevenson presidential race being in the news.
855,369