1st news story you remember from tv as a child.

Started by Boycey, November 27, 2017, 05:51:45 PM

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Puckoon

I think we did this one before, and I had to do some quick googling to see the timeline because I wasn't sure if it was Hungerford, Corporals Killings, or Lockerbie. Turns out it would have been Hungerford. I also always remember the faces of the young men who were routinely on the news in the morning having been killed during the night or the previous day in an attack during the troubles. That was pretty much all of the 80s in my memory.

Have vague memories of Live Aid, but I distinctly remember watching the news regarding Hungerford.

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ziggysego

I can't remember what it was, but it was about Charlie Haughey. God only knows what.
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Orior

Late 1960's, there was a scandal in the british government and they mentioned the Perfumo affair with a call-girl.

I innocently asked my Dad "what's a call-girl?"

As I puzzled why all my siblings were all sniggering, my Mum answered "just someone you phone up to talk to"
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Targetman

I vaguely remember the announcement of the death of Elvis Presley

Sandino

Aberfan, still breaks me up when watching old footage today.
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CiKe

Think it was the Gibraltar Killings. As Puck says, lot of early memories of faces of people who were murdered on the television

AZOffaly

Jack Lynch retiring. It said he wanted a rest and I thought he was under arrest.

Eamonnca1

Bombings, shootings, hunger strikes and riots.

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johnneycool

The hunger strikes, the funerals and rioting that was on the news every evening


BennyHarp

Reports from Ethiopia on the famine around 1984.
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Avondhu star

Quote from: Orior on November 27, 2017, 08:46:32 PM
Late 1960's, there was a scandal in the british government and they mentioned the Perfumo affair with a call-girl.

I innocently asked my Dad "what's a call-girl?"

As I puzzled why all my siblings were all sniggering, my Mum answered "just someone you phone up to talk to"

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That was 1961. 
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bannside

Aberfan Welsh mining disaster in October 1966.  I was four and a half.