Community Chat

[QVCkitty1]

The JFK assassination. I was in 9th grade, and I never believed anything like that could happen in our country.

[GSPgirl]

Landing on the moon.  My dad said I would be telling my grandkids and I have. 

[AKgirl2]

President Kennedy's assassination...I was 13, in ninth grade social studies class and the devasting news was announced.  For some reason, I just loved JFK and felt such deep sadness the moment it was announced.  Walter Cronkite and TV coverage of funeral with Jackie and children was so very sad.  Many victories and such tragedies suffered by the Kennedy families.

[sunshine45]

the challenger explosion......i remember being at work and listening to the entire thing on the radio. i could not focus at all and felt so sick to my stomach.....and wanted to cry right there.

[Marienkaefer2]

I have another thing.

It's not really witnessing history, but...

Back in the mid 1990s, a coworker at the company where I worked told me that someday we'd be able to use our cell phones to go online, buy things, email, etc..all that stuff.

Remember this was before social media, too, and I don't believe anyone texted back then, either.

It seemed strange to me.

Now I've always got my cell phone nearby, and do nearly everything on it.

So maybe, he was giving me a "heads up" on history. 

[MacDUFF]

Several things around the same timeframe...Bobby Kennedy's assassination, Roe v. Wade, and disorder on American campuses.  

[Marienkaefer2]

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@sunshine45 wrote:

the challenger explosion......i remember being at work and listening to the entire thing on the radio. i could not focus at all and felt so sick to my stomach.....and wanted to cry right there.

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@sunshine45

I remember that day clearly, too.

I was home at my parents' in Arizona, it was a warm-ish sunny day, and we were out on the patio. 

My dad told me he just heard the Challenger exploded, and I didn't believe him.

I thought he had misheard.

[LTT1]

Kennedy assasination and landing on the moon.

Although I'm not sure my child or DGCs would be that impressed.

DD is not "history" oriented, although she is very journalism oriented.

[tansy]

JFK's assassination made a huge impression on me because my 5th grade teacher was sobbing uncontrollably as she told us the news.  We were sent home.

The next event would be the moon landing.  My dad worked on that mission.

[itiswhatitis]

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@Marp wrote:

When/what did you first become aware that you were witnessing/living history?

For me it was the launch of Sputnik I in 1957. 

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January, 2008, The swearing in of the First Black President in our lifetime.

9/11 felt like a dream as I was in the midst of the chaos and fear on a very close level.