Same with me. Certainly will never forget that day.
I was 3 1/2 when Kennedy was killed. Oddly, I remember the funeral more than the event. I remember watching the cannons and drums, as my Mom was crying.
I remember the day Nixon announced he would resign. I was in the lobby of a local Junior College.
For some reason, I remember the moment I heard on the radio that John Lennon had been killed. I was in the car driving to my new girl friend's house.
Challenger was another... I was at work, watching the launch on TV during lunch. The stock market crach on October 19, 1987 is another. I got laid off from work that day (Plant was sold, all of us let go).... Just got in my car and turned on the radio, "That's the NEWS of the day, the Dow is down 550 points at lunchtime". THAT was a flashbulb day!
I was a freshman in high school, the teacher had me go to the office to get something as I was standing there a man came in and started to tell the secretary the news that Kennedy had been shot but we did not know how bad it was at the time. I hustled back to class and told the teacher what I heard. He got mad at me, he thought I was making it up. I told him it was true, I remember him running out of the room to the office.
It sounds like I’m just a few months older than you. I remember all of the assassinations of MLK, RFK, Wallace getting shot, and the Chicago Democratic Convention riots and Kent State National Guard shooting.
I was in a 6th grade spring camp when J. Edgar Hoover died. Then there was the coverage of plane crashes of sports teams and celebrities like Lynyrd Skynrd and Jim Croce.
My mom took a polaroid of the TV when Armstrong first stepped on the moon.
Then there were the seemingly endless Watergate hearings (remember we only had network TV), then there was the Vietnam War on TV every night. For those young folks here this was full graphic warfare on every news channel every night followed by the scrolling list of names of fallen warriors.
Then Elvis died and I was in HS working at a brand new Sears store that was preparing for the grand opening.