What's the first major news story you can remember living through as a child?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
The first major news story I remember, though not very well, was the air crash in Berlin that killed most of the Manchester [City?] football team. I think that was in 1958.
I regard the phrase "living through" as merely tautology for anything not involving me, rather as "lived experience" is merely silly.
I regard the phrase "living through" as merely tautology for anything not involving me, rather as "lived experience" is merely silly.
emmasfriend · 46-50, F
@ArishMell
Long before my time, but what I read recently in a short history of Manchester UNITED was about an aeroplane crashing while taking off from MUNICH.
Apparently there was another air crash that day - small plane, Hollywood actor [Todd ?]
Long before my time, but what I read recently in a short history of Manchester UNITED was about an aeroplane crashing while taking off from MUNICH.
Apparently there was another air crash that day - small plane, Hollywood actor [Todd ?]
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@emmasfriend Thankyou!
I did put a question-mark after "City" but considering I was trying to recollect this over sixty years later at least I had the basic incident right.
The way I remember it at all was unusual. I would have been only about six at the time.
I learnt to read remarkably early, and to a quite precocious level so although brought up on the classics (Winnie The Pooh and the like) our Infants' School form-teacher used to lend me her daily paper! I cannot possibly claim to have understood all the main news stories by subject, nor known about the personalities, but must have had few if any problems with the reports and their vocabularies simply as text. So I do recall reading about the Munich (as you rightly corrected me) air-crash, and perhaps other disasters I don't now remember.
Quite the reverse from my best friend in that class, whose over-strict mother felt her daughter - and probably any children - should not read grown-ups' newspapers. Instead we could watch Andy Pandy or The Flowerpot Men on their TV: children's puppet shows with innocuous contents but worse, desperately low vocabularies.
I did put a question-mark after "City" but considering I was trying to recollect this over sixty years later at least I had the basic incident right.
The way I remember it at all was unusual. I would have been only about six at the time.
I learnt to read remarkably early, and to a quite precocious level so although brought up on the classics (Winnie The Pooh and the like) our Infants' School form-teacher used to lend me her daily paper! I cannot possibly claim to have understood all the main news stories by subject, nor known about the personalities, but must have had few if any problems with the reports and their vocabularies simply as text. So I do recall reading about the Munich (as you rightly corrected me) air-crash, and perhaps other disasters I don't now remember.
Quite the reverse from my best friend in that class, whose over-strict mother felt her daughter - and probably any children - should not read grown-ups' newspapers. Instead we could watch Andy Pandy or The Flowerpot Men on their TV: children's puppet shows with innocuous contents but worse, desperately low vocabularies.