Writer's Block: News development

[rebness]

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I'd prefer to say something inspirational, like the fall of the Berlin Wall, but the earliest event I remember with clarity from my childhood was the Hillsborough disaster, wherein 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death at a football ground due to overcrowding. This was 1989 and I was eight.

I remember I was playing in the garden whilst my mum was painting a trellis and listening to the radio. And then news reports started coming in, of casualties at the football ground and giving out an emergency number for worried relatives to get in contact. My dad came out of the house and told us to come inside and see the news on television.

I remember the carnage on the news and the death toll rising and rising. Football didn't and still doesn't mean much to me at all, but this sticks in my mind because I realised that day that sometimes you go out shopping or to see a friend or a football match and you don't come back.

Comments

[keep-warm.livejournal.com]

I remember my cousin taking me to Anfield when the goal end was covered in flowers. I was told years later the central square in Nottingham was covered as well.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I never did go and see the tributes, but it must have been so affecting. I think there's a memorial outside Huyton library? I remember looking at something like that a few years ago and being shocked at how young some of the victims were.

[leithal.livejournal.com]

I think the first one I remember really is the fall of the Berlin Wall, but I don't remember specific news coverage or even really understanding what it was about. I just remember getting that it was a big deal, and people were happy about it... and every time I see footage of it now, it's kinda like deja vu.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I remember the news going mental over it and my brother and father getting excited as the first portions of the wall came down. I didn't really grasp its gravity, either, but I'm glad to have seen it as it happened in some capacity. ;)

[ozfille]

Probably JFK's assasination would stand out as the earliest big world event I recall. I was about six and remember my mother listening to the radio and me asking her what had happened.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Wow! The ultimate Where Were You on That Day event. I think now when something happens (well, I remember this particularly with September the 11th) you know that you'll have to remember Where When for posterity, but the JFK assassination really was the original.