We didn't have a TV until the late 70s, my dad was uber religious and thought they were bad bad bad but eventually caved. So probably the first "big" news I remember hearing about but didn't see play out on TV was Elvis' death. For a very religious guy like my dad, he sure talked about that a lot.
The next one was the Tehran hostage crisis. Followed that very closely. Then Mt St Helens - before we moved to Canada, we lived in a few places affected by the eruption - Slide Creek, Abernathy, Longview, Kalama. So that had some impact on my folks, more than me, but the story had an impact. Oh, and the the Pope John Paul II assassination attempt because it happened on my birthday.
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