When Jim Jones ran the Peoples Temple and him and all his followers committed suicide. They showed like 900 dead bodies laying on the ground in Guyana. Interestingly enough, I was talking to my boss the other day and he said he was in the Army when that happened and his unit was assigned to pick up all those dead bodies and put them in trucks or something!
The word “Happiness” pronounced in a French accent sounds like “A penis”
I watched our revolution (December 1989) that brought down the communist regime, live on tv. People getting shot, tanks threatening to run people over, helicopters, hidden snipers, the dictator urging people to remain calm, then fleeing in a helicopter with his wife and a couple top brass, then getting caught a day later, sentenced to death and executed by a fire squad on Christmas day!
I have to agree watching the towers get hit by planes on 9/11 has to be the craziest thing I saw on TV. I remember feeling very scared but a deep sense of duty to America because four days prior to that I had signed my contract to join the Air Force.
When I was 13 in 1998 I flew to Florida with my foster parents for a holiday. I was allowed to see the cockpit when the pilots were flying the plain . This all stopped after 911.
I don’t think I’ve seen anything really crazy on broadcast tv.
But when I was 12 a friend’s parents had a new thing called a VCR.
So my friend put in an action movie for us to watch and at one point the star of the movie used the F word. I still remember my shock at seeing that on the small screen.
Ha, I remember at the start of cable TV around 1976 and the only cable channel was HBO and how me and my friends would stay up until 1;00 am just to get a glimpse of a bare breast on TV for about three seconds.
We had a program here in the UK called Euro Trash that aired late at night in the 90s. Lots off big European boobies on display. I used to sneak it on my tv when I was meant to be asleep.
In 1973 when I was in 7th grade they had just added a few new channels to regular TV. Channel 6 was what they would call today, a public access channel. It was a regular channel just like NBC and CBS but it barely had any programming on it. Somehow my mom got a program on it, I don’t know how. Like a 20 minute program where she talked about stuff. I was at my friends house one day and we both knew each others mom. He was flipping through the channels and there was my mom on TV. He freaked out, he couldn’t believe it. This was before cable and the internet and computers and cell phones. It was really an amazing accomplishment.
I saw the twin towers get hit, on TV, while I was at school. They rolled the square TV into the room. I was in 3rd grade.
I was so shocked and terrified, especially because my dad was in NYC on a business trip and he was supposed to be in one of the towers, for a meeting. But he was running late, which is VERY unusual for him. If he were on time for that business meeting, he wouldn’t still be here. I’m lucky I still have my dad.
He soon called my school and let me know he was ok.
He won’t talk about that day, though. He’s never talked about it to me. But my mom says my dad watched people jumping from the buildings, felt the terror, watched the panic, and he will never forget the smell of burning bodies.
