Where were you when.......

Reagan was shot?
The Pope was shot?
The Berlin wall came down?


I was younger then so, except for the Berlin wall, I can't remember what I was doing or where I was.

I do remember watching all the people sitting on the wall & breaking it down. That was really incredible to see those people finally get their freedom.

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I was too young when Reagan and the Pope were shot so I don't remember them. But I do remember the Berlin Wall. Doesn't seem that long ago either. I remember watching it on the news.



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When Reagan was shot, I was in the 1st grade, I was home sick that week, I think I had the flu. Anyway, I lived in Idaho and I remember not being able to watch anything because they kept showing the same news footage over and over again with Reagan being shot..I actually remember both times someone tried to kill him.

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The destruction of the Berlin Wall was an incredible thing! Watching the very people that had suffered because of it tearing it apart chunk by chunk! With John Mellencamp singing in the background...."and the walls come tumblin' down" A truly great memory of the 80's!!!

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I was at home sick when Reagan was shot. Come to think of it, I was at home sick when Challenger blew up too. Could it have been an omen?

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For the safty and well being of the country...you'd better get out more! LOL!

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hahhaehehe That's funny. Yeah! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/tongue.gif

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Man, I remember all that. What about John Lennon gettin shot? The 80's were when the sickos started hittin' the mainstream. Sad, very sad. Because now it seems like its cool to kill people for no apparent reason.

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Actually, I think it's more that the '80s were the beginning of the "instant info" era, with cable TV promulgating it. Now we obtain the info via the Internet, but in the '80s, cable TV became the vehicle for instant gratification via video. We heard more about incidents as networks jockeyed for position in a burgeoning new world of informational dissemination. They all wanted to scoop the other and boost the ratings.

Crime has gone down in the last decade or so, yet people talk about how bad it's gotten. It's not that it's bad. It's that we always hear about it because the only thing that sells television is sensation. Sensationalism is what boosts the ratings. Happy stories don't sell. Sad/scary/grotesque stories do.

But then again, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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That makes sense.. Perfect sense..

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I remember when Reagan was shot......I was in high school in some class and someone was shouting in the hallway that the president had been shot. This hit our town more personally than some, perhaps, because James Brady...Reagan's press sec...is from my town. My dad and he grew up in the same neighborhood even.. If you get the chance to, read Brady's book, "THUMBS UP". I know some of the people named in that book.....including the guy "Bernie" who visits him in the hospital.



When John Lennon was shot, I was listening to the radio when they reported that he had been shot...a short time later, they announced that he had died.

The Challenger, I saw it happen live on CNN (?) ..... to this day, I hold my breath and say a little prayer when there is a lift off.

OK, I was in the 4th grade when Reagan was shot (my Mom didn't believe me when I ran and told her the news.) I was 10 when the Pope was shot, and 18 when the Berlin Wall came down. As for John Lennon, I was in the 4th then too. When Marvin Gaye was killed in April of '84, I was in 7th grade. We heard about him on a Sunday afternoon, on the radio. It was awful. I didn't get a lotta sleep that night, nor when Lennon was killed.

let's see now, The Challenger : I was in science class in high school. The Pope I was in 7th grade math class. Reagan getting shot, I must have been in school but I have no clear recollection of that, same for Anwar Saddat getting jumped at his parade. The wall coming down, I was watching TV in my parents roon shouting "way to go Ronnie !!" Lennon got shot and I heard it in the car listening to 102.7, WNEW NYC, Scott Sullivan broke in with the story. I do remember coming home from high school and hearing about the Grenada invasion and wondering just where Grenada was and why we invaded.

Originally posted by Gunner Girl
Where were you when.......
Reagan was shot?
The Pope was shot?

I was at the cinema the day Reagan was shot and heard about it later.

I was visiting relatives in Colorado Springs, Colorado when the Pope was shot.