20 TV Tragedies That Happened LIVE

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[@tarryteeth]

Hi there WatchMojo. Big fan ❤

[@debmar5771]

Yes, I was job hunting the day of the Challenger disaster. I was at work when the towers were hit. Everyone stopped working and we were all glued to the news on radios. I don't think at that time news outlets had websites. Anyway, I cried for a week.

[@susannpatton2893]

Yes. Challenger explosion, the guy who got blown up with the collar on his neck, Dale E.

[@susannpatton2893]

Dear watch mojo If you are a Gen X You know and have seen every one of these events happen

[@stephenkirton9921]

I had just finished afternoon shift in my cold storage job and went to my local pub in Bankstown Australia and was watching the TV and they interrupted the broadcast to go live to New York and showed the first tower on fire and said that a plane had flown into it, i knew straight away it was no accident. When someone asked me what happened i told them that terrorists had just attacked America not long after the second plane struck the other tower they looked at me and said how did you know I said it was just too hard to believe in modern times that a large jetliner could accidentally hit a building.

[@zaxo8445]

Thank you for getting the Hillsborough Disaster details correct many still don’t. Justice for the 97 forever and always. YNWA

[@hannahmabbott7370]

Thanks for mentioning that 97 people died. Although the 97th person who died did so by unaliving themselves .

[@MarkLaw13]

98

[@MajesticalHonky]

@@hannahmabbott7370 Who are you talking about? Andrew Devine was the 97th person and he didn't unalive himself.

[@ChristyTina22]

I will never forget watching people jump from 80 story windows of the World Trade Center to their deaths to escape the fires. My family visited Ground Zero in January of 2002. It was just so BIG. Also, my Grandmother was supposed to be on a flight leaving Philadelphia that day. Not knowing if she got on or not until 6 that night was nerve wracking. The flights were cancelled right before she was about to board.

[@m3rrys0ngstr3ss]

I didn't hear about the folks jumping until I was quite a bit older, and I think that's because my folks purposely kept the info from me.

[@rachelpeters9438]

@@m3rrys0ngstr3sssame

[@feraltaco4783]

@@ChristyTina22 that's was so beyond horrifying. What had me freaking out was when the other buildings kept collapsing. I kept wondering when/if it was going to stop. It was utter madness.

[@feraltaco4783]

@@m3rrys0ngstr3ss definitely for the best. I was 18 that year. I still get a gut wrenching feeling when I think about certain details.

[@laureendavis2369]

Seeing people jump and hearing their bodies hit the roofs of buildings around them still haunts me today

[@CandiceVidito32]

R.I.P to all that lost their lives in these tragedies.

[@CandiceVidito32]

@DontDelete-fp8oy thief and liar

[@jimbo9208]

@DontDelete-fp8oy yes you are

[@link4276]

​@@jimbo9208 exactly. Also when it comes to him , it's sad how he has to accuse others in his profile pic with a lie. Besides it also proves how obsessed he is with someone else.

[@CommentBotHater]

@DontDelete-fp8oy 🤐 And your comments/replies being deleted should are YOU being the one who is bullying others and not us Seems they are finally action against you In the meantime... GROW UP

[@link4276]

​@DontDelete-fp8oy no one is crying except you. It's a fact that you can't even handle being called out for bullying. Quit being so miserable

[@shelley6477]

I’m a native New Yorker who was living in DC on 9/11. Washington got hit hard, too, but NYC took the enormous brunt of it. It took me 24 hours to track down all of my loved ones in Manhattan. The phone lines were jammed. To say it was awful doesn’t do the whole experience justice.

[@RichiePajooh-r8i]

i remember that day i was at the community college and people were watching in the main lounge area. my car broke down as usual pos. walked to the cd store since that day was when slayer released god hates us all. ironically titled. i got that cd and then walked home. my brothers worked in nyc we were able to confirm they were okay. i’m 25 percent middle eastern and have always experienced some form of racism and i get it but obviously that incident made it even harder to just let people know you are an american trying to do right. but anyways….

[@SEGASister]

I was six when it happened, living in Staten Island. My abuela picked me and my brother up from school early and we just stayed there for the rest of the week. Neither of us knew that our parents were first responders that day. They’re alive, thankfully, but Mom’s been emotionally scarred and my father ended up disabled.

[@Elizabeth-ic3lh]

It's crazy to me the rest of America especially the younger ones that weren't even alive yet don't understand the impact this had on our society. I was 7 when this happened and it's etched in my brain. Lived in rural WV so no where near but everyone was watching the skies for days after. The mass terror was unreal.

[@alexanderjames6328]

@@Elizabeth-ic3lh The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake killed far more, that was the worst thing I have ever seen.

[@zyourzgrandzmaz]

No one ever talks about the pizza delivery driver who had a bomb collar put on him by bank robbers and it went off on live tv.

[@smick9976]

there's a Netflix's documentary :)

[@duderRechthat]

@@smick9976 whats that ":)" for lol

[@mham1330]

The authorities claim that the man was part of the whole incident and not a victim. Either way. He is still dead cause his head got blown off.

[@dianeab1050]

@@mham1330 Bullshit. The man was a victim. What the hell is wrong with people!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@alexanderjames6328]

@@mham1330 His head did not get blown off, the explosion impacted the man's chest.

[@jeremywilliams5141]

Honorable mention: the 1999 death of Owen Hart at the Over the Edge PPV in Kansas City.

[@mytruecrimelibrary]

Yeah the show just went on

[@davidparkes7741]

Technically Owen's death doesn't count for this list since & I quote.... "Twenty of the most shocking things that ever occurred on live television." Vince & co got rid of all footage of his fall.

[@JamesTrewolla]

No one saw that.

[@ASMR-Arboretum]

The fall wasn't on TV. Just the sound and the aftermath.

[@lsusaints36horton45]

There's footage of it but it's on titan towers in the video tape vault it says " don't look at or don't copy

[@LyndaHarris-cj1vm]

Since I’m 63 I unfortunately saw many of these happen. R.I.P. to all 😔

[@MaryShoemaker-wi4fy]

Same 😞 RIP to all 🙌

[@nexusserc]

The death of Christine Chubbuck sounds so tragic. Its horrible what loneliness can do to a person

[@sekenamcmurren2217]

Depression is toxic and can be fatal unfortunately!😣💔

[@jennifer_m.8613]

I watched the movie they made about her, and I am so glad that therapy methods have come a long way in 50 years

[@danielleknudsen2831]

Her story is definitely a sad one. There’s a film starring Rebecca Hall that’s pretty incredible but heartbreaking.

[@daniellearneberg3970]

Clinical depression and other forms of mental illness are toxic. Unlike cancer or another disease where doctors may estimate when the disease will take their life. Mental illness is not that precise. Having a Severe Persistant Mental Illness and getting triggered by past events and being down played by others can only push a person farther into committing to suicide.

[@David-lo1fo]

Nothing wrong with being alone. In fact it is a necessary and recommended by spiritual Teaching. It puts you in touch With the true self and makes life more clear and rewarding. However loneliness is a mental Issue and cousin to depression requires therapy and care.

[@davidhabert]

four years before The Hillsborough Disaster, there was another football stadium disaster which proved to be just as horrific and was televised on live UK TV. It's called *the Bradford City stadium fire.* (There is a KZbin video of this disaster taking place, but viewer discretion is advised) At the time of the incident, the stand where the spectators were watching the match was made out of wood. Unfortunately the TV camera noticed a small fire in the stand which started to grow and became a more intense. In a short space of five minutes that whole stand went up like a tinder box and was completely engulfed and destroyed by flames and smoke. There is even footage of one of the spectators completely engulfed in flames and he was still walking. (I don't know if this guy survived) In the end 56 spectators died and 265 were injured.

[@warailawildrunner5300]

To answer your question - no the guy did not survive. The police and public nearby tried their best, but his burns were too extensive to survive.

[@davidhabert]

@@warailawildrunner5300 Thanks for the heads up

[@rafaelamadeus5155]

Additionally, the Bradford City stadium fire came just only a few days before the tragedy at Heysel.

[@philiprice7875]

they was very lucky. if that stand had had barriers to stop pitch invasion they would have been counting the dead in the 1000's it went up so fast

[@I_Evo]

This is the one many people seem to misremember. The match was in the third tier of English football and while cameras were there to record the match to show highlights later the match wasn't broadcast live and there was no live feed back to the TV studios. The bulk of the fire was filmed and then the video tape(s) was transported by car from Bradford to Yorkshire Television headquarters in Leeds where it was processed and made available to both national ITV and the BBC.

[@rehustler]

Good video. And as someone who's witnessed a few of these events on TV while they unfolded, I want to thank you for NOT including graphic depictions of these events.

[@Taekwonjoe75]

I saw almost all of these happen. I was in 5th grade when the Challenger exploded. We were all sent home. I was on my way to my attorney's office when the towers came down, and by the time I got there, they had closed, but let me stay and watch things on a TV they had there. I watched all the footage of the '92 LA riots, Fukishima, Waco, Earnhardt, the Tsunami...have I aged myself yet?

[@wadewilson8011]

4th grade during the Challenger explosion. Saw most of these shown here too. They forgot Ruby Ridge, The North Hollywood shootout, The 1997 Jarrell, Texas F5 Deadman Walking tornado, The Boston Marathon bombing, The OJ Simpson Police chase & Trial, the fall of the Berlin Wall. Columbia shuttle breaking up in the atmosphere, and so many more.

[@JoshuaFlinn-r5s]

We Gen X’ers have seen a lot…..

[@Ritapita73]

Gen X in the house.

[@echobeachpeach767]

Gen Jones in the house (we're the last push of the Boomers from 1954 to 1965). I saw most of them except Christine Chubbock and Dwyer and Earnhardt (because two were local tv stations and only aired the news of deaths afterward and I never ever watched NASCAR races). What about JFK though? That was a tragedy. Watched most of 9/11 except the initial response to the first tower being hit but saw everything after that point. I've got a question for @wadewilson8011 - how was the Fall of the Berlin Wall or the OJ Simpson Bronco Chase a tragedy? Just asking...

[@MSjackiesaunders]

@echobeachpeach767 I'm a baby boomer, born in 1950. I saw JFK and RFK killed, the aftermath of the Oklahoma bombing, Apollo 1 exploding on the launch pad, hurricanes (I live in Texas) Carla and Katrina, the explosion of Challenger, too many school shootings, the debris of Columbia crossing overhead I saw live, and of course, 9/11. The longer you live, the more tragedies you will see. But the longer you live, the more advances you will see. Personally, I would love to live long enough to see humans walk on Mars to match my seeing men on the moon. I saw the building of the Berlin Wall, and also it being torn down. I've seen huge advances in medicine and technology. Try to concentrate on the positives.

[@Jane413]

I remember tuning in just after the first plane hit on 9/11. I was home sick and watched live as the second plane hit. It happened so fast you don't realize they slow down the video when it's shown now. I had a cousin who worked in one of the nearby buildings. He got out well ahead of time. My parent's neighbor lost his older brother when the first plane hit.

[@ReesieandLee]

I was home from work with pneumonia and high as a kite on cough medicine when the first plane hit. I honestly thought I was imagining it, because I knew it wasn’t a movie. My daughter was part of the baby boom that happened the next 11 months.

[@Ron-d2s]

@@ReesieandLee It wasn't a movie, it was an episode of "The Lone Gunmen"

[@Ron-d2s]

I was working phone surveys and a friend of mine was on the dayshift, he was talking to a guy in a high-rise in NYC. The guy said a plane just flew into the trade towers and he was leaving his building NOW!

[@gloriabarberi1292]

I was packing for leaving to London. A friend of mine phoned me. "Turn on the telly, quick!". "Which channel?" I asked. And he: "Doesn't matter, IT'S EVERYWHERE!". I could not believe my eyes. At first I though it was an accident, not terrorism. 😢

[@jena.alexia]

Interestingly, during the LA riots, Rodney King himself appeared on TV pleading with people to stop rioting.

[@alinepeed7167]

TIL Thank you.

[@jena.alexia]

@@alinepeed7167 ❤️

[@michaelfritz5816]

9/11. I was in class when it happened. One of my teachers came in the class room, TV in tow. Turned on the news, and we all found out then.

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

Same thing happened to me that day but in Puerto Rico.

[@imperialbeautee]

I was a sophomore in high school and saw it in the classroom too. In Oregon where I still reside. I remember feeling shocked all day it was almost like an out of body experience. I couldn't wrap my head around it.

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

@@imperialbeautee I know the feeling too. I was speechless & shocked.

[@bucketsoyeah]

My teacher ignored the announcement, and made us get back to work

[@tiffanysjustcoloring]

I was a senior in high school and our whole school had the tvs tuned in to the news immediately after the first plane hit. We weren’t a very big school, but I look back and wonder what they were thinking, were they trying to give 750 teenagers ptsd all at the same time… because that’s how you do it 😐

[@TheJtyork420]

I do remember 9/11 so clearly. I woke up after the 1st plane hit and thought it was just a accident amd just went on as normal for the day. Then my mom came and got me from school after the 2nd one and then I realized this is something else.

[@feraltaco4783]

My mom woke me up after the second plane hit. I wasn't working that day and I ended up just watching TV all day.

[@redred222]

I was working at a McDonald's and some came through drive through and said we where underattck

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

It wasn't just shocking in the U.S... But also worldwide. I know because I was at a school in Puerto Rico when the 9/11 tragedy happened. The teacher somehow find out about it & immediately turned on the classroom's TV. The ENTIRE classroom watched it occurred live. I was speechless & shocked, especially since I was born in New York.

[@feraltaco4783]

@@redred222 geez. What a way to find out.

[@feraltaco4783]

@@ARTSONICFAN990 sorry. Sometimes we forget how much of an effect it had on other countries too.

[@nicolamarchbank1846]

I remember Hillsborough. My Dad was watching the match and Mum changed the channel as soon as she realised that it was bad. I was young, I didn't need to see the horror. She also did the same with the 1989 Christmas Day news broadcast when she realised that the Ceaucescus were dead. Sharp reactions my mother. We also lived 20 minutes away from Lockerbie the night the plane-crashed. I remember the aftermath remarkably clearly. The whole region was scarred. My Dad's brother ran one of the Police teams who recovered forensics and parts from some of the poor souls on the plane. My uncle was never quite the same.

[@philiprice7875]

I remember Hillsborough, called up my mum to ask if brother was at the game she said he had a ticket but needed to work so missed out, i told her to watch the telly, i sat with tears streaming down my face, but also relieved. that night in the bar was very quiet people was in shock then the news came on total silence untill cops said that word and the anger started. took years for the truth still waiting on justice. oh a month ago a major supermarket had to issue an apology for selling the (skum) newspaper in a Liverpool branch J4T97 YNWA

[@graceburns9019]

I was born two years after Hillsborough, but as a lifelong Liverpool fan I grew up knowing all about it. When the courts cleared the fans of any wrongdoing, I was at work and I just shut myself in the stationery room and cried. May the 97 rest in peace

[@nicolamarchbank1846]

@@philiprice7875 He had such a lucky, lucky escape. There was a 15 year old boy who survived his family's destruction when the plane hit by going across the road to borrow a bicycle pump to test out his sister's Christmas present. Poor guy had to go live with an aunt and uncle and never really recovered psychologically and came to a sad end I'm afraid, we always think of him as Victim 271. In amongst all the horror when these things happen, there is also the people who put themselves into danger to try to help others. The 2 Firecrews that set speed records on the motorway driving from Merseyside to Lockerbie (I'd say in the Cumberland Gap days that would be a bit under 3 hours driving legally, it's about 2 and 1/2 hours now), Firefighters, Police and forensic teams that came from across the country just because they felt they could be useful and the hospitals that mobilised with people airlifted to Aberdeen and Birmingham - which are a long way away. The Catholic Priest with a drink problem who gave 32 of his neighbours on Sherwood Crescent Last Rites 3 days before Christmas claiming that God was working through him that night and healed his illness. Weird little detail is the street was trashed taking most of the fuel tanks which were mostly full, but his house stood proud. In the end 11 died on the ground and 259 on the plane, if the plane had been in the air about 30 seconds longer, it would have hit Dumfries and given the urban area with all the adjoining villages is about 55,000 now, that's a lot more dead. Or the redoubtable ladies of the Women Guild who stepped up to help execute the emergency shelter that was opened in the Academy and sidelined into becoming "the women who washed". They found out that next of kin were receiving personal items in less than ideal conditions, so through the local MP (who was a proper old gentleman) got the Crown to release the items so they could be laundered and given to the families in freshly prepared packages with hand-written notes in them. Their President ended up the local Councillor and the unofficial spokesperson for the town on disaster matters. There's actually a play written about them. The Scottish government decided to send the Libyan intelligence operative Abdelbaset el-Megrahi convicted of the attack in a historically unique trial conducted on a Dutch Air Force Base which was temporarily declared part of Scotland for the occasion, back to Libya for "compassionate" reasons. We were NOT impressed. He got a heroes welcome. We were livid as you can imagine. There were a LOT of people in Dumfriesshire wishing a lot of bad things on Kenny MacAskill (who is also one of Alex Salmond's allies). And if anything at all came out of the horror of that match-day, the whole process of crowd management, incident management when things go wrong and training for incident command teams was transformed so something like the breakdown in command and control and the overcrowding that caused it, literally can't happen again. We all just wish it hadn't happened in the first place.

[@SybilSaintGeorge]

I studied forensic anthropology, and plane crash victims all have the same injury: crushed femurs. It means that even if you somehow survive the crash, your legs are broken anyway, so you bleed out, burn or drown. Knowing most crashes happen during take off and landing, I always hold my legs against my chest during these times, oomph.

[@alexanderjames6328]

@@SybilSaintGeorge This was Hillsborough... not a plane crash.

[@ASMR-Arboretum]

I saw a girl get hit by a train on my local news when I was a kid. They were doing a news story about people jumping the tracks, and as they were filming it a girl got hit and burst into a million pieces. That's a memory I have now.

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

I was at a school in Puerto Rico when the 9/11 tragedy happened. The teacher somehow find out about it & immediately turned on the classroom's TV. The ENTIRE classroom watched it occurred live. I was speechless & shocked... Especially since I was born in New York.

[@CraigNiel]

I don't usually remember anything, I'm hopeless. But I remember being stood in an Argos (popular retail outlet here in the UK) and they have TV's on display and the every channel was showing the Twin Towers live as it unfolded. The whole shop, customers and employees just looked on in complete and utter shock and disbelief. It's like time stood still and anything that anyone was doing just didn't matter a single bit. It's something I shall never forget and I can't even imagine what it must be like for anyone caught up in it.

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

@@CraigNiel The news was broadcasted worldwide, including the UK. That shows how shocking that attack was.

[@CraigNiel]

@@ARTSONICFAN990 Indeed, and like I say, it was so shocking that I've never forgot where I was. But it wasn't just that, it was the vibe that was in the air that you could feel with everyone as they watched it unfold. I've never experienced that before or since.

[@RajaReign78]

To WatchMojo thank you for not showing the graphic images from these events. I like to research things like this, but can’t handle visuals so it makes it hard for me to get information on these types of events. By listening to a video like this I don’t have to look away or constantly keep my eyes shut.

[@kascnef]

It’s a family channel

[@Autistic_Internet_Slap_Fights]

You are not alone

[@AlexRising_]

I was in third grade for 9/11 and remember having to be sent home because my daddy worked near the pentagon and frequently went there for work. I tried to call and couldn’t get through, and I was inconsolable. After three days of no contact, I was banned from watching the news because I was obsessively waiting to see if daddy’s name popped up for some form of closure. Turns out daddy was fucking fine. The cellphone towers were fucked in the area following the attacks so my dad’s command called his next of kin, his then wife, who *_neglected to tell his terrified child and her mother despite being explicitly instructed to do so and lying to daddy about doing it._*

[@janeyrevanescence12]

I pray he divorced that witch.

[@chriscarter1177]

Wow!

[@maryann7619]

Daddy?

[@heatherpayne1995]

​@@somebodyelse93239/11 happened in 2001

[@XFIGHTINGDREAMERX245]

@AlexRising_ I’m sorry you were put through three days of absolute hell. I hope that woman was immediately divorced. She doesn’t deserve to be married.

[@ColleenJoudrey]

I was 16 and in the board room next to the principal office and walked in to see the second plane hit the tower and my first thought was "why is there a movie playing in here?" and then quickly realized it was absolutely not a movie. My heart completely sank at that moment.

[@MSjackiesaunders]

I was watching live coverage right after the first plane hit. I was watching on BBC America who had set up in New Jersey. The poor newscaster had her back to action but turned just in time to see the second plane hit. Then they broke into that coverage to switch to Washington DC to the Pentagon. I actually knew someone who had just completed an IT contract there just before it happened. I was so frantic, I called her home, and sobbed with relief when she answered. She wasn't even aware of what was going on. That whole day was surreal. I had to go to pick up some groceries, and people were walking around in a daze or crying. If only we could go back to the unity we felt in the weeks that followed. I live in Texas, so I've personally seen a number of hurricanes, but watching Katrina was awful, since my Aunt and Uncle lived in Chalmette, a suburb of New Orleans. It took me 4 months before I found that they were safe. I was watching the liftoff of the Challenger. But I personally saw the debris from the Columbia as it streaked across the Texas sky. I also saw Apollo 1 explode on the launch pad, and the televised deaths of JFK and RFK. A lot of tragedy, a lot of history. Being 74 means you've seen a lot.

[@kimberlymiller8274]

It should be noted that Budd Dwyer was exonerated a few years later after he took his life.

[@aztecwrrior1997]

Fkn too late then.......

[@ApeOfMyIdeal]

An urban legend. Not one of his convictions has been subsequently overturned.

[@JamesTrewolla]

@@kimberlymiller8274 I do not think that is correct. In fact I just took the 10 seconds to check. You are wrong. Stop spreading lies. You deserve to have your phone smashed.

[@MSjackiesaunders]

According to multiple reports: "All posthumous appeals made by Dwyer's lawyers on Dwyer's behalf were denied, and his convictions were sustained."

[@spriken]

No, but what did happen is some of the witnesses against him confessed to lying and falsifying evidence. Which, although not 100% proof he was innocent, does make a case that he could have been.

[@BigFella117]

I’ve only seen archive footage of the Challenger explosion, but I cannot imagine the horror people felt when they saw it happen live

[@ariellaabrahams]

Yes! I was expecting my third child and caring for my 2 sons and one of their friends. I sat all the boys down to watch what I thought was going to be a fun experience for a bunch of little wanna be astronauts 😢 Not so much

[@wolfecanada6726]

I was in grade 9, skipping class so I could watch the launch in the library.

[@christinahosey7-4-72]

I remember watching it live... it was jarring for sure. I was in 6th grade and one of my teachers had applied for that. We were upset that he didn't get picked but we were glad after what happened. It was really sad.

[@VistaThaiGuy]

Poor dog burned up in the truck....

[@MSjackiesaunders]

I personally saw the debris from the Columbia disaster as it streaked across Central Texas. At first, we didn't know what it was, but found out quickly. I saw Apollo 1 blow up on the launch pad, and the Challenger disaster. I've always been fascinated by space. I was in Junior High watching the motorcade of JFK when he was shot and High School when RFK was killed. At 74, I've witnessed a lot of tragedy over my lifetime. A lot of history, as well.

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

The destruction of the _Challenger_ space shuttle is just unbelievably tragic. I would’ve wanted one of my high school teachers to take a space trip.

[@loribreland8044]

I was in fifth grade and every classroom in our school was watching the launch live on television. It was shocking, tragic, and all the teachers in our school could be heard either screaming or crying immediately in reaction. Later in life I watched, again live on television, as 9/11 occurred. Unfortunately tragedy is part of life but with the advent of television and now social media many things will now be caught live so millions if not billions will see these events.

[@bloodwolfgaming9269]

I remember Dale Earnheart's wreck. I grew up watching NASCAR with my dad when I was a kid. Earnheart was our favorite driver. The crash didn't seem that bad when watching it but that evening when we were going out to get dinner, they said over the radio that Earnheart had died from his injuries. I remember hearing about Alison Parker's tragic death. She use to be a reporter for my local news station before she moved to a different station. So after she was killed, the news was pretty big on the local news here. I still remember Katrina. I was living in Louisiana at the time. Though we didn't evacuate for Katrina since we lived on the western part of Louisiana. The worse storm was one a month or so after Katrina, which was Rita. A lot of properties were still weakened after Katrina and people were deep into the clean up and rebuilding process when Rita came through and just pushed everything weakened by Katrina over. Though we DID evacuate for Rita after we stayed and went through Katrina. I remember being as school when 9/11 happened. We had just started with our day when they turned the TVs on after the first plane hit. Then we seen the 2nd plane hit and they sent everyone home early. I think we were too young to fully understand what all was happening but we could tell by how quiet the teachers/adults were that some BIG had happened.

[@shainahullihen1159]

I was at a friend's grandparents' house when Dale died. I was playing with my friends and when we went into the basement, I saw a replay of the accident on the computer, 😢.

[@admiralinvertebrate5649]

The Yarnell Fire stands out to me. Just over 10 years ago, a fire was started by a lightning strike that occurred on a mountain ridge which was situated not far from the town of Yarnell Arizona. The fire proceeded to burn a path towards the town, destroying practically everything in its’ path. Things took a tragic turn when the Granite Mountain Hotshots were dispatched to the area to help slow the fire down. 20 highly trained professionals went in, but only one survived, Brandon Mcdonough. The others were caught in the blaze, and were all pronounced dead at the scene.

[@ronniespain18]

Literally watching Only the Brave as I'm reading this!! Wow how crazy is that

[@RyanRumbles434]

Christine Chubbuck, news reporter, killing herself on live TV is something that comes to mind. RIP

[@JoshWitte]

Uhh, did you not watch the video...

[@burnyizland]

It was literally in this vid.

[@AtheistOrphan]

Does it come to mind because it’s featured in this video? Guess you didn’t watch the video before commenting on it.

[@thalaseamyst3934]

What time is it though? NVM just found it. 13:38

[@TitaniumTurbine]

@@thalaseamyst3934 It’s at 13:40…..

[@darkangel_1978]

I have a friend who survived 9/11. He told me that after the plane hit the tower that he worked in, he and some co-workers quickly got out of there, going down the stairs, like they had practiced after that bomb in the 90's at the WTC. He said he was extremely fortunate to get out alive and he will never take it for granted.

[@TiagoNomad]

I remember watching Ayrton Senna's last race back in 94. At first, I thought he'd be fine, since crashes were not uncommon in F1. My dad, however, who is a doctor, figured out pretty quickly he wouldn't survive. Everyone here in Brazil were shocked and devastated. I actually never watched F1 again after that.

[@kimmiller4951]

Lil’ ol granny lady here….I’ve seen too many of these live. Sigh.

[@Mindofteagan]

I recall seeing the Alison Parker/ Adam Ward shooting live. I had sold her a watch and some jewelry 6 months prior… she was a genuinely kind and caring person, and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I couldn’t fathom who would want to hurt her… or Adam for that matter. The news station honors them both every year, as they should. Such senseless acts of violence… 😔

[@lynettebr]

He said she made some racist remarks against him

[@Mindofteagan]

@ There was no evidence that actually occurred. He had mental health issues, and when he was fired for “odd behavior” from a previous job, he claimed racial discrimination. He later went to work for WDBJ-7, and coworkers reported they didn’t feel safe working with him. They fired him in 2013 for his volatile behavior and police had to escort him from the premises. Once again, he claimed racial discrimination and filed suit with the EEOC. His complaint was dismissed as uncorroborated. He later went to work for UnitedHealth Group, where he lashed out at a female employee for no just reason. He needed mental health support and never sought it. It WAS offered through his different employers. Dude even murdered his cats and announced it in his s*icide note. The guy… was not stable.

[@lynettebr]

@@Mindofteagan im not saying she did. Im saying that's something he said was part of the reason he did it

[@Mindofteagan]

@ I totally get that. That’s why I provided his background of past claims that were never substantiated. The man needed help and never accepted the help offered. 3 people are dead because he wanted to be a “victim” rather than take accountability for his actions. I do take issue with that.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

The Uvalde School Shooting...Never tell yourself Cops aren't cowards.

[@BrowncoatGofAZ]

Not all of them.

[@jaredwonnacott9732]

Cops aren't cowards. They are human, and they have their breaking points, but most cops do risk their lives selflessly to preserve the safety of others a LOT more often than you or I likely do, so, let's be a little less quick to judge, and WAY less quick to develop prejudice, bias, and stereotypical thinking.

[@penteractgaming]

​@@BrowncoatGofAZthis has "a few bad apples" energy. If your defense is "not all cops are x" that should be a hint that you might be on the wrong side of the issue.

[@BrowncoatGofAZ]

@@penteractgaming not necessarily. He’s implying that all cops are cowards, which isn’t true either. I’m not gonna say that this could’ve gone differently, but throwing away police isn’t the answer.

[@feraltaco4783]

Some are.

[@PaulsWanderings]

Christa McAuliffe now has a statue on the NH state house grounds.

[@loraweems8712]

I'll never forget that big smokey "Y"

[@alexhaladay4345]

9/11 i was the opening manager at KB Toys. It happened before we actually opened so a bunch of us were outside smoking before we opened the gates. Someone came out and said a "plane hit the trade towers." I laughed and said, "what a moron." Because at that moment i assumed a single engine little cesna or something flew into it. The 2 things i remember watching live on tv was the 2nd plane hitting because then reality set in through the chaos that this may have been intentional. The other is seeing that 1 guy jumping out of the building live and falling to his death.

[@filthybonnet]

There were a lot of people who thought it was a single engine cesna at first as well. Especially when the reports were just of the first tower and a plane. It was just a plane hit the tower nobody mentioned it was a passenger plane.

[@shinlucario]

The scary part about the news chopper collision is that, in the original video, just as the video cuts out, you can actually hear someone on the chopper yelling as they were plummeting out of the sky.

[@valkyrie1066]

I was traumatized enough seeing war being held on live TV. There is a point of "too much" when actual tragedy happens; the news just makes it worse. "Let's get a CLOSE UP of the injuries!" No. No, no, no. It is sufficient to hear about it. Be respectful of human life. In some situations, the new was discreet. They simply issued the facts, and expressed appropriate grief.

[@BrainDamage922]

Thank you to this Canadian KZbin channel that seems to care more about 9/11 then most American channels and streaming services do. I'm a New Yorker and I have noticed that everybody that says they will never forget has either forgotten or have chosen to forget. It hurts my soul that such a tragic event affected and killed so many innocent people. Anybody that lived in New York and or still does, no matter what they say, has PTSD from that day whether they were there or at home. That day ruined my life and haunts my dreams way too often. Change my life in the worst way possible. Not only did I lose people from that day, but I went into a downward spiral of self-sabotage in my own life. I call it my decade of self-destruction. I also suffer from survivors guilt on top of PTSD, depression and anxiety. I will never ever forget! Rest in peace to all the people that we lost on or because of that day. And to the survivors and the families that lost people, you're not alone. They are still people that still care, and haunts their dreams on a pretty regular basis to this day. #neverforget

[@lisaanderson3549]

I remember it like it was yesterday and probably always will. Sorry you were so affected and wish you the best.

[@BrainDamage922]

@@lisaanderson3549 thank u so much. I appreciate it.

[@marciimeris503]

Yknow whats worse than those whove forgotten. Those on the left side of the fence who now BLAME America and say we deserved it. Disgusting

[@BrainDamage922]

@@marciimeris503 I'm not touching that 1.

[@itsa-itsagames]

What sucks about youtube is you can't actually show many of these clips which makes this video just one giant teaser

[@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm]

You used to be able to find a lot of these things on KZbin individually but most have been taken down over the years

[@Sophia26488]

Well there's so much coverage on 9/11 if you're interested.

[@glennthompson1173]

Ridiculous.

[@sharondyott6510]

You really would not want to see them live . I in my 60's have watched most of these incidents , they were so tragic you don't want them seared in to your brain forever seeing the tragedy and it's aftermath . You never will get it out of your mind . So sad ,so innocent lives cut short. Someone else 's loved ones never coming home.

[@itsa-itsagames]

@@sharondyott6510 well that's just it, you're in your 60s and seeing most of these things live was a shock Not to brag but I have seen much wilder things, some maybe I shouldn't have seen but it's more of it being the true side of the world , reminding me that not everything is a Disney movie where the good guy gets the girl and everything is right

[@jeni150023]

My sister was born on 9/11 so i was sitting in the waiting room with my grandma watching it all happen. The Tv was already on CNN to begin with so when they started covering it it was just quiet gasps all around. I saw the second plane hit multiple times because they kept replaying it, the pentagon aftermath. They kept replaying everything over and over again until the towers started to buckle then watched them fall into a pile of rubble. Once i finally went back to school i went straight to history class where we ended up just talking about it.

[@keymobay]

I was only 1 year old when 9/11 happened so I didn't really remember what happened since I was that young, but my parents told me we were just about to move to Kentucky from Colorado on that day when the news said something was happening in the World Trade Center and the pickup guys and my parent were watching what happened on that horrific, terrible day. Then when I was in middle school I actually learned about it and it was heart stopping when we all saw the documentary of it. I still couldn't believe something so heinous, so horrific, and other words that mean 'bad' or 'terrible' would happen in the early 2000.

[@rustygribbler1380]

I was 6 years old when 9/11 happened

[@lanceschmidt28]

I was watching the Challenger shuttle launch on television in my 1st year of university and wasn't quite sure what I had seen when it happened. Then the shock set in and tears leaked from my eyes. It was a different reaction during 9/11 though. I was playing an online game which had a universal chat. I read that someone had said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center and that CNN was broadcasting it. I jumped up and turned on the TV to CNN and saw smoke and flames coming out of one of the towers. At first, no one knew what was going on and it was thought that a plane accidentally hit the tower. AND THEN, a short distance away you could see another passenger plane flying towards the building. The TV cameras caught the second hit live, and in complete shock, I watched it. There were no tears this time until hours and hours later as the shock was so severe. I was glued to the television that day, watched the towers fall, the enormous dust clouds, the people dying. It was awful and i will never forget it.

[@Larry_Ibarra]

I remember seeing Columbine, September 11th, and the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami on live TV.

[@vlnavi]

I saw the Tohoku Quake live, too. I had gone to Japan the year before with a university club and, thus knew people living there. My mom was up with me flipping channels as I was finishing up some art homework when we saw the tsunami come in. I thought it was archived footage until my mom pointed out the 'LIVE' banner up in the corner. Needless to say, I didn't get back to my homework for awhile afterwards. My friends were safe and now I live in an area that had been affected by it. Have felt some of the biggest aftershocks from it, too.

[@Larry_Ibarra]

@@RenzunShark What do you mean "so what?" At the end of the video, they asked anyone in the comments if they witnessed these events on TV.

[@Garbageman0]

What about Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami

[@raymondhopwood9393]

Honorable Mention the Columbia disaster, in which it disintegrated over Texas upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

[@jena.alexia]

So sad. 😢

[@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm]

Yes. People always talk about the Challenger but forget about Columbia

[@MSjackiesaunders]

I saw the Columbia debris live as it shot across Texas.

[@MSjackiesaunders]

​@@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm and Apollo 1...

[@reginastoltz3629]

I was in a laundromat getting my clothes out of the dryers, and had my Walkman on my head. CBS news came on and announced Columbia exploded. My first thought was " not again". I just stood there for a couple of minutes just in shock.

[@ChristopherDoerfler]

Was in Highschool watching the space shuttle launch. Class ended and was told to go home. Never seen or heard 3,5000 teenagers so respectfully go silent and go home. NEVER WILL FORGET THAT DAY.

[@honestlycastle]

I was 13 when 9/11 happened and I remember so clearly watching the news after coming home from school (I'm French so it was the afternoon here). I had been to NYC just 2 months prior to the attacks and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I also remember being shocked on November 13, 2015. Like a lot of people, I was watching the France-Germany football game when the first detonations were heard in the stadium. When the news broke that multiple places in Paris had been targeted and that there was a hostage situation at the Bataclan, I felt that same disbelief and horror.

[@andrewbatts7678]

What they didnt mention was the Louisiana government officials had been pocketing levy maintenance money from the federal government for decades. Not to mention the state totally bungled the response and tried to pin the blame on FEMA. A real bunch of class acts, thanks Louisiana state government

[@MoogieB]

I’m from S. Louisiana & read a couple of books about Katrina. Mayor Nagin of New Orleans was horrible. Federal response was slow. So many people died & suffered because of delayed action. The whole Superdome situation was horrendous. Unfortunately it was typical Louisiana politics.

[@andrewbatts7678]

@@MoogieB federal response had to be arranged in advanced but never was, FEMA has never intended to be a first line, that is the state government's job

[@kimberlybellard6972]

@@MoogieBmy dad was a Louisiana National Guardsman who was helping out in New Orleans after Katrina. He said the Superdome was very chaotic & the New Orleans Saints were there but they were not very nice to either the civilians who were misplaced from their homes & had to stay there or the National Guardsmen who were there as well

[@TimeLady8]

I was sure Florida Flight 90 would be on this list. January 13, 1982 - the plane crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. shortly after takeoff. I remember coming home from work and my sister was watching it live.

[@henryjrboybandola3475]

Not including tiananmen square massacre in 1989????

[@TheTransformationBodySwap01]

I was in elementary school when the high school massacre happened and I was working at Winn Dixie when the twin towers were attacked.

[@tomogden2432]

R. Budd Dwyer died as a direct result of someone else's lies. After the took his own life, the man whose testimony got him convicted recanted his story and admitted he had lied on the stand as part of his own plea bargain, saying, "He's dead because of me. To the day I die, I’ll regret that I did it."

[@itsnotthesamething]

I watched Dale Earnhardt's crash on live TV. Looked like a typical Nascar crash to me. I went about my business afterward, and it was hours later before I learned he had passed. I don't even remember who won that day. I wasn't an Earnhardt fan, but it was devastating knowing I watched him die, and didn't give it a second thought.

[@memeous_vids4061]

Thats tragic

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

The Fukushima Nuclear Plant Meltdown. I still remember how they were pouring in Gallons of seawater to keep the other reactors from Melting down.

[@HarryPotter87]

I remember that! I was scared that it was gonna become another Chernobyl

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

@@HarryPotter87 I had the exact same thought. Especially when The US Navy told everyone to evacuate the area around the plant.

[@jacobsirois7585]

4 reactors did melt down. And blew up. By far the worst nuclear Incident the world has experienced.

[@ipfreely679]

​@@jacobsirois7585wrong, cherynobl was far worse, it released over 200 times the amount of radiation, there was an in core explosion unlike fukushima which were external to the core, 28 people died within 4 months of cherynobl and none died at fukushima, you really shouldn't make comments like that when you clearly don't know the facts

[@gramps2matt]

I'd like to make a second comment regarding the hostage crisis during the Munich Olympics. The network covering the games was ABC. Jim McCay was the sole anchor for all of the coverage ferreting various reporters around the city up to and including at the airport where it was assumed the hostages would be released. Tragedy unfolded there as terrorists and police exchanged gunfire. I'll never forget time and stressed facial expression as he had to announce the death of police, terrorists and all of the hostages with these fateful, crushing words........."They are all gone."

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

What's really painful is that it didn't have to end that way. The rescue attempt failed because they broadcasted the plans on TV and never considered that the terrorists would be watching. Had they kept the plan secret, those hostages might still be alive. Likewise, had that Filipino bus-jacker's big oafish idiot brother not waddled out there and blabbed all over the place, the hostages would likely be alive. Then there's the Feds at WACO being too impatient, not listening to experts and going all gung-ho with the tanks to tear-gas everyone out. Nice job, breaking it, dummies.

[@haj3525]

I saw so many of these being an 80s child. Seeing a lot the tragedy I witnessed as child lumped together in one spot was upsetting. I had no idea how much I was subjected to during my formative years.

[@RiftRavingRogue]

People were more angrier at the stations rather than the health"care" system the caused the man to do what he did on live tv. Way to lose the plot society.

[@purselmer5931]

The health care system didn't "cause him to do what he did." Mental illness did.

[@RiftRavingRogue]

@@purselmer5931 and lack of mental HEALTH CARE is what led to this.... derp a derp One would think that it wasn't necessary to add the "mental" part of "health care" because the term "health care" is all inclusive, but here we are.

[@purselmer5931]

@@RiftRavingRogue There is absolutely no way to know if proper mental health care would have stopped this from happening. There are PLENTY of people who got proper mental health care who then off themselves anyway. Also, who's to say that he wasn't getting proper mental health care? And that is preposterous about "health care" being all-inclusive. Even health insurance distinguishes between the two and when talking about pro-choice issues, it's considered a "WOMEN'S" health care issue. And prostate cancer is a "MEN'S" health care issue. Nothing wrong w/adding an adjective to be more descriptive.

[@ernie734]

Depression is bs just another way dr get money out of you

[@RiftRavingRogue]

@@ernie734 and you have a medical degree ? No ? ...

[@rethablair6902]

It's hard to believe that tsunami wiped out so many people who many were never recovered 😢

[@shainahullihen1159]

I remember watching a memory video of little kids and one child was crushed in the tsunami or he drowned, I can't remember. Another child was in a twin tower when they got hit and she too died.

[@feraltaco4783]

The LA riots seemed like they went on so much longer. Praise the Roof Koreans. MVPs.

[@sarathorsten6936]

I watched a few of these live when I was growing up, but the one that sticks out the most, of course, is 9/11. I woke up that morning and the Tv was on. The Tv was NEVER on in the morning during the week because that was the time for getting ready to go to school. Despite all four family members being distracted by the news, we still all somehow got out of the house on time. I remember throughout the entire day, people would constantly be looking up at the sky between passing periods...and we were on the opposite side of the country.

[@wadewilson8011]

4th grade during the Challenger explosion. Saw most of these shown here too. They forgot Ruby Ridge, The North Hollywood shootout, The 1997 Jarrell, Texas F5 Deadman Walking tornado, The Boston Marathon bombing, The OJ Simpson Police chase & Trial, the fall of the Berlin Wall. Columbia shuttle breaking up in the atmosphere, and so many more.

[@NBK1122]

I still remember my reaction to the Challenger disaster. I had just returned from lunch when someone told me, "The space shuttle blew up." In my stupidity, I replied, "No, space shuttles don't blow up." Then I saw the replay on TV. I was at work at Naval Base Norfolk when we heard about the first plane that hit the World Trade Center. We were glued to the TV set until Tower One collapsed. My dad saw the tragedy from his window in Brooklyn. My sister was one of the evacuees from the surrounding buildings. A member of my high school graduation class died.

[@charliechristie2949]

Born in N.Y.C. in 1953, I was an adult when these things happened. Watched all from this video that occurred on U.S. soil, most on live T.V. Wow ! From this moment on I hope all on T.V. will be good, happy things !

[@spriken]

I'm a little surprised the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in 1995 didn't get at least a mention.

[@luckylucario]

On 9/11 I was in middle school. I was in homeroom (the mini class before classes actually started.) My class joined another homeroom in watching it live. Through the whole day, the news was on tvs in the front corner of the room. My history teacher didn't even try to do anything else. He said"your watching history right now" That week following at least one of my teachers had it on a mini tv. It took a few days to get back to normal classes.

[@morganjanelle4282]

6:22 (Daniel V. Jones) He set his truck on fire with his dog in it. 🤬💔😭 Her name was Gladdis, a 7 year old Labrador-Whippet mix.

[@lauraduplooy]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for not airing a replay of the actual footage!!

[@tylergoodman3560]

Sad list. 😢🎉

[@StanHalen1936]

Bot

[@brandishwar]

9/11... I still remember that morning. The Wayback Machine has all the live news broadcasts archived from that morning. We were getting ready to leave the house as my brother, mother, and I were all taking classes at the community college. Mom was brushing her teeth when the news cut in with word that there was a fire in the North tower. And I still remember the panic I felt watching the second plane - later identified as United Flight 175 - fly into the South tower. And I remember the widespread coverage of Katrina as well, including pictures and video showing bodies floating in the floodwaters...

[@RetroJ77]

I was working for FedEx Express when 9/11 happened. We weren't able to accept any packages to be shipped since the FAA canceled all flights.

[@LyndaHarris-cj1vm]

That was a weird time, the sky was so quiet

[@jennifer_m.8613]

9/11, I was in 6th grade. My neighbor's brother was a fireman at the towers, no ond heard from him for days - thankfully, he was ok. Eventually retired and became a nurse. Now a proud grandpap My aunt and her sister were flying out to Nevada to visit their brother. My cousin will always be grateful that their plane was grounded

[@tobydanger86]

I still remember 9/11. I was a freshman in high school. They sent us home during my computer science class.

[@patrickevans9604]

1st thing: The crash that killed Dale Earnhardt was not a head on crash. His car made contact with the one next to him and just the right front hit the wall, and what killed him was the whiplash from being jerked so hard to the right on impact. 2nd thing: The ATF did not show up to Waco wirh an arrest warrant. It was a search warrant to look for evidence of fully automatic weapons and possible child abuse. While koresh was outside talking to them someone started shooting and everything went wrong. ATF claimed the branch davidians fired first, while the branch davidians claim ATF started shooting their dogs and they fired back

[@Onora619]

I remember the brief few seconds when I saw the Waco footage live as a kid. My mom saw I was watching and changed the channel real quick.

[@digapony5822]

At 11 I was watching Tommy Cooper with my parents. We too thought it was all part of his act until they cut quickly to the commercials. 9/11 I was watching a film with my dad whilst feeding my 3 month old son when it was abruptly taken off air and replaced with live footage from New York. I’ll never forget it. 😢

[@ashleybrown4754]

I remember watching the guy on the freeway when I was a teenager when it was happening. Not something you can ever unsee.

[@Loki087]

As a kid, I remember watching Dennis Rodman drive off a cliff while attached to a bunjee cord. He came out of the car as planned, and was hollering about how awesome it was, but when he swung back to the cliffside he hit his head on a rock and just went limp. Was crazy to watch.

[@COMPFUNK2]

18:28 - Hey, WatchMojo, no one “enjoyed“ this video.

[@SpindlyJohnny]

I bet there was 1 sicko who did. 🤢 There's always 1...

[@JynSherlock]

is just a line they used in every video, is part of the script

[@susanscott8653]

I did think it was an odd thing for them to say, and yes, I know it's scripted but still....🤔

[@chandorasworld]

3:51 I saw this crash happen live at my nana's house in Phoenix! It was crazy, everyone in the news room was crying. It was so awful.

[@saiyanbob666]

and we still havn't learned since columbine

[@philiprice7875]

we had a school mass shooting once in a place called Dunblane about 30 years ago the image i took away from that was a group of mothers standing outside the school screaming for their babies (jesus the kids was 5/6yo). after that it came a lot harder to own a gun in the UK as i said we had a mass school shooting ONCE.

[@saiyanbob666]

@@philiprice7875 too many gun freaks here

[@LD13-d5j]

​@@saiyanbob666never once in the history of the world did a gun commit a crime only criminals commit evil deeds

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

We have. The problem is that very wingnutty lawmakers and those who vote for them haven't because they fetishize assault rifles.

[@Gvsvillages]

Sunday morning. Thanks for the memories. 🙄😢

[@JohnSipe-jt7bm]

The Challenger disaster was the first event I heard on my car radio. 17:35

[@SteveWalden73]

You failed to mention that Budd Dwyer was innocent of those charges. He was framed by a witness whose testimony later proved false.

[@kitfisto1827]

not true

[@caseymacmacl7463]

I was 17 when the Challenger exploded and saw it happen on TV with the rest of my high school.

[@heatherpayne1995]

On 9/11 early in the day we heard from my husband's sister that she was alright (she worked in downtown Manhattan) then we heard nothing for two more days because the phones weren't working. She was ok. She lived in midtown and she hosted several of her coworkers at her apartment because they couldn't get home off the island.

[@rafaelperez1581]

7:06 forgot his dog was in the truck too

[@chriscarter1177]

I was thinking that as well. When he set the truck a lite he killed the dog . That pissed me off to no end.

[@thejtd21]

Yeah I haven't forgotten that part and thought he was a pos for doing that to his poor dog

[@bloodwolfgaming9269]

Yeah, he lit his truck on fire and climbed into it, planning on burning himself alive. But afterward, he chickened out and got out of the truck and shot himself in the end. But yeah, his dog was in the truck when he did that.

[@ProfessorRetro1976]

I remember being 10 yrs old watching the challenger but the one that sticks in my mind the most is 9/11. I was working the driver thru at McDonald's when one person asked if I heard what happen, thinking it was small talk I blew it off, until my manager brought out a radio and it was all over the news. Then at home I watched as the plane hit the one tower and it collapsed. in 2015 I went to new York and saw the 9/11 memorial. It reminded me of that day.

[@nunya2514]

I swear, the phrase thoughts and prayers, makes me physically ill. Especially with the thoughts most people have in their heads, and the insane religions and gods to whom they pray.

[@AtheistOrphan]

I agree.

[@stephenkirton9921]

There's only one insane religion the others are mainly harmless well meaning fools!

[@michellemaria1360]

I was in a patient's room after drawing some blood, and stayed to watch Explorer launch and make history, with her. When it exploded we looked at each other in confused horror and when the news stated what we saw was what we saw, we started crying. That day was hard to finish. 9/11 I was walking thru the living room of an Assisted Living I was director of, and stopped to speak with a resident, standing in front of a 72" TV to it's left, standing watching the plane hit the 1st tower, literally in front of my eyes. i said what the hell are we looking at?? When shortly after number 2 hit and the news anchor said, "We apparently are under siege. Please stay in place and do not leave your homes unless for an emergency". Horror, Fear, Anxiety, Confusion all at once , for the rest of the day. That was a very long day at work.

[@17an28]

Ah yes, the manila hostage massacre. I remember where I was when that happened. It was so late at night that I remember the channel I was watching had to switch from the news to late night programming. I was a kid at the time and couldn't really process what was going on, but now I realized that it was a total sham from everyone, especially the media.

[@EdsBrain]

I was in college when it happened, it was the talk of campus. Then it turns out a lot of flaws where made that it turn into case study of what not to do in a hostage crisis. Naturally the blame game started: with the media for the intense coverage and the police for the botched attempt when no one realized the fugitive can see the entire thing because there was a tv inside the bus and then the mayor to the government This was the first black mark against the former president Aquino for so many botched events that happened in his presidency.

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

@@EdsBrain Then there was that brother. Nice job breaking it, brother of hostage-taker. Much had a similar blunder. The rescue failed because the perps saw it coming... because the plan was stupidly broadcasted on TV and the perps were watching it in the hotel room. I guess the West German media felt that the terrorists were these primitives who lived in caves and didn't know what TV was, or something. Then there's the Waco and Ruby Ridge messes. Going in guns a-blazzin' or tanks a-tear-gassing is not how you deal with those groups. At least the Govt. finally learned a bit and handled the Malheur Wildlife Refuge siege by Ammon Bundy and his band of idiots the right way... just wait it out and don't dignify them with much attention.

[@ShadowGirl1126]

My son was born on the day that the two journalists were killed on TV by an ex employee. While I was on the hospital bed, my boyfriend turned on the TV for something to watch and this news story came up. I'll always remember that event along with giving birth to my son

[@spiritthingw]

The real tragedy around hurricane Katrina was the lack of help from the government and the things that happened in the dome. The lack of help was brushed under the rug and people especially the united states government made thing worse and should never be forgotten and the shame the government deserves, even now. That made thing even worse. You should have had that on here!

[@kimberlybellard6972]

My dad was one of the Louisiana National Guardsmen who went to help in New Orleans. He said that the New Orleans Saints were very rude to some of the other guardsmen who were stationed at the Superdome & some of the residents who were staying at the Superdome after they were rescued from their homes

[@ItsJustLisa]

I saw Waco, 9/11, and the Boxing Day tsunami as they happened. On 9/11, my classroom was the place that teachers and other staff could come and find out what was happening. Since I worked with the gifted/talented students, my groups weren’t yet set, so my room was “safe” for the adults to come and talk without scaring the kids. The Boxing Day tsunami was hard because my son’s daycare teacher and her husband were from Sri Lanka. The people on the coast there were hit very hard. Her husband was well known here in the Sri Lankan and Indian community, and he got to work fundraising to help the affected people in those countries. They raised well over $100,000 (possibly more) to help rebuild villages and help fishermen buy new boats and equipment. He was later recognized for his efforts.

[@MileyonDisney]

NASCAR ended with Dale Earnhardt.

[@valkyrie1066]

R. Bud Dwyer... wasn't present, BUT my boyfriend was one of his secretaries. (in the office, not in the room) He was devastated, and stated Bud was a great man to work with. It as a horrible trainwreck. He was particularly upset as they kept airing the footage. Everybody else watched and said..."wow. weird huh?" They didn't show Steve Irwin's final footage, and that was A blessing. Just...be sensitive? we do not really need to see EVERYTHING. I'm fascinated by documentaries of natural weather conditions, in general I do not want to see bodies. we know they are there. Don't FOCUS on them.

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

I saw the video of Dwyer's suicide, once. Ugh! And the camera person just stupidly ZOOMS in on his corpse's face as he slumped down, with that bug-eyed expression and bloody ooze coming out of his nose! NOBODY WANTS TO SEE THAT!

[@northnick3317]

Not so fun fact: The person who testified against Dwyer said he lied about him being guilty (after Dwyer died, of course)

[@marciimeris503]

Last turn, last lap, biggest race in nascar, tailing his son and his protege, after narrowly (literally inches) dodging a crash that wouldve have wrecked him out in a safer manner, and having made a comment earlier that race saying "if they dont fix these cars someones gonna die" The amount of perfect events and irony that went into earnhardts is wild.

[@laurenregnier3710]

There was another earthquake in Japan at the beginning of this year . 😢

[@emiliobello2538]

The New Year Earthquake

[@blonddoctor]

9/11 I was at college and we all rushed to student center when a student ran into class yelling, "We're under attack". It was so horrible for days it felt like you couldn't breathe.

[@Vaze23]

9/11 I saw when the school let us an hour early.