What was the first major news story you remember watching unfold as a child?

I was 3 when my school teacher mom attended a big protest, or, as my dad called it "a big picket" (as in a picket line for labor strikes) although it had nothing to do with teachers being on strike for better pay. He was just trying to make it easier for me to understand. Watched a few minutes of it live on tv with him and I quickly lost interest. Turned out to be the 4/24/71 Anti-Vietnam War / Peace March in Washington DC. This march lead to the May Day riots a week later which still hold the record for the largest mass arrest in US history. Mom had just flown over there for the April march though, along with some other anti-war colleagues. When I was a bit older I tried to get her to describe what it was like. Unfortunately the only story i got out of her was of her and her friends sitting next to hippies on the steps of the Lincoln memorial. The hippies were sharing a "cigarette" with each other and when it was offered to her she declined. I wish I had pressed her for more info! But she was not very sentimental about these things.