What's the first news story that you remember affecting you?

Being one of the older members in Q/A, the news that affected me most was when George Vl died in 1952, I heard it on the radio before TVs became popular.

I was 10 years old and in the Wolf Cubs, I remember the difficulty I had remembering not to sing God save the King.

I can remember many news stories that made me sympathize the situation but the one story that really affected and changed me was 9/11. I was in 5th grade and my teacher turned on the T.V., showing us what had happened. This was something that really affected me for a long time and it still does. It was the reality that hit me. I was 9 years old and thinking who would do this? This changed me in a way that made me look at the world through a different lens. I have to say because of that event I really want to get into politics and journalism. News stories come and go but this particular one has stayed with me.

I remember President Kennedy's assination That was a defining moment. I was 7 years old, and I felt incredibly sad. It seemed all the adults around me were so distraught, that I was too. The next thing was probably the landing on the moon. Seeing the Viet Nam war and all those coffins coming back was real startling too. Of course, this is not allowed any more. The media is owned by corporations now.

All news story's that have involved dying, injured, etc affect me- I am really empathetic and sometimes find tears rolling down my face- sometimes in empathy for those hurt and sometimes in temper at the way our communities allow paedophiles etc to walk amongst us.

My first real memory of a news story devastating me was about 20yrs ago when a little girl was abused and then tipped upside down in a barrel of oil in which she clearly met her death.

This story stays with me because i have never heard of the perpetrator being caught.

This story was in the town of Mansfield UK.

I sincerely hope that the silence is because the family found the person first!

The Murrah Building bombing in OKC. I was volunteering at a school. The school's cook had worked at the daycare in the Murrah Building until about 3 weeks earlier. She knew all the kids and teachers that got killed.

The Oklahoma City Bombing, I was in 4th grade and I live in Norman about 25 minutes away. It was a huge deal as there were kids in my class and school that lost family in it. That's when I realized that evil really did exist.

I was a little kid and there had been a train wreck in the snow. some people were going around taking money and jewelry from the corpses and I remember feeling sick to my stomach and thinking how could anyone do that.

Great question!

i was 12 yrs old when we had the news of aberfan at school i couldnt get over it i have read about those kids and families since and i was right to be heartbroken, i get affected so badly by the news now so much so that i avoid it if possible

For me it was Maria cowell she was beaten to death by her stepfather in the early 1970s and he only got four years can you believe that? and the moors murders Myra Hindley and Ian brady made my blood chill every time I saw their faces in the papers.

The first moon landing, I remember watching with my entire family on the black & white tv my parents had