What was one of the most shocking headliners when you were a teenager?

Question

Mine was the Manson killings

Newspaper headlines

That's interesting Iritadragon

Answer 1

Patty Hearst, and the Symbaniz (sic) Liberation Army. Her kidnapping and the bank robbery and all that. This is because I was living in SF at the time and it was big news as her father owned the newspaper.
In fact when they did find her, I was living about a mile away from where she was found. Eerie

Answer 2

The war in Vietnam, Watergate, Nixon impeached, gas shortages and drought.
Boy, do I feel like a young one now! I do remember hearing about the Manson killings. My personal headline was ..... I'm going to Germany (east and west) for a 3 week vacation with my family.

Answer 3

We heard it over the car radio first, when JFK was shot. And
we read it in the paper when he was declared dead the next
day. That was the biggest shock of all time for most of us
citizens I think. Because JFK was one of the most well loved
presidents I remember. Of course later rumors were exposed
and investigated on his womanizing. But it was still a shocker.
And later when Marilyn, whom he had an affair with, was
found dead, people suspected there was some tie in to the
Kennedy men. Her death was also a shock, given her age and the new upswing in her career. She had a reputation as always showing up late on the set, or not at all. And sadly, the
only thing she was on time for, was her own funeral.

Answer 4

hands down Steven Truscott, I can remember how shocked I was and how convinced I was this boy was innocent, and how sick to think they were going to lock him away for something he didnt do. I never believed he did it and for years I have thought about him - all through my life - now he is out, vindicated and lost most of his life, poor poor boy

Assasination of JFK, Kent State and the headlines during the Civil Rights Movement, The October Crisis in Quebec, the assassination of Pierre Laporte and invoking the War Measures Act

oops you said one - sorry got carried away

Answer 5

May 4th Kent State University- National Guards killed 4 students

Answer 6

John F. Kennedy Assassinated

Richard Speck Arrested
"Born To Raise Hell"
tattooed on his arm.

Both were very sad.
Juju

Answer 7

Gee Cloz you're YOUNG! All she said and yours too daisy mae.

Plus up here in Canada there was the Steven Truscott case. A 14 year old boy sentenced to be hanged for murder, later commuted to life imprisonment. All the evidence pointed elsewhere. It was just resolved a couple of months ago, as a matter of fact when his original conviction was declared "a miscarriage of justice".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Truscott

(Of course, I wasn't a teen then either, but it really affected me!)

Answer 8

I didn't know much about national news at that time but I do remember some local news that went on for weeks.

Horror upon horror one of my classmates got MARRIED and the school board wanted to keep her from attending school. She was not pregnant and eventually they let her remain in school. (Contrast that with today!)

Later that year after we graduated one fellow classmate married a Japanese person. That also was on the news for weeks! I guess the powers that be wanted to make it illegal or something. (Thank goodness times have changed.)

Answer 9

JFK assasination, Robbert Kennedy and Marylin Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan,, all assasinations.

Answer 10

Helter Skelter yes that was some scarey stuff.That was a book about the manson killings.