Thread: Where were you when the eagle landed?

I was watching it on my grandma's Black & White 19" RCA TV.

I was humping the boonies in RVN. Two weeks later I was lifted out back to the world.

In Mrs. Rice's 5th grade class.

Our school ran late that year, because the teachers had gone on strike earlier in the year, and the school year was extended all the way into summer.

But this week, in 1969, the audio-visual assistant wheeled a television set into the 5th grade classroom, so that we could watch on television, the landing of man on the moon.

We were enthralled, as it was the first time ever that they actually ALLOWED a television set into the classroom.

And then we got to watch our Astronauts make history.

funny, I remember seeing it on TV, but don't recall the details at all. Must have been due to transitioning from 6th grade (grade school) to jr. high (jr-sr. high school) in a different school district, only knew 3 other kids going to the new high school from my class, all other 6graders from my class went to different jr./sr. high school other direction entirely that next year.

My panic button went off all summer in summer band class at the new school. New unwanted nickname promptly awarded by band teacher, all new kids to hang with who already knew each other their entire lives...., me the new kid with new nickname. Who had time to really focus on a black and white clip of man in the moon? Bigger things to think about. Like learning to tell time from big hand little hand finally-so I could change classrooms hourly for first time ever, learning how to use a combination lock for a locker for first time ever.....eek! Kinda like learning how to ride a bike (which I learned a bit earlier at least), lots of trepidation and mishaps that summer/fall moving into more grownup world.

I remember watching on a black and white TV.

Walter Cronkite reporting. Unforgettable.

I was nine and was watching at my grandparent's house

Getting ready for High school..I remember watching it in B/W..

I'm not sure. Based on the date and day of the week (Sunday) I may have been at work at a gas station with no TV. I was between my Junior and Senior year in high school. Do not believe I saw it live.

Strangely I do remember exactly where I was Dec 24th, 1968 during Apollo 8.

I was a new graduate of kindergarten, living on Long Island. I don't recall if I saw the actual landing, but I assume it was on our only TV. I really don't remember.

Getting ready for my senior year in high school. I was at my grandparents house with all my cousins.

Finished my hitch in the USAF and was working at a Helocopter engine repair facility, AVCO Lycoming. I was a single man so I watched the whole thing on TV at my Mothers house!