My aunt lived on the same street as the Huberty family. The wife was a nice lady the times I recall seeing her in her front yard. One of the first memories I have is of the Apollo 17 launch. We watched this at the grandparent's house as they were the ones with the color TV and we all knew this was the last landing. The next big news memory I have is "I don't like Mondays". This took place not 5 miles from where I was in school at the time. I did not realize this was the first "modern" school shooting.
This weekend I had to explain to some kids that there was a time when a color TV was rare, small and you have a lot of status if you owned one. All three channels in living color! My dad's parents were born in the 1800's. There are times that I wonder, on a board like this, if I am the only one who can make that claim.
I remember this one, in Canada in 1975. I was in BC when it happened. Several years later I was living in Ontario. One of my friends told me about her traumatizing experience. She had been shot in the foot during that particular rampage when she was 15.