People Recall 25 Of The Most Shocking Things They Saw On Live TV
Somethings get indelibly recorded in our minds to the point where we cannot forget about them even if we wanted to. These core memories can be related to a personal experience or even something we saw happening to someone else at the time that shocked our minds so much so that it became unforgettable.
Today, we explore a series of events people witnessed on Live TV that traumatise them to this day. When someone online asked , “What is the most shocking thing that you have seen happen on live TV?”, p eople revealed the harrowing moments they did not expect to see broadcast so openly, that it still haunts them to this day.
#1
Gary Plauché kling Jeffrey Doucet in the Baton Rouge airport. Doucet was a child mester who had kidnapped and r***d Plauché’s son.
#2
A man walked up to his wife at a grave site (of their daughter) and shot her in the back of the head while she was slumped over the headstone, grieving. It was live and they didn’t cut away in time. I will never forget it. Used to have nightmares about it.
Additional info: the gravity site was the daughter who had committed s*****e, the dad blamed the mom. Tragic.
#3
I’ll add a shocking thing that was good. Watching the Berlin Wall come down. Extraordinary that it came down and we were watching it live. It seemed profound that with cameras and electronics you could watch history being made as it happened.
#4
An attack on the US Capitol building, by American citizens.
fartharder:
Jan 6. I had CSPAN on because I was expecting nonsense on the floor. I sure got more than I bargained for.
#5
British comedian Tommy Cooper collapsing and dying on stage during a live broadcast.
The audience (and probably most of us at home) thought it was part of the act until they cut to a commercial.
#6
Watching 9/11 unfold live was unreal. Burned into my memory forever.
CBus-Eagle:
9/11 – watching thousands of people die on TV was so difficult to process emotionally. I felt like I was walking around in a semi-catatonic state for about a month trying to get my brain to fully process what those people went through. Whether on a plane or in one of the buildings. And those firefighters and police that rushed into the buildings….still gives me goosebumps thinking about it.
#7
Trump bragging on live TV that he had the tallest building in New York right after the twin towers fell (like within an hour or two). I was blown away someone could be that twisted.
#8
2011 Fukushima earthquake.
Me, my ex, and my mom were watching the 3am news on TV and they went live to the earthquake.
We watched as the tsunami rolled ashore, and it was so traumatizing watching the aerial of the wave coming in and people driving down the highway or walking not knowing how much danger was approaching.
We saw so many people die and get swept away. People trying to warn others, etc.
I never saw that footage/view after the original Livestream.
#9
The Challenger Explosion.
Fishmike52:
7th grade for me. We all gathered in the library to watch. They just sent us back to class. Nobody talked to us about it. Just remember kids you can be anything you want when you grow up! You can even go to space! Just another reason genx are the way we are.
#10
Recently, a grown man standing on the stage at a major political event doing a salute made famous by the Na**is and not getting any real blowback for it.
#11
The tsunami that hit December 26, 2004, the unbridled power and destruction brought tears to my eyes, watching the people walking on the sea floor amazed, ignorant of the destruction boiling over the horizon was so terrifying.
#12
OJ’s low speed chase.
ClusterfkyShshow:
It was almost surreal – I remember thinking “Well, now we know he did it, else he wouldn’t be running.” We didn’t watch the trial in school, but they called all the juniors and seniors into the auditorium to watch the verdict when it came down a year and a half later. That was pretty surreal, too.
#13
The Bay Area earthquake footage of folks driving as bridges buckled and collapsed stayed with me a long long time. They replayed those folks driving into their death over and over. That was the worst.
#14
The first thing I remember was the OKC b**bing. Seeing the aftermath and staying up to watch the search and rescue crews look for bodies.
#15
Tony Hawk landing the 900.
Dukes_Up:
I think this is the greatest example of perseverance ever caught on camera.
norm_190:
I was a kid and just finished a little league game and we all went out to eat as a team after the game. The restaurant had this on TV and we all saw it and went crazy. One of my core memories.
#16
The Grenfell tower fire.
#17
I saw Oswald kled on live TV. I was eight. I saw and heard the President of the United States say FK on live TV this morning. I will be 70 in two weeks. So, in between, not so much.
Unhappy_Gate9739:
I saw it too at age 9. I was eating breakfast and I remember my father crying out, “Oh my God, he shot him!”
#18
For my parents it was the en of the Ceaușescus… not shocking for them because they hated the dictatorship but if you think about it today it’s kinda shocking to broadcast a public en during christmas time xD.
#19
A two year live streamed g**ocide in the Gaza Strip.
#20
I was watching the news and they were filming the start of the Rodney King riot in LA. All of a sudden they panned to an area where we see Reginald Denny being pulled from his truck and severely beaten–shocking in and of itself, yet the general idea that someone is filming someone getting beaten and NO ONE is helping was mind boggling at that time. Now stuff like that is all over the internet, but not so in 1992. It really freaked me out at the time.
#21
The president of the United States just said “f*ck” on national TV a few minutes ago. Does that count?
#22
Remember they showed the Saddam Hussein hanging really vividly as a kid.
#23
When Danish footballer Christian Eriksen collapsed during a match, I was sitting eating my dinner and I looked up to see him on his back being given CPR by one of the physios. I genuinely thought I’d just seen someone die, but thankfully he made a full recovery and even continued his playing career. I didn’t finish my dinner though.
#24
The Hillsborough disaster.
#25
The pizza driver with the bomb around his neck. Brian Wells.
Shanilou Perera
Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.
