In 1981, I learned that President Reagan had been shot when the soap opera I was watching on television was interrupted by an "ABC News Special Report".
In 1986, I heard about the Challenger explosion from a co-worker in the parking lot at San Francisco airport.
In 1997, I found out about the death of Princess Diana when a friend called me very early that Sunday morning.
This evening I'm struck by the fact that although the death of Michael Jackson and the death of Walter Cronkite have almost nothing in common, in my mind the two events are connected by the way I learned they had happened: I found about both events on Twitter.
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