# comics

A shopkeeper is murdered by a masked gunman in Newtown Butler, Northern Ireland - BBC News on 2 - 7/6/1980. https://t.co/oHtXo0SQtH

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2020-05-23

Live coverage of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, ABC news (anchored by Frank Reynolds), 30th March 1981 - then the Israeli bombing of a French built nuclear facility south of Baghdad on 5th June 1981

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2020-05-21

The Shining released in the UK on 17th November 1980 -- BBC 2 News on 2 report on "Afghan guerillas" as they were then termed ("our allies against communism") 7th June 1980 -- Tiswas title sequence ITV 24th October 1981 https://t.co/KKzj0Er0pg

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2020-05-20

ITV report on the Dustman's dispute, Feb 1979, contrasted with Debbie Harry on Top of the Pops 15th Feb 1979. Can you imagine how impossibly glamourous Debbie Harry was smack bang in the middle of The Winter of Discontent?

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2020-05-19