[Reporter]: How can measure like an amazing moment in history?
[Narrator]: Welcome to WatchMojo.com and today we countdown our top 10 crazy pick-up events captured on live TV.
Ten-hour confrontation between former police officer Rolando Mendoza and Philippine officials
Not only witnessed by millions in real time on television but also on the Internet.
Angry fired from his job that kidnapped Mendoza tour bus in Manila.
After watching his brother’s arrest via the TV bus, Mendoza continued shooting the hostages inside the bus.
And eventually exchanged fire with the police and shot dead.
[Announcer]: It’s one of the most exciting prospects in this continent, no continent!
[Narrator]: This tremor hit San Francisco Bay for 10 to 15 seconds and was captured live on television due to the ongoing World Championship.
[ANNOUNCER]: So take Oakland A … take …
Crewe: … our land …
[Narrator]: The MLB in the Auckland Sports and San Francisco Giants warm up for his third match when the earthquake struck
The announcers were seeking interpretation.
[Announcer]: Well, people, this is the greatest open in television history, without exception.
[Narrator]: measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, the Loma Prieta earthquake caused more than 60 deaths and thousands injured.
Following the assassination of John Kennedy ushered in the era of television news by giving people instant access to unfolding developments through animation.
But the actual assassination has not been captured or broadcast in real time.
However, he was shooting his alleged killer, Lee Harvey Oswald.
While covering Oswald’s move to jail, the network camera shocked millions of television by giving them a view of deadly shots,
Delivered by Dallas nightclub owner, Jack Ruby.
[Reporter]: He has been shot. Lee Oswald has been shot.
[Narrator]: It took nearly 30 years for the partition barrier of West Berlin from East Berlin to the end is being demolished.
In the wake of protests and growing crowds of East German refugees on their way to the West,
Authorities were forced to open gates.
[Reporter]: The East German government said tonight they were going to make more holes in the wall,
At least a dozen more. Place the bulldozers right through the wall.
[Narrator]: Over the next few weeks, all over the world watched television audience as the Germans came together to demolish the wall,
And communism in Germany as well.
[Eyewitness]: If someone slept for eight weeks, I told him what happened here, he thought you crazy.
[Reporter]: Well, you see, parts of the building collapsed, the fire really swept that the vast majority of this compound …
[Narrator]: After the Office of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in a failed attempt to search
Farm of the Christian sect of the Dawoodi branch of illegal weapons, the raid escalated into a deadly exchange of fire.
What the next TV audiences saw, was the intense and violent 51-day siege involving the FBI.
The real-time broadcast was not only notable for covering shots, tear gas, shooting,
But also partly to inspire the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings.
[Reporter]: And lifting off! Lift off the mission of the 25 Space Shuttle and clear the tower.
[Narrator]: With the teacher Christa McAuliff on board and hundreds of school children watching in real time, Challenger was launching to be the first of its kind.
Although CNN is transmitted by the only live broadcast, news of the disaster spread like wildfire through other networks.
Nesbit: Flight observers here are looking very carefully in this case. Obviously a major malfunction.
[Narrator]: Because the media focus on the element and tragic human moments the story of the big impact,
It became a hot topic for several weeks and changed future news reports.
[Reporter]: What seems to be a major disaster in the US space program,
Challenger, only seconds after leaving the launch pad, according to NASA has exploded in the air.
[Narrator]: After the strongest earthquake in the country has ever hit the area close to Tohoku,
A powerful tsunami washed over Japan and killed thousands.
Japanese television networks and CNN were there to capture this horrific work of nature.
Although the continuous footage of the destruction caused by deadly waters shook the world,
The coverage has also encouraged a massive relief response worldwide.
[Reporter]: We walk in now on the windows, behind which at this moment eight or nine people are being held in horror by living prisoners.
[Narrator]: Since the initial attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics by Black September
Signed in the early hours of the morning, the cameras were not rolling yet.
But once the morning came along, the media covered the reply just fine
That Palestinian terrorists already know when and how the German border police were preparing to attack them.
[Reporter]: It is 5 o’clock. This is the deadline. The break-in that will happen can happen at any moment.
[Narrator]: Unfortunately, the Munich operation resulted in the killing of the hostages and many others.
[McKay]: They now said that there were 11 hostages killed in their two rooms, yesterday morning.
Nine killed this night killed the airport. They all went.
[Narrator]: Also called the Southern Central Riot, this riot race was one of the biggest and most deadly civil unrest in America.
The LA population was very angry that the White Jury in the first place had acquitted the Los Angeles Police Department
Caught brutal assaults on Rodney King that they participated in burning, assaulting and raiding for six days.
Local television cameras all caught up and incited other riots that erupted in multiple US cities most likely.
Before we reveal our number one choice, here are a few honorable ones.
[Bush] Five months ago, Saddam Hussein began this cruel war against Kuwait.
Tonight, the battle has joined.
[Narrator]: Moments after the World Trade Center was first hit, the media picked up live feeders that glued audiences around the world to their televisions.
[Reporter]: There does not seem to be any kind of effort out there yet, I remember now … Oh my God!
[Woman]: Oh my God … my God!
[Reporter]: Looks like a second plane.
Narrator: So when another plane crashed into the South Tower after less than 20 minutes, it was really a moment no one would ever forget.
Covering the tragedy and its aftermath changed the way Western news was reported globally
The longest-running news event has become the news on US television.
Giuliani: Efforts now have to be to save as many people as possible.
[Narrator]: If you do not see something you think should be here, be sure to check out our list of Top 10 televised events.
Kronkite: President Kennedy died at 1:00 Central Time.
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