I knew there had to be others who remembered it. It was amazing.
Of course, there was not one single story, in the media of that time, that it presaged the beginning of the end of life on earth. There was also not one story that tried to make the argument that the bitter-cold winter was the result of Earth getting warmer.
Of course, the news media was not loaded from top to bottom with stupid J-school graduate nitwits, either.
They were still just graduating then.