Before television news, many Americans received their visual news through weekly updates shown along with cartoons and coming attractions in movie theatres. Tuesday evening, the above edition of movie news from late May, 1957, appeared in my YouTube recommendations. The story included the May 20th Ruskin Heights Tornado in south Kansas City. It was the single most important event of my life: It determined my career and had a significant influence on finding the wonderful woman I married. However, even for 1957, there are some aspects of this "news" report worth commending on: "No warning." Not only is it wrong, this is especially ironic since this was the first tornado for which the federal government's Weather Bureau actually attempt to warn and they did a nice job . "Unpredicted and unpredictable change in weather patterns." The tornado watches (there were two) for the path of the tornado were excellent. Movie news was referring to the 1950's ...