CBS News Live Coverage of The Assassination of President John Kennedy Part 2

From Friday November 22nd 1963 CBS News covers the death of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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[ksol1460tv]

@snoops71 Plus the fact that the complainers may have been Republicans who didn't like Jack anyhow and were thinking "who cares if that commie's dead", blah blah. Heard some reactions like that the day after RFK bought it.

[ksol1460tv]

@sbchelldiver 4 minutes from the shooting to the initial UPI bulletin and Jay Watkins' 10-minute sprint to the WFAA studios are pretty damned good. The difference isn't "instantaneous" technology but a matter of priorities. Radio was live on the scene, several stations broadcast the entire thing. TV only carried the highlights and the limo trip through downtown Dallas wasn't considered important by them (and wouldn't have been today, either). They were getting ready for the Trade Mart speech.

[ksol1460tv]

@sbchelldiver Actually, the shooting of Oswald and the Challenger disaster -- live on CNN with zillions of school kids watching -- were the first such events. JFK's death didn't really happen before our eyes, the Zapruder film didn't come out until 12 years later. The only live coverage was on radio. It's more like the coverage of the Apollo I fire in January 1967. There was some video footage of the actual spacecraft fire, but it wasn't shown until much later.

[debtansey89]

I was 7 years old and home sick from school that day.

[fromthesidelines]

...and a kinescope of one of those "delayed broadcast" editions of this episode is on deposit at the Museum of Television and Radio.

[fromthesidelines]

That's right, 'Sheri'. The program's "master feed" was also recorded- for "delayed broadcast"- for affililates who couldn't carry "AS THE WORLD TURNS" "live" at 1:30pm(et), including CBS West Coast stations. The show could be seen as late as the next day or six weeks after the initial broadcast, depending on the affiliate. The "master feed" copy did not include the bulletins shown live on the network [that's why the cast wasn't told what happened until after the episode ended]....

[lwmson]

@Marty933 You know, I've heard a lot of those "where were you and what you were doing when Kennedy was shot" stories. But I have to honestly say that yours ranks as one of the most interesting and amusing, Marty!

[snoops71]

@lwmson So do I, but there have always been thoughtless, insensitive people out there. You know how people can be about their favorite shows.

[Marty933]

@lwmson LOL! That's almost verbatim what she said!  And the "Just wait until your father gets home" IS exactly right!

[lwmson]

@Marty933 LOL! I could imagine that, "It's bad enough that you're playing hookey from school Marty, and now you're going to lie to me with some crap about Kennedy being shot? Just wait until your father gets home!!"