CBS News Live Coverage of President J.F.K'S Assassination Part 2 (Friday 11/22/1963)

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

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[ARMY2498]

the dog right b4 the bulletin looks just like my dog

[LynchColl94]

HA! Even before it was confirmed JFK was dead Cronkite speculated it was a right-winger, when in fact it was a communist who shot Kennedy. Fast-forward to January 2010, when Gabby Giffords was shot; the press and Mayor Bloomberg speculated it was probably a right-winger upset with Obamacare, but the shooter in that case was a crazy man who had a copy of Marx's Das Kapital in his possession. This leftist media mantra never ends and has a long history.

[ksol1460tv]

@buckeyebaptist43719 If you think that's jarring you should go over and listen to Dave Von Pein's collection of radio reports. WLW Cincinnati was playing the original soundtrack to the "Li'l Abner" Broadway play at the time and they kept right on going with it after the initial bulletins!! After about the third bulletin they switched to soft songs by Percy Faith instead.... @.@

[OeditpusRex]

@buckeyebaptist43719 This was 17 years before the first all-news network, CNN. (Indeed, CBS Evening News had expanded from 15 minutes to 30 minutes only 11 weeks before this.) In those days, network news divisions didn't subject viewers to watching anchors repeat what little was known, much less speculate on it, in the opening minutes of hard breaking news. They'd go live when they were ready.

[buckeyebaptist43719]

How can the network go back to a soap opera after the president is shot?

[Mr76Yearsago]

It is ironic. I saw Kennedy in Downtown Fort Worth just two hours before his death , and the very first thing I ever saw on this computer when installed in June 2009 was the notice of Walter Cronkite's grave (and terminal) illness. This was the VERY GREATEST 'journalist's report in the history of broadcasting. Which means, Walter Cronkite was Broadcasting's greatest journalist.

[fromthesidelines]

The cast of "AS THE WORLD TURNS" was not told of what was happening in Dallas until after the episode had ended; the network was recording it, on another "feed", for "delayed broadcast" to several affiliates who couldn't carry the show live (some broadcast it, either on videotape or kinescope film, the following day, or as far as six weeks after the original airdate). When the final "Bulletin" aired around 1:50pm, there was no further regular programming of any kind until Tuesday, November 26th.