Maybe it’s heresy, but I’ve always thought the iconic radio report was pretty unprofessional.
I think he got fired for just that reason.
In what way? Especially considering it was actually as it happened, and the technology of the time.
It might be true but the profession itself was less than 20 years old so who’s to say then what was unprofessional. Perhaps all the crying was considered unmanly. Radio, in those days, was all about location and many who made their careers were simply right place/right time. Many local reporters made their bones with the JFK Assassination and were just stringers who happened to be at the opportune moment to be pressed into reporting.