It might be one station out in the country or three in a medium sized city or five or more if you lived in a populated area in or around the big cities.
The hundreds yea thousands of channels or video options we can see today were but a dream.
We all felt terrible, especially for Jackie and the children, even though I am reasonably certain that both of my parents voted for Nixon three years earlier.
Saw CBS’s special the other night, it was mainly just the old ‘historic’ films. Did not seem to be sappy, schmaltzy, editorialized or anything, just the historic films and discussing things like that was the first time in TV history they went wall-to-wall coverage of an event. It was straight-forward.
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If that happened today, the first thing that would happen is NBC would brand Oswald “a former marine so obviously a right wing militia type” then they would photoshop an NRA logo on his tee-shirt in that photo of him holding up the rifle, then somehow get racism involved in it, then they would blame Republicans for it while doing everything they could to hide Oswald obsession with Marxism.
If we’re smart we’ll use this week to educate people on the nature of communists like Oswald and Leftism in general.
Yep, pretty much a vast wasteland from a liberal point of view. Shows like: My Three Sons, Ozzie and Harriet, Make Room for Daddy, Lucy, Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke Show, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Dragnet, Father Knows Best, Lassie. Spewing all those family and American values all across the land. Nothing like the Progressive and cutting edge educational stuff that we have today. Can you imagine, no PBS, no MTV, no MSNBC. Barbaric.
In 1960-61 hundreds of students watched cartoons in color at Penn State on one lonely tv set in the large hall. We marveled that we could actually see colored dots jumping around to form fuzzy figures.
CBS was still pouting because the FCC had un-selected their color system in favor of NBC’s after the Korean War.
too bad the DuMont network crashed and burn in the mid-50’s
Today - it seems like he was only President ever killed or died in office. How the nation changed and all this other crap. Good lord, the nation changed when Lincoln was shot. The nation changed when McKinley was shot. The nation changed when Harding died in office. The nation changed when FDR died in office. It changed because the personnality of the man taking over as President made it change. No one mentions that Kennedy's Presidency was a failed one.
Enough already!
From the historic film CBS showed, they called him “Lee Harold Oswald” a few times. Means nothing, they obviously did not have his name down yet but interesting to hear nonetheless.
I was in kindergarten when the nuns rushed in at nap time and rolled in a tv so we could all watch the news of the assassination. I remember Walter Cronkite getting emotional and later Ruby shooting Oswald.
No matter where one stands on JFK, that State Funeral appropriately on black and white TV back then was as somber and dramatic (? if that is the right word) as can be. Really something, I don’t know when we’ve had something like that other than with JFK and I believe they say they have a “lone horse” during the funeral march. Quite ceremonial.
Wouldn’t be as memorable on color TV though color was starting to come of age around then.
Was 9 years old when this happened. Can still hear the sound of the drums and the horses’ hooves during the funeral procession in my mind.
Ruby’s the real idiot in all this, because of him, that’s why there are conspiracies and all this. What a dumb a and owner of a strip bar to boot. Jackass.
Did you know that Gilligan's Island creator Sherwood Schwartz named the castaways boat the "S.S. Minnow" as a poke in the eye to Mr. Minnow.
“The hundreds yea thousands of channels or video options we can see today were but a dream.”
and there’s still nothing on.
Video of all three networks’ coverage is here:
http://dvp-video-audio-archive.blogspot.com/2012/03/index.html
Judge for yourself.
And, no, this isn’t my blog.
I don’t have a blog.
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