The assassination occurred on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. By 3:00pm that afternoon, all the major television networks, including CBS, NBC, and ABC, immediately suspended regular programming to provide continuous coverage of the event and its aftermath.
This round-the-clock coverage included reports on the assassination itself, the subsequent events surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald, and the funeral of President Kennedy.
The widespread and continuous media coverage marked a significant moment in television news history, demonstrating its power and reach in times of national crisis. Some TV news footage from back then shows citizens of Dallas in the hours after the shooting gathering in the streets, around car radios, listening to the latest shocking news. But at the same time, in people's homes, television was covering a major breaking news event nonstop for the first time. For four days, Americans flocked to television, and never let go.
When JFK's funeral procession was televised that weekend, it was watched in 93 percent of all homes that were equipped with TV sets — the largest viewing audience ever recorded to that point.
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How fortunate that was for them. They obviously have rewarded the murderers ever since...
ReplyDeleteThe funeral procession was on Monday 25 November. We got to watch it in school. It was the first time I saw color TV
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