11-17-2013, 12:22 PM
This being the 50th anniversary of the death of President Kennedy, I know that LC would have been all over this. So, in her memory, I will start a thread. There are still folks who think conspiracy. Others who hold to Lone Gunman.
Were you around then? Or is this just a history lesson for you? I was 9 years old, three years older than Caroline.
When JFK was killed, this was the first instance of wall to wall coverage of a major event. Until 9⁄11 there had not been as much new coverage of such an event.
I was just watching a news program on the days that followed. When the news first came across the wire, Walter Cronkite, on CBS was there to see it. Back then, cameras needed to be "hot" to air anything. At the time the first reports came that he had been shot, there were no cameras ready, so Cronkite had to do a voice over a slide that said "Special Report."
This was all pre cable, pre internet, pre 24 hour coverage of news. So basically the public had 3 or 4 channels to chose from to get the news on TV.
Thin of the difference between that and the coverage of 9/11, I remember first hearing of the attacks on the internet.
Here is an article about a JFK conspiracy theory that could be legit. Or so it says.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/16/us/jfk-ass...?hpt=hp_c3
Were you around then? Or is this just a history lesson for you? I was 9 years old, three years older than Caroline.
When JFK was killed, this was the first instance of wall to wall coverage of a major event. Until 9⁄11 there had not been as much new coverage of such an event.
I was just watching a news program on the days that followed. When the news first came across the wire, Walter Cronkite, on CBS was there to see it. Back then, cameras needed to be "hot" to air anything. At the time the first reports came that he had been shot, there were no cameras ready, so Cronkite had to do a voice over a slide that said "Special Report."
This was all pre cable, pre internet, pre 24 hour coverage of news. So basically the public had 3 or 4 channels to chose from to get the news on TV.
Thin of the difference between that and the coverage of 9/11, I remember first hearing of the attacks on the internet.
Here is an article about a JFK conspiracy theory that could be legit. Or so it says.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/16/us/jfk-ass...?hpt=hp_c3