Walter Cronkite, Live TV, and the Kennedy Assasination

Here on TVS History.Com, there is a slice of electronic history that is almost surreal to revisit. You can go back in time to 2pm November 22, 1963 in New York, on CBS-TV to relive the hour in which President Kennedy was assasinated. The entire hour is depected without interruption, starting with a long forgotten soap opera (complete with commercials) to the initial news bulletins to the initial bursts of information, to the eerie retranslation of the events, to the eventual molded 'official story' that has endured "offically' to this day. We heard about the grassy knoll, then it was dropped. We were told immediately that Kennedy was dead, then he became injured, even though it was reported that he wasn't even moved to a hospital operating room. It is raw unfiltered information that we first get, followed by the work of the government and its effect on the network. It's compelling, and a must watch, especially for those of us that lived throiugh the era. TV was never the same after this hour of infamy.