"From Clown to Hero"
Magazine article
By: John Horn
Date: December 15, 1963
Source: Horn, John. "From Clown to Hero." New York Herald Tribune, December 15, 1963. Reprinted in "What Was Seen and Read. Television: a Transformation." Columbia Journalism Review, Winter 1964, 18–19.
Introduction
On November 22, 1963, at 12:30 P.M. central standard time, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in an open motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was killed instantly; he was pronounced dead by officials at 1:00 P.M. Yet the American people did not learn about this historic tragedy by turning on their televisions. Most people heard about the assassination from friends or on the radio. Television news reporting from the site of live events hardly existed. There were no immediate pictures of the actual assassination, and the technology didn't exist to get good images of the scene...
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