Media Coverage of JFK Assassination

I don't see it now, but folks earlier on Twitter were praising the '60s-era media coverage of the Kennedy assassination. I think Walter Cronkite was the greatest.

But also, it's amazing how the Dallas Morning News identified Lee Harvey Oswald as a "Pro-Comminist" leftist at the time. It's highly doubtful we'd have that kind of honesty on the front-pages of today's big media newspapers. Wouldn't want to alienate progressives and Democrats, who are the ideological children of the same movement that marinated Oswald.



More at London's Daily Mail, "How the JFK assassination transformed media coverage: The idea of broadcasting live breaking news was born."