Talk:Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination

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Contents 1 September Date 2 Convicted Assassin? 3 Breaking the News 4 Live radio report

[edit] September Date

In the "Breaking the News" section, it says "The assassination of Kennedy was the longest uninterrupted news event in the history of television until just before 9:00 a.m. ET, September 14, 2001, when the networks were on the air for 72 hours straight covering the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington three days earlier."

I think the idea is that on September 14, the previous record was broken. GBC 19:07, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Convicted Assassin?

Oswald was never officially convicted in a court of law of the assassination of President Kennedy or of the murder of J.D. Tippit. Therefore, your headline calling him the "Convicted Assassin" is incorrect--not to mention, you're forgetting about a bastion of American democracy: the presumption of innocence until someone is proven guilty in a court of law.

According to my handy dictionary right here, to convict someone is "to prove guilty; find guilty after a judicial trial." (New Illustrated Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus of Synonyms and Antonyms, p. 220) As we all know, Oswald didn't live long enough to enjoy a judicial trial, so your headline should be taken down.

[edit] Breaking the News

These paragraphs:

Those listening to the ABC Radio Network were the first of the national audience to receive word of the shooting from newscaster Don Gardner at 1:36 PM EST:

We interrupt this program to bring you this special report from ABC Radio. Here is a special report from Dallas, Texas. Three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade today in downtown Dallas, Texas. This is ABC Radio.

should actually be at the top of the section, as they are at 12:36 PM CST, and the following paragraph:

Four minutes later, a CBS News Bulletin slide suddenly cut off the soap opera "As The World Turns" with Walter Cronkite's first report:

should then be "One minute later,". This would make the announcements in chronological order. GBC 18:52, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Live radio report

Back in 1978, the defunct CKO All-News radio network in Canada rebroadcast, on the 15th anniversary, a live radio broadcast by a reporter of a radio station in Texas who followed the speeding motorcade to Parkwood Hospital; the reporter was saying, "Something has happened... something has definitely happened". It was abbreviated, and followed by an announcer reading the official announcement of Kennedy's death. The CKO feature broadcast, which may in fact have been prepared by one of the American radio networks, continued by discussing and airing audio of Robert Kennedy's assassination, and his or Edward's eulogy - "He saw wrong and tried to right it, saw war and tried to stop it". There is a song playing, "What the world needs now, is love sweet love", with a man asking a young child some questions - "what is bigotry". I think I have a cassette tape recording of it somewhere, but I haven't had it off a shelf in decades. GBC 19:07, 25 August 2007 (UTC)