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television has grown faster than a teenager, and now it is time to grow up. the tv was the center of the house. i don t remember a time without tv. by 1960, essentially every household in america had a television. it was a new way of bringing the world to you. when something big happened on television, it really did happen to the entire country and impacted the entire country at the same time. keep an awakened eye on the world. suddenly television was the main event. everything else changed, even the way in which you went about the business of getting someone elected president. david, will you hit the one-minute button, please. 30 seconds and the cut, please. in 1960, the nixon/kennedy debate was a first in television. a lot of people were watching that night, and it introduced a lot of people to kennedy. would you let me see the tight shot on camera one, please? can you hear me now speaking? is that about the right tone of voice? good evenin ....
speaker: elements of the central intelligence agency killed j john kennededy. speaker: the story has been suppressed. witnesses have been killed. we have a right to know who killed our president and d why he dieied. [music playing] speaker: in dallas, preparations were already underway for extraordinary police protection when the president should arrive. interviewer: do you anticipate any trouble on the president s arrival? jesse curry: because of what has happened here previously, we would be foolish, i think, not to anticipate some trouble. i don t really, i don t anticipate any violence. speaker:r: here comemes air foe numbmber one, ththe presidenes plane now totouching dowown. here s s mrs. kennnnedy, anand the crowowd yells. and the president of the united states, and i can see his sun tan all the way from here. dan rather: looking at how things actually went, it wasn t just a trip to dallas. it was a political trip, preparing for the 1964 elections. speaker: shak ....
jay watson: a gentleman just walked into our studio that i am meeting for the first time as well as you. this is wfaa-tv in dallas, texas. may i have your name, please, sir? abraham zapruder: my name is abraham zapruder. jay watson: mr. zapruder? abraham zapruder: zapruder, yes, sir. jay watson: zapruder. and would you tell us your story, please, sir? abraham zapruder: i got out about a half hour earlier, getting to a good spot to shoot some pictures. charles brehm: five-year-old boy and myself were by ourselves on the grass there on palmer street, and i asked joe to wave to him, and joe waved, and i waved and the the man interviewer: that s all right, sir. - he waved because he was waving back and he was he was the shot rang out and he slumped down in the seat. gayle newman: and then all of a sudden this next one popped and governor connally grabbed his stomach and kind of laid over to the side, and then another one. it was just all so fast. and presiden ....
i can t deal with this much stress. kimmel: have a good weekend, everybody! i m getting the hell out of here. i can deal with this much stress good weekend, everybody. i m hitting the hell out of here it s not necessary to salute, sir. just your hand over your heart. there s enough when we come on, he was plenty. the end, the aura about them may look at the killer whale we eat himself on your carpet who is the king of late night but he was still alive never occurred to me that there would be other talk shows they didn t reverend dr. matthew tension wonderful. are you really truly idiots or is it me but it was gonna be shocking because superbus about at 76 got to get to laugh. we re not even going to have sex that many times again it s one of the funny things ever and it s really i m sorry, we re experiencing technical doesn t lose. it s so revolutionary that completely changed my lif e my experience with late-night television was all about my relationship with m ....
Years ago, covering that fateful day in dallas. What the kennedy assassination did for me was forever to keep me aware of the fragility of everything. Three rounds fired in 15 seconds changed the course of history. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the senates long festering fight over filibuste ....