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Coverage of historical anniversaries besides 9/11

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installLSC

The "20th anniversary of 9/11 on TV" thread got me wondering about how other anniversaries of big historical events have been covered on TV. I remember a flurry of programs on the 20th anniversary of the JFK assassination in 1983, and to a lesser extent the 40th anniversary of D-Day the next year. But I don't remember if the actual days had pre-emptions for memorials and the like. What do you remember of historical anniversaries on TV in the past?
 
Four Days in November, aired near the 25th anniversary of the JFK assassination - a well-done CBS documentary that has real coverage from Walter Cronkite around the four days during and after JFK's assassination. Aired on CBS November 17th, 1988, I have it on VHS. Dan Rather hosted it.
Also there were LOTS of specials in early December 1991 for the 50th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombings. CBS aired Remember Pearl Harbor on the anniversary itself, 12/7/91. ABC aired Pearl Harbor: 2 Hours that Changed the World on December 5th.
 
installLSC said:
The "20th anniversary of 9/11 on TV" thread got me wondering about how other anniversaries of big historical events have been covered on TV. I remember a flurry of programs on the 20th anniversary of the JFK assassination in 1983, and to a lesser extent the 40th anniversary of D-Day the next year. But I don't remember if the actual days had pre-emptions for memorials and the like. What do you remember of historical anniversaries on TV in the past?
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I understand that the natural disasters like earthquakes they have their anniversaries discussed within local news segments.

I know every April and October San Francisco TV stations will have either a news segment or a special in the past about how things have been since both the 1906 San Francisco and 1989 Loma Prieta quakes with the background of the next Hayward Fault earthquake or any other fault in the Bay Area facing the same issue like Hayward such as having dense population within proximity to a fault.

Los Angeles TV Stations do the same for Northridge and Sylmar quakes anniversaries in news segments and in some cases spacials where they also include probabilities of the next Los Angeles area fault being overdue for another quake.
 
You can FORGET about the networks spending ANY amount of time commemorating EITHER Pearl Harbor OR the JFK Assassination THESE days as the population of those who lived through those events are dying off

As such, it's not worth the time or money to produce any more specials for these events

Not only that but there are AT LEAST TWO channels on YouTube (That I know of at least) that cover the JFK Assassination from just about EVERY angle possible & MUCH of the radio coverage of the Pearl Harbor Attack is sadly either lost or in bad shape in the audio quality department
 
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