Actually, the ABC network had several of its reporters in Dallas that weekend, not just Bill Lord. White House correspondent Bob Clark was in the presidential motorcade and ran up to JFK's limousine at Parkland and saw him before he was carried in. He stayed in Dallas throughout the weekend, but his reports contained numerous inaccuracies and as late as Saturday morning...when WFAA was doing a film recap of Friday's events...Clark said that it wasn't known why Oswald was even at the Depository that day. He didn't know that the man worked there. Bill Lord's presence has already been mentioned. Paul Good also reported from police headquarters and his reporting blatantly presumed Oswald's guilt on several occasions. Roger Sharp also joined the ABC Dallas contingent on Friday and reported from there throughout the weekend. Murphy Martin, who had once worked at WFAA, returned their on Sunday to supplement the network coverage.
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JFK assassination omnibus thread
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...a cyberacquaintance of mine, who happened to be in a Los Angeles area White Front department store at that hour, tells me all of the indies in L.A. (KTLA/5, KHJ-TV/9, KTTV/11 and KCOP/13) took CBS up on that offer. He recalls that, without anyone touching the dials, the television display (they'd all been tuned to different channels) became a wall of mostly Walter Cronkites within a 2-minute frame. Indie KPHO-TV/5 and educational KAET/8 Phoenix both picked up NBC's coverage through KTAR-TV/12; KTAR had donated a lot of their old equipment to KAET when that station first signed on...
...I just bought the November 24, 1963, Carolina-Tennessee Edition issue of TV Guide from an eBay seller. Bizarre scheduling coincidence on the 11:00 PM Saturday movie planned for WFBC-TV/4 Greenville SC that was, of course, scratched to carry NBC's ongoing assassination coverage: the scheduled flick was an Italian-produced horror comedy from '59 with the English title Uncle Was a Vampire, the lead character in which was named Oswald...
...something else I'm curious about regarding that week. I know that, while the National Football League followed through with playing their November 24th schedule (did CBS still plan to air any of those games, or were any broadcast plans scrapped before Ruby shot Oswald shortly before kickoff time?), the American Football League pushed their three scheduled games of that weekend back a month. But what of the parades that Thursday, Thanksgiving Day? Both NBC and CBS scheduled live coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, and CBS adding coverage of the Gimbels Parade in Philadelphia, the J.L. Hudson Parade in Detroit and (videotaped) the Eaton's of Canada Parade in Toronto. Were any of those live parades canceled?...
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Mario500
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According to the Internet Movie Database, the character was originally called Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi (Osvaldo is the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish equivalent of Oswald).
CBS announced the decision to not show the Sunday games around 3:30-4:00 on Friday, immediately after noting that the NFL would be playing the games.
The parades went on as scheduled, although presumably much more somber.
Just noticed something that I had not known. I always thought that the only color broadcast from NBC during the JFK Assassination weekend was the early switches to affiliate WBAP-TV in Fort Worth...cut-ins that were later broadcast in monochrome much to the anger of WBAP executives. In fact, there was other color material that weekend as well. That Friday night, as well as on Saturday, Chet Huntley switched to Roy Neal for a report on JFK and the space program. Huntley DID NOT say where Neal was reporting from. Neal's studio report was in COLOR, although he introduced a videotape of JFK offering greetings to the Japanese which was to have been sent by the Relay satellite that day...and that tape was in black and white. A few other times that weekend, the NBC Symphony Orchestra performed some classical pieces, and every time they were shown, it was also in color. strange that they would allow these segments to go out in color, but not the feed from WBAP-TV. You can see these color segments at the NBC/Universal Archives web site.
He didn't mention it explicitly, although it may well have had to do with his being seen as an anchor for WNBC, rather than playing the major role with the network itself. I'll ask him about that, though. I agree with you - I thought he was excellent throughout the coverage; informative without being overly emotional, and exhibiting detachment while still reacting like a human being.
One of the rationales I've heard regarding the parades was that it would provide a distraction for kids; give them something to focus on, since they'd been looking forward to them. At least in New York, you can see pictures of each float in the parade with a strip of black mourning fabric attached to or hanging somewhere on it.
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At this point in time, NBC generally led CBS in ratings numbers for the evening news, and for most special events coverage (political conventions, election night, space shots, instant news specials). In fact, the following year, Cronkite was taken off the Democratic National Convention because ratings were so poor for the Republican Convention. It took CBS another four years to capture the lead for the evening news.
But looking back on the kinescopes for that day, NBC really fumbled the ball. Not because of their people but because of their set design. Uncle Walter was in a working newsroom and looked like he was where he'd be really plugged into what was happening (and likely he was). Huntley and McGee looked like they were sitting in somebody's basement rec room (like "Wayne's World") and Bill Ryan kept walking in with notes from the newsroom (which apparently was someplace else in the building).
CBS News' PR flacks were also smart enough to show kines of Walter in the newsroom whenever this event is discussed since then. People who were actually watching Huntley-McGee as Walter fought back tears in his shirt sleeves probably ended up thinking they were watching Uncle Walter at the time.
Unfortunately, none of the evening newscasts is done from an actual working newsroom any more.
But looking back on the kinescopes for that day, NBC really fumbled the ball. Not because of their people but because of their set design. Uncle Walter was in a working newsroom and looked like he was where he'd be really plugged into what was happening (and likely he was). Huntley and McGee looked like they were sitting in somebody's basement rec room (like "Wayne's World") and Bill Ryan kept walking in with notes from the newsroom (which apparently was someplace else in the building).
CBS News' PR flacks were also smart enough to show kines of Walter in the newsroom whenever this event is discussed since then. People who were actually watching Huntley-McGee as Walter fought back tears in his shirt sleeves probably ended up thinking they were watching Uncle Walter at the time.
Unfortunately, none of the evening newscasts is done from an actual working newsroom any more.
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strato
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In watching the NBC footage, I was enormously impressed by Bill Ryan, who I believe was a local WNBC man.
He gave a somber but fluid and unflinching narrative of the horrific events as they came in.
He gave a somber but fluid and unflinching narrative of the horrific events as they came in.
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