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Binding: DVDFormat: NTSC Label: ABC News Manufacturer: ABC News Publisher: ABC News Release Date: May 24, 2007 Running Time: 61 minutes Studio: ABC News Editorial Review: amazon.com: It was a day that no one who lived through it will ever forget. A young and vibrant president shot dead on the streets of a major American city --- the fourth presidential assassination in the country's history. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was also the first time that U.S. television networks went to 24-hour coverage of a news story. ABC News takes you back to November 22, 1963. Many televisions on the east coast were tuned in to "Father Knows Best" when the first special news bulletin broke in with a report that the President had been shot. Watch as the information that is familiar to us now was reported for the first time - the first eyewitness reports and the first time we learn the shots were fired from the Texas School Book Depository. You also see police display the rifle Lee Harvey Oswald used and the first interview with Abraham Zapruder, the bystander who shot the now famous video of the motorcade and assassination, but whose significance was not fully appreciated at the time. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A DVD that remembers a dark day in America.ABC News should be commended for producing this DVD on one of the most tragic days in American history. It begins with a few seconds of a Father Knows Best episode and then a bulletin of the shooting of President Kennedy. For the next hour viewers will relive the terrible news of the death of the President to the arrival of the body and the brief statement by the new President Lyndon B. Johnson. During this DVD be sure and look for Jules Bergman who was one of the best correspondents that covered ... Read More Rating:  - Coverage un seen for over forty yearsThanks to ABC News, we now have an opportunity to see portions of the network's original live coverage during the afternoon of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. This of course, is the same footage offered on I-Tunes' "ABC NEWS - THE DAY IT HAPPENED" series for viewing on one's I-Pod. The coverage, taken from the videotapes of WABC-TV in New York, begins with a few seconds of the sitcom "Father Knows Best" when sudenly the ABC Bulletin slide appears with Ed Silverman reading wire copy as a ... Read More Rating: - Television News Flash Long before the advent of the 24 hour news cycle and the endless barrage of talking heads and "breaking news", American television in the 1950's and the early 1960's was not usually a major source of news. The main news business was in newspapers in 1963 at the time of the Kennedy Assassination. But television became a major player in the unfolding tragedy of the "Four Days" that began Nov. 22, 1963. This hour-long disc offers highlights of videotaped ABC News coverage on Friday, Nov. ... Read More |
