50 Years Later: How News Orgs Are Remembering the JFK Assassination Digitally
In ten days, we’ll mark the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s death, doing much of it through the Internet — essays, photos and multimedia remembrances — and some through the medium by which thousands of Americans learned that the beloved president had passed, TV.
Despite the darkness that fell over our country on Nov. 22, 1963, I’ve often read and heard that the wall-to-wall television news coverage of the assassination was something of a comfort to mourning Americans, a means of processing the unknown, the unexpected, and the unprecedented.
But
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