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Originally Posted by colorfixer
Wasn't JFK's funeral in color?
I remember hearing from a tech at a tv station I worked at telling me that the cameras of the day took so long to stabilize that the networks and their news affiliates had to go to air really quick, which meant that the b/w cameras had to be used and even those took a long time to fire up.
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I also seem to remember that the funeral, or at least part of it was in color on NBC. I assume they just set up a side by side with the pool gear. I also watched a replay of the coverage, I think on CSPAN. I remember that the early reports from WBAP in Dallas were in color... mainly because the videotape unlocked verytime the color source was placed on the air. Not too much later the same reports were in black & white. Someone at NBC must have told them to shut off the color.