TVTechnology: TV Coverage of Kennedy assassination

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by old_coot88

How many here remember exactly where they were and what they were doing 50 years ago this morning?

I was in 4th grade, but home sick that day. I was watching cartoons on our B&W set (a console Magnavox my father had gotten without a cabinet, we used a separate audio amp for the sound), on one of the independent TV stations of New York City at the time, and then the breaking news preempted the cartoons. Then it was wall to wall coverage for the next 4 or so days. Memory is hazy if I saw the assassination live, but I couldn't have. Maybe it was Jack Ruby taking Oswald out a few days later.

[old_coot88]

I was on the roof of the Texaco bulk plant midway between Globe-Miami, AZ. Had just delivered a TV set they had bought from us for their office, and was installing the roof antenna (a UHF bowtie corner reflector, since the area was served by UHF repeaters). Came down and the set was already on, everybody in stunned silence at the breaking news.