CBSNews.com To Recreate JFK Assassination in Real Time

[Frank W. Baker]

Nobody much  watches video online for yesterday’s news, but later in November, that ought to change.   

On the week of the event, CBSNews.com will rewind the years, and show how the network covered the assassination, and subsequently, Lee Harvey Oswald’s capture and murder three days later, and concluding with the funeral .

 What will make this particularly interesting is that CBSNews.com will do all of that in real  time, actually twice. The first time the Website will show the coverage will begin at 1:48 p.m. Eastern, on Monday Nov. 18, and continue, as events and coverage actually unfolded, through Thursday.  When things go dark—as they did back then before wall-to-wall news, the CBS feed of the coverage will be dark too.

Then, on Friday Nov.22, CBSNews.com will do that all again. But the second showing will really be a reality check, because that was the actual date of the event, which also was a Friday. It concludes Monday, Nov. 25  with the funeral.

Further details here.