tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post6953944921798347937..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: Interview: Marc Ryan, author of Three Shots Were Fired: JFK's Assassination and TV's First Global StoryMitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-39490236499711176032016-10-11T18:18:35.330-04:002016-10-11T18:18:35.330-04:00WLW link to the day after the Assassination. The N...WLW link to the day after the Assassination. The Nursing home fire story is at the 12:07 mark. This would have been a HUGE story if not for the assassination of President Kennedy.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vPNs4DxuUA&index=6&list=PL0O5WNzrZqINoVDIEsnoZvorXVcc8MRSFpaulsonj72https://www.blogger.com/profile/18118231322032199900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-3146308403450890332016-10-11T18:00:33.573-04:002016-10-11T18:00:33.573-04:00I don't think it ever aired. CBS continued wit...I don't think it ever aired. CBS continued with the broadcast because it was being taped for broadcast on the West Coast. If Kennedy had survived or nothing became of the attempt CBS would have gone back to regular programming and this soap would have aired on the west coast. In the east this episode was aired live.paulsonj72https://www.blogger.com/profile/18118231322032199900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-34511661591649467572016-10-11T17:59:07.027-04:002016-10-11T17:59:07.027-04:00There was a Nursing Home fire in Ohio the day of(...There was a Nursing Home fire in Ohio the day of(or early the next morning) after the Kennedy Assassination that killed a huge number of people which is what you may be thinking of too. WLW out of Cincinnati reported on it during a newscast the morning after the Kennedy Assassination. It is available on youtube in the multi part series of the coverage of the Kennedy Assassination. It is somewhere from part 5-7(can't remember exactly where) Part 3 is where the bulletins begin to come in.paulsonj72https://www.blogger.com/profile/18118231322032199900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-22889230584463114932014-09-06T14:57:45.033-04:002014-09-06T14:57:45.033-04:00When you look at a list of individuals very best f...When you look at a list of individuals very best fears, presenting looks towards the top of the actual number earlier mentioned even worries involving dying. It truly is no surprise than that the majority of folks get really stressed in relation to performing any r / c appearance in addition to may pass on this huge possibility for their dread. <a href="http://resumewritingcompanies.blogspot.com/2014/09/resume-writing-services-in-dallas.html" rel="nofollow">Resume Writing Services in Dallas - are there any professionals?</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08109867068757402125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-88196376156086522752013-11-21T22:01:09.235-05:002013-11-21T22:01:09.235-05:00The infamous episode of As The World Turns was com...The infamous episode of As The World Turns was completed. The Paley Center has a print:<br /><br />http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=as+the+world+turns+November+22-1963+&p=1&item=T80:0729<br /><br />Not sure if it ever aired.Roberthttp://www.tvobscurities.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-48544908839574723102013-11-21T11:09:37.393-05:002013-11-21T11:09:37.393-05:00A couple of brief points to tag with:
- When I m...A couple of brief points to tag with:<br /><br /> - When I mentioned that our family watched ch5-NBC mostly, but sometimes went over to ch7-ABC:<br />I'm fairly sure that this was just when Frank Reynolds had switched to ch7 from ch2-CBS.<br />Ch7, which didn't have nuch of a news operation at that time (much the same situation as its parent network), was starting a small buildup in that direction. The first was poaching Reynolds and Hugh Hill from ch2, a move that made the front pages of Chicago's (then) four daily newspapers. As I said, we didn't spend much time at ch7 (and none that I remember at chs2 or 9, which was the Tribune station), so I mostly remember the NBC crew, as noted above in your interview.<br />And of course, that means we were at ch5 on Sunday morning when Tom Pettit witnessed live Jack Ruby's shooting of Lee Oswald. As memory serves, NBC was the only <i>network</i> that was live in Dallas at that moment (the others found themselves playing catch-up for the rest of the day).<br />This next may be a somewhat shameful thing to admit, but the Oswald shooting actaully served as a kind of weird relief to the mourning activities we were seeing; in the midst of the grief, we suddenly had a crime drama in Dallas to engage our attention. As we learned more about Jack Ruby and his Chicago/mob background, it was as if <i>The Untouchables</i> was getting a real-life revival.<br />I probably shouldn't use a word like 'diversion' in this situation, but really, that's what it was - a break from the endless lines at the Capitol Rotunda.<br /><br /> - Since there was, in '63, no provision for President Johnson to appoint a Vice-President to fill the remainder his term, there was some concern for the next two men in the line of succession: House Speaker John McCormack, in his late seventies, and Senate President Pro-Tem Carl Hayden, in his mid-eighties. This may have been the impetus behind making provision for appointing a new VP if such a situation were to ever happen (not that it ever would, of course ...)<br /><br /> - Just to close on a light note:<br />Like all the daytime soaps that were on in '63, <i>As The World Turns</i> was broadcast live.<br />I've read that the cast members, in mid-show, got word from the network that they were off the air, and to just go home until further notice.<br />Come the following Tuesday, they all came back and did the Friday show from the start, as if nothing had happened - and everything was back to normal.<br />So there too.<br /><br /> - I've been looking at some of my own old <i>Guides</i> from just afterward, trying to anticipate which ones you might be using in the future.<br />Sometime in the spring of '64 (can't recall the exact date *<i>darndarndarndarndarn*</i>, but Vince Edwards was on the cover), there was a feature article about the NBC version of <i>That Was The Week That Was</i>. <br />Should you happen to have this issue on hand, you might consider using it when the time comes next year - <br /> - or perhaps even before, as a standalone ... once you see who who wrote the article (no spoiler here, I wouldn't want to deny you that double-take I mentioned above).<br /><br />Happy hunting ...<br />Mike Dorannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-5744616650378965602013-11-20T20:44:58.248-05:002013-11-20T20:44:58.248-05:00Don't give up, Mike. Don't ever give up. ...Don't give up, Mike. Don't ever give up. :)<br /><br />I believe Harry Reasoner mentioned something about that fire as well, very much in the same spirit as Frost's comments.Mitchell Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-25445270715042857682013-11-20T18:13:51.496-05:002013-11-20T18:13:51.496-05:00I forgot to mention just why I remember what David...I forgot to mention just why I remember what David Frost said so vividly:<br />That fire he mentioned - the one in which 60 people were killed - that happened here in Chicago. It was an apartment house with mostly older tenants, just this side of indigent (what would nowadays be called an SRO(Single Room Occupancy)).<br />Without the JFK shooting, that would likely have been the lead story on the local news - and would also likely not have been heard of outside the Chicago area.<br /> But for David Frost.<br />Such is life.<br /><br />Oh, and the reason I haven't been writing lately:<br />Actually, I've had many of the issues you've used, but I always try to find something that might make you do a double-take if you went back and looked it up.<br />Sad to say, I haven't seen many of those in the past few weeks. Still, I live in hope ...Mike Dorannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-16070219570710649522013-11-20T11:48:19.485-05:002013-11-20T11:48:19.485-05:00Those are powerful memories, Mike. I'm always...Those are powerful memories, Mike. I'm always fascinated to hear what people experienced at the time. As I've perhaps mentioned before, I was only three at the time of the assassination, and I've been told that my prime reaction was to complain about my cartoons not being on. <br /><br />That quote from Frost is very good. Though I haven't seen the entire TWTWTW tribute, I have seen parts of it (it's probably on YouTube somewhere) and I saw the album in a bookstore display last weekend.<br /><br />Good to see you back - I was starting to worry about you!Mitchell Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-53567973903280866722013-11-20T11:17:20.868-05:002013-11-20T11:17:20.868-05:00Since you didn't ask ...
November 22,1963:
I ...Since you didn't ask ...<br /><br />November 22,1963:<br />I was in the 8th Grade at Our Lady of Loretto school in Hometown, IL, southwest of Chicago.<br />I'd been at home for lunch, while my younger sisters were watching <i>Bozo's Circus</i> on ch9.<br />At 12:30 I started the ten-minute walk back to school. When I got there, the news had just broken; the nuns were scrambling to get radios in the classrooms, so we might be able to keep up with things. We were given make-work things to do that afternoon, but there was only one thing on our minds.<br />In Irish-Catholic communities such as ours, JFK was our own property, as if one of the immediate family had made it all the way. <br />In the years since, I've heard all different versions of how America "lost its innocence"; for me, the JFK assassination is pretty much it.<br />We were a Huntley-Brinkley household, so ch5 was on for the whole weekend. <br />That night , David Brinkley led off the evening newscast:<br />"President Kennedy has been <i>murdered</i>." - the only time before or since that I recall that word used.<br />On the rare occasion that we did change channels, it was to ch7, the ABC station, so the main non-NBC faces I remember from that weekend were Howard K. Smith and Edward P. Morgan.<br />The only breaks in network coverage were for local stations to do their own newscasts - the world went on as usual.<br />And so did we all - the everyday life things, with the death/mourning/funeral coverage in the background, spelled occasionally by news from Dallas about Oswald and the police, in dribs and drabs.<br />At least until Sunday morning.<br /><br />Sometime on Sunday, NBC gave about a half-hour to a kinescope flown in from England: that Saturday's episode of <i>That Was The Week That Was</i>. BBC's Richard Dimbleby appeared in person to introduce the show and its cast: this was the first time Americans were to see and hear David Frost, who was TWTWTW's main writer and performer.<br />Frost and the other cast members, comedians mainly, spoke brief eulogies. Commentator Bernard Levin delivered a serious analysis of the situation from the British POV. Dame Sybil Thorndike came in to read a poem, composed for the occasion by a prominent British poet whose name escapes me at the moment, and Millicent Martin, TWTWTW's resident songstress, delivered an original song called "The Summer Of His Years", which became a charted hit over there for a brief time. <br />The soundtrack for this show was released as an LP over here and sold quite well; my family had that record for years.<br />I do remember one comment David Frost made (the quote is as best as I can remember it):<br /><b>"Yesterday, one man died.<br />Today in America, sixty lost their lives in a fire.<br />And yet somehow, it's the <i>one</i> that matters.<br />Even in death, it seems, we're not equal.<br />Death is not the great leveler.<br />Death reveals the eminent."</b><br /><br />The following January, NBC launched an American version of <i>That Was The Week That Was</i>.<br />Though it hadn't been part of the original plan, David Frost was brought in to appear as a "special correspondent".<br />And the rest is history.<br /><br />More when/if I can think of it ...<br /><br />Mike Dorannoreply@blogger.com