I do not recall seeing much repeated video of events during the day, and days following President Kennedy's assasination as well as Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald. I recall more straight coverage. Am I correct that there was little or no repeated showings of events, such as Ruby killing Oswald, unlike the repeated showing of tragic events over and over now a days....such as Sept. 11th.
2007-07-26 20:07:54 · 8 answers · asked by Village Idiot 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Some of your responders are partially correct.
Not to put too fine a point on it, news coverage straight across the board was more tasteful, civil and humanistic than it has grown to be today. Blame two generations brought up on video games and mindless TV programming.
The Zapruder film, contrary top what some of your answerers seem to think, remained the private property of Abraham Zapruder until he sold the film to the Time Life Corporation. Not having any TV markets at the time, the Corporationn saw no profit in repeated showing.
Contrasting this with 9/11, the four days in Dallas mark a time when every living American's life was affected and changed. You say you remember strtaight coverage------certainly. from early afternoon on Friday to late morning on Monday, all the broadcasting companies distinguished themselves by their round the clock coverage, much of which could only by the greatest stretch be called news (hour after hour of people moving in two lines past the flag draped casket for example)
9/11, on the other hand, really consisted of a short videotape of a building gushing forth smoke and flame before collapsing in upon itself. There was no human element to this event, and hence all that cann be done is to beat us over and over again with the video until we either hate the people who were killed or get so sick of watching it that we pop our DVD of the best songs by Tiny Tim and David Seville and the Chiipmunks in just to get some relief.
2007-07-27 07:33:57 · answer #1 · answered by JIMBO 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The famous film clip you are talking about was not a video it was a old fashioned news reel movie, making mass distribution to the networks harder. It remember a lot of TV news coverage and print press(I was about 7 at the time ) but the continual showing of a news event(9/11, Rodney King etc.) I do not think really started to until the 80's with the advent of 24 hr. cable news coverage and improved video technology.
2007-07-27 02:40:02 · answer #2 · answered by dutch132004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dutch is correct, it was NOT a video, but a private movie camera. However, the reason that it was not shown OVER and OVER and OVER again, is that the rights to showing that film belonged to a private citizen and the news organization would be required under law to provide him compensation each and every time they showed it and the media is much to cheap to pay for something repeatedly.
It is shown much more often now, as the Zapruder film has been confiscated by the US govt as a historic piece of evidence of American history and the Congress compensated his family for it and the people have been given "free and unfettered access to these images at a reasonable cost."
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2007-07-27 02:56:30 · answer #3 · answered by WilliamH10 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they didn't play it over and over, but there was a lot more going on that was being covered since when Kennedy was killed it was right after the Cuban Missile Cris and at the height of the Cold War. A lot of news that day was on the danger of the Soviet Union attacking since Kennedy had been killed.
I know we went on Red alert, full combat gear full issue of Ammuntion.
2007-07-26 20:31:35 · answer #4 · answered by JUAN FRAN$$$ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think later on is when it was played over and over. Back then it was considered too bad to look at. The media was more sensitive to the people who were watching as well as those who would be affected by the story. I miss the days when news was news. "Just the facts ma'am only the facts."
2007-07-26 20:15:18 · answer #5 · answered by suigeneris-impetus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, I watched it in my government class in 1977 and in my history college class in 1978. Then, the guy who showed it was killed. I think the government had a lot more control over media then.
2007-07-26 20:14:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't seen Sept 11 over and over - I've seen it once since, and one or two clips.
I'd certainly like to see it a few more times.
2007-07-26 22:13:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no they didn't play it over and over on tv. todays news is all about ratings and what the owners want you to see. if they can make a buck off something they'll do it.
remember oj fleeing from police. i live in va, he was in ca, how the hell would that make national emergency break-in to tv programs. how was he going to endanger me 3000 miles away.
2007-07-26 20:22:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋