Kennedy's death changed the TV - Televisa News

Kennedy’s death changed the TV

NEW YORK, USA, nov. 12. – 2013. – John F. Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago when television was seen as a means young, but with the shooting of Dallas, became adult tv.

coverage that weekend November 1963 gave him the opportunity to stop being “a bunch of wires and lights coming out a box”, as some described it, and to remove the label of “a vast field wasteland “put him two years before the then President of the Federal Communications Commission, Newton Minow U.S..

Faced with an unprecedented challenge television could serve a public service incalculable, hungry for information, and managed to keep the country: Americans swirled where there was a TV set to monitor the developments.

continuous emissions of the three television channels provided the United States a sense of unity, a chance to make a surprising collective mourning and proximity to viewers who witnessed firsthand the events that occurred.

Television did

exhaustive chronicle of death, wake and funeral of JFK, and showed their viewers the last scenes of a political career that shattered while initializing video age.

life, but especially in death, John F. Kennedy changed television forever.

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