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Nov 22nd... one of the wildest dates in American history...

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Why isn't this thread about the Minnesota Wild? :confused:
 
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Jimjamesak said:
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You deal in stereotypes the way Carter deals in pills. I only hate America's enemies. And certainly not any the hebephrenics who post here.
 
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Old Pio said:
You deal in stereotypes the way Carter deals in pills. I only hate America's enemies. And certainly not any the hebephrenics who post here.
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I have the CBS coverage of the weekend on my computer. Few observations

The anchors don't have IFB's in their ear. Wonder how the backroom communicated with them? Signs??
No crawlers on the bottom of the screen - no graphics - period. How did we survive?
Rumors were just a rife then as they are now. Maybe it was the tone of the voices of the CBS correspondents and Uncle Walter that did not rise to screeching levels at every new news item.
Lack of talking heads
Right now the CBS Symphony Orchestra is playing a tribute to JFK. What would we get now, Beyonce? Jay-Z? A C&W singer?
No commercials - I wonder with the 500 channels we now have available if it would be possible today. 50 years ago it was 3 major networks - and that was that.
When networks sign on/off for the day (do they?), do they still play the Star Spangled Banner?
 
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joecct said:
I have the CBS coverage of the weekend on my computer. Few observations

The anchors don't have IFB's in their ear. Wonder how the backroom communicated with them? Signs??
No crawlers on the bottom of the screen - no graphics - period. How did we survive?
Rumors were just a rife then as they are now. Maybe it was the tone of the voices of the CBS correspondents and Uncle Walter that did not rise to screeching levels at every new news item.
Lack of talking heads
Right now the CBS Symphony Orchestra is playing a tribute to JFK. What would we get now, Beyonce? Jay-Z? A C&W singer?
No commercials - I wonder with the 500 channels we now have available if it would be possible today. 50 years ago it was 3 major networks - and that was that.
When networks sign on/off for the day (do they?), do they still play the Star Spangled Banner?
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I recall one memorable and painful clip where Frank McGee was on the 'phone with somebody in the field and they couldn't establish the audio so he was repeating what the reporter said line by line. Suddenly the field audio was established but McGee kept repeating what the guy said (while the reporter continued to speak in short sentences with pauses), nobody ever let either one of them know.
 
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I guess my parents were not watching CBS. They missed the murder of Oswald (at least live).
 
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joecct said:
I guess my parents were not watching CBS. They missed the murder of Oswald (at least live).
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So much of what was aired was film. TV stations and networks had developing machines. That took time, as did editing the stuff. The first major use of what was collectively called ENG (electronic news gathering) came in the SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army) shootout, where all the people who had kidnapped Patty Hurst were burned to death. But the Oswald transfer was aired live, and had an enormous impact. Most Americans didn't get a chance to see the Zapruder film 'til Geraldo showed a crappy 3rd generation print several years later.

Nowdays, the coverage from Dallas would have been live and not dependent on remote anchors interviewing people on the phone. It wouldn't necessarily have been more accurate, just more immediate. Local TV stations have invested enormous sums in micro-wave trucks that enable them to go live from just about anywhere. Sadly, the most common usage is some reporters in the field saying: "I'm standing live in front of city hall, where only the ladies who clean the offices are still in the building, but earlier today something important happened. Here's the videotape of that important happening."
 
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Old Pio said:
So much of what was aired was film. TV stations and networks had developing machines. That took time, as did editing the stuff. The first major use of what was collectively called ENG (electronic news gathering) came in the SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army) shootout, where all the people who had kidnapped Patty Hurst were burned to death. But the Oswald transfer was aired live, and had an enormous impact. Most Americans didn't get a chance to see the Zapruder film 'til Geraldo showed a crappy 3rd generation print several years later.

Nowdays, the coverage from Dallas would have been live and not dependent on remote anchors interviewing people on the phone. It wouldn't necessarily have been more accurate, just more immediate. Local TV stations have invested enormous sums in micro-wave trucks that enable them to go live from just about anywhere. Sadly, the most common usage is some reporters in the field saying: "I'm standing live in front of city hall, where only the ladies who clean the offices are still in the building, but earlier today something important happened. Here's the videotape of that important happening."
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the CNN special that aired the other night at 10 was really good. It covered most of the important information and gave a lot of insight I had never been privy to before. I loved the tapes of lbj talking to the senator from georgia about being on the warren commission.
 
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manurespreader said:
the CNN special that aired the other night at 10 was really good. It covered most of the important information and gave a lot of insight I had never been privy to before. I loved the tapes of lbj talking to the senator from georgia about being on the warren commission.
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"I won't put the FBI on you. But you're gonna do it" Classic LBJ "persuasion". Senator Russell saw the wisdom of doing what LBJ wanted. For whatever reason, JFK felt like he had to soft pedal his civil rights agenda (probably not aggravating the old segregationist Democrat bulls in the Senate had something to do with it). LBJ wasn't as concerned about that, and worked with Republican leader Ev Dirksen to get the Civil Rights bill of '64 and the Voting Rights act of '65 passed. Regardless of how things ultimately worked out for Johnson, two enormous legislative accomplishments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE6i2vYbY3I
 
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Pio, joecct et al. If you haven't looked at the original link you really need to. The stuff you are talking about has absolutely nothing to do with what is contained in that link. Please. Just look.
 
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Proud2baLaker said:
Pio, joecct et al. If you haven't looked at the original link you really need to. The stuff you are talking about has absolutely nothing to do with what is contained in that link. Please. Just look.
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Couldn't open it.
 
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Old Pio said:
Couldn't open it.
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I had trouble too. Though it worked earlier for me. It is a gif of the famous Mark Sanchez "buttfumble" when he ran into the rear of his own teammate, fell straight backward, and fumbled which was then recovered by the Patriots. It is a hilarious series of events. That is why you got the responses you got.
 
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