This was Sunday, November 24, 1963 — Two days after President
Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Texas. This video clip contains
some of the live coverage that was aired by the CBS Television
network on that day.

 

                       John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy  
                   
                   (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)

JFK Assassination First Radio Broadcast (ABC Radio) With
full Doris Day song – “Hooray for Hollywood”

 

The CBS newsroom on election night, 1952

CBS election night coverage in 1964

NBC news correspondents (left to right) John Chancellor, Frank
McGee and Sander Vanocur with an election map showing the
territories they will cover on election night in 1962.

ABC election coverage in 1984 with Peter Jennings (left) and
David Brinkley

                          Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.

                  (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)

March 6, 1981

Ed McMahon hosting NBC Monitor, 1965 to 1968

Monitor was a weekend radio program broadcast from June 12, 1955, until
January 26, 1975. It originally aired beginning Saturday morning at 8am and
continued through the weekend until 12 midnight on Sunday. The radio show 
offered a magazine-of-the-air format featuring news, sports, comedy, music and
celebrity interviews along with other short segments. 

New York Times ad for the first broadcast of Monitor Sunday, June 12, 1955.