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CBS will stream four days of its 1963 live coverage of President Kennedy's assassination

CBS will stream four days of its 1963 live coverage of President Kennedy's assassination

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Walter Cronkite CBS JFK Assassination
Walter Cronkite CBS JFK Assassination

Next week will mark 50 years to the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. To mark the anniversary, CBS will stream four days of its live coverage from 1963, covering the first reports of the assassination to the president's funeral. Legendary anchor Walter Cronkite is as tied to the assassination as the famous "Zapruder film," but the brief clip showing Cronkite announce the president's death is typically all you see today. The four days' worth of video will be uncut, so it should offer an intriguing look at just what television news was like back in its golden era. The stream will start at 1:40PM ET on Friday, November 22nd and end on Monday.