Though I was around on that day in 1963, I was too young to have any active memories of those events. I do very vividly recall though in following years each late November how the nation would always stop and mark that fateful day.

In more recent decades though as those events sink further and further into history, the event receives less and less attention, much like the nation, as a whole, does not pause as much to remember Pearl Harbor Day.

While I am not a big fan of JFK nor of Walter Cronkite, one of the more difficult moments in broadcast history was handled by Cronkite as he makes the official announcement of Kennedy’s death, live, on-air. His difficulties in his delivery and ‘pressing on’ with his on-air reporting hang heavy in the air and his anguish is palpable.

Scroll forward to about 8:32 in the video.

Video link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RBenjAJFd4Y

Earl

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