>> seemed like it was sort of almost a willful respite from the stuff that was going on out in the world and in real life. >> here is a bulletin from cbs news. there has been an attempt as perhaps you know now, on the life of president kennedy. he was wounded in an automobile driving -- >> in the early '60s, television was by and large seen as something as a back water to print journalism. and even to radio. but the kennedy assassination was the moment that television journalism came of age. >> we continue full-day coverage of the presidential funeral and the final procession -- >> more and more people were depending on television to give them the headline news of the day. >> 330 americans were killed in combat last week in vietnam. but the number of wounded, 3,886 was the highest of any week in the war. >> most of the 1960s, the contrast between what you saw in your entertainment and what you on the news was, you know, planetary.