>> here's a bulletin from cbs news. there's been an attempt -- as perhaps you know now -- on president kennedy. he was wounded in an automobile driving -- >> in the early '60s, television news was buy and large seen as something of a backwater to print journalism and even to radio. % was the moment that television journalism came of age. >> we'll continue full-day coverage of the presidential funeral and 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, 3886 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 saw on the news was, you know, planetary. >> never has this dissent been as emotional, as intense. >> in the '60s, it was one thing after another. each year it was filled with