How the JFK Assassination Changed Media Coverage

On November 22, 1963, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was riding in a motorcade after a Campaign visit in Dallas. The motorcade later was turning the Texas School Book Depository, when all of the sudden shots were fired at his head and neck. Right after he was shot the motorcade tried to race to the hospital to save his life, but it was too late. Kennedy had been shot and killed.  

People who lived on this day and were present when the event happened, still and will forever remember what our country was going through when it happened and right after it happened. This moment will forever be remembered by a generation of Americans. This moment had a huge impact on politics and on our American culture.  

However, this assassination did not just have a huge impact on politics and American culture, it also changed the media coverage. According to reuters.com article “How the JFK Assassination transformed media coverage,” Paul Ruhle, a senior manager of exhibits at the Newseum in Washington D. C. said, “This is when America became a TV nation.” This is why this topic is so important. People had never seen an assassination that was live on TV and global.