The assassination of the 35th president of the U.S. John Fitzgerald Kennedy put the citizens in complete distress. Occurring on November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas he was shot in his motorcade in the head on the way to a presidential campaign. Lee Harvey Oswald was later found in the building where the shooting took place. He used a 6.5x52 caliber rifle that he mail ordered. When he was found 30 minutes after the murder in a movie theatre, he was taken to the Dallas police headquarters.
When Lee Harvey Oswald was ready to be transferred to a higher security prison, there was a crowd of people, cameras, and the press was there to surround him while frantically asking questions. Nevertheless, Jack Ruby came out of the crowd to shoot and kill Oswald with his .38 caliber revolver. Ruby was taken into custody to be charged with first degree murder, and he later made millions of Americans question the assassination
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News of the incident was scattered across the country within minutes. Audiences also spread the word through telephone and so on. Colored television existed and were commercially available in the 1950’s but were expensive so millions saw the coverage through black and white televisions. Another form of communication was through the daily newspaper, the people who could not afford radios, telephones, or television heard of the news this way.
John F. Kennedy’s death impacted the media greatly, there was live coverage for four days with no commercials beginning with the shooting to his funeral. That is where they first started using life broadcast for news which revolutionized media forever. After a few days after the assassination the topic of Oswald’s death came into discussion. This lead everyone into a bandwagon conspiracy about the killer of JFK. Everyone thought that Ruby shot Oswald so he couldn’t defend himself and speak the truth, or that the CIA is responsible for his