The title of this NBC News special is a tipoff that, for once, a news network organization isn’t pandering for younger viewers at the expense of older ones. This doesn’t mean, that if you weren’t alive 50 years ago, you shouldn’t be watching – quite the contrary. But it also means that those of us who
were old enough to remember may have been stunned, the last few days, to realize how little we’ve forgotten about those truly tragic, life-changing events. Here, Tom Brokaw, long ago anointed as one of the 20
th century’s premier TV news historians, gives his take, and listens to others. For my own column about
my remembrances of the JFK coverage, and a link to my NPR radio report on today’s
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, see
Bianculli’s Blog.