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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion & Debate => JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate => Topic started by: John Corbett on June 03, 2026, 12:39:51 PM
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A significant part of the narrative had to do with Beatlemania but the moderator seems to dismiss that notion given that Beatlemania was already taking hold in America. Two months later, the Beatles made their famous American debut on the Ed Sullivan Show.
There was another cultural icon that came to prominence in the wake of the JFKA that was not discussed t, that being Muhammed Ali, known then as Cassius Clay. At the time the Beatles were making their first American tour, Cassius Clay was training for his upcoming title fight with then champion Sonny Liston, a fight few gave Clay a chance to win. One of the concert stops for the Beatles was Miami where the title fight was being held and as a publicity stunt, they showed up at Clay's training camp for some staged photos. Clay had been in a cocoon while training. After the Beatles left, he turned to one of his handlers and asked, "Who were those faggots".
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One point that was made was the JFKA gave birth to the 24 hour news cycle. Live onsite coverage was rare up until then but we saw tons of that during the 72 hours following the assassination, including the murder of Oswald. One thing I learned a while back was the reason the networks didn't immediately go to live coverage after first announcing that assassination was because it took about 15 minutes for the vacuum tube TV cameras to warm up to the point they would function. That's why initially the networks just flashed their BULLETIN screen while the anchor did the voice over. I think CBS cut back to the soap opera twice after first announcing the assassination before Walter Cronkite came on the air in shirtsleeves which he later admitted was considered bad form. He hadn't even thought about putting on his jacket.