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...otherwise happy time, a friend had been murdered; a President assassinated; a political movement, which we called the New Frontier, terminated. We reporters had been riding casually in the press buses when we heard three sharp, strange sounds from an ugly building 50 yards in front of us. CBS correspondent Robert Pierpoint, who had covered the Korean War, leaped to his feet and said, "Those sounded like gunshots." In a few seconds we saw the chaos on the grassy knoll, people facedown clutching the earth in panic, the motorcade chopped in two, Kennedy's limousine racing over a hill toward...
...before. But their records--and their publicity--had preceded them: the Beatles, Britain's Fab Four, the sensation of Europe. Their single I Want to Hold Your Hand had just hit No. 1. That afternoon in Manhattan, hordes of fans--mostly adolescent, mostly female--surged in the street outside CBS's Studio 50, where the lads were rehearsing for their debut on the closest thing that era had to a national entertainment forum: Ed Sullivan's Sunday-night TV variety show. Later, a lucky few hundred of the faithful were seated in the theater. Well, sort of seated. They squirmed...
...costly war--not just in equipment but potentially in hundreds of millions of dollars of forgone advertising. When it came to choosing between news and dollars, the networks went with their strength. NBC stuck with a Friends rerun on Thursday even after the ground war had begun, while CBS aired NCAA basketball. ABC and Fox, whose regular Thursday programming usually gets trounced, went with the war. Friends won. On cable, CNN--whose Gulf War I glory days are an increasingly misty memory--hoped its breaking-news reputation would help it unseat No. 1 Fox News. That didn't happen...
...networks sent stars into the gulf. That's great when the star is Ted Koppel, racing toward Baghdad with the 3rd Infantry and doing effortlessly intelligent long reports. It's not so terrific when the star is CBS's Julie Chen, who can't control an interview on the hermetically sealed set of Big Brother, much less in a war zone...
DIED. LYNNE THIGPEN, 54, Tony-winning actress and co-star, as a statistics clerk assisting a Washington police chief, of the CBS drama The District; of unknown causes; in Los Angeles. In addition to playing roles in the films Tootsie and Shaft, she won a Tony in 1997 for her portrayal of a black Jewish feminist in Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter...