[BC] Broadcast Radio when JFK was assasinated

[Scott Fybush]

Brent Hall wrote:
> I wasn't around during Pearl Harbor, but I remember the Friday that JFK 
> was=
>  assasinated. All the schools closed early, and the FCC issued orders 
> that =
> all stations cease playing any commercials that weekend. They further 
> order=
> ed that all stations play only music that JFK loved. The local Top 40 
> stati=
> ons all had to go out and buy those records that were required.

Do you have a citation for that, Brent? While I'm aware that most 
stations dropped their usual formats and stopped playing commercials, 
I've never seen anything to suggest that this was the result of an FCC 
mandate.

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