[BC] Broadcast Radio when JFK was assasinated

[Donna Halper]

At 11:46 AM 9/4/2008, you wrote:
>Donna, Richard, and Scott,
>Thank you for the correction. The FCC "facts" I got from my best friend who=
>  was a jock at Top 40 station KNAK during that sad weekend.

A very easily understood mistake-- when we are in the midst of a 
crisis, the details of the response often become muddled.  In this 
case, the FCC didn't need to step in-- everyone, sadly, had been 
through these sorts of tragic events and they all got together and 
did the right thing.

If your library has the Historical New York Times database, you can 
look back to the mid 40s when FDR suddenly died, and you'll see how 
stations all decided to remove all commercials, play only somber 
religious music, etc.  The entire country went into mourning-- even 
his political enemies shut up for a few days.