![]() Walter Cronkite Announcing President Kennedy Has Diedīut I always remembered what happened and wondered if anyone else saw it, i.e. Being 10 at the time the social implications of that predicament did not stay with me. The news bulletin from the radio was that there was a blizzard and no one could travel and hence, the couples would have to stay together and work things out. The episode was entitled Peaceful in the Country. It was not until a few years later that I finally saw the show without interruption. I am not sure and think the show returned to the scene after the bulletin, and it might have been on for a while, but I do not remember much after that. I remember thinking to myself "What if he dies?" Shortly afterwards, Walter Cronkite came on and said "President Kennedy has been shot", and some details were given about the grassy knoll, etc. The camera turned to a radio on the show and from the radio came, "We interrupt this program for a special bulletin." Just then the entire screen went to a pattern in words stating "Special Bulletin". ![]() They were not getting along, and wanted to go home. I was home sick from 4th grade class watching the show on which two couples had gone together to a Lake Arrowhead cabin for the night. On Novemwhen Kennedy was assassinated a unique impossible to plan coincidence occurred on television when the TV show "Pete and Gladys" had a "Special Bulletin" announcement happened just as the real one was broadcast on CBS Television.
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