JFK Library Foundation @JFKLibraryFdn tweet - #DYK: Until September 2, 1963, nightly news was only 15 minutes long? 60 years ago #otd Walter Cronkite inaugurated the 1st half hour CBS Evening News broadcast with an interview with President Kennedy. Listen: https://t.co/8UnlIlBM3G https://t.co/fb1byRuftp

JFK Library Foundation

@JFKLibraryFdn

2 years

#DYK: Until September 2, 1963, nightly news was only 15 minutes long? 60 years ago #otd Walter Cronkite inaugurated the 1st half hour CBS Evening News broadcast with an interview with President Kennedy. Listen: https://t.co/8UnlIlBM3G

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Janice Blake

@JanzaBlake

2 years

@JFKLibrary @HUBhistory The news is still only 15 minutes long... The rest of the time is filled with ads.

JulieLeiningerPycior

@JulieLeiningerP

2 years

@JFKLibrary Of course Americans saw the newscast in black and white.

Toni Gering

@ToniGering

2 years

@JFKLibrary Back when we had actual journalists.

Matt Cloud

@realmattcloud

2 years

@JFKLibrary Something was coming ...

Yubritzaida Culeo

@RitaPetit14

2 years

@JFKLibrary 😍😊🥳