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Bill and Gayle Newman, civilian eyewitnesses to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, cover their children as CBS News photographer Tom Craven (C) and White House photographer Tom Atkins (R) take pictures in Dealey Plaza after shots were fired at Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, was a transformative live, global TV news event. It swept an industry without a playbook for covering a breaking story of such magnitude and utterly changed how people receive their news. For four days, starting with gunfire in Dallas and ending with Kennedy's funeral procession in Washington, major US TV networks went live with wall-to-wall coverage, suspending commercials. [Photo/Agencies]
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