Interesting. We forget, but there was a time when the news wasn’t instantaneous...we forget.
I was watching the episode “1968” from the HBO series “From The Earth to The Moon”, and it covers the Apollo 8 mission that orbited the moon and on Christmas Eve of that awful year, they got that picture of Earthrise and read the Book of Genesis bible passages. It made me choke up to watch it...in such a tumultuous time, to see and hear that from the Moon.
But in the episode, Bobby Kennedy was shot the previous night, and they show the Borman family having breakfast, and one of the boys walks in with the delivered paper which they begin reading, only to see the news from the night before about the assassination.
I thought that was an interesting perspective.
Hey ‘rim. I remember that late December ‘68 reading well, but “Bobby Kennedy was shot the previous night”?? (Or maybe my ancient brain is just not understanding your post correctly?). BK was shot in early June of ‘68.