Looking back at the JFK assassination, with regards to news media of the past and present, there are many differences to how the terrible event would have been covered today. Back in 1963, before hundreds of cable channels, before smart phones, before social media, and decades before the invention of the Internet, there were more limited sources of information and the media had more time to compose their stories. Kennedy was shot during a presidential motorcade through Dallas, Texas. Many news crews were not even filming the motorcade as it was viewed by the news media as unimportant. They were waiting at his destination, the Dallas Trade Mart. Main suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was the subject of debate as to if he actually was the one who shot
