{"id":2598,"date":"2020-11-22T12:59:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T17:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2020-11-22T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T18:38:15","slug":"hartford-jfk-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/22\/hartford-jfk-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Hartford learns of JFK murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the last few years, I\u2019ve made a ritual of listening to this recording of the call-in show that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.radio.com\/wtic\" target=\"_blank\">WTIC-AM\/FM<\/a> in Hartford was airing as news of JFK&#8217;s murder broke on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. The first news bulletin comes at about the 26-minute mark. But what\u2019s also haunting is the conversation leading up to it: how to make a German chocolate cake, when to trim a maple tree, what the Sigourney-Burk market had for specials that week. So mundane. Then the world changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JFK&#039;S ASSASSINATION (11\/22\/63) (WTIC-RADIO; HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT)\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Sf2EDvbDEg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also on Youtube: Dennis House, then host of the WFSB-TV Sunday morning show &#8220;Face the State,&#8221; marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination with a look back at how local news organizations covered it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reporting the JFK Assassination on Hartford, Connecticut Media | WFSB, Channel 3 | 2013\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t75lTnSZEgQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few years, I\u2019ve made a ritual of listening to this recording of the call-in show that WTIC-AM\/FM in Hartford was airing as news of JFK&#8217;s murder broke on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. The first news bulletin comes at about the 26-minute mark. But what\u2019s also haunting is the conversation leading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/22\/hartford-jfk-murder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hartford learns of JFK murder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,4,7],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-national-events","tag-politics","tag-radio-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}