On Nov. 22, 1963, TV took over the news: "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, you'll excuse the fact that I'm out of breath," the rumpled reporter gasped as he interrupted a fashion model's televised chat about the appropriateness of zippered sleeves. "But 10 or 15 minutes ago, a tragic thing, from all indications at this point, has happened in the city of Dallas..." Though he didn't know it, the reporter was bringing news not just of President Kennedy's assassination, but of a revolution in American journalism: Television, right then and there, was taking over.
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