{"id":1451,"date":"2012-11-21T22:47:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T03:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2012-11-21T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T04:18:07","slug":"the-jfk-assassination-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"The JFK Assassination Remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-10.43.45-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1452\" title=\"Governor George Romney with WKNR's Philip Nye\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-10.43.45-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-10.43.45-PM.png 205w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-10.43.45-PM-150x107.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>On November 20, 2004 Keener13.com presented a podcast detailing the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, how radio covered the news and how the brand new WKNR became an all-news station during that staggering moment in American History.<\/p>\n<p>We begin with a rare logger tape from KLIF in Dallas. Keener fan and Kennedy scholar Jim Feliciano connected us with this one-of-a-kind historical record. Rex Jones, Gary DeLaune, Joe Long and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gordon_McLendon\" target=\"_blank\">Gordon McLendon<\/a> (yep, that Gordon McLendon &#8211; one of the fathers of Top 40 radio) described the rapidly unfolding events. Then we fast-forward one year later to the WKNR documentary about that day, produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?page_id=619\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Green<\/a> and Philip Nye (seen at left interviewing Michigan Governor George Romney) for <a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?page_id=523\" target=\"_blank\">WKNR News<\/a>. It is said that television news came of age on that day, 41 years ago. But for many, \u00a0radio was still a trusted source of timely, if not always accurate information. For those who depended on their radios during Hurricane Sandy, that&#8217;s still very much the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spartanmedia.net\/keener\/Keener13Podcast112004.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the program<\/a>. 31 Minutes 11.1MB MP3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 20, 2004 Keener13.com presented a podcast detailing the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, how radio covered the news and how the brand new WKNR became an all-news station during that staggering moment in American History. We begin with a rare logger tape from KLIF in Dallas. Keener fan and Kennedy scholar Jim Feliciano connected us with this one-of-a-kind historical record. Rex Jones, Gary DeLaune, Joe Long and Gordon McLendon (yep, that Gordon McLendon &#8211; one of the fathers of Top 40 radio) described the rapidly unfolding events. Then we fast-forward one year later to the WKNR documentary about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keener","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27724,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/27724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}