<\/a>Walter Jacobson (1963)<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cRoll it on people coming out. They\u2019ve been in the dark for the past three hours watching a movie. They\u2019ll have no idea the president\u2019s been shot. Tell them what happened, and ask how they feel about it,\u201d the veteran Chicago anchorman recalled in his 2012 autobiography, Walter\u2019s Perspective: A Memoir of Fifty Years in Chicago TV News.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cWhat I got was shock and tears. A lot of it. Telling someone, cold and out of the blue, that the president of the United States has been shot in the head and is dead, then demanding to know \u2018How do you feel about it?\u2019 That\u2019s not journalism. It\u2019s National Enquirer, a paparazzi attack. It\u2019s intrusion.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking back, I wish I had refused to be that intrusive, that grotesquely insensitive. But back then, it didn\u2019t occur to me to refuse. I was a second-string reporter competing for the starting lineup, and the story was huge. I didn\u2019t think about what it would be like on the other side of the microphone, how much I\u2019d want to smash it, or at least turn away from it in disgust, and to give a finger to the cameraman.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the few working newsmen that day still active in Chicago journalism, Jacobson, 76, delivers weekly commentaries on WLS AM 890.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the early afternoon of Friday, November 22, 1963, Walter Jacobson, a 26-year-old reporter and news writer for WBBM-Channel 2, was having lunch at the Chicago Press Club in the Hotel St. Clair when his conversation with executive producer Dick Goldberg was interrupted by news that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas,... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}