Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination

[Rogerm]

Garfield's and McKinley's assassinations were also committed in peacetime and have not received the same detailed analysis as Kennedy's murder. Kennedy was young and telegenic; and, by the 1960s, our system of communications had become instantaneous. In the 1860s the news was spread via the telegraph and newspapers. By the 1960s, we had graduated to film, moving pictures, sound and television.