A special announcement from BBC TV on the day US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
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[00:00:00] GRAPHIC: a ‘Special Announcement’ graphic is used to inform viewers that special programmes providing world opinion on the death of the president will be broadcast over the weekend – the first of which will be at 1pm tomorrow.
[00:00:17] CLOCK: at 9.27pm, we’re told that the schedule has been rearranged. The next programme will be Britten at 50 and that will follow at 9.35pm.
The BBC played the USA national anthem on that day.