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July 22nd 1962 If I had wanted to see pictures from across the Atlantic I would have to wait. Couriered by aircraft in a few hours and then eventually broadcast perhaps a day after the event, picture news travelled slowly. … Continue reading →

July 22nd 1962
If I had wanted to see pictures from across the Atlantic I would have to wait. Couriered by aircraft in a few hours and then eventually broadcast perhaps a day after the event, picture news travelled slowly. Newspapers were still King, there was no way you could know or see the news much faster.
Newsflash….Pictures to follow….
Then it happened.
The world shrank.
It’s an over used cliché really. But in July 1962 the Atlantic at least got metaphorically smaller. Just 20 years before it had been a deadly battlefield. The fight to take people, material and information across thousands of miles of ocean had seen tens of thousands die.
The most dangerous journey in the world. Atlantic 1940′s.
In the 1940s the Atlantic was a chasm between worlds.
Then on July 23rd 1962 Richard Dimbleby spoke to Walter Cronkite. There were pictures of Paris and New York, a baseball game. Kennedy ...