Title: Covering the Body
First published: 1992
Description: Covering the Body (the title refers to the charge given journalists to follow a president) is a powerful reassessment of the media's role in shaping our collective memory of the assassination--at the same time as it used the assassination coverage to legitimize its own role as official interpreter of American reality. Of the more than fifty reporters covering Kennedy in Dallas, no one actually saw the assassination. And faced with a monumentally important story that was continuously breaking, most journalists had no time to verify leads or substantiate reports. Rather, they took discrete moments of their stories and turned them into one coherent narrative, blurring what was and was not "professional" about their coverage.
Subjects: Assassination, Journalism, History, Kennedy, john f. (john fitzgerald), 1917-1963, assassination, Journalism, united states
Places: United States
People: John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: E842.9 .Z45 1992