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1996-04-10
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Side Story .
The TV child cannot see ahead because he wants
involvement, and he cannot accept a fragmentary and merely
visualized goal or destiny in learning or in life.
MURDER BY TELEVISION
Jack Ruby shot Lee Oswald while tightly surrounded by
guards who were paralyzed by television cameras. The
fascinating and involving power of television scarcely needed
this additional proof of its peculiar operation upon human
perceptions. The Kennedy assassination gave people an
immediate sense of the television power to create depth
involvement, on the one hand, and a numbing effect as deep as
grief, itself, on the other hand. Most people were amazed at the