Colonial Pictures’ recreation of the CBS Newsroom circa November 22, 1963, the day Walter Cronkite broke the news to the nation that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Courtesy of Colonial Pictures. The CBS Newsroom is in a frenzy. Phones ring and jangle the metal desks, pencils scribble down notes for the upcoming News Bulletin, chalk flies across the blackboard recording reporters and place, cigarettes are lit, inhaled, and then the smoke is expelled, adding to the frenetic haze, and two clocks tick on the wall – one displaying Eastern Standard Time, the other Central Standard Time. If it were 1963, in the center of it all would have sat the man, Walter Cronkite, who would break the news to the nation that John F. Kennedy was dead. But this is 2013 and not the CBS Newsroom. Instead, we are in a classroom at the General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen on… Read More