JoeyBabe25 asked: said:One wonders how the radio webs handled the shooting of Robert Kennedy in 1968. It happened about 3am EDT in L.A., and while the west coast was certainly hot (and I think the tv networks were nationwide) what about the radio networks on the east coast?
It was the night of the 1968 California Presidential Primary (polls there having closed at 11 P.M. EDT; 8 PDT), so the networks may have planned to stay on the air to provide updates (or extended live coverage) until after the winning candidates in each party had made their acceptance speeches. Thus, I suspect ABC's four sub-networks, CBS, Mutual, and NBC were still "on the air" in the East and were able to switch to correspondents in the Ambassador Hotel, then of course, to continue nonstop coverage well into the day on Wednesday.