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Nine years after a record number of Americans turned to their TV sets following President John F. Kennedy's assassination, a worldwide audience of 900 million watched a terrorist attack at the 1972 Summer Olympics unfold on live television.[1] Just as CBS anchor Walter Cronkite choked back tears when he announced that the president had died in 1963, ABC sportscaster Jim McKay fought his emotions as he broke the news that the remaining hostages connected to the Israeli Olympic team had perished during a botched rescue attempt. 18 Jim McKay, I The Real McKay: My Wide World of Sports i (New York: Dutton, 1998), 73-74. 19 McKay, I The Real McKay i , 74-75. 20 McKay, 75. 21 "Interviews, undated, 1999", 48. 22 Travis Vogan, I ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television i , 1st ed. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018), 133. [Extracted from the article] |
