Editing NFL on CBS (section)

====The fallout from the JFK assassination====
On November 24, 1963, just two days after the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination]] of [[President of the United States|President]] [[John F. Kennedy]], the NFL played its normal schedule of games. Commissioner [[Pete Rozelle]] said about playing the games: "It has been traditional in sports for athletes to perform in times of great personal tragedy. Football was Mr. Kennedy's game. He thrived on competition."<ref>{{cite news|title=It's Tradition To Carry on, Rozelle Says|author=Dave Brady|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=November 24, 1963|page=C2}}</ref> No NFL games were telecast (CBS Chairman [[Bill Paley]] ordered no telecasts of any NFL games played during the period of mourning), since on the afternoon of November 22, just after Kennedy had been pronounced dead, CBS President [[Frank Stanton (executive)|Frank Stanton]] ordered that all regular programming be pre-empted until after Kennedy was buried at his [[State funeral of John F. Kennedy|funeral procession]]. Normal programming, including the NFL, was replaced by non-stop [[CBS News|news coverage]], broadcast without commercials.