No less entwined in the history of our favourite programme is the sad assassination of John F Kennedy, the news of which dominated our television screens on 23rd November 1963, curtailing the start of Dr. Who by at least five minutes.
The history books have much to say about the short tenure of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 25th President of The United States of America. His short term in office was marked in equal measure by triumph and tragedy, whether it be in failed invasions of Cuba (The Bay of Pigs fiasco) or in triumphant speeches in which he announced new frontiers and that man would set foot on the moon by the end of the 1960s, thereby inaugurating the space race between Russia and the USA.
On 22nd November 1963 Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, the news of his death quickly spread across the world, due in part to the still new medium of television.
But my question is this, right up until his death on that fateful day, Kennedy's influence was far reaching, no doubt the man was charismatic, people still talk about him today with affection, but what would have happened, what would Kennedy have achieved had his life not been cut down so tragically at a relatively young age?