The electronic window allows us to see it now

As a window to the world, no other medium captures theintensity, the passion, the emotion, the immediacy of stunninghistorical events more profoundly than television.

Over the years, Americans have been front-row witnesses tohistory in the making all by virture of a screen in the corner of theliving room.

The following is a list of the Top 10 events that have not onlyshaped our own lives, but also have contributed to the evolution oftelevision as the dominant source of news and information for theAmerican people.

1. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Nov. 22,1963).

With stunning swiftness, Camelot crumbled as televisioninterrupted …