We have quite an interesting Time Machine operating on The Game Show Network's "Black-and-White Overnight" series. Tonight (this morning), they ran an episode of What's My Line? that originally aired October 27, 1963. The Mystery Guest was Ethel Merman, who was plugging It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World which was, she said, set to open in New York on November 17. GSN generally runs these consecutively but some shows are missing from their library and, once in a while, they jump from one period to another for no visible reason. If they continue in sequence this week, they'll be running the shows just before and just after the assassination of President Kennedy.
One assumes the "post" comments will be of interest, particularly those of panelist Dorothy Kilgallen, who later got involved in one of the countless investigations of the murder. Two years later, following several trips to Texas to interview Jack Ruby, she was found dead in her apartment. There were no indications of foul play but most J.F.K. conspiracy theorists want to believe that she was murdered because she was about to blow the case wide open. Anyway, you might want to set the VCR or TiVo…