• by P.J. Bednarski  @pjbtweet, November 22, 2013

 CBSNews.com will begin streaming the broadcast network’s 1963 coverage of President Kennedy’s assassination, just as it happened on-air, beginning at 1:38 this afternoon.

It continues streaming all the way through to Kennedy’s funeral on Monday.

For some people in the media, the TV coverage marked a turning point in the nation’s perception of network news. Television, for the first time, was the gathering place for grieving nation.  

 (The first two-minutes of the coverage replay today would seem to be an instant deviation from the verisimilitude of the rest.  A spokeswoman says it begins with two minutes of pre-roll advertising before actual coverage begins at 1:40.)

 The Website doesn’t provide much of a guide right now, though in the first minutes, you should see and hear Walter Cronkite and others more or less-but not quite—tell American viewers the president’s wounds are fatal.

In the 2 o’clock hour Cronkite said it for the record.  Cronkite read, “From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official: ‘President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time,’  2 o'clock Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago.' ”

During the 3 p.m. hour is a playback of footage from earlier in the day, and at 4 p.m., the first video of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Coverage will be streamed as it was in 1963, when TV typically signed off the air in the early morning hours.  Today’s CBS coverage concludes at 11:24.  It picks up again on Saturday at 8 a.m., Sunday at 9 and Monday at 8.

The CBSNews.com Website is due to let viewers know when some specific highlights will be streamed, and will live-Tweet the streaming coverage. Important moments from the original broadcast will be available on-demand on the Website, and will be shared on the CBS News accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram using the hashtag #JFK50.