Disclosed: Journalist helped defuse a budding conflict between the US and Cuba in 1964
http:// archive.is/p90h0
‘My Dearest Fidel’: An ABC Journalist’s Secret Liaison With Fidel Castro
http:// archive.is/y0ZBP
Lisa Howard was on As the World Turns, Guiding Light, and The Ford Television Theatre
http:// archive.is/RSEIK
Agnes Nixon, Maggie’s grandmother, was the lead writer for Guiding Light and wrote on The Ford Television Theatre
http:// archive.is/TXYJ8
>On November 22, 1963, the live CBS broadcast of As The World Turns began as always at 1:30 EST. In this episode, the Hughes family was discussing plans for Thanksgiving. Ten minutes later, a "CBS News Bulletin" slide suddenly came up on the screen and Walter Cronkite gave the first report of the assassination.[17]
At the end of this bulletin, CBS rejoined As The World Turns, which was still in progress. The cast, performing the episode live, was not yet aware of the rapidly developing situation.
>As NBC and ABC, the other two major U.S. TV networks, were not programming at the time (the 1:30–2:00 ET period belonging to their local affiliates), As The World Turns has the distinction of being the last regular U.S. network program broadcast for the next four days as the assassination and funeral of JFK and the transition of power to President Lyndon B. Johnson took center stage.