Warning Given On Live TV Violence
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, April 4. A warning about violence on live television programmes was given today by the president of the Mental Health Film Council and professor of international relations at Edinburgh University, Professor Richie Calder, “The Times” reported. He told a < inference at York on television and mental health that more than 22 million people had seen Lee Oswald, President Kennedy’s
assassin, actually shot on television.
“The impact of that on those people must have be.n terrific,” he said. “People expect to see violence and shootings during a televised Western but that is fabricated. “When something is being shown live . . . viewers are given no warning or time to prepare for something terrible.
“We are facing the problem that people could become insensitive to grief and man’s inhumanity to man.”
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31027, 5 April 1966, Page 17
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