Pete Rozelle, the Commissioner of the NFL in 1963, consulted with a friend in the Kennedy administration who said the games should go on before deciding that the games would be played on the Sunday following JFK's death. The friend, Kennedy press secretary Pierre Salinger, said years later in an interview "Absolutely, it was the right decision. I've never questioned it. This country needed some normalcy, and football, which is a very important game in our society, helped provide it."
Upon his retirement, Rozelle said it was his biggest mistake as commissioner.
The American Football League cancelled all games scheduled for that weekend.
to investigate the assassination of president John F Kennedy
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy happened on 1968-06-05.
The cast of The Assassination of President Kennedy - 2013 includes: Dan Rather as himself
November 22, 1963
November of 1963.
Lyndon Johnson succeeded Kennedy.
Oliver Stone made a movie of the assassination of John Kennedy
Most older Americans remember watching television news after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. John F. Kennedy was not the first assassination of a US President.
Lee Harvey Oswald.
The Greek billionaire, Aristotle Onassis, about five years after the assassination of her husband John F. Kennedy on October 20th, 1968 on Onassis' private island, Skorpios.
Warren Commission Report Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
It was in 1978 that the united States' House Select Committee on Assassinations reported their conclusions that the Kennedy assassination was likely the result of a conspiracy.