One of KQED 's early local programs was '' World Press '' , an hour-long weekly roundup of international news stories analyzed by a panel of political analysts , which debuted in 1963 . Panel members , who were political science analysts specializing in each specific global area , each brought a newspaper for round table discussion . It was developed by San Francisco Supervisor Roger Boas , who brought his long-term interest in government , politics , television and business to the show . The program " summed up the foreign reaction to such events as the Kennedy assassinations , the Vietnam War , along with thousands of other events that have shaped the decade of the sixties . " What started as a local public access program with no financial support became the longest continuously running discussion program televised on approximately 185 stations
assassinations
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
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