The newspaper was famous for publishing many photographs with the " Journal-American Photo " credit line as well as news photographs from Associated Press and other wire services . With one of the highest circulations in New York in the 1950s and 1960s , the '' Journal-American '' nevertheless had difficulties attracting advertising as its blue-collar reading base turned to television , a situation compounded by the fact television news were affecting evening newspapers more than their morning counterparts , something evident starting with the four-day period of JFK 's assassination , Jack Ruby 's shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald and both men 's funerals . New York newspapers in general were in dire straits by then , following a devastating newspaper strike in late 1962 and early 1963
JFK 's assassination
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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