does "soapland daydream" mean "unrealistic soap opera?" Fridays boundless national audience had begun to gather six minutes after Lee Oswald ceased firing. At 12:36 CST Don Gardiner of the ABC radio network cut into local programs with a relay of the embattled Merriman Smith's first precede, torn off teletype machines two minutes before. At 12:40—when Kellerman was telling Behn "Look at your clock"— CBS interrupted "As the World Turns," a soapland daydream. Viewers beheld Walter Cronkite announcing that "In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade.