When we watched the news stories, it was the day before the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, so the bigger news story was of that day when the president was killed. The story went into detail about the plane, Air Force One, that carried the president back from Dallas. They had to cut out seats and other parts of the plane to get his casket into the body of the plane because they didn't want to put him in the cargo hold. Then they talked about the days back and the ride back as well. The plane is now a memorial and is out of use, however I believe they said 7 more presidents used the plane after Kennedy before it was retired. Now this story is a big one. They gave detailed information about the situation and also unknown facts about the plane that some people, myself included, did not know about. It was one that many people would have liked to hear, especially the older population who were around when Kennedy was killed. It's important because the death of the leader of a country is huge, especially when he is assassinated.
Now, there were several "fluff" stories that they stuck in there between the bigger more important stories, like one about same sex marriage that got about 30 seconds of attention. There was also a story about an American Korean War vet who was "captured" by North Korean officials while leaving after being there for some sort of remembrance event. This story might have been moderately important, but it got little air time and didn't have much information or detail. If they really truly cared about an 85 year old man being kept from returning to America by a country that we aren't very friendly with, it would have been as big as the Kennedy story and would have probably had guest speakers. But none of that happened and there wasn't much of detailed information. That is why I think it was just a filler story to take up time before the JFK story.
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