[Dave A]

There were not enough color remote units in the day available on the east coast and on short notice to cover the entire funeral route in color. B&W on all the archives is what was broadcast of the route via the pool of
DC networks and local stations.

The few remote trucks of the day only had a handful of TK-41 (the camera of exclusivity) on-board. NBC did baseball in color with only four or five cameras from the NYC truck. Probably all they owned in the remote trucks of the day.

NBC had one remote truck in NYC, perhaps a second on the west coast. Not sure about DC. CBS was 1965 or so for color and only in studios, and ABC was the same.

There were a handful of independent remote trucks like Red Skelton but that was only four more cameras out west.

The end result is that there were a handful of color remote trucks and not enough to do the coverage. B&W is what we saw.

Most any presidential event is a pool situation, but the pool looks awfully low in 1963 for color. The pool would have been all the nets and locals in B&W.

The archive footage we can see will confirm the paucity of color at the network end. Steve D is invited to correct my remberance of color history with my apologies.

RCA kept selling color sets anyway.

"Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story". Richie Ashburn