In the 1950s, many popular radio shows made the switch to television, including The Jack Benny Program, which moved in 1955 and ran for 10 years on CBS. In Jim Bishop’s book A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, JFK said he was too busy to watch most TV shows but made time each week to unwind with Jack Benny, the vain, penny-pinching miser who played the violin, badly, and insisted he was 39 years old, despite already being 61 when the show first aired. Read more about 1950s pop culture in A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. (see NOVELS).
