Darren Rovell shared footage of JFK’s assassination at 7:30 a.m. and his followers weren’t happy

“The Zapruder film goes great with eggs, D. Thanks.”

Looking to see some up-close footage of an assassination with your morning coffee? Then, dear friend, Darren Rovell has got you covered.

The former ESPNer, current Action Network “reporter,” who can find the dollar value amount of just about anything, has done so with one of our nation’s great tragedies on Friday morning.

It is the anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and to celebrate (?) that, Rovell shared a clip of the infamous Zapruder film, which shows the president being shot in the head.

He did this at 7:30 in the morning. He also shared the dollar amount that the Zapruder film sold for (including subsequent sales) because that’s what is really important here.

(Listen, I’m not going to go holier than thou and say that the footage is inappropriate. It’s a part of our nation’s history, etc. etc. HOWEVER, trying to tie in the bizness angle by including the dollar amounts of what the Zapruder film sold for makes me earnestly doubt that Rovell was trying to share an important moment from our history, and makes it seem much more likely that he was just doing this to tie it to his beat and get some Internet Clout.)

I’m not going to share the original tweet, but if you want to see a president get shot in the head with your eggs, by all means, go visit Rovell’s Twitter page.

What I will share was the reaction to the tweet:

Don’t worry, though: Rovell had a very good explanation for why he did what he did. See, there’s never a convenient time to talk about horrific parts of history … or share what the Zapruder film sold for.

Thanks, Darren!