@akropiss Which ALLEGEDLY "official" report are you referring to? If you can do so, quote us the title and author of this report and also give us the chapter and verse regarding its ALLEGED "one shot" reference.
That doesn't make it scripted. EVERY radio news anchor from coast to coast read that same UPI wire bulletin, not just Gardiner. That's why the wire services exist in the first place. The stories are not carried by the wire services so that no one will read them on the air. They are carried by the wire services so that EVERYONE WILL read them on the air. That's not scripted news. That's real news being fed from a real reporter in Dallas via the wires to real news anchors in cities across the U.S.
NostalgiaBob and Bucknorm are mindlessly tossing around the term "scripted" without any idea what they're talking about. "Scripted" has a negative connotation. To most people it suggests something is staged. But there's nothing staged in this ABC Radio News bulletin by Don Gardiner nor in the subsequent radio news coverage by Gardiner and his network on that tragic day. Reading a wire bulletin on the air is something all news anchors have done for decades. There's nothing "scripted" about that.
What's more, ABC Radio's 11/22/63 coverage was not just some rip-and-read affair. While Don Gardiner read on the air various UPI and AP bulletins ripped from the teletype machines, he also talked live with ABC correspondents in Dallas such as Bob Clark. Like all the other networks, ABC had its own reporters on the scene who reported their stories, live on the air. Guys like NostalgiaBob and Bucknorm are ignorant about that. Their notions about things being "scripted" are simplistic and wrong.
Try to understand something. The ABC Radio anchor (Don Gardiner) is reading from a UPI wire bulletin. You probably don't know what that is. It's a bulletin from Dallas that has gone out nationwide to radio and TV networks and stations from coast to coast. All of the news anchors who received that very same UPI wire bulletin from Dallas went on the air and read it. Not just Don Gardiner. ALL OF THEM READ IT from coast to coast.
So the anchors at the various radio and TV networks and stations from coast to coast were not reading something that was scripted especially for them to read as part of some vast conspiracy. What they were reading was a bona fide news wire bulletin from United Press International that had been dictated to a UPI Dallas bureau teletype operator by newsman Merriman Smith while Smith was still riding in his press car which was now racing to Parkland Hospital.
So, yes, Don Gardiner was in fact reading something. It wasn't a big secret then, nor is it a big secret now, that he was reading something. He wasn't even trying to hide the fact that he was reading something. The point is Gardiner was not reading some script pre-written by assassination conspirators before the shots were fired in Dallas. What Gardiner was reading was a legitimate news wire bulletin dictated by phone from newsman Smith moments after the shots were fired in the JFK motorcade.
Johnny Roselli was flown into Dallas the morning of 11/22/63 on a CIA Military Air Transit (MATS) flight. Nobody seems to find it interesting that one of the head of the Chicago mafia was coincidentally flown into Dallas on such a flight?
Just for accuracy's sake, MATS stands for Military Air "Transport" (not "Transit") Service. We don't wish to turn this YouTube posting into a JFK conspiracy forum, but just to clarify: the Johnny Roselli claim apparently comes from someone named Robert Tosh Plumlee, who seems to have claimed that he personally flew Roselli in to Texas that morning for the purpose of trying to STOP what Plumlee apparently has claimed was an organized effort to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in Dallas.
The reason this isn't interesting is that is is utterly untrue...it's amazing how many idiotic notions there are about JFK's assassination! You hear the one about the limo driver? He's the one who REALLY shot him! ROTFLMAO!
By the way, 1789 should not be considered as a year during which America "got lucky" as our Canadian friend would put it. Since that was the first year of Washington's first term, presidential assassination at that time was the farthest thing from commonplace that it would ever be. So in those early days of the republic, the lack of presidential attempts would not have been considered the matter of luck as it might have been regarded in latter periods.
I thought it might mean something about attempts on presidents' lives since you said those time periods in reference to assassination attempts but the 1789 throws me. That's when Washington became president--did someone attempt to take his life? I know in 1835 the gun misfired with Andrew Jackson and in 1865 Lincoln was shot and killed.
BTW I signed up to YouTube to answer this question. I love presidential history. I had all the presidents memorized in order by the age of 9 LOL
Yes, you're correct on all of those. There were no attempts on the lives of U.S. Presidents during the 46 years from 1789 (the first year America had a President) to 1835. Then there was another hiatus lasting 30 years from 1835 (the year of the first attempt on a President's life, which was the failed Jackson attempt) to the 1865 Lincoln assassination. If there are no such attempts for the next two years then, in 2011, we will post a tie with that earlier 30-year period for no attempts.
To fill in the period between the Lincoln killing in 1865 and the Reagan shooting in 1981: Pres. Garfield was killed in 1881, Pres. McKinley was killed in 1901, Ex-Pres. T.Roosevelt was wounded in 1912, Pres.-elect F.Roosevelt was targeted in 1933, Pres. Truman was targeted in 1950, Pres. Kennedy was killed in 1963 and Pres. Ford was targeted twice in 1975. There have been unconfirmed reports, claims and rumors about other attempts or plots. But the above are the only confirmed direct assaults.
Ha! Me, too I had memorized the presidents by about 9, too! And I'm pretty good on my presidential history. Had you ever heard of the Pres. zero year mystery? Some say Chief Tecumseh (?) placed a curse on all Pres. elected in zero years -- kind of weird. All died in office from 1840 up till JFK (1960) Reagan escaped - maybe he broke the curse!
BTW -- 1789 of course was when Washington became President (you knew that).
That's right, and not just any radio broadcast but the FIRST nationwide radio broadcast reporting the shots fired at Kennedy's motorcade in Dallas. This first bulletin by ABC Radio beat Walter Cronkite's first TV bulletin by more than three minutes.
No, but thank you for playing. Anyone else? Surely someone out there can tell us the significance of 1789, 1835 and 1865 when it comes to U.S. Presidential history and when it comes to the more specific subject we're discussing here with respect to Presidents.
I remember as a kid in elementary school up here in Canada, the someone from the school office came around and announced what had happenned and let us out for the rest of the day in honour of Pres. Kennedy. It was shocking to me, now adays, its become matter of fact almost.
Actually that's not true. Here in the states we are currently going through one of our longest periods yet without an assassination attempt on an incumbent or former President or President-elect. Thus far, it's been a period of 28 years since the last attempt (against President Reagan in March 1981). Only two other such periods in our presidential history have been longer: from 1789 to 1835 and from 1835 to 1865. A quiz question: can anyone tell us the significance of these years I mentioned?
Oh, yes, I agree with that part, of course. But I'm sure you realize the point I was making was that it is actually not true this sort of attack is almost a normal fact of live (or normal occurrence) in the U.S. now adays. Clearly it is not, at the present time, given that there's been no such attack since 1981.
Actually I don't think it's true that this is the longest spell without an assassination attempt on a incumbent, former or elected president. I believe the last of the three assination attempts on Obama's life accured after he was elected. If you meant times when someone actually had a gun aimed at a president, then I cede to your obvious expertise.
"Attempt" in this case means an actual physical act directed against the target (as opposed to a mere intention or plan to act) and one which is verified by the U.S. Secret Service. The last such verified attempt was on March 30, 1981.
@naltrexone23X The alleged incident in the former Soviet republic of Georgia has never been verified by the Secret Service or by any other U.S. Government body. Therefore it does not "count" as far as the United States is concerned. The U.S. does not officially recognize it as a presidential assassination attempt.
Thanks for this interesting information. It would appear from what you're saying that the local news team at WBZ was right on the stick and beat its own network NBC onto the air with news about the JFK shooting. Just a trivial correction to what you said. NBC's network-wide flash was not at 1:45 pm EST but was at 1:46 pm EST (the earlier NBC flash at 1:45 pm EST was only seen on WNBC in NYC and therefore not seen in Boston). It would be nice to know who the WBZ newsman was in the local bulletin.
Thank you so much for that information. I wonder if all those gentlemen are still with us today and, if so, whether one could learn which of them did the local WBZ voice-over bulletin about the JFK shooting. If that bulletin was indeed on the air during the same minute that Cronkite at CBS was on the air nationally with his first bulletin, it's something that ought to be given some recognition.
Go to the video titled, Texas School Book Depository Employees - Part 3
At the 2:56 minute mark, you will see & hear James Jarman, Jr... He is the man who assassinated President Kennedy.
The two previous guys shown, Norman & Williams were co-conspirators. Along with Charles Douglas Givens (Not shown)...
Do an "MSN" search with the key words, James Jarman, Jr., Assassin, for the entire story... The 8th site listed, "The John F" is the most comprehensive...
Interesting that this report begins with Doris Day signing the praises of Hollywood and ends with news of an assassination attempt on the president. An era was really coming to an end back then - the saccharine fifties and early sixties were giving way to uncertain times.
Proof that the CIA prevented Doc Brown from going back in time, inventing the bullet-proof bubbletop, and convincing JFK to use it on a sunny day. Damn you, CIA!
There's only way Doc Brown could have convinced President Kennedy to roll out the bubbletop on a perfectly sunny day: Promise JFK a trip back in time to 48 BC so he could date Cleopatra.
Indeed, that's always been the point I've stressed to others on this particular subject. The only way JFK would have consented to using the bubbletop would have been if it were raining, which it no longer was in Dallas by midday. Had it been raining and had the top been up, JFK still would have been shot since the top wasn't bulletproof. There's only way the top could have prevented his murder: if the assassin(s) had decided not to shoot due to incorrectly assuming that the top was bulletproof.
Thanks for that information. I had always thought that Walter Cronkite's announcement, interrupting the daily soap opera "As The World Turns", was the first national bulletin. It seems as if it is always presented that way.
Although, truthfully, I HAD heard about previous radio announcements. It is just that television, breaking through with a bulletin, visually, is more dramatic.
I've heard local radio reports in Dallas, which seemed to pick it up very quickly. Maybe they were the VERY 1st?
The story of the local Dallas radio reports is a bit complicated. We'll get to that in a moment. First, just to repeat for clarity's sake:
The first nationwide news bulletin was a radio bulletin broadcast by the ABC Radio Network at 1:36 PM EST (or 12:36 PM CST, Dallas time). That is the bulletin you're hearing in this video.
Radio beat television to the air that day. The first nationwide TV bulletin was Walter Cronkite's CBS network bulletin at 1:40 PM EST (or 12:40 PM CST, Dallas time).
For years, many believed incorrectly that KBOX Radio broadcast live coverage of JFK's shooting. The truth is it did not. The famous Sam Pate and Ron Jenkins KBOX recording actually was manufactured by Pate and Jenkins AFTER November 22, 1963. Pate has admitted to this. You can learn more about the KBOX hoax by going to the reelradio website and reading the comments section for "KBOX Dallas, November 22, 1963". Another source is Gary Mack at the Sixth Floor Museum.
It's unclear when exactly WFAA Radio broadcast its first JFK shooting radio bulletin. It was NOT live on the air from Dealey Plaza when the shots erupted.
KRLD Radio WAS live on the air from Main Street (blocks away from Dealey Plaza) when the shots erupted. From that location, reporter Bob Huffaker was speaking live about the President's visit, having just seen Kennedy's car pass by him only moments before. Unfortunately, he could not hear the shots or see the commotion from that location.
Without going into further details about all the other local Dallas-Ft. Worth radio stations, suffice to say that we are not entirely sure which area radio station aired the very first of the local radio bulletins on November 22, 1963.
But it is absolutely certain that ABC Radio in New York broadcast the very first nationwide bulletin.
Interesting. I watched the video of the motorcade recently. I wondered why there was not any news trucks or reporters filming live on location - like you see today. It just never dawned on me that all reporters had during those days was hand held recorders, and notepads.
In 1963, live TV video-relay cameras were larger and heavier than they are today. It was much more of a chore to transport them and set them up along a parade route, so live coverage of a long, winding presidential motorcade was not done unless the event was predetermined to be historical like that of a presidential inaugural parade. Film cameras were different... since they were much easier to manage, you saw many of them -- both professional and amateur -- all along the Dallas motorcade route.
During JFK's trip to Texas, live TV video-relay cameras were only set up at certain events, those which we might call "well-staged" events (though this is not meant in any way as negative phrasing). On the morning of November 22, 1963 there were only two JFK events featuring live TV video-relay cameras: the Chamber of Commerce breakfast in Ft. Worth and the Air Force One arrival at Dallas' Love Field. KTVT had the live TV pool coverage duties in Ft. Worth. WFAA handled pool duties at Love Field.
If JFK had not been shot in the Dallas motorcade and arrived safely, without incident, at the Trade Mart, then the third JFK event to feature live TV video-relay cameras that day would have happened there. Live TV pool coverage of JFK's Trade Mart speech was to be handled by KRLD (known today as KDFW). Minutes after the motorcade shots erupted, KRLD began relaying live video coverage of Trade Mart reaction to the shooting. CBS and ABC carried portions of KRLD's video-relay feed live nationwide.
So, to sum up, whenever you see YouTube "video" of JFK's motorcade through downtown Dallas and Dealey Plaza, you are not really seeing videotape of him. You are seeing film of him, some of it color and some black-and-white. The only videotapes of JFK that day were of his live-coverage appearances at Love Field in Dallas and, earlier that morning, at the Hotel Texas in Ft. Worth (meaning during the indoor Chamber of Commerce event only, and not during JFK's parking lot speech outside the hotel).
Over the years, some have mistakenly believed the JFK motorcade through Dallas was covered live on local Dallas TV (some have even believed it was covered live nationally on network TV). Neither was the case. The movie "Executive Action" deceived some into believing this because it shows conspiracy plotters gathered round a TV set watching the motorcade's progress. But all those motorcade images were made by film cameras, not live video-relay cameras. The motorcade was filmed. Not carried live.
something to know is that a car of press photographers usually followed the presidential limo by one or two cars, but for the dallas motorcade the photographers' pool car was moved to near the end of the motorcade. why?
Thank you. A researcher interested in following up on this might want to go to the JFK presidential library and search through the various White House press releases and press handouts during 1961-63. Within those documents, there should be parade car information for the various Kennedy motorcades during that period (detailing which cars the photographers were assigned to, etc.). A quick search through such papers should indicate whether the Dallas motorcade did in fact deviate from the norm.
If someone in the Boston area would like to follow up on this by conducting such research at the JFK presidential library, please feel free to report back what you find. Perhaps your research will lay that particular rumor to rest or open up a new area of focus by those who suspect a conspiracy in President Kennedy's assassination. Either way, it's an interesting question. Though we don't like to get too far into the conspiracy thing here, we thank prismaticmarcus for offering his comment.
hi, i appreciate that you don't want to open up a can of worms. but i think it's important to remind people that this murder has gone unsolved. and the US would go a long way to restoring its moral authority if it finally held an open, frank and fearless investigation.
Hello there good friend from Australia, Would you be so kind as to provide us with your source for this info concerning the placement of the photographers' car in the Dallas motorcade?
Prismaticmarcus, your country (Australia) has proved itself to be a great friend and brave ally of the United States for a long time. But, with respect, I have to say that not everyone agrees with your personal belief that the U.S. has lost its moral authority. Like everyone else, you're certainly entitled to that as your opinion, but not everyone shares it. Best wishes.
Check out Vince Palamara's extensive Secret Service collection videos; he has footage of many of JFK's motorcades. In some the press car was apparently near the front (so they take photos of the Pres. -- duh). But yes it IS another unanswered oddity.
as a kid i remember that this was part of my history test.we were taught about the magic bullet n stuff and i remember saying 2 my teacher"I DONT BELIEVE YOU"and i was 10 years old.i didnt believe it then and i dont now.something just aint right about this situation.
The "magic" is the conspiracy theorists who have to place Connally in a position contrary to reality. Connally was sitting 6" inboard and 3" lower than JFK on a jumpseat, turned to his right. THAT CAN'T BE DISPUTED. The bullet past through soft tissue through JFK and HAD NOT PLACE TO GO BUT WHERE CONNALLY WAS HIT. Did it hit the driver or anything else? Yet the CTers believe a bullet struck JFK and just vanished...that's magic.
And a "bullet planted on a stretcher to frame Oswald" is SILLY!
You are ASSUMING that the bullet which passed through President Kennedy's neck was fired from behind. And your stretcher bullet rant is, itself, patently SILLY.
Guys, do what I do. Read the video descriptions that come with these YouTube videos (in the top right column). The vid description for this one explains that this is "Hooray For Hollywood" by Doris Day.
a lot of people today dont get what a huge deal it was that JFK was a Catholic... at the time it was about as much of a stretch for him to have been elected as it was for Obama today... its crazy still that here in the US with all our high standards that this kind of stuff matters at all... but we did it then and again now!
I was only 9 y.o. when I heard of JFK's assassination (in my 3rd grade classroom...) since then I have been convinced of a conspiracy for some 35-40 years....until I saw the American Experience re: JFK's assassination broadcast this past Monday...Still my biggest question regarding Oswald is this....how could he, at the height of the Cold War, 1. renounce his citizenship and live in the USSR 2. change his mind some time later and seemingly easily return to the US 3. with a Russian wife.
4. Go to Mexico, get a Visa to travel Cuba THEN Russia, YET return to Dallas, his wife gives birth to his daughter, the FBI thinks he is an agent and are keeping an eye on him,in which he is a suspect in an attempted murder of a general- questioning his friends, YET he gets a job less then a month from the parade IN AN ELEVATED POSITION OVERLOOKING THE MOTORCADE, is seen bringing a large package into the area, shoots JFK, a governor, a policeman, and goes to a movie. What a busy beaver.
All very good points, especially the one about Oswald getting his job at the TSBD (thru Mrs. Paine) only a few weeks before the JFK assassination. The Texas trip had been officially announced by the White House on September 26, 1963... so, yes, when Oswald was later posted as an employee at the TSBD (a building that would overlook the presidential route), his hiring occurred at a time when it already was known that the President would be visiting Dallas.
Listen to this ABC radio news bulletin again. Notice two things: repetition and emphasis. First, notice Don Gardiner does not repeat only the "three shots" portion. He repeats the entire bulletin (as any good newsman should and wound).
What he's reading twice is the first bulletin to hit the wire services, which was this short one from UPI:
UPI A7N DA
PRECEDE KENNEDY
DALLAS, NOV. 22 (UPI)--THREE SHOTS WERE FIRED AT PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S MOTORCADE TODAY IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS.
This was all the info Gardiner had to read initially. And he repeated all of it, the entire UPI bulletin, not just the "three shots" part.
For Gardiner and all newsman, a wire bulletin reporting shots fired at the motorcade bearing the President of the United States requires going on air immediately with whatever info you have about it, no matter how brief the info may be initially. And you always repeat the entire bulletin just as Gardiner (and others that day) did. Nothing amazing there.
Also nothing amazing about the WAY Gardiner spoke. Listening closely, you should be able to hear that he emphasized nearly every word of this short UPI bulletin, not just the "three shots" part. In fact the word "at" is emphasized as much as, or possibly even more than, the "three shots" part. So should we suspect anything sinister in that? Of course not. Gardiner is emphasizing "at" because initially the info was that JFK had been shot at, with no confirmation yet that he had been wounded.
Had the UPI bulletin reported more than three shots fired at JFK's motorcade, Gardiner would have emphasized that the same way. The essential part of this bulletin is that SHOTS WERE FIRED (that's why the bulletin was sent out in the first place). Therefore Gardiner is going to both emphasize that essential information and repeat it for listeners just joining him. Whether it's THREE SHOTS, FOUR SHOTS or FOURTEEN SHOTS, he's going to read it the same way you heard and he's going to repeat it.
Do you know if the CBS Radio bulletin with Alan Jackson can be heard anywhere. I've read about it but would like to hear it. Thanks for posting this, too. It's a great piece of broadcast history.
JFK'S ASSASSINATION (WCCO-RADIO IN MINNEAPOLIS)(11/22/63)(PART 1)
The above is Part 1 in a series. It begins with a Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota farm news broadcast by local station WCCO, a CBS Radio Network affiliate. Within moments, we hear the farm report interrupted for a follow-up news report on the JFK shooting by a WCCO radio announcer. Not long after that, we then hear the first of CBS Radio's nationwide bulletins voiced by Allan Jackson.
I was only a baby (1 year 8 months old) when JFK was assassinated almost 45 years ago. My Mom was watching T.V. & I was playing in the living when the news bulletin of JFK"s assassination aired on T.V. She told me that was the saddest week for our nation & so close to the Thanksgiving Holiday too.
Scary, I was 4 years old...and it was almost the exact same thing for me. My mom was watching it too, not I. But I do remember watching the funeral and remembering John Boy's salute. I agree, it was probably the saddest week the country ever had, right up there with 9/11.
If it was today they would say "Breaking News from ABC Radio news, this was from possibly from a radio affiliate for ABC Radio that was broadcasting Doris Day's Hooray for Hollywood". Does anyone know the call letters of this station?
Actually, they don't call themselves "ABC Radio News" today. That was the old name. Today they call themselves "ABC News Radio." What you're listening to is from the direct ABC network feed to affiliates on November 22, 1963. As stated in the description, located in the upper right column, the network was providing its affiliated stations a program of popular music (Doris Day's "Hooray For Hollywood" was just one of the many songs piped to the stations by the network during that program feed).
WOW. In other word a audio "wild feed" via satellite that (ABC News Radio) used to "interruped" regular programming for this bulletin (now known as a "special report or breaking news". Very interesting. Thanks!
Not via satellite. None of the radio networks fed via satellite in 1963 (satellite came years later). This was a normal ABC radio feed line to affiliates which daily featured regularly scheduled news and entertainment programs. The sudden news from Dallas meant scrapping all regularly scheduled programs and going fully to the news side to cover the bulletins coming in by wire and by phone from Dallas. In 1963, the network was called ABC Radio News. Today, it is called ABC News Radio.
He's trying to say that the media were in on the JFK conspiracy, that their news coverage was akin to a made-up Hollywood production. That's total BS of course. But it's the sort of stuff you hear from some people born after 1963, who get their information from Oliver Stone, conspiracy web sites, 9/11 Truthers, etc. and then just mindlessly believe it all. While I suspect there was indeed more than one person involved in the JFK murder, I think it's BS to suggest the media were also involved.
Just like Caroline, I too was in the first grade on that day. Unfortunately, I just was too young to simply remember that day. If he got shot at 12:30 Dallas time, then I was probably in school.
This day, along with 9/11, the assassination of both RFK and Martin Luther King, go down in history as one of America's tragic days.
I was sitting in my 2nd grade class and I remember an older student came into our classroom just before lunch and read the announcement. And I remember the teacher had no reaction whatsoever, and just continued on with the class.
The teacher was prabably so shocked or heartbroken that he/she couldn't make a reaction. Plus you were only 2nd graders, so he/she also didn;t want to panick you. I hope that is the case, otherwise like what rexanater said, that's unreal.
I was 10 years old sitting in my 4th grade class in catholic school. A nun rushed in and told our nun the news. You could hear "gasps" everywhere. It was shock and chaos. While walking home I could see people crying in the streets. I arrived home (which was only 3 blocks from school) and my mother was on her knees praying out loud, tears pouring down her face. To me, this one event was the ignition point for the decline of the USA....we have been in a free fall ever since
A shame for the USA. As I get a little older I understand the way older people would react when this would be brought up in talks. I am ashamed that we stand by and do nothing. This was to be the greatest leader we ever had.
RWDtech certainly is entitled to his opinion. However most people aware of the late Don Gardiner's work probably would discount that negative viewpoint and likely would agree that Gardiner was one of the best network news anchormen in the history of radio broadcasting.
I picked up the JFK assisnation footage on ITunes a few years ago from ABC News. ABC News for TV back in those days was a low budget department and it showed by the way it was reported from the set they used, the mics. It wasn't until they got the feed to WFAA going that it smoothed out a bit. Interesting footage on there. Frank Reynolds was on as a reporter in Chicago. Long before the anchor duties of the famous Ronald Regan assisnation reporting happened.
Uhmm... because the networks were briefed in advanced by a clandestine group of conspiracy organizers who were clever and resourceful enough to kill a President, yet dumb enough to circulate then-irrelevant details, and shoot the man in full public view. (Sarcasm.) Idiot.
I'm British, but I always remember my grandmother talking about this terrible day. How neighbours left their houses and stood the street talking to each other, not knowing what to say or do. They were totally shocked at the news from America.
It just proves what a world shaking event this was.
I wasn't alive when JFK was killed, I've lived thru other tragic sudden news bulletins like the Challenger disaster, Magic Johnson's HIV revelation, Princess Di's & JFK Jr's deaths, and of course 9-11. So I can imagine how those that lived thru JFK, RFK & King's assasinations felt.
With all due respect, you really can't imagine the effect of this unless you lived through it yourself (similarly, you and I can't imagine what the Civil War was like). This was the first U.S. presidential assassination in 62 years, and this sort of event was not anywhere near to commonplace in 1963. It was a profound shock. Also, with only the exception of 9/11, none of these other events or deaths you mention have had as much impact as President Kennedy's assassination (sorry Magic Johnson).
President Kennedy's assassination had far greater impact than Diana's death in terms of its effect on peoples' outward reactions and inward impressions and its effect on human history. The sudden, violent removal of the most powerful person in the world (who had risked nuclear war with the Soviet Union over offensive missiles in Cuba but masterfully brought us through that crisis and then achieved the Test Ban Treaty less than a year later) naturally has greater impact than that of a princess.
While you and a number of others may have been personally moved by Diana's tragic death and the public response to it, not everyone responded to her death as you did. Many felt, rightly or wrongly, that the public response was overblown. That wasn't so with President Kennedy's death (it was generally accepted that the world had suffered a loss it couldn't afford and that the strong global response was appropriate). So from just this alone, we can conclude that the Kennedy impact was greater.
It did indeed. Much of the world too. Unless one experienced it, it's hard to fully appreciate the shocking blow dealt that day. A day to be stunned and saddened. And as Eisenhower observed, a day to be angry as well. Ike said he felt not only shock and dismay but indignation. Then he added: America is a nation "of great common sense" and "we are not going to be stampeded or bewildered." So we picked up and went on. And we even made it to the Moon. I think Kennedy would have been proud of that.
One might ask you if you've heard the slews of folks coming forward who worked in Dallas as reporters having their articles changed(interviews with witnesses who were 9 feet away from the pres's lincoln that the WArren Commission chose not to talk to). These people interviewed witnesses who reported more shots and shots from an area other than the Book Depository. Statements changed unless they worked their way into the "3 shots from behind " story. One might ask you to get away from the flock
I'll get back to you. The info is in a documentary on youtube. It aired on the History Channel I believe. Look man, even Conally didn't buy the single bullet theory.
Don't "look man" me. I also do not believe in Arlen Spector's ridiculous single bullet theory. Although Connally refused to acknowledge that the collapse of the single bullet theory meant there must have been more than one gunman involved, I on the other hand do accept that. The JFK murder was definitely a conspiracy. But that does not relieve you of your obligation to prove your claim that slews of reporters were forced to change their stories about more than three shots. Name one of them.
You're trying to slither your way out of having told a fib. It won't work. There is no History Channel video on YouTube or anywhere else that makes the bogus claim you are making. What's more likely the case is that you have completely misinterpreted and misreported something. You seem like the type who would do that. And that is the real deal, bitch.
Because that's what the reporter on the scene believed he heard. UPI's Merriman Smith thought he heard 3 shots and dictated that info by phone to a UPI colleague (who then included this info in the first UPI bulletin, read minutes later on the air by ABC's Don Gardiner). Why would it be important for early reports to leave info like that out? If 3 shots is what the reporter believed he heard, should that not be what he relays to UPI and what UPI then reports? One might ask you that question.
My dad told me he was at home that day with his parents and when they heard that announcement they thought it was just some guy playing a stupid prank, their instinct was that it was someoen shooting like above the presidents head as a joke, it wasnt clear atfirst thatit was fatal, first news was that shots were fired, then the next announcement was that the president was wounded but had survived (he made it to hospital alive) the third announcement bought the bad news
I was in the fifth grade in a classroom in TX at the time. In those days many kids went home for lunch. One boy returning from lunching at his home, (unfortunately our class clown), said the President was killed. The teacher said "That is not funny!" and sent him to the principal's office. Seconds later, the boy returned. As he came in the principal announced that it was true. Tears streaming down her face the teacher got up and hugged the boy and apologized. TX came to a screeching halt.
I think my Mom told me that she was at work when it happened. And a lady I used to work with said she was in grade 2 when it happened. Almost everyone who was old enough knew where they were when on Nov-22-1963.
That's right! It was in April, too! Good memory. I remember walking up and down the West End area, and seeing all of the old cop cars and motorcycles. I took a bunch of pictures outside of the shooting area....mostly of the extras standing around the vintage cars and motorcycles. Pretty bizarre and amazing experience.
I was in the 7th grade. I can still see the principal slightly opening the door, and telling my teacher,with the index finger gesture to come to the door. They spoke quietly for perhaps 1 minute at the most. She came back and told everyone they had to go home, the Pres was shot
I find it fascinating most people who were in school at the time had someone run in the classroom to give word.My mom told me a similar story to yours. Her school secretary came in her classroom whispered to her teacher then ran out crying. I see that all the time in shows or movies where student characters have someone like a secretary or nun come through. 9/11 was my JFK and somebody thought best (odd at first) to run through the floors like Paul Revere yelling "America been Attacked!!"
you can kind of understand, nobody knew exactly what was happening at first, so it is understandable that some people (especialy if they were older and lived during the period of the cold war, esp the cuban missile crisis) might have gotten very panicy.
NostalgiaBob, You were in Dallas in mid April of 1991 then. I went to Dallas for the first time on March 31, 1991 which was Easter Sunday that year. And they were painting the windows to the original beige color and making the area look like 1963 for the JFK film. They filmed 2 weeks after I went I think. They had trimmed the trees back. They made a window on the 7th floor to look like the 6th floor window since they couldn't use the sixth floor window because of the museum.
I was a fourth grade student. My teacher made the announcement just minutes before the dismissal bell rang. We were not dismissed early. My grandfather was waiting outside in his car to take me home, and that impressed me more than hearing that the President was dead! I was always expected to walk to and from school. It was a frightening, troubling weekend. I had been invited to a birthday party on Saturday but it was cancelled.
i was born in '82 but the impact of Pres. John F. Kennedy in my life was great. my parents idolized him so much. the first time i read, saw and watched his death i never thought that i'd also be one of those people who look up to him... i believe in him so much... God bless his soul
I Was Born In 1982,In Texas, I Might Add. If The Bubble Top Had Been Put Up On His Car, He Would Have Made It To The Dallas Trade Mart, Gave His Speech, Possibly He And President Lyndon Baines Johnson Would Have Been Reelected In 1964, Served Two Full Terms, Watched The Swearing Of President Lyndon Baines Johnson In Washington,D.C., Move To Massachusetts, Walk His Daughter Down The Aisle And Help Raise Her Children.Keri Nowling, Formerly Of Austin, Texas, Now Residing In Seymour, Indiana.
First of all, the bubbletop was NOT bullet proof. Secondly, the rain had stopped and the skies had cleared just before the motorcade started (there is absolutely no way that President Kennedy would have used the bubbletop under clear sunny skies... not a chance of that).
The bubbletop wasn't bullet proof. For obvious security reasons the Secret Service never said publicly it wasn't bullet proof (if the bubbletop was up on a rainy day and a gunman called off his planned attack due to incorrectly believing it was bullet proof, then so much the better). You say they should have used SOMETHING that was bullet proof -- but what? What would have protected JFK and still allowed crowds to see him in his car? Answer: a bullet proof bubbletop. However, such did not exist.
But let's assume for a moment that a bullet proof bubbletop did exist in 1963. Let's assume it was the only thing that could have protected JFK in his car while still allowing crowds to see him. Let's assume such a bullet proof bubbletop had been pressed into presidential service by the Secret Service. That still would not have prevented the assassination. Why? Because there's no way JFK would have allowed them to put up even a bullet proof bubbletop on a clear, sunny early afternoon. No way.
Very interesting that you heard this from the 6th floor museum! I had a really eerie experience there myself (also in 1991). I was in Dallas for a wedding, and talked my friends into going to the 6th floor museum. I knew they were filming the movie "JFK" at the time. Turns out, I watched a re-enactment of the assassination from the window next to the sniper's nest!! Still freaks me out to think about it.
It is my goal at one point in my life to visit Dealey Plaza. I imagine that it will be a very eerie visit. I was not yet born when President Kennedy was assassinated, but I have always been fascinated with the assassination from a historical point of view, and especially as a broadcaster. Thank you for providing this invaluable piece of broadcast history for the rest of us to hear!
@akropiss Which ALLEGEDLY "official" report are you referring to? If you can do so, quote us the title and author of this report and also give us the chapter and verse regarding its ALLEGED "one shot" reference.
heycomeandgetit 1 year ago
it rrrrrrolls off his tongue!!
martyclark2000 1 year ago
Darn it, I wanted to hear Doris Day sing!
jensmom604 1 year ago
i like how he hits that "thRRRRRee shots"
radio men don't speak like that anymore
iVenge 1 year ago 3
how did you get this? it is amazing!
THABANANNAFREAK 1 year ago
It was scripted....he was reading from the UPI teletype that had just come over the wire.
NostalgiaBob 2 years ago
That doesn't make it scripted. EVERY radio news anchor from coast to coast read that same UPI wire bulletin, not just Gardiner. That's why the wire services exist in the first place. The stories are not carried by the wire services so that no one will read them on the air. They are carried by the wire services so that EVERYONE WILL read them on the air. That's not scripted news. That's real news being fed from a real reporter in Dallas via the wires to real news anchors in cities across the U.S.
heycomeandgetit 2 years ago
NostalgiaBob and Bucknorm are mindlessly tossing around the term "scripted" without any idea what they're talking about. "Scripted" has a negative connotation. To most people it suggests something is staged. But there's nothing staged in this ABC Radio News bulletin by Don Gardiner nor in the subsequent radio news coverage by Gardiner and his network on that tragic day. Reading a wire bulletin on the air is something all news anchors have done for decades. There's nothing "scripted" about that.
icestationzebra509 2 years ago
What's more, ABC Radio's 11/22/63 coverage was not just some rip-and-read affair. While Don Gardiner read on the air various UPI and AP bulletins ripped from the teletype machines, he also talked live with ABC correspondents in Dallas such as Bob Clark. Like all the other networks, ABC had its own reporters on the scene who reported their stories, live on the air. Guys like NostalgiaBob and Bucknorm are ignorant about that. Their notions about things being "scripted" are simplistic and wrong.
icestationzebra509 2 years ago
"three shots were fired" sounds scripted to me.
bucknorm 2 years ago
Try to understand something. The ABC Radio anchor (Don Gardiner) is reading from a UPI wire bulletin. You probably don't know what that is. It's a bulletin from Dallas that has gone out nationwide to radio and TV networks and stations from coast to coast. All of the news anchors who received that very same UPI wire bulletin from Dallas went on the air and read it. Not just Don Gardiner. ALL OF THEM READ IT from coast to coast.
heycomeandgetit 2 years ago
So the anchors at the various radio and TV networks and stations from coast to coast were not reading something that was scripted especially for them to read as part of some vast conspiracy. What they were reading was a bona fide news wire bulletin from United Press International that had been dictated to a UPI Dallas bureau teletype operator by newsman Merriman Smith while Smith was still riding in his press car which was now racing to Parkland Hospital.
heycomeandgetit 2 years ago
So, yes, Don Gardiner was in fact reading something. It wasn't a big secret then, nor is it a big secret now, that he was reading something. He wasn't even trying to hide the fact that he was reading something. The point is Gardiner was not reading some script pre-written by assassination conspirators before the shots were fired in Dallas. What Gardiner was reading was a legitimate news wire bulletin dictated by phone from newsman Smith moments after the shots were fired in the JFK motorcade.
heycomeandgetit 2 years ago
Johnny Roselli was flown into Dallas the morning of 11/22/63 on a CIA Military Air Transit (MATS) flight. Nobody seems to find it interesting that one of the head of the Chicago mafia was coincidentally flown into Dallas on such a flight?
ElevenMileRecords 2 years ago
Just for accuracy's sake, MATS stands for Military Air "Transport" (not "Transit") Service. We don't wish to turn this YouTube posting into a JFK conspiracy forum, but just to clarify: the Johnny Roselli claim apparently comes from someone named Robert Tosh Plumlee, who seems to have claimed that he personally flew Roselli in to Texas that morning for the purpose of trying to STOP what Plumlee apparently has claimed was an organized effort to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in Dallas.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
The reason this isn't interesting is that is is utterly untrue...it's amazing how many idiotic notions there are about JFK's assassination! You hear the one about the limo driver? He's the one who REALLY shot him! ROTFLMAO!
donwert 2 years ago
By the way, 1789 should not be considered as a year during which America "got lucky" as our Canadian friend would put it. Since that was the first year of Washington's first term, presidential assassination at that time was the farthest thing from commonplace that it would ever be. So in those early days of the republic, the lack of presidential attempts would not have been considered the matter of luck as it might have been regarded in latter periods.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
I thought it might mean something about attempts on presidents' lives since you said those time periods in reference to assassination attempts but the 1789 throws me. That's when Washington became president--did someone attempt to take his life? I know in 1835 the gun misfired with Andrew Jackson and in 1865 Lincoln was shot and killed.
BTW I signed up to YouTube to answer this question. I love presidential history. I had all the presidents memorized in order by the age of 9 LOL
AndreainArkansas 2 years ago
Yes, you're correct on all of those. There were no attempts on the lives of U.S. Presidents during the 46 years from 1789 (the first year America had a President) to 1835. Then there was another hiatus lasting 30 years from 1835 (the year of the first attempt on a President's life, which was the failed Jackson attempt) to the 1865 Lincoln assassination. If there are no such attempts for the next two years then, in 2011, we will post a tie with that earlier 30-year period for no attempts.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
To fill in the period between the Lincoln killing in 1865 and the Reagan shooting in 1981: Pres. Garfield was killed in 1881, Pres. McKinley was killed in 1901, Ex-Pres. T.Roosevelt was wounded in 1912, Pres.-elect F.Roosevelt was targeted in 1933, Pres. Truman was targeted in 1950, Pres. Kennedy was killed in 1963 and Pres. Ford was targeted twice in 1975. There have been unconfirmed reports, claims and rumors about other attempts or plots. But the above are the only confirmed direct assaults.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
Ha! Me, too I had memorized the presidents by about 9, too! And I'm pretty good on my presidential history. Had you ever heard of the Pres. zero year mystery? Some say Chief Tecumseh (?) placed a curse on all Pres. elected in zero years -- kind of weird. All died in office from 1840 up till JFK (1960) Reagan escaped - maybe he broke the curse!
BTW -- 1789 of course was when Washington became President (you knew that).
marcostar57 2 years ago
That's nothing. By age 9, I had memorized the names of all of JFK's girlfriends. A lot more names there, so a much more impressive feat.
plainasnoseonmyface 2 years ago
doesnt even play the video... that just wasted my time
EH7193 2 years ago
Of course there's no video, dum dum. This is radio, you loser.
doohban 2 years ago 2
Are you retarded EH7193? This is a radio broadcast.
HankLandMan 2 years ago
That's right, and not just any radio broadcast but the FIRST nationwide radio broadcast reporting the shots fired at Kennedy's motorcade in Dallas. This first bulletin by ABC Radio beat Walter Cronkite's first TV bulletin by more than three minutes.
Bowwowwowwowwow 2 years ago 2
Duh! This was from a radio broadcast, not a TV broadcast. There was no video to show.
sliv812 2 years ago
Quiz Question brought up by
JFKABCNEWS...the answer to your quiz question about the significance of those years mentioned...those are the years you got lucky?
ellonysman 2 years ago
No, but thank you for playing. Anyone else? Surely someone out there can tell us the significance of 1789, 1835 and 1865 when it comes to U.S. Presidential history and when it comes to the more specific subject we're discussing here with respect to Presidents.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
I remember as a kid in elementary school up here in Canada, the someone from the school office came around and announced what had happenned and let us out for the rest of the day in honour of Pres. Kennedy. It was shocking to me, now adays, its become matter of fact almost.
ellonysman 2 years ago
Actually that's not true. Here in the states we are currently going through one of our longest periods yet without an assassination attempt on an incumbent or former President or President-elect. Thus far, it's been a period of 28 years since the last attempt (against President Reagan in March 1981). Only two other such periods in our presidential history have been longer: from 1789 to 1835 and from 1835 to 1865. A quiz question: can anyone tell us the significance of these years I mentioned?
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
I mean shocking news is matter of fact, not shootings of heads of state. Thanks. I dont know the answer
ellonysman 2 years ago
Oh, yes, I agree with that part, of course. But I'm sure you realize the point I was making was that it is actually not true this sort of attack is almost a normal fact of live (or normal occurrence) in the U.S. now adays. Clearly it is not, at the present time, given that there's been no such attack since 1981.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
Actually I don't think it's true that this is the longest spell without an assassination attempt on a incumbent, former or elected president. I believe the last of the three assination attempts on Obama's life accured after he was elected. If you meant times when someone actually had a gun aimed at a president, then I cede to your obvious expertise.
zelliej1 2 years ago
"Attempt" in this case means an actual physical act directed against the target (as opposed to a mere intention or plan to act) and one which is verified by the U.S. Secret Service. The last such verified attempt was on March 30, 1981.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
@JFKABCNEWS I remember someone in Soviet Georgia threw a grenade at GW Bush but it didn't explode. That should count as an attempt.
naltrexone23X 1 year ago
@naltrexone23X The alleged incident in the former Soviet republic of Georgia has never been verified by the Secret Service or by any other U.S. Government body. Therefore it does not "count" as far as the United States is concerned. The U.S. does not officially recognize it as a presidential assassination attempt.
JFKABCNEWS 1 year ago
@zelliej1 are you including the 2 on Pres. Ford?
mmcckkgg 1 year ago
@mmcckkgg What is your point? The two attacks on President Gerald Ford both occurred before 1981. These both occurred in September 1975.
JFKABCNEWS 1 year ago
The first I heard of the shooting (I was almost 8 at the time) was at 1:40 Eastern time, but not from Walter Cronkite's famous CBS News bulletin.
Instead, my kid brother (age 4 1/2) and I were watching "Mike Douglas" on then-NBC affiliate WBZ-TV Boston.
The WBZ bulletin at 1:40 was local, stating that three shots were fired, and that at least one had hit the President.
Our Mom was resting, but we roused her up. At 1:53, after a network flash at 1:45, WBZ cut-off "Douglas" to join NBC.
altfactor 2 years ago
Thanks for this interesting information. It would appear from what you're saying that the local news team at WBZ was right on the stick and beat its own network NBC onto the air with news about the JFK shooting. Just a trivial correction to what you said. NBC's network-wide flash was not at 1:45 pm EST but was at 1:46 pm EST (the earlier NBC flash at 1:45 pm EST was only seen on WNBC in NYC and therefore not seen in Boston). It would be nice to know who the WBZ newsman was in the local bulletin.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
I don't know for sure who broke-into WBZ's programming with their first bulletin (NBC wasn't feeding anything to affiliates from 1:30 to 2 EST).
The bulletin was an off-camera voice-over, but there are three possible people who could have read that bulletin:
One was Jim Jensen, an anchor/reporter at WBZ back then (and would soon move to WCBS-TV New York).
Lindy Miller and Dick Tucker were two (of perhaps three or four) "booth announcers" at WBZ at the time; perhaps one of them read it.
altfactor 2 years ago
Thank you so much for that information. I wonder if all those gentlemen are still with us today and, if so, whether one could learn which of them did the local WBZ voice-over bulletin about the JFK shooting. If that bulletin was indeed on the air during the same minute that Cronkite at CBS was on the air nationally with his first bulletin, it's something that ought to be given some recognition.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
I do know that Jim Jensen passed away a few years back.
I don't think Tucker or Miller is still alive either.
Try contacting Boston-based broadcasting historian Donna Halper. She might know who voiced that first WBZ-TV bulletin.
altfactor 2 years ago
Go to the video titled, Texas School Book Depository Employees - Part 3
At the 2:56 minute mark, you will see & hear James Jarman, Jr... He is the man who assassinated President Kennedy.
The two previous guys shown, Norman & Williams were co-conspirators. Along with Charles Douglas Givens (Not shown)...
Do an "MSN" search with the key words, James Jarman, Jr., Assassin, for the entire story... The 8th site listed, "The John F" is the most comprehensive...
freedomhill68 2 years ago
Interesting that this report begins with Doris Day signing the praises of Hollywood and ends with news of an assassination attempt on the president. An era was really coming to an end back then - the saccharine fifties and early sixties were giving way to uncertain times.
newmark401 2 years ago
Proof that the CIA prevented Doc Brown from going back in time, inventing the bullet-proof bubbletop, and convincing JFK to use it on a sunny day. Damn you, CIA!
ShutterBun2 2 years ago
There's only way Doc Brown could have convinced President Kennedy to roll out the bubbletop on a perfectly sunny day: Promise JFK a trip back in time to 48 BC so he could date Cleopatra.
LadyMacbeth321 2 years ago
you realize the bubble top was not bullet proof, only used to keep the occupants of the car safe from rain and or the elements...check it out.
steveeberhart 2 years ago
Indeed, that's always been the point I've stressed to others on this particular subject. The only way JFK would have consented to using the bubbletop would have been if it were raining, which it no longer was in Dallas by midday. Had it been raining and had the top been up, JFK still would have been shot since the top wasn't bulletproof. There's only way the top could have prevented his murder: if the assassin(s) had decided not to shoot due to incorrectly assuming that the top was bulletproof.
LadyMacbeth321 2 years ago
This gave me chills.
zxadvent19 2 years ago
Thanks for that information. I had always thought that Walter Cronkite's announcement, interrupting the daily soap opera "As The World Turns", was the first national bulletin. It seems as if it is always presented that way.
Although, truthfully, I HAD heard about previous radio announcements. It is just that television, breaking through with a bulletin, visually, is more dramatic.
I've heard local radio reports in Dallas, which seemed to pick it up very quickly. Maybe they were the VERY 1st?
oceanstreat 2 years ago
The story of the local Dallas radio reports is a bit complicated. We'll get to that in a moment. First, just to repeat for clarity's sake:
The first nationwide news bulletin was a radio bulletin broadcast by the ABC Radio Network at 1:36 PM EST (or 12:36 PM CST, Dallas time). That is the bulletin you're hearing in this video.
Radio beat television to the air that day. The first nationwide TV bulletin was Walter Cronkite's CBS network bulletin at 1:40 PM EST (or 12:40 PM CST, Dallas time).
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
As for local Dallas radio...
For years, many believed incorrectly that KBOX Radio broadcast live coverage of JFK's shooting. The truth is it did not. The famous Sam Pate and Ron Jenkins KBOX recording actually was manufactured by Pate and Jenkins AFTER November 22, 1963. Pate has admitted to this. You can learn more about the KBOX hoax by going to the reelradio website and reading the comments section for "KBOX Dallas, November 22, 1963". Another source is Gary Mack at the Sixth Floor Museum.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
It's unclear when exactly WFAA Radio broadcast its first JFK shooting radio bulletin. It was NOT live on the air from Dealey Plaza when the shots erupted.
KRLD Radio WAS live on the air from Main Street (blocks away from Dealey Plaza) when the shots erupted. From that location, reporter Bob Huffaker was speaking live about the President's visit, having just seen Kennedy's car pass by him only moments before. Unfortunately, he could not hear the shots or see the commotion from that location.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
Without going into further details about all the other local Dallas-Ft. Worth radio stations, suffice to say that we are not entirely sure which area radio station aired the very first of the local radio bulletins on November 22, 1963.
But it is absolutely certain that ABC Radio in New York broadcast the very first nationwide bulletin.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
Funny to hear an American rolling his Rs to say three.
hindsighter 2 years ago
It's how Americans are suppost to speak, pronouncing their words and using proper etiquette. Those days are long gone I am afraid.
pikeymutt 2 years ago 33
Interesting. I watched the video of the motorcade recently. I wondered why there was not any news trucks or reporters filming live on location - like you see today. It just never dawned on me that all reporters had during those days was hand held recorders, and notepads.
WakeUpDreamers77 2 years ago
In 1963, live TV video-relay cameras were larger and heavier than they are today. It was much more of a chore to transport them and set them up along a parade route, so live coverage of a long, winding presidential motorcade was not done unless the event was predetermined to be historical like that of a presidential inaugural parade. Film cameras were different... since they were much easier to manage, you saw many of them -- both professional and amateur -- all along the Dallas motorcade route.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
During JFK's trip to Texas, live TV video-relay cameras were only set up at certain events, those which we might call "well-staged" events (though this is not meant in any way as negative phrasing). On the morning of November 22, 1963 there were only two JFK events featuring live TV video-relay cameras: the Chamber of Commerce breakfast in Ft. Worth and the Air Force One arrival at Dallas' Love Field. KTVT had the live TV pool coverage duties in Ft. Worth. WFAA handled pool duties at Love Field.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
If JFK had not been shot in the Dallas motorcade and arrived safely, without incident, at the Trade Mart, then the third JFK event to feature live TV video-relay cameras that day would have happened there. Live TV pool coverage of JFK's Trade Mart speech was to be handled by KRLD (known today as KDFW). Minutes after the motorcade shots erupted, KRLD began relaying live video coverage of Trade Mart reaction to the shooting. CBS and ABC carried portions of KRLD's video-relay feed live nationwide.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
So, to sum up, whenever you see YouTube "video" of JFK's motorcade through downtown Dallas and Dealey Plaza, you are not really seeing videotape of him. You are seeing film of him, some of it color and some black-and-white. The only videotapes of JFK that day were of his live-coverage appearances at Love Field in Dallas and, earlier that morning, at the Hotel Texas in Ft. Worth (meaning during the indoor Chamber of Commerce event only, and not during JFK's parking lot speech outside the hotel).
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
Over the years, some have mistakenly believed the JFK motorcade through Dallas was covered live on local Dallas TV (some have even believed it was covered live nationally on network TV). Neither was the case. The movie "Executive Action" deceived some into believing this because it shows conspiracy plotters gathered round a TV set watching the motorcade's progress. But all those motorcade images were made by film cameras, not live video-relay cameras. The motorcade was filmed. Not carried live.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
something to know is that a car of press photographers usually followed the presidential limo by one or two cars, but for the dallas motorcade the photographers' pool car was moved to near the end of the motorcade. why?
prismaticmarcus 2 years ago
Thank you. A researcher interested in following up on this might want to go to the JFK presidential library and search through the various White House press releases and press handouts during 1961-63. Within those documents, there should be parade car information for the various Kennedy motorcades during that period (detailing which cars the photographers were assigned to, etc.). A quick search through such papers should indicate whether the Dallas motorcade did in fact deviate from the norm.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
If someone in the Boston area would like to follow up on this by conducting such research at the JFK presidential library, please feel free to report back what you find. Perhaps your research will lay that particular rumor to rest or open up a new area of focus by those who suspect a conspiracy in President Kennedy's assassination. Either way, it's an interesting question. Though we don't like to get too far into the conspiracy thing here, we thank prismaticmarcus for offering his comment.
JFKABCNEWS 2 years ago
hi, i appreciate that you don't want to open up a can of worms. but i think it's important to remind people that this murder has gone unsolved. and the US would go a long way to restoring its moral authority if it finally held an open, frank and fearless investigation.
prismaticmarcus 2 years ago 4
Hello there good friend from Australia, Would you be so kind as to provide us with your source for this info concerning the placement of the photographers' car in the Dallas motorcade?
Bowwowwowwowwow 2 years ago
Allow me to tie one kangaroo down sport.
Prismaticmarcus, your country (Australia) has proved itself to be a great friend and brave ally of the United States for a long time. But, with respect, I have to say that not everyone agrees with your personal belief that the U.S. has lost its moral authority. Like everyone else, you're certainly entitled to that as your opinion, but not everyone shares it. Best wishes.
defendfreedomnow 2 years ago
Check out Vince Palamara's extensive Secret Service collection videos; he has footage of many of JFK's motorcades. In some the press car was apparently near the front (so they take photos of the Pres. -- duh). But yes it IS another unanswered oddity.
marcostar57 2 years ago
Wow. Pretty cool stuff.
bjr43 3 years ago
Okay, Wheres The TV?
bobofbob5 3 years ago
It's radio, genius, not TV. That's why there are no pictures.
secretsam109 3 years ago 27
@secretsam109 what's radio? is it some kind of primitive internet? =]
tomthemodeloso 11 months ago 2
@secretsam109 What the fuck?? No pictures??
Oceanpacifica1968 10 months ago
omg...
humorduck 3 years ago
Hehe, genius X-D
chrille92zee 3 years ago
as a kid i remember that this was part of my history test.we were taught about the magic bullet n stuff and i remember saying 2 my teacher"I DONT BELIEVE YOU"and i was 10 years old.i didnt believe it then and i dont now.something just aint right about this situation.
CRAiiGBARCllAY 3 years ago
The "magic" is the conspiracy theorists who have to place Connally in a position contrary to reality. Connally was sitting 6" inboard and 3" lower than JFK on a jumpseat, turned to his right. THAT CAN'T BE DISPUTED. The bullet past through soft tissue through JFK and HAD NOT PLACE TO GO BUT WHERE CONNALLY WAS HIT. Did it hit the driver or anything else? Yet the CTers believe a bullet struck JFK and just vanished...that's magic.
And a "bullet planted on a stretcher to frame Oswald" is SILLY!
pajasa62 3 years ago 4
You are ASSUMING that the bullet which passed through President Kennedy's neck was fired from behind. And your stretcher bullet rant is, itself, patently SILLY.
magicBULLETSrUS 3 years ago
what's the name of this song, screw kennedy i like this song
jaroncreed 3 years ago
Hmmmm, I wonder what it could be?
HooorayForHollywoood 3 years ago
The name of the song is " Hooray for Hollywood," and Doris Day is the singer.
libralady1010 3 years ago
Are you sure?
MissDorisDay 3 years ago
Of course she's sure.
DDayHoorayForHwood 3 years ago
Yeah, you might say it's as plain as the nose on your face.
plainasnoseonmyface 3 years ago
Wow, that plain is it?
HooorayForHollywoood 3 years ago
Yeah, that plain. Take it from. I oughta know.
plainasnoseonmyface 3 years ago
Doris Day sang this song in 1958 and it was being fed to all the ABC radio affiliates back on November 22, 1963
soaringbceagle 3 years ago
Guys, do what I do. Read the video descriptions that come with these YouTube videos (in the top right column). The vid description for this one explains that this is "Hooray For Hollywood" by Doris Day.
secretsam109 3 years ago
Ask Mr. Factor...
MerleOberon 2 years ago
My mother was in school when it happened. The asst principal announced it in her class.
XenaAmazon 3 years ago
a lot of people today dont get what a huge deal it was that JFK was a Catholic... at the time it was about as much of a stretch for him to have been elected as it was for Obama today... its crazy still that here in the US with all our high standards that this kind of stuff matters at all... but we did it then and again now!
esxp 3 years ago 2
Uh...yeah...high standards means being open minded about Obama...
CLUE high standards means not buying into the liberal pablum in the first place
ehunter2 3 years ago
A sad day.
What a shame it happened.
JFK was the right man for the times.
America was robbed of a great man.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 3 years ago 15
@GeorgeVreelandHill Wow,, geroge vreelandhilll,, haven't seen you're name crop up in a while...nice to see you back in the spotlight!
xvoy2002 1 year ago
I was only 9 y.o. when I heard of JFK's assassination (in my 3rd grade classroom...) since then I have been convinced of a conspiracy for some 35-40 years....until I saw the American Experience re: JFK's assassination broadcast this past Monday...Still my biggest question regarding Oswald is this....how could he, at the height of the Cold War, 1. renounce his citizenship and live in the USSR 2. change his mind some time later and seemingly easily return to the US 3. with a Russian wife.
jackson842 3 years ago
4. Go to Mexico, get a Visa to travel Cuba THEN Russia, YET return to Dallas, his wife gives birth to his daughter, the FBI thinks he is an agent and are keeping an eye on him,in which he is a suspect in an attempted murder of a general- questioning his friends, YET he gets a job less then a month from the parade IN AN ELEVATED POSITION OVERLOOKING THE MOTORCADE, is seen bringing a large package into the area, shoots JFK, a governor, a policeman, and goes to a movie. What a busy beaver.
benpalin08 3 years ago
All very good points, especially the one about Oswald getting his job at the TSBD (thru Mrs. Paine) only a few weeks before the JFK assassination. The Texas trip had been officially announced by the White House on September 26, 1963... so, yes, when Oswald was later posted as an employee at the TSBD (a building that would overlook the presidential route), his hiring occurred at a time when it already was known that the President would be visiting Dallas.
lenmccain0842 3 years ago
Amazing how they all went out their way to say, "Three shots--REPEAT, THREE SHOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
radio187 3 years ago
Listen to this ABC radio news bulletin again. Notice two things: repetition and emphasis. First, notice Don Gardiner does not repeat only the "three shots" portion. He repeats the entire bulletin (as any good newsman should and wound).
What he's reading twice is the first bulletin to hit the wire services, which was this short one from UPI:
UPI A7N DA
PRECEDE KENNEDY
DALLAS, NOV. 22 (UPI)--THREE SHOTS WERE FIRED AT PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S MOTORCADE TODAY IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS.
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JFKABCNEWS 3 years ago
This was all the info Gardiner had to read initially. And he repeated all of it, the entire UPI bulletin, not just the "three shots" part.
For Gardiner and all newsman, a wire bulletin reporting shots fired at the motorcade bearing the President of the United States requires going on air immediately with whatever info you have about it, no matter how brief the info may be initially. And you always repeat the entire bulletin just as Gardiner (and others that day) did. Nothing amazing there.
JFKABCNEWS 3 years ago
Also nothing amazing about the WAY Gardiner spoke. Listening closely, you should be able to hear that he emphasized nearly every word of this short UPI bulletin, not just the "three shots" part. In fact the word "at" is emphasized as much as, or possibly even more than, the "three shots" part. So should we suspect anything sinister in that? Of course not. Gardiner is emphasizing "at" because initially the info was that JFK had been shot at, with no confirmation yet that he had been wounded.
JFKABCNEWS 3 years ago
Had the UPI bulletin reported more than three shots fired at JFK's motorcade, Gardiner would have emphasized that the same way. The essential part of this bulletin is that SHOTS WERE FIRED (that's why the bulletin was sent out in the first place). Therefore Gardiner is going to both emphasize that essential information and repeat it for listeners just joining him. Whether it's THREE SHOTS, FOUR SHOTS or FOURTEEN SHOTS, he's going to read it the same way you heard and he's going to repeat it.
JFKABCNEWS 3 years ago
Do you know if the CBS Radio bulletin with Alan Jackson can be heard anywhere. I've read about it but would like to hear it. Thanks for posting this, too. It's a great piece of broadcast history.
GFI888 3 years ago
Go to the following YouTube video...
JFK'S ASSASSINATION (WCCO-RADIO IN MINNEAPOLIS)(11/22/63)(PART 1)
The above is Part 1 in a series. It begins with a Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota farm news broadcast by local station WCCO, a CBS Radio Network affiliate. Within moments, we hear the farm report interrupted for a follow-up news report on the JFK shooting by a WCCO radio announcer. Not long after that, we then hear the first of CBS Radio's nationwide bulletins voiced by Allan Jackson.
JFKABCNEWS 3 years ago
I was only a baby (1 year 8 months old) when JFK was assassinated almost 45 years ago. My Mom was watching T.V. & I was playing in the living when the news bulletin of JFK"s assassination aired on T.V. She told me that was the saddest week for our nation & so close to the Thanksgiving Holiday too.
bigg3469 3 years ago
Scary, I was 4 years old...and it was almost the exact same thing for me. My mom was watching it too, not I. But I do remember watching the funeral and remembering John Boy's salute. I agree, it was probably the saddest week the country ever had, right up there with 9/11.
stu1959 3 years ago
John-John not John Boy.
doohban 3 years ago
If it was today they would say "Breaking News from ABC Radio news, this was from possibly from a radio affiliate for ABC Radio that was broadcasting Doris Day's Hooray for Hollywood". Does anyone know the call letters of this station?
bigg3469 3 years ago
Actually, they don't call themselves "ABC Radio News" today. That was the old name. Today they call themselves "ABC News Radio." What you're listening to is from the direct ABC network feed to affiliates on November 22, 1963. As stated in the description, located in the upper right column, the network was providing its affiliated stations a program of popular music (Doris Day's "Hooray For Hollywood" was just one of the many songs piped to the stations by the network during that program feed).
JFKABCNEWS 3 years ago
WOW. In other word a audio "wild feed" via satellite that (ABC News Radio) used to "interruped" regular programming for this bulletin (now known as a "special report or breaking news". Very interesting. Thanks!
bigg3469 3 years ago
Not via satellite. None of the radio networks fed via satellite in 1963 (satellite came years later). This was a normal ABC radio feed line to affiliates which daily featured regularly scheduled news and entertainment programs. The sudden news from Dallas meant scrapping all regularly scheduled programs and going fully to the news side to cover the bulletins coming in by wire and by phone from Dallas. In 1963, the network was called ABC Radio News. Today, it is called ABC News Radio.
JFKABCNEWS 3 years ago
Oh I see, Forgot that satellite broadcast wasn't in use yet in 1963. My bad.
bigg3469 3 years ago
What are you trying to say?
WNYWTV 3 years ago
He's trying to say that the media were in on the JFK conspiracy, that their news coverage was akin to a made-up Hollywood production. That's total BS of course. But it's the sort of stuff you hear from some people born after 1963, who get their information from Oliver Stone, conspiracy web sites, 9/11 Truthers, etc. and then just mindlessly believe it all. While I suspect there was indeed more than one person involved in the JFK murder, I think it's BS to suggest the media were also involved.
heycomeandgetit 3 years ago
Just like Caroline, I too was in the first grade on that day. Unfortunately, I just was too young to simply remember that day. If he got shot at 12:30 Dallas time, then I was probably in school.
This day, along with 9/11, the assassination of both RFK and Martin Luther King, go down in history as one of America's tragic days.
nanlisa 3 years ago
I was sitting in my 2nd grade class and I remember an older student came into our classroom just before lunch and read the announcement. And I remember the teacher had no reaction whatsoever, and just continued on with the class.
proferic 3 years ago
That's unreal.
rexanater 3 years ago 2
The teacher was prabably so shocked or heartbroken that he/she couldn't make a reaction. Plus you were only 2nd graders, so he/she also didn;t want to panick you. I hope that is the case, otherwise like what rexanater said, that's unreal.
Manbeast222 3 years ago
I was 10 years old sitting in my 4th grade class in catholic school. A nun rushed in and told our nun the news. You could hear "gasps" everywhere. It was shock and chaos. While walking home I could see people crying in the streets. I arrived home (which was only 3 blocks from school) and my mother was on her knees praying out loud, tears pouring down her face. To me, this one event was the ignition point for the decline of the USA....we have been in a free fall ever since
inkey2 3 years ago
A shame for the USA. As I get a little older I understand the way older people would react when this would be brought up in talks. I am ashamed that we stand by and do nothing. This was to be the greatest leader we ever had.
GSRJosh33 3 years ago
wow what a horrible radio announcer. he voice doesnt sound serious at all, it sounds more like hes advertising some product
RWDtech 3 years ago 2
I'm guessing you're a big mouth with a small mind.
icestationzebra509 3 years ago
RWDtech certainly is entitled to his opinion. However most people aware of the late Don Gardiner's work probably would discount that negative viewpoint and likely would agree that Gardiner was one of the best network news anchormen in the history of radio broadcasting.
JFKABCNEWS 3 years ago
I picked up the JFK assisnation footage on ITunes a few years ago from ABC News. ABC News for TV back in those days was a low budget department and it showed by the way it was reported from the set they used, the mics. It wasn't until they got the feed to WFAA going that it smoothed out a bit. Interesting footage on there. Frank Reynolds was on as a reporter in Chicago. Long before the anchor duties of the famous Ronald Regan assisnation reporting happened.
timbabcock 3 years ago
uhmm so how did they know it was 3 shots if it were so soon after the assination?
jayblob11 3 years ago 4
Already asked and already answered earlier (check past comments). By the way, it's spelled a-s-s-a-s-s-i-n-a-t-i-o-n.
Bowwowwowwowwow 3 years ago
Uhmm... because the networks were briefed in advanced by a clandestine group of conspiracy organizers who were clever and resourceful enough to kill a President, yet dumb enough to circulate then-irrelevant details, and shoot the man in full public view. (Sarcasm.) Idiot.
fghjjfhkjfhg 3 years ago
Good thing you added that you were being sarcastic (or jayblob would have taken your comment at face value)!
Bowwowwowwowwow 3 years ago
I'm British, but I always remember my grandmother talking about this terrible day. How neighbours left their houses and stood the street talking to each other, not knowing what to say or do. They were totally shocked at the news from America.
It just proves what a world shaking event this was.
Snapper4298 3 years ago 6
ok abc was the first, so why dont they get out their self back patters for being the first, they went back to the scheduled program?
mikemoair 3 years ago
I wasn't alive when JFK was killed, I've lived thru other tragic sudden news bulletins like the Challenger disaster, Magic Johnson's HIV revelation, Princess Di's & JFK Jr's deaths, and of course 9-11. So I can imagine how those that lived thru JFK, RFK & King's assasinations felt.
baseballisforever 3 years ago
With all due respect, you really can't imagine the effect of this unless you lived through it yourself (similarly, you and I can't imagine what the Civil War was like). This was the first U.S. presidential assassination in 62 years, and this sort of event was not anywhere near to commonplace in 1963. It was a profound shock. Also, with only the exception of 9/11, none of these other events or deaths you mention have had as much impact as President Kennedy's assassination (sorry Magic Johnson).
JFKABCNEWS 3 years ago
Princess Dianas did. You only have to look at the public response to see that.
whatliesbeneathus 3 years ago
President Kennedy's assassination had far greater impact than Diana's death in terms of its effect on peoples' outward reactions and inward impressions and its effect on human history. The sudden, violent removal of the most powerful person in the world (who had risked nuclear war with the Soviet Union over offensive missiles in Cuba but masterfully brought us through that crisis and then achieved the Test Ban Treaty less than a year later) naturally has greater impact than that of a princess.
JFKABCNEWS 3 years ago
While you and a number of others may have been personally moved by Diana's tragic death and the public response to it, not everyone responded to her death as you did. Many felt, rightly or wrongly, that the public response was overblown. That wasn't so with President Kennedy's death (it was generally accepted that the world had suffered a loss it couldn't afford and that the strong global response was appropriate). So from just this alone, we can conclude that the Kennedy impact was greater.
JFKABCNEWS 3 years ago
Cold and creepy. Imagine if they were announcing a nuclear strike, instead. How much colder that would have been. RIP JFK.
journeystarr 3 years ago
erie
itube70 3 years ago
What a sad day that was!
My dad called my mom to tell her the news about JFK, but she did not believe him at first.
It was hard to believe.
She soon did.
The entire nation stood still.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 3 years ago
It did indeed. Much of the world too. Unless one experienced it, it's hard to fully appreciate the shocking blow dealt that day. A day to be stunned and saddened. And as Eisenhower observed, a day to be angry as well. Ike said he felt not only shock and dismay but indignation. Then he added: America is a nation "of great common sense" and "we are not going to be stampeded or bewildered." So we picked up and went on. And we even made it to the Moon. I think Kennedy would have been proud of that.
JFKABCNEWS 3 years ago
One might ask you if you've heard the slews of folks coming forward who worked in Dallas as reporters having their articles changed(interviews with witnesses who were 9 feet away from the pres's lincoln that the WArren Commission chose not to talk to). These people interviewed witnesses who reported more shots and shots from an area other than the Book Depository. Statements changed unless they worked their way into the "3 shots from behind " story. One might ask you to get away from the flock
mdpk1 3 years ago
You claim there were "slews" of reporters whose articles were changed concerning the number of shots fired. Name one such reporter.
Bowwowwowwowwow 3 years ago
I'll get back to you. The info is in a documentary on youtube. It aired on the History Channel I believe. Look man, even Conally didn't buy the single bullet theory.
mdpk1 3 years ago
Don't "look man" me. I also do not believe in Arlen Spector's ridiculous single bullet theory. Although Connally refused to acknowledge that the collapse of the single bullet theory meant there must have been more than one gunman involved, I on the other hand do accept that. The JFK murder was definitely a conspiracy. But that does not relieve you of your obligation to prove your claim that slews of reporters were forced to change their stories about more than three shots. Name one of them.
Bowwowwowwowwow 3 years ago
I forget, its on youtube.. Do your research on here. Its the real deal, mr. Hooray for hollywood, bitch.
mdpk1 3 years ago
You're trying to slither your way out of having told a fib. It won't work. There is no History Channel video on YouTube or anywhere else that makes the bogus claim you are making. What's more likely the case is that you have completely misinterpreted and misreported something. You seem like the type who would do that. And that is the real deal, bitch.
Bowwowwowwowwow 3 years ago
Why is it important for these news reports(Early reports) to note 3 shots? One might ask themselves that question.
mdpk1 3 years ago
Because that's what the reporter on the scene believed he heard. UPI's Merriman Smith thought he heard 3 shots and dictated that info by phone to a UPI colleague (who then included this info in the first UPI bulletin, read minutes later on the air by ABC's Don Gardiner). Why would it be important for early reports to leave info like that out? If 3 shots is what the reporter believed he heard, should that not be what he relays to UPI and what UPI then reports? One might ask you that question.
Bowwowwowwowwow 3 years ago
hey dude where do get that audio clip from at. btw, I showed this to my dad and he said this is the acutal bulletin he herd in a radio in 22 Nov 63
phoneix91 3 years ago
My dad told me he was at home that day with his parents and when they heard that announcement they thought it was just some guy playing a stupid prank, their instinct was that it was someoen shooting like above the presidents head as a joke, it wasnt clear atfirst thatit was fatal, first news was that shots were fired, then the next announcement was that the president was wounded but had survived (he made it to hospital alive) the third announcement bought the bad news
MrPresident2032 3 years ago
interesting, "3 shots" specifically
jokermanfl 3 years ago 4
I was in the fifth grade in a classroom in TX at the time. In those days many kids went home for lunch. One boy returning from lunching at his home, (unfortunately our class clown), said the President was killed. The teacher said "That is not funny!" and sent him to the principal's office. Seconds later, the boy returned. As he came in the principal announced that it was true. Tears streaming down her face the teacher got up and hugged the boy and apologized. TX came to a screeching halt.
dotrichter 3 years ago
I think my Mom told me that she was at work when it happened. And a lady I used to work with said she was in grade 2 when it happened. Almost everyone who was old enough knew where they were when on Nov-22-1963.
poodtang1 3 years ago
Thanks MAG1965JFK....
That's right! It was in April, too! Good memory. I remember walking up and down the West End area, and seeing all of the old cop cars and motorcycles. I took a bunch of pictures outside of the shooting area....mostly of the extras standing around the vintage cars and motorcycles. Pretty bizarre and amazing experience.
NostalgiaBob 4 years ago
I was in the 7th grade. I can still see the principal slightly opening the door, and telling my teacher,with the index finger gesture to come to the door. They spoke quietly for perhaps 1 minute at the most. She came back and told everyone they had to go home, the Pres was shot
PYRAMIDALIZEE 4 years ago
I find it fascinating most people who were in school at the time had someone run in the classroom to give word.My mom told me a similar story to yours. Her school secretary came in her classroom whispered to her teacher then ran out crying. I see that all the time in shows or movies where student characters have someone like a secretary or nun come through. 9/11 was my JFK and somebody thought best (odd at first) to run through the floors like Paul Revere yelling "America been Attacked!!"
bubblinbrownsugar616 3 years ago
you can kind of understand, nobody knew exactly what was happening at first, so it is understandable that some people (especialy if they were older and lived during the period of the cold war, esp the cuban missile crisis) might have gotten very panicy.
alphamone 3 years ago
NostalgiaBob, You were in Dallas in mid April of 1991 then. I went to Dallas for the first time on March 31, 1991 which was Easter Sunday that year. And they were painting the windows to the original beige color and making the area look like 1963 for the JFK film. They filmed 2 weeks after I went I think. They had trimmed the trees back. They made a window on the 7th floor to look like the 6th floor window since they couldn't use the sixth floor window because of the museum.
MAG1965JFK 4 years ago
I was a fourth grade student. My teacher made the announcement just minutes before the dismissal bell rang. We were not dismissed early. My grandfather was waiting outside in his car to take me home, and that impressed me more than hearing that the President was dead! I was always expected to walk to and from school. It was a frightening, troubling weekend. I had been invited to a birthday party on Saturday but it was cancelled.
jensmom604 4 years ago
i was born in '82 but the impact of Pres. John F. Kennedy in my life was great. my parents idolized him so much. the first time i read, saw and watched his death i never thought that i'd also be one of those people who look up to him... i believe in him so much... God bless his soul
annecy6 4 years ago 4
I Was Born In 1982,In Texas, I Might Add. If The Bubble Top Had Been Put Up On His Car, He Would Have Made It To The Dallas Trade Mart, Gave His Speech, Possibly He And President Lyndon Baines Johnson Would Have Been Reelected In 1964, Served Two Full Terms, Watched The Swearing Of President Lyndon Baines Johnson In Washington,D.C., Move To Massachusetts, Walk His Daughter Down The Aisle And Help Raise Her Children.Keri Nowling, Formerly Of Austin, Texas, Now Residing In Seymour, Indiana.
Southerner2009 2 years ago
First of all, the bubbletop was NOT bullet proof. Secondly, the rain had stopped and the skies had cleared just before the motorcade started (there is absolutely no way that President Kennedy would have used the bubbletop under clear sunny skies... not a chance of that).
WNYWTV 2 years ago
bubbletop is not bulletproof? wel they still should of got something that was
aznerd999 2 years ago
The bubbletop wasn't bullet proof. For obvious security reasons the Secret Service never said publicly it wasn't bullet proof (if the bubbletop was up on a rainy day and a gunman called off his planned attack due to incorrectly believing it was bullet proof, then so much the better). You say they should have used SOMETHING that was bullet proof -- but what? What would have protected JFK and still allowed crowds to see him in his car? Answer: a bullet proof bubbletop. However, such did not exist.
WNYWTV 2 years ago
But let's assume for a moment that a bullet proof bubbletop did exist in 1963. Let's assume it was the only thing that could have protected JFK in his car while still allowing crowds to see him. Let's assume such a bullet proof bubbletop had been pressed into presidential service by the Secret Service. That still would not have prevented the assassination. Why? Because there's no way JFK would have allowed them to put up even a bullet proof bubbletop on a clear, sunny early afternoon. No way.
WNYWTV 2 years ago
Very interesting that you heard this from the 6th floor museum! I had a really eerie experience there myself (also in 1991). I was in Dallas for a wedding, and talked my friends into going to the 6th floor museum. I knew they were filming the movie "JFK" at the time. Turns out, I watched a re-enactment of the assassination from the window next to the sniper's nest!! Still freaks me out to think about it.
NostalgiaBob 4 years ago
It is my goal at one point in my life to visit Dealey Plaza. I imagine that it will be a very eerie visit. I was not yet born when President Kennedy was assassinated, but I have always been fascinated with the assassination from a historical point of view, and especially as a broadcaster. Thank you for providing this invaluable piece of broadcast history for the rest of us to hear!
calD4est 4 years ago
Ever imagine how different our country would be now if President Kennedy had not visited Dallas at that time? I can only imagine.
JJHusker 4 years ago 2
Yup, the entire course of history the last 44 years changed on that day.
Jeff051176 4 years ago