JFK Assassination (CBS Coverage) - Part 7/10 (1963)

[observer9670]

Dan Rather got this information from Dallas police officers at the hospital.

[physicalgrafiti12345]

John Kennedy, John Connoly, my name is John. Jail starts with J just like our names, you go to to jail for murder...OH MY GOD THAT MUST MEAN THAT I AM THE ONE THAT SHOT KENNEDY...but how did I do that since I'm only 18. THAT CAN ONLY MEAN I ALSO INVENTED TIME TRAVEL...AND A MIND CONTROL DEVICE TO MAKE ME FORGET WHAT I DID IF I EVER GOT CAPTURED. and btw if you put L...A and you look closely it creates the illusion that there are 4 ... instead of 3.

[kevindionstevens]

G A P in motorcade saved Johnson.  hmmmmm

[oldies5161]

MuscleDaddy, I suggest you research Cronkite because its obvious you havent.

[kayodleman]

Dan Rather reports JFK dead here. Later, he was one of the first people to view the Zapruder film after which he stated JFK was moved forward by the impact.

[xoCrackAox]

jjddjjddaa is a troll.

[blueguitarblue]

Johnson was part of this conspiracy. I'm willing to bet.

[ksol1460tv]

@blueguitarblue I would not be surprised if Johnson were in on it, especially after some of the things Mrs. K said. I would have to see more evidence though.

[jjddjjddaa]

Walter didn't even put on a coat....what a dweeb.

[blueguitarblue]

@jjddjjddaa You disrespect his ability as a journalist. You insult his looks. What will a shallow moron like you during his mid-life crisis? I'm seeing debt from a red convertible and hair transplants. Like you could handle this heinous assassination live when the president is beloved by you and a nation.

[jjddjjddaa]

Cronkite was poor. A left-tist and butt-ugly. He had very little hair.

[kinzlerjr]

2:16 "the limousine speeded up then" common cronkite you're better than that

[mashyourpotatoes76]

thumbs up if your wachting in 2011

[MiscVideos78rpm]

@mashyourpotatoes76 What exactly is the point to this comment. This video is not really old, not really a YouTube "classic", and what's the point of asking for thumbs up unless you have a reason for doing it or you really want someone to see something.

[Soxogram]

What's really cool is at 3:49 the two guys waiting for reports at the teletype turn immediately to Walter to hear what he was going to say. As if they were wondering if they missed something.

[LoudCitizen]

"Oh no!"? She couldn't think of a more original line?!

[snoops71]

@LoudCitizen Who, Jackie?

[AussieRedneck09]

This News Reporter looks like Capt Binghampton off Mchales navy

[ksol1460tv]

@AussieRedneck09 Well, his news team used to call him OLD IRONPANTS....... :D

[DonJulioBlanco2002]

So Eddie Barton, Dan Rather, and the priests had ALL reported Kennedy was dead prior to Cronkite's now endlessly replayed "The President is dead" announcement. So that wasn't the bombshell that we've been led to believe.

If only we could "rewind" all of history like this.

[ksol1460tv]

@DonJulioBlanco2002 It wasn't a bombshell at the time. Anyone who heard the TV & radio reports was aware of the unofficial announcements. They have been endlessly replayed also and you can download them. Cronkite reported them all but could not say these were official announcements. Only when White House Press Sec. Kilduff's announcement went out over the AP wires would Cronkite confirm it officially. That's journalistic ethics.

[MuscleDaddyCMH]

@ksol1460tv

Wow, journalistic ethics? Who ever hears of THOSE these days! I LONG for a return to straightforward news reporting like this.

[ksol1460tv]

@MuscleDaddyCMH *sigh*, the good old days. When you could turn on the news and get NEWS.

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Thank you for uploading this piece of history.

George Vreeland Hill

[ApolloWasReal]

The reason for the confusing reports from the priest is that Catholic doctrine requires that the last rites be administered before the soul leaves the body. Jackie was very worried about this, so the priest either told a white lie for her benefit or alternatively took a liberal view on just when that happened. Although his heart kept going for a while, for all practical purposes JFK was instantly brain-dead after the third shot hit him.

[squeapler]

My father preferred Huntley-Brinkley as well. No dis on Uncle Walter but dad just rarely ever had him on.

[gotch09]

Oswald was a bitch. Wouldn't even let his wife learn English.

[oldies5161]

Cronkite was a radical liberal and reported the news as he saw it, not always as it happened. David Brinkley was my favorite as he gave straight news without any slant.

[free2drm]

@oldies5161 You are very correct

[MuscleDaddyCMH]

@oldies5161

A "radical liberal"??? What a lie.

[tibe2003]

minuto 2:10

[Sheri451]

On Mad Men, they had an episode about this time. Those actors had to really pretend because almost all of the cast is under 40 years old and the ones that are older were probably babies or toddlers and the rest small children. I was only 2 months old when it happened my mom said she was giving me a bottle and watching As THe World Turns. So when I saw the Mad Men episode I could feel nothing.

[manopike]

@Sheri451 Wasn't that the first episode of Mad Men? Could be wrong, but I think that's correct.

[dbaugh1805]

I was 16 years old at that time & was visiting a radio station in Carrollton, GA. All at once the teletype machine bells started ringing. Ding, ding, ding for a long time. We went to see what was going on & the first messages that came across were unreadable. You could tell who ever was typing the messages were in a panic. Lots of bad spelling and finally the message came that President Kennedy had been shot as his car passed under an over pass. I still have some of those teletypes from then.

[ApolloWasReal]

@dbaugh1805 If you could scan those teletype messages and put them on the web, I'd really like to see them. When I worked briefly in radio broadcasting I was told that 10 teletype bells is the highest alert there is, and the JFK assassination was always given as the canonical example of a 10-bell story.

[altfactor]

@ApolloWasReal  I think I once read that the AP and UPI printers rang between 12 to 15 bells for many of the flashes during that first hour between the initial news flash of the shooting and the official confirmation of President Kennedy's death.

[ApolloWasReal]

@altfactor I don't think there were any physical limits on how many times the bells could ring. On a Baudot teletype, "bell" is simply a character -- it persists in ASCII as control-G. So the operators, quite reasonably considering this to be a very important news story, just held down the key for a while.

[aviationwingnut]

@dbaugh1805 WOW!! That's pretty cool. I was one year and six days old so, of course, I don't remember any of it. Years later, when I became a submarine RadioMan, in the early 80's we were still using those Teletype Corporation machines with the bells on them. And, the 'breadbox' containing the characters that hopped around in front of the hammer. I'd definitely hang onto those TTY dispatches. They're surely collectable. I DO remember where I was when Hinckley tried to whack Reagan.

[slokes1]

Cronkite has news at the beginning of this segment that Eddie Barker of his own network reports JFK's death, with confirmation coming from another CBS reporter, Dan Rather, at 3:56 on this segment. Yet the final call from Cronkite doesn't come until AP calls it after this segment is over.

[chiefjoseph99999]

AP didn't "call it," Malcom Kilduff, Kennedy's press secretary, confirmed it...that's what AP was reporting.!

[slokes1]

@chiefjoseph99999

Kilduff's confirmation went out via AP. That's what I meant by AP calling it and Cronkite holding off until then.

[chiefjoseph99999]

@slokes1 my bad.........I wish there were still some Walter Cronkites around

[DewkChronic]

president truman would have said i warned you 3 years ago

[milepost53]

It was a CAOS! The secret service should have had complete control at the hospital and directing the Dallas Police what to do. The Dallas Police led by Chief Jesse Curry took over. SInce then , strict guidelines have been issued by the SS in event of any assassination and all local and state police must take orders from the SS agents in charge . even if an autopsy is required. and the ss is supposed to release all info to the press. It was tested when Squeaky Fromme shot at Ford in SF.

[TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

Yes but the Secret Service made mistakes that day. One agent cleaned the inside of the car . That was a big mistake. But to be fair nobody had ever dealt with things like this .

[williamkanegateshead]

Squeaky didn't shoot at anyone. Her gun had no bullets.

[ChrisDutch]

I would presume the word would have to come directly from either the White House staff (i.e Malcolm Kilduff) or the Dallas doctors such as Perry or McClelland. If I recall properly Kilduff made the announcement, Kennedy's body was removed (under curious circumstances) and then the doctors conducted a press conference. It's interesting to note that one of the doctors indicated a frontal wound to the throat during the conference and the tapes were seized by the Secret Service.

[BamaChris]

How many reports of the President's death did Cronkite have to recieve before he was willing to make it official??? And, why announce all of the reports seperately if he was not going to consider it to be official???

[MeanGene79]

Things were crazy, just like on 9/11.

[chiefjoseph99999]

Right Bama....Walter never would have been hired by TMZ.

For your information, what's happening in this broadcast is called RESPONSIBLE REPORTING.

[BamaChris]

Yes, but why even announce unconfirmed reports.

[chiefjoseph99999]

Fair question Bama.

It's what these days is called a boundary issue.

Nothing wrong w/ reporting reliable info along the way if you label it (unofficial).

Most "knew" he dead when they heard he was shot in the head, just like most sensible people could figure Di was dead when the foreign sec'y cancelled his flight.

The authority (Kilduff, hospital, Buckingham Palace) is responsible for the truth, not a journalist at a news desk in NY.

Walter and the rest of the old boys knew their role.

[Doppelganger399]

AMEN

[70sman4ever]

The best there was, the best there IS, and the best there will ever be. For me being the 70s Man, Walter Cronkite STILL anchors the CBS Evening News man! You all dig that to your graves!

[Calbenmike]

@70sman4ever Cronkite was a total quack.

[deanaugust]

@70sman4ever ditto, never be anyone as good as Walter.