NBC News Live Coverage of The Assassination of President John Kennedy Part 1

[andrelebaron]

"3 bursts of gunfire". kind of makes you realize what a lot of shite all that second gunman stuff was

[andrelebaron]

this raw stuff is so much better than history interpreted by someone.

[jjddjjddaa]

Coverage is so much better than Cronkite's

[johnissoevil]

I still remember the day that Reagan was shot. I've always believed that Kennedy was watching over him that day from heaven, saying "Oh no, it ain't happening again!" And I'm sure that on the evening of June 5, 2004, Ronnie was thanking JFK personally.

[RJY4356]

@johnissoevil A beautiful sentiment.

[fromthesidelines]

Bill Ryan was the local anchor for WNBC-TV's 6pm newscast in New York at that time; he joined Frank McGee and Chet Huntley (co-anchor of the network's nightly newscast, "THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT") for this "emergency" coverage.

[fromthesidelines]

For some reason, NBC didn't begin "rolling tape" to preserve the start of their live coverage until 1:57pm(et); they, too, were "down" between 1-2pm(et), with local affiliates presenting their own programming to fill the hour [WNBC-TV in New York aired repeats of "BACHELOR FATHER" at 1:30]. However, an audio collector has the first four minutes of what NBC failed to preserve (that can be found at Archival Television Audio's website, along with the Pardo bulletin the network failed to record).