JFK Assassination (CBS Coverage) - Part 4/10 (1963)

[murrow54]

i work in tv news and it's amazing how long it took to get video(film?) on air. back then you just couldn't turn on lights and a camera. it took time to get everybody in place.

[ADAMSIXTIES]

No cellphones and no internet ;-p

[jjddjjddaa]

Pretty hard to be so ugly on Black and White TV....Cronkite was hideous looking. Could have never been on HDTV.

[67rml]

@jjddjjddaa  Idiot

[Basssinger86]

@jjddjjddaa Yeah....because being attractive is all you need to be a great reporter, right? Wow your dumb!!

[jjddjjddaa]

Never thought I'd say this....but Rather is 10 times the reported Cronkite was.

[AnneLiesveld]

@jjddjjddaa How can you be ten times the reported someone else is? I have to agree with someone betting a paycheck you are a 12 or 14 year old. I am only in my mid-30's and I can respect a certain age that watches this sees a real death of a real person. I personally am in my only (now) early 30s and yet I find myself watching the video on you tube of the actual attempt and can barely watch it as it is so grotesque. I can NOT imagine what Jackie must have thought. and I think how

[AnneLiesveld]

@AnneLiesveld wierd it is that teenagers have no understanding of the world I knew of--watching Jackie as a woman related to her kids or understanding that JFK jr. was a person. Living in VERY quickly here a totally different world.

[jjddjjddaa]

Not very professional to whimper on the air.

[jjddjjddaa]

Cronkite was not a good looking man. Didn't have much hair and an ugly mug.

[blueguitarblue]

@jjddjjddaa How old are you? 13? How shallow. Who cares what he looked like? Do you prefer the pseudo journalists today? And whimpering on air IS professional when called for. He, like most Americans loved JFK, the LAST president of the USA. He wasn't a political pimp. Not showing emotion is callous when your beloved President is assassinated. Grow up!

[sean2015]

@blueguitarblue Actually Walter Cronkite (reportedly) did not care for John F. Kennedy personally. However you are right that any journalist would've been emotionally traumatized to have to report something like this on live national TV. He's only human after all.

[jjddjjddaa]

CBS was as left-wing then as it is now.

[jjddjjddaa]

Cronkite is incompetent. Way overrated.

Rather was as left and biased as you could be.

Katie Couric was an embarrassment.

CBS sucks.

[jjddjjddaa]

The Kennedys were all pricks.

[CaptChaos1981]

Cronkite later said that in those days, the cameras had to be set up and warmed up before they could be used. That's why for the first 20 minutes or so, he's speaking from a sound booth over a CBS Bulletin slide. He said that from that day onward there has always been a camera ready to go in the newsroom.

[movieman175]

truly the best news men that ever lived R.I.P w.c

[Jiltedin2007]

Isn't KRLD the radio station of the Dallas Cowboys?

[newstarcadefan]

@Jiltedin2007 True, KRLD retained their calls after the TV side swiched their Calls to KDFW (now Fox 4).

[briagadaress]

I see some people eating. Are they? If that was true, shame on them! How can they eat after news like those?

[Cromag99]

@briagadaress "Pass the salt"...I know what you mean.

[fromthesidelines]

That's why, after this, a "warmed-up" camera was in place in Cronkite's newsroom at all times. The 10 second station I.D. cerrtanly helped him rush back to his desk in the newsroom (but forgetting to put on his jacket, draped on the back of his chair)- but that was already scheduled just before 2pm(et) {"WCBS-TV, Channel 2, New York"}, when all the affiliates were "in place", and ready to carry the continous coverage that would last until Monday, November 26th.

[MiscVideos78rpm]

@fromthesidelines - Thanks for the info!

[ricarleite]

I am amazed it only took them 10 minutes to report in a time and age where these sort of network nationwide news bulletins were almost impossible to pull off so quickly. Today it takes a mere seconds for a worldwide network of news to form, in HD, if something happens.

[LoudCitizen]

Shot by a man and a woman?

[MJJR1]

This is incredible footage from a day I'd like to forget. I was in Texas, at school that day. I'd heard the news on a transistor radio that belonged to a friend at lunch time. I remember rushing into a classroom, informing a teacher that President Kennedy had been "assassinated" in Dallas. The teacher laughed and told me that I didn't know what I was talking about. She should have taken notice because I was repeating a word not commonly used by a 5 year old pre-schooler.

[MiscVideos78rpm]

@MJJR1 Great story.

[johnnyfive222]

@MJJR1

what kind of teacher is that? lol. By the way i have been to Dallas and i am twenty three but love history. Walking in the same warehouse where they supposedly shot him and walking behind the fence on the grassy knoll was very spooky. You get a weird feeling. After being there i was like there was no way he could have done it on his own.

[softshoes]

I was in 3rd grade when this happened. I remember it like it was yesterday. Another teacher came into our classroom and whispered to my teacher and she burst out in tears and freaked the whole room out. For 3 days my family did little else but watch tv news.

[Cromag99]

When the lousy libs found out Oswald was a liberal left wing Marxist and not a conservative Republican, they quickly went into damage control saying Oswald was a patsy and controlled by the CIA........ nothing has changed even today with these America haters.

[acolyte27]

@Cromag99 Eyewitnesses turned in the other way, no?first they said that there was another shooter, then said later that they don't know anything, because,oups,some of them died in strange ways...don't you think ? So, i'm french, maybe that it sounds like "america hater" in your ears,but seriously,a world exists outside US. You should think about it, and people who share the same questions around the world. We don't hate america but people who think that the word "america" can justify anything ;)

[tomitstube]

@Cromag99 ~ don't be a partisan idiot, they were simply reporting the hostilities previous to the visit. from right wingers running around with confederate flags and making all sorts of threats, even the dallas paper was stirring up vitriol towards kennedy. it was so bad it was suggested to cancel the trip.

there are many people who think oswald was set up. and if you want to talk about haters, you're right, nothing HAS changed, the right is as violent and nutty as ever.

[Cromag99]

@tomitstube You have to remember asshole that Oswald was a left wing Marxist liberal who killed Kennedy! If you don't get that you're also a retard! So who are the violent one's now?

[tomitstube]

@Cromag99 ~ nice. you accuse me of violence while calling me an "asshole" and "retard". you're not real perceptive are you?

oswald was a proxy. 80% of america knows that. partisan dupe.

[Cromag99]

@tomitstube Oswald was one of yours, a Marxist liberal punk who acted alone. I know the truth is difficult to hear.

[tomitstube]

@Cromag99 ~ anyone who's seen the footage knows oswald didn't kill kennedy. and all your childish name calling really makes you look foolish.

[andrelebaron]

@tomitstube oswald killed kennedy because he couldn't accept that he wasn't important.

[tomitstube]

@andrelebaron ~ why did the dallas police put out a description of oswald as the killer when no one witnessed the shooting and there were 15 employees not accounted for at the book depository? no one in the dallas police could answer this question, all eye witness accounts of oswald that day were on floors 1 thru 4. a cop saw oswald on the first floor within his own calculation 2 minutes after the shooting and actually talked to him. no prints were found on the gun.

the perfect fall guy.

[kh2hbTV]

Strange to hear about assassination attempts in the 1940's -- just "20 years ago."

I was 7 years old and I'll never forget it. Personally, I believe Oswald did it, but he may have been working for somebody. How does a guy (remember the times we lived in) learn Russian somewhat fluently while stationed in Okinawa, go to Russia, renounce his citizenship, get married to a Russian woman, then the Russians allow both of them to leave, go to the USA, etc., etc. Doesn't add up... Not in the 50s-70s

[ITILII]

@kh2hbTV You need to do some research, Oswald fired no shots and was as he indeed said, a patsy or fall guy. Oswald received intelligence training to teach him Russian and infiltrate the Soviet Union, works out perfectly to blame the lone nut Commie (but people didn't know he was a US intelligence agent)

[kh2hbTV]

@ITILII I could believe Oswald was US intelligence, but maybe he went rouge like Ed Wilson and Frank Terpol in the 1970's. I think that is possible.

I do respect your opinion and there is a lot of research to support it. Thank you for responding to my post.

[DonJulioBlanco2002]

8:00 "It was a man and a woman who fired the shots..."

[DonJulioBlanco2002]

Wow ... CBS finally gets to live video of Cronkite starting at 2:22 ... 15 minutes after the first bulletin. Hard to believe it took that long.

[kh2hbTV]

@DonJulioBlanco2002 I think they needed to warm up the tubes in their cameras. No kidding! It could take up to 20-30 minutes to warm up the tubes to get them ready to transmit.

[DonJulioBlanco2002]

@kh2hbTV

You may be right! I hadn't thought about that. We tend to forget that everything wasn't always available instantaneously, even as recently as 1963.

[kh2hbTV]

@DonJulioBlanco2002 It seems like the old tube radios we had would take maybe 10 minutes to warm-up and if you tried to tune a station before then there would be all sorts of "outer space" sounds.

How would the Facebook Generation live in the 50's and 60's? Imagine! Talking with people face-to-face!

[MerleOberon]

Is the Trade Mart still there in Dallas?

[ksol1460tv]

@MerleOberon - Yes it is.

[fluid8803]

@Johnpaxx I guess I was too. No Prob.

@susanreno There was pride & dignity in the profession back then. Yet, this moment also created 24 hour news cycles.

[fluid8803]

@Johnpaxx I guess I was too. No Prob.

[fluid8803]

@jonpaxx____ So? Whats your point? Was his death related to Painkillers? or womanizing? Yes, this is just You Tube but.......If you are from that era, you more than anyone should know that respect for the deceased is ALWAYS warranted unless they were a cretin like Oswald. I don't think it was a Rep. Conspiracy but you can at least be civil on these threads when addressing simple questions from others who may not know.

[johnpaxx]

@fluid8803 ________I hear you. I guess my point is that it's a little complicated. For a lot of us from back then, there are two Kennedys.There's President Kennedy...Mr. President. And then there's the man, good and bad. And, yes, I should be more civil even on you tube. I listened to this because like most everybody I was re-living a pivotal moment in our American lives, like the day we landed on the moon, the day of the space shuttle disaster, and 9/11. I don't remember WWII much.

[10Faenorr]

@fluid8803 "unless they were a cretin like LHO"

I think that LHO was guilty 200% but u ought to remember he's officially classified as the "Alleged Assassin" in perpetuity & no more. Ozzie being a Marxists Activist, saw JFK as a threat * to his next & final utopic destination that he'd been searching for his entire life ... Cuba. 'Left' ConSpiracy Theorists have been trying to hang it on the 'right' ever since.

* By his actions in the 'Bay of Pigs Invasion' and the 'Cuban Missile Crisis'.

[cdddraftsman]

@fluid8803 "@jonpaxx So? Whats your point? Was his death related to Painkillers? or womanizing?"

If the Mafia had a hidden hand in the assassination, I don't believe they did, JFK's "womenizing" (Especially with Judith Exner, Mob Moll) would be the logical explanation why a personal vendetta against JFK would of been initiated. Further, his moral aloofness & actions as a person, always had the potential for blackmailing as a president. These 2 entitys cannot be seperated by wishful thinking.

[radiodj1520]

During This CBS News Bulletin On November 22, 1963, Walter Cronkite Was Anchoring (From The Newsroom), Eddie Barker Of KRLD-TV Was The Reporter, And The Correspondent For CBS News At The Time Of This Bulletin, Was Dan Rather.

[10Faenorr]

@al1936ful "by making them believe there would be WW3 if they tried anything"

Nonsense ! The Kremlin knew that we knew that they knew any WW3 scenario would result in 20M US deaths sure, BUT WITH 200M USSR deaths to boot. Our megatonnage was 10 to 1 & we knew all along the Soviets were like hotel burglars looking for unlocked doors, the min. they're confronted, they'd run & would never entertain any action that would trade Moscow for Havana when the chips were down. Thats just silly talk.

[cdddraftsman]

@al1936ful "Do u have any believable verification from reliable sources?"

* Pentagon Papers kept secret from even the president because they told the truth :

Memorandums for the President, State Airgrams, DIA Intelligence Bulletin, SACSA Memorandum for the Secretary, DIA Memorandum for SecDef, Pres. Memorandum for the SecDef, Ch MAAG & BAGUIO Messages, CIA info. Reports,

'Hilsman Cable' State message, to name but a few from 100's of primary sources.

* You're outta ur league son.

[PepperlandBeatleVids]

they said 10 seconds but it took 1 second

[4021971]

I think it was a Republican conspiracy.

[warszawianka]

The NBC "as it happened" footage with Bill Ryan, Chet Huntley, and David Brinkley, was aired in its entirety on A&E on the 30th anniversary of the assassination. NBC had a hell of a time setting up live audio and video links and eventually had to resort to Robin MacNeil reading reports in bits and pieces to Frank McGee over the telephone, who read them back piecemeal.

[mytvmemories]

dear God the worst day in American history I have recollection of. I was in first grade they sent us home from school. I can still see my mother sitting in front of our old B&W Sylvania TV with her head in her hands

[slokes1]

The interesting aspect of this portion of the broadcast is the strong suggestion that arch-conservative elements of the Dallas community were likely responsible. Also, at the end of this segment, the CBS newsroom/Cronkite double down on the "killer couple angle",

One real heart-clencher - the sight of the empty lectern at the Dallas Trade Mart with the presidential seal, set up with mikes for a speech never given.

[dizyootum]

jfk robert kennedy martin l king malcolm x bruce lee jimi hendrix 6 men who if they had lived would have changed life as we know it today

[lwmson]

I agree. But it's interesting how you place Hendrix and Lee in the same breath with assassinated political leaders.

[elwin38]

@dizyootum absolutely! dont forget about john lennon.

[DewkChronic]

Notice how cronkite tells you about other lone nuts who have assassinated people. the part before tells us of the 3 shots. the ss men running to the grassy hill.

[jayydee72]

Cronkite was awesome. R.I.P

[ishotu747]

These videos would make great learning tools for students taking a 20th century American history course or students majoring in broadcast journalism

[warszawianka]

@ishotu747 The difference between this and today's cable TV networks is amazing. No graphics, no magic maps, no spin (well, not entirely), no footage of the event, just facts read dispassionately.

[susannreno]

They actually reported the news back then.

[RichieEastside]

@susannreno Exactly. If this happened today you'd have Bill O'Reilly on there saying "This would have never happened if the Democrats didn't...." or Keith Olbermann going on about "This is all the Republicans' fault because...."

I like watching this because people of my generation haven't really known what fair and honest reporting is.

[spasski1000]

I'll be listening to all these as it happened uploads today in honor of a great president.

[BamaChris]

@spasski1000 In honor of Reagan?

[johnpaxx]

@spasski1000 -------------please!!!! he was a hopped-up drug addict and compulsive womanizer whose foreign "policies" were disastrous and nearly disastrous. Do the terms Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnamese War mean anything to you?

[al1936ful]

@johnpaxx You, sir, don't know what you're talking about.

If he did take drugs, it was because of his quite painful back problems, not because he was a 'hopped-up drug addict'.

As for his policies, he singlehandedly forced the Russians to dismantle those missile sites on Cuba by making them believe there would be a nuclear war if they tried anything.

And does the name George W. Bush mean anything to you? Bush is responsible for getting us into an unnecessary war, not Kennedy.

[johnpaxx]

@al1936ful ======well, I hate to tell you this but I knew him way back when, including before he got to the white house, and he, like a lot of people, got addicted to pain killers. That led him quite naturally to hoppers (uppers) and given his addictive personality (you should have seen him in action with his uncontrollable womanizing). It didn't help that he had total access to all this stuff because of his money and political stature. They would have CRUCIFIED him today for all this!!!!

[10Faenorr]

@johnpaxx "It didn't help that he had total access"

* Not only did JFK get injections of methamphetamine's from quack Dr. Max Jacobson * 'Dr. FeelGood'

* P. Lawford stated JFK and him tested out other illicet drugs (date rape drugs) on unknowing WH female interns (SS code name 'Fiddle & Faddle') and observed their reactions.

* As JFK tried to found a poitical dynasty, it should be recalled our 'Founding Fathers' would of been abhored by such a notion.

* Verified in 26 WH SS Log Entry's.

[10Faenorr]

@al1936ful "he singlehandedly forced the Russians to dismantle those missile sites"

* What a balarney sandwich that 'Big Whopper' was !

* JFK's first inclination was to bomb the missile sites, but he knew the Ruskies would take Berlin, HELP !

* The blockade/missile removal was thought up by EXCOMM (Exec. Comm. of the NSC)

* JFK was clueless w/the Kremlin pegging his posture right, they called him "indecisive, weak, too young, not prepared well for decision making in crisis situations"

[al1936ful]

@10Faenorr And how do you know this? Do you have any believable verification from reliable sources? And if this is so, then why haven't any "muckrakers' dug this up?

or do you get your information from Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly?

[cdddraftsman]

@al1936ful "And how do u know this?"

The same way I know by your comments that you never got an education, get your leftwing tripe from the CONspiracy toilet bowl, and never read a decent history book in your life. I invite u to prove me wrong. Example provide a citation that indicates even in the vaguest terms that "he (JFK) singlehandedly forced the Russians to dismantle those missiles"? If he was that strong of a leader the Russians would never had put in "those missiles" in the 1st place.

[Italblessings]

Thanks for uploading. This is incredible footage.

[fromthesidelines]

Cronkite stays on the air through the end of what had been "AS THE WORLD TURNS", telling viewers that he'd return following "station identifcation". FINALLY, at 2:00pm(et), Cronkite's studio camera is working, and he appears in the newsroom, and, except from frequent breaks, would not leave the air until the following Monday, November 25th.

[altfactor]

@fromthesidelines The cameras were filled with numerous tubes, and it took almost 20 minutes for them to warm-up.

The 10-second station ID break allowed Cronkite to sprint from a voice-over booth to his anchor desk since he probably got a message that the cameras had warmed up and were ready to go.

Today, we would have seen Cronkite from the very first bulletin, and chances are, viewers (in the eastern and Central time zones) never would have been switched back to "As The World Turns".