Arrival of the Kennedy Party from Dallas on Nov. 22 1963

[Ulf6D]

Although almost 50 years have passed since this tragic event, it lives still in our minds and in our everyday lives.

Although almost 50 years have passed since this tragic event, it lives still in our minds and in our everyday lives.

Please rejoice in the knowledge that he has lived and worked in our own lifetime (or have had a positive impact on our lives, in case you were born after 22 November 1963) .

Love always

Ulf (born two weeks after JFK Jr; Dec 6, 1960)

[AnneLiesveld]

I found recently a photo of the casket being lifted onto air force one and while I can't say it is an "enjoyable picture" to see it spoke volumes (atleast a thousand words to me) as I am perfecting (this week) my speaking skills about Air Force #1 (aka JFK or LBJ or WJC's plane) or Nixon's or whoever rode that plane since the 60's. but to see that picture of them loading the coffin/casket and then you realize that (according to my book it was like upwards of 900 lbs (don't know if that is with

[AnneLiesveld]

@AnneLiesveld JFK weight or not but it is like DANG (and I probably should say worse) if it is just casket weight that is 900 lbs! I wouldn't have a clue! That picture of Secret service or whoever escorting JFK onto AF1 for his last ride as a human on earth is just so POIGNANT to me (and I am a 80 baby so it has nothing to do with that!) I really wish for my power point pictures (all presidential people near Air Force plane I could find that picture a little bit bigger than I have so that it

[AnneLiesveld]

@AnneLiesveld would more clearly show the plane along with casket etc. I think it is a profoundly telling photo of all the effort done to care for this person at obviously his time of need and it isn't like He would care at that point so that isn't their motivation. Obviously it is love for them and showing respect for JKO and that picture so poignantly does it that I LOVE IT! (in a creepy way because that isn't a fun photo to love. Any suggestions on where to find the photo bigger and clearer?

[67rml]

I was 13 that afternoon. I remember it was a warm sunny day, and I went outside to see a plane overhead many miles high. I wondered if it was 26000 and waved at it. At 6pm this live coverage was shown. It was exactly like this; the resolution was terrible but that was what we had back then. We didn't sleep well that night because no one knew what it all meant, maybe we still do not.

[jensmom604]

The TV camera lights were turned off so the pilot would not be blinded.

[TheOldrob]

too bad they didnt shoot Johnson instead of Kennedy

[2468HOTROD]

@TheOldrob ....Bad Karma will come your way someday for saying something like that.

[08dukeduke]

Great video. Sad though.

[wayneeleigh1953]

This moment is riveting...I remember watching this in my den that evening...I think it was when I really came to grips with what had happened...I was almost 10 at the time...It was almost 48 years ago, and yet it was yesterday.

[tomitstube]

shock and disbelief was what most people were feeling. the president left for texas on his own two feet and came back in a box. it's just something you never get over.

where did robert come from? he wasn't on the plane was he? 

[orrfhan]

@tomitstube no he wasn't on the plane. He was waiting for the plane to land and then he ran up the stairs and onto the plane to Jackie. You may be able to see it in the clip. Looks like there are 2 people going into the plane as the honour guard is coming down.

[tomitstube]

@orrfhan ~ thanks, that does look like robert going up while people come down from the front. this devastated robert, he developed an almost uncontrollable hatred for johnson, they didn't get along to begin with, but it just became too much to see the overtly ambitious and seemingly indifferent johnson in his brothers place.

[MrYellowlabs]

This was the moment the assassination became "real".

America got it`s first glimpse of the casket...and seeing Jackie in her blood stained dress.

Suddenly, all hopes were dashed that the reports of the previous 4 hours were merely "rumors", or this was all a bad dream. This made it real.

TV never carried a more dramatic moment!

[sanyo51]

jackie was so strong

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

What a sad day that was.

America never really got over it.

What a shame it happened.

George Vreeland Hill

[Cathie8791]

Fly off that morning as a healthy, sun-tanned, 6 ft. something President with a million dollar smile. Come back that night in a box. Unbelievable, and yet that's what happened.

[LongLiveOx]

Ugh, this is so sad.

[rahsek1]

aw jackie...

[mrbrandon71]

I just posted a response. But one more thing to those of you who dismiss people as "conspiracy theorists." That term is a term used by shallow thinkers and those who want to fool them. Remember that many conspiracies have been proven absolutely and unequivocally true.

[mrbrandon71]

I was born in 1971, just 8 short years after this unnecessary tragedy, but I am a presidential history fan and believe that JFK was the last authentic president. He refused to dance to the music of the evil, and they destroyed him and his families lives. Not to mention the fact that they sent a clear message to all subsequent presidents to tow the line or die. And they still continue to slander his name and memory in order to paint him as unworthy of the love we still feel for him. Shame.

[themeaningoflife38]

FACT-Jack Ruby worked for Richard Nixon and was also an FBI informant.

[themeaningoflife38]

Right wing nazi fascists killed JFK

[cdadave83814]

I was 9 when President Kennedy died. My 4th grade teacher came into the room and said "The President Was Shot". I will never forget that. Even at my then tender age, I was able to sense that something really bad had happened. Years later, courtesy of YouTube, I'm able to re-live his death as an adult, and it still feels awful, it feels tragic, and every bit as sad. Perhaps more tragic now that I've had a chance to see this all through older eyes.

[maxpowers518]

Poor Jackie got locked out of the hearse!

[themeaningoflife38]

One of the reporters on Air Force One said that LBJ planned to have Mrs Kennedy come down the stairs with him when they landed.However when RFK got there he ran onto the plane,ran past LBJ didnt even acknowledge him and took Mrs Kennedy with him out the back where you see them exit the plane.RFK knew right away that LBJ was involved in the assassination.Check out the phone call where RFK confronts LBJ about his brother's murder.

[045781]

@themeaningoflife38

Please send me the link on utube to that phone call, thanks

[Mr11101956]

how many f/n times do they have to say casket...my god!!!!!

[themeaningoflife38]

In his interview with the HSCA on 1-18-78,Richard Lipsey admits that JFK's body was loaded into a hearse on the opposite side of Air Force One while another casket was loaded into the decoy hearse seen in this film.Lipsey was an aide to Gen Wehle.JFK's body was taken in the back door of Bethesda while the decoy went it the front door.

At one point in his testimony Mr Lipsey states that while watching the autopsy they ate hamburgers.

Check it out & read it for yourself.

[FrlghtWolf]

@themeaningoflife38 Ugh! You conspiracy nutballs just keep coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches! I swear, you remind me of a some of these Christian Born-agains who just won't shut up about Jesus. Every god damned thing seems to be a conspiracy. Sheesh, bad things happen...even to presidents! Even if it had been a "decoy", what the hell difference does it make now? He's DEAD, you fuzzy headed gossipy housewife!

[themeaningoflife38]

@FrlghtWolf I'm only making people aware of first hand eye witness testimony.The reason that 80% of Americans beleive it was a conspiracy is because most of the FACTS prove it was.There is NO absolute proof that Oswald did it alone.

[auerstadt06]

@FrlghtWolf It's been 47 years and still no evidence of a conspiracy. It's like a religion for some people, rationality plays no part in their thinking.

[FrlghtWolf]

@auerst- I've tried to reason with these same people on this 9/11 gov. conspiracy nonsense. It's an excursion into stupidity. They don't believe there ever were hijackers or commandeered cockpits. When confronted with the evidence that passengers used phones to call relatives and authorities to report their circumstances, these 9/11 conspiracy people now claim these passengers had their voices "simulated" by computers. Irrational, if not insulting to families. I'm done with these nut-balls!

[kev42o97]

@FrlghtWolf There is no proof that these individuals ever boarded any air planes that day. Where are boarding gated videos, where are the videos of people waiting at the gate to get on their plane. Where is the video of the so called "hijackers" entering and boarding airplanes. Kind of a challenge for a dozen+ hijackers to board flights that did not have their names in the passenger manifest...

[buddhaman4518]

@auerstadt06 I don't consider myself a consipiracy theorist, but one would have to be seriously naive not to notice how neatly everything was wrapped up. Oswald conveniently caught within minutes of the assassination, conveniently murdered in the basement of Dallas police headquarters, no autopsy performed on Kennedy in Dallas as should have occurred by law, the Warren Commission neatly concluding that Oswald acted alone and that a single bullet accomplished the impossible. The list goes on.

[auerstadt06]

@buddhaman4518 The "convenience" of apprehending Oswald cost the life of officer JD Tippet. The only thing suspicious was the murder of Oswald, which upon thorough examination by legitimate investigators reveals nothing more than one man's anger. You are a conspiracy theorist.

[buddhaman4518]

@auerstadt06 You're entitled to your opinion as am I. I don't spend excessive amounts of time obsessing over the matter, which to me, is something a conspiracy theorist does. I just think there are too many inconsistencies to accept the official conclusion reached by our government. If that makes me a conspiracy theorist, so be it.

[buddhaman4518]

@auerstadt06 One thing I think we can agree on is that

[buddhaman4518]

@auerstadt06 One thing I think we can agree on is that this seminal event in history will probably be debated as long as time itself. I don't think there will ever be a satisfying conclusion for anyone on either side of the debate. I think we can also agree that it was the event that served as an ending to the country's innocence with respect to how government was viewed by its citizens.

[pravitchoonit068]

how surreal this scene is, just finished watching the video of kennedy arriving in dallas, everything was so bright and happy, and now the very same plane is back in darkness with the dead president.

[IlikewatIsee]

I know the ambulance driver was like DAMN these mutha fuckas just pulled me out the car. How the fuck am I gonna get home?

[ramsback28]

5:55 look at the secret service agent taking the place of the ambulance driver. The body was whisked away first to Walter Reed Hospital, wounds altered, brain removed, put into a different casket, cover up. Then the body was taken to Bethesda Medical for the "official autopsy". They got away with a lot of shit these black op guys didn't they?

[goofygoat2009]

Nancy Dickerson SHOULD of been introduced...men are such pricks. No respect.

[goofygoat2009]

quasiphatpaul...how the hell could your great grandparents hate what the kennedys stood for? they made great, positive changes in this country!

[proken58]

The woman speaking was Nancy Dickerson who was orginally supposed to be covering this for NBC Radio. NBC decided to pool both reporters for TV and radio, but McGee wasn't aware of this so just introduced Robert Abernathy.

[TRUEMAN8919]

fue una conspiracion de la cia los militares y los millonarios del petroleo

[bstep13]

May whoever was responsible for JFK's death may they ROT in hell.

[Dav68Chs]

No matter what political differences we all as Americans have...John F. Kennedy was OUR President, if you are/were a citizen of the United States. I haven't supported 'politically' all those that have been President or our great country, but I respect the office and title that the President holds and pray for guidance for him and his staff for leadership. God Bless The United States of America!

[TheSwabbie]

I like others even though a boy - was shattered that someone had killed our President. However, understand that getting all sentimental is one thing and making someone out to be something they were NOT is not good. President Kennedy was NOT a good man. He was unfaithful to his wife and his economic decisions were also not sound. I do not agree with him Politically at all. I didnt agree with Lincoln suspending Habeus Corpus - that was WRONG. Dont make Kennedy out to be what he's not.

[copper2150]

One of the most tragic days of the 20th century. So much hope and promise for a great future all taken away in one day. We shall never see the likes of such a noble, dedicated, and solid man ever again in this country.

[joeylodes]

what a sin

[William111061]

It's a terrible thing for the country when any

President is shot, but Kennedy was such a genuinely pleasant, affable, charming man that

people felt deep grief. I can't imagine a similar reaction if Lyndon Johnson or Richard

Nixon had been shot.

[quasiphatpaul]

Lincoln was hated by half of his nation when he was shot. There were many people including my great grand parents who absolutely hated everything the Kennedys stood for. But no matter WHAT you feel when your President is shot we all feel vulnerable and unite in our grief.

[billyguns2]

@William111061 I agree. The country was never the same after this horrific murder by a conspiracy of power mongers who didn't want the people to have any power. After VietNam, Cambodia, lying, thieving, and murdering, the country would have breathed a sigh of deep relief if Johnson or Nixon had met such a fate. Although LBJ fulfilled his promises to the murderers, Nixon was destroyed by the people who put him in power.

[BattenburgLace]

@William111061 Everything changed that day. America got a lot grittier. Never again would the press so glowingly report any president, including with President Obama. They had looked the other way during JFK's legendary extramarital lifestyle. The NYT wouldn't touch the story until 30 years later. To me, the story here is Jackie. To have survived the horror and frankly, gore of this day and singlehandedly raise two fine children makes her such an inspiration to me.

[pat442389]

@BattenburgLace but all men have faults. he had more pressure then almost any other president in the US history. the only one who may have had more was Lincoln. but JFK was dealing with a nuclear war the could end the entire planet, not just the union of states. jackie was really strong imagine walking with you wife or husband down a street talking about everyday stuff when all of a sudden a bullet hits their head killing them instantly and pouring blood/ brains all over you? idk how she did it

[andrelebaron]

@pat442389 JFK was on drugs a lot of the time and when he showed up that way with Khruschev he set off the missile crisis. He was a myth. Truman had decisions a hundred times tougher when he got in. the whole post-war world was being established including all the trade institutions. and he made better decisions than Kennedy would have.

[pat442389]

@andrelebaron so when Kennedy met Krushchev in 61 it somehow started the missile crises in 62? weird. yea JFK was on drugs a lot he suffered more pain in his life then john mccain did, except he wouldnt show it. the missile crises came about after the bay of pigs, castro begging for protection, JFKs promise in miami to get the anti castro cubans their flag back in a "free havana" and the CIA's op. mongoose. JFK wasnt a myth. Truman started the whole National Sec. State which cause these problems

[bapyou]

Funny, I felt absolutely nothing when Ronald Reagan was shot. Wonder why?

Nineteen-hundred and sixty-three: The beginning of America's downward slide.

[TubeGunner]

45 years later, this is all still surreal.

[davemock]

Is the female voice Nancy (Hanschman) Dickerson?

[kpyng]

It sure is.

[mastshke]

other than the heinderburg of 1937 the coverage of this gave birth to news broadcasting that we have today. 24/7 news all the time due to this event.

[giles422]

helicopter? why?

[corydwalker]

To take LBJ, his wife, and aides to the White House. Watch /watch?v=6XwscnjrMpY&feature=r­elated

and it shows them getting on the helicopter.

[MJJR1]

I was 5 years old at the time of President kennedy's assasination and I remember the events as they occurred. Although it may be easier to view this footage 44 years later, November 22, 1963 was one of the darkest days in our country's history.

[sanyo51]

Its like going back into time. it was 100 years ago at this time when lincoln was killed. this is so heart felt to watch this part of history that is forever in our minds.

[sanyo51]

Thanks for postings this video.I been wanting to see this clip of history.... thanks

[Davidingilbert]

Sanyo - I have the tape at when A&E broadcast this many years ago. It is very powerful to watch this.

[Jerseysson27]

The day that President Kennedy was laid to rest. My mom was going to be on the Sonny fox show.