JFK As it Happened NBC Coverage of Nov 22 1963 Pt 1 hosted by Edwin Newman

[rarerod74]

Muchmore photo ??? 9:16 huh really

[juggheed]

it has always been said by the media that he died at the hospital, JFK was dead before the car reached the underpass...... instantly ater the head shot

[irish89055]

the man interviewed was positive.. he can be seen pounding the earth as he shelters his son in other video from Dealy....sorry folks, only one shooter, his name is Oswald..

[ITILII]

@irish89055 Wrong, do some research, anyone with an open mind and a regard for facts can know that Oswald shot no one, President Kennedy was murdered as a result of conspiracy of those who were threatened by his policies on human rights, peace and ...last but not least...money. He was taking the toys away from the big boys and restoring the rights of the PEOPLE

[andrelebaron]

@ITILII yeah sure. that stuff's for idiots. you obviously don't know anything about kennedy or oswald. oswald shot kennedy and tippit and tried to shoot walker six months earlier.

[loyaldude10]

what a tragedy that none of the truly guilty were ever caught. The Warren Commission was such a joke.

[jensmom604]

I remember the news was announced at my elementary school just before the 3:30 (EST) dismissal. Our teacher was called into the hall, then she returned and told us of the assassination. Someone asked who had shot him, but she didn't know. She told those of us who walked to go straight home. At the time, no one knew if Russia was involved or if there would be an attack on the US. My grandfather was waiting in his car to pick me up, something that rarely happened.

[irish89055]

@jensmom604 seems like my second grade class/school was let out by 2pm or so, in Arlington, VA. My mother was waiting in the yard, crying..I had a chance to see JFK board his plane at Andrews, reddish hair as the sun shone on him.. I could hear a stereo effect as I stood by my front door and could hear the honor guards shooting their rifles during the funeral service on the tv.

[newsmanbluesman]

Here is where NBC dumped MacNeil and McGee reportage that all shots from TSBD would be very unlikely - also seems they used Father Huber last rites as did Dan Rather -wrongly - no priest wanted it said that there was no hope for the guy they saw - of course. there wasn't . Notice, where no doctor admits to long cut of scalp, plain to see in Bethesda photos, & Sibert , nor removal of any brain: then 1 bullet had already done this - at point of Parkland admission, priest and others' viewing.

[erinserb]

a fascinating video, but what was the device that somebody pointed at the man at 8:45 of the video?? I know it looks like a camera, but seems to be small for any type of device of that time, maybe a recorder. God Bless JFK...and I remember where I was at on that day.

[slicknicktheprick]

@erinserb i think it's a light meter

[tryithere]

@erinserb It's high technology of something know as a phone handset.

[ksol1460tv]

@erinserb Besides the phone handset, I see a portable microphone, probably for a tape recorder.

[DCFunBud]

Frank Reynolds was the original reporter.

[DCFunBud]

@DCFunBud My mistake, it was Frank McGee.

[saml760]

I taped this on WHYY-TV Channel 12 Philadelphia on 11/21/1993 and i must say i was transfixed by what i was watching.i still have the tape and and still watch it from time to time.i was only 3 years old when JFK was assassinated,but watching this made me feel more a part of the tragedy than ever before.

[LiquorWreckedEmGood]

frank mcgee was the best. image "the mcgee cronkite news hour". the ratings for cnn, fox, and msnbc would be ZERO.

[MickeyMorandini1]

frank mcgee seems liike he was damn good at reporting.. without all of the technology we had now they really had to work harder

[1916jutland]

At 4:50 to 4:55 you can see Secret Service Agent Clint Hill on the rear of the bumper of the Presidential car. This and other films of the Secret Service on the bumper of the Presidential car clearly shows that JFK didn't order the Secret Service to stay off the bumper as they said in their book, THE KENNEDY DETAIL. They came to the conclusion that JFK was responsible for his own death. They didn't mention how much they hated him or their partying at a strip club until 5:00 AM on 11/22/1963.

[SuperBandstand]

there was no live radio or tv coverage of kennedy going from the airport to deally plassa..................

[Soulthinker2007]

I like to thank the A&E producers for showing this because it was as close to a time machine as I ever got when I watched it. I did not know unless a person had a color tv set that the Forth Worth NBC affiliate was broadcast in color.

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

This is an excellent film about a sad event.

George Vreeland Hill

[AbeBSea]

Great. Now Edwin Newman is going to haunt my erotic dreams. Him and Abraham Lincoln!!!

[wlhardy]

I remember seeing this documentary when it aired in 1988 and taped it, then someone taped over it--I was so mad! So thanks for uploading! I love watching this stuff.

[marcostar57]

The "haters' Huntley speaks of were the rabid right-wing CIA militarists and their conies in the mob & the oil industry. The same group of vermin still exist today!

[Elmore3141]

It' was silly for Huntley to have blamed the "popularity of hatred," as if it was the intolerance of Americans (or hatred) in general that killed Kennedy. No, it was one stone-cold communist by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald who killed JFK. When you blame everybody, you in effect blame nobody.

[swami1]

@Elmore3141 Notice how the Left has never accepted Oswald as the assassin. They can't believe one of their own would do that.

[marcostar57]

@swami1 Because he was not of the left NOR was he the assassin -- dingbat!

[bestdayz11]

@swami1 upwards of 70 percent of the public don't accept the Warren report. LHO was a lot of things but i don't he was a communist. more likely an intelligence agent. do some reading and at least admit that possibility. probably won't ever know but in 20 yrs they might release his cia file.

[Jerseysson27]

Rest in peace Edwin Newman you were TRULY the original anchorman, so amazing

[jdale1259]

Chet Huntley's commentary at the end of this clip about the "growing and sickening popularity of hatred in this country" is truly chilling and, I regret to say, reminds me of what is happening now, 47 years later.

[SUNMAYDEN518]

this seems like yesterday

[fromthesidelines]

"THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT" normally went on at 6:30pm(et)- and NBC decided to start the evening's coverage of the day's events with a "special edition"- with NO commercials. In fact, until the network signed off for the evening after Kennedy's funeral on Monday, November 25th, regularly scheduled programs and commercials were pre-empted. What was shown for the next three days was either live coverage of what was happening in Dallas and Washington, or "memorial" prorgams...

[dadsoldtapes]

This truly was a tragedy... thankfully this was the last time the sitting president was assassinated - btw I come to believe that the JFK assassination spelled the end for America's post-WW2 boom.

[PeerlessPaavo]

The bespectacled anchor at the beginning of this footage is Frank McGee. Later we see Chet Huntley. The narrator of the retrospective is Edwin Newman.

[albrtalligator]

@PeerlessPaavo Yes, McGee was a very difficult and arrogant man. When working with Barbara Walters, he insisted on being the person who asked the first 3 questions. McGee was a Type A and Anal retentive personality.

[PeerlessPaavo]

@albrtalligator Interesting. Sounds like you know this from experience.

[DownloadLisaAnnFree]

@albrtalligator How is that being arrogant and difficult? Barbara Walters has to be the most ambitious shrew ever to appear on television. She tried to nose her way into every job and then appear as an equal to men who had toiled for decades coming up thru the ranks, learning their craft.

McGee was right and perhaps the best newsman in television history. My favorite certainly.