JFK Assassination (CBS Coverage) - Part 3/10 (1963)

RIP Walter Cronkite 1916-2009

From Wikipedia:

As he had twice before, Cronkite broke in with an audio-only bulletin accompanied by the (at least for that day) ever-present CBS News Bulletin bumper slide:

"Here is a bulletin from CBS News...President Kennedy has been the victim of an assassin's bullet in Dallas, Texas. It is not known as yet whether the President survived the attack against him."

This particular bulletin went into even more detail than the other two, as for the first time Cronkite detailed where the shooting victims were wounded (Kennedy had been shot in the head, Connally in the chest). At the conclusion of the bulletin, Cronkite told viewers to stay tuned for further details, perhaps implying that the network would be returning to regular programming. However, Cronkite remained on the air for the next ten minutes, continuing to read bulletins as they were handed to him, followed by recapping the events as they were known and interspersing the new information he had received where appropriate. He also brought up recent instances of assassination attempts against sitting Presidents (including the murder of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak in a botched assassination attempt on then-President-elect Franklin Roosevelt), as well as a recent attack of United Nations ambassador Adlai Stevenson in Dallas which resulted in extra security measures being taken for Kennedy's visit to the city. He also received word that Congressman Albert Thomas of Texas had been told that for the moment the President and governor were still alive.

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[Maroonlink5]

i remember that day, terrible.

jk

[MiscVideos78rpm]

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[raratunga]

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[MiscVideos78rpm]

@raratunga - Sorry, what?

[jemmytaveras]

@MiscVideos78rpm

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[MiscVideos78rpm]

@jemmytaveras - Haha, I know.

[Jeff98177]

@ADAMSIXTIES I'm saying that if the President were to be shot today, they wouldn't have gone back to regular programming so soon.

[rstryker27]

Already the left wing bias of the media shines through. Speculating that Kennedy was shot by a right wing nut when in fact it was a communist.

[jiche57]

@1976GGus1 this was the live coverage just after JFK was shot. JFK was just rushed to the hospital and of course CBS had no idea that the president had died

[retroguy1976]

@Jeff98177 exactly they woulda stuck with it the whole time

[1976GGus1]

GOD DAMN IS THIS OLD. Kennedy died. The announcer in this video seems unaware of this fact.

[ADAMSIXTIES]

9:20 "secret service agents said shots came from grassy knoll"... Now we know for sure!!

[ADAMSIXTIES]

@Jeff98177 Your comment makes no sense.  Do you mean if JFK was assassinated "these days" or someone else?