I can't believe that the sound quality from a 1963 broadcast could be so good!

I was in 2nd grade when this happened. We were being led out to the school busses as it was shortly after 2:00 PM in Florida when the News arrived. I remember many of the teachers were in tears. I didn't find out what the end result was until I got home on the bus. They had already arrested Oswald.

Well let’s get that farm report.

Amazingly they went back to regular programming for a moment. David, I have this, so did you put this out earlier in another form. i have WCCO coverage. If so, how is this different? Thanks for these uploads!

About 20 minutes in, when recounting presidential assassination attempts, he misses President Garfield. President Garfield was shot, and died several weeks later, about 1880 or so.

Everett Dirksen's impersonation of Foster Brooks moved me to tears.

You know, what is so very sad! If somehow you could go back in time and save President Kennedy from Dealy Plaza, "they" would have killed him somewhere else! Sad!~L P.S. Thank you, David for all your hard work with all the JFK broadcasts!

Tragic day. Thanks for uploading this rare clip.

Is it just me or did the guy talking about the cattle sound like a young George Carlin?

Today, a radio (or TV) network wouldn't go back to regular programming after the report of a sitting President being shot. Instead, the network would repeat initial details until new details came in.

Significantly, he omitted the quote attributed to Clint Hill, "He's dead," which was in the wire report, and included in other on-air reports.

A new angle from Pierpoint, early on, not included in the CBS television coverage, emphasizing the gravity of the President’s condition. One of the earliest reports quoted wire service reporter James Altgens as saying he saw blood on Kennedy’s head just after the shots were fired. It clearly didn’t look hopeful. Both CBS and NBC were careful to separate ascertained facts from rumors, and official and unofficial information. NBC television tried to put a hopeful slant on things, but I want to emphasize that I do not consider that misleading. As I restudy these terrible events and the many different angles from which they were reported, much was unknown between ca. 12:45 m. and 1:33 p.m. Central time (when Assistant White House Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff made the official announcement of the Preeident’s death) and I think it remarkable that as much cogent information was disseminated as it was during the period of uncertainty over JFK’s condition. In the words of NBC’s Bill Ryan, the whole country was in a state of “controlled panic”. I think Allan Jackson made the announcement on Kennedy’s death before Kilduff’s announcement, on word from Dan Rather -- who had gotten the information from physicians at Parkland Hospital and from the Rev. Oscar Huber, the Catholic priest who had given the church’s sacrament of extreme unction to the President.

The CBS News Sounder sounding like a teletype machine was retired by CBS News after the JFK Funeral.

A sad day for the United States

The attack was correctly described by the wire service report as an ambush. Multiple shooters in a crossfire.

Associated Press photographer James Altgens, quoted in the second bulletin at 0:59, had the amazing and unbelievable experience of personally witnessing the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941 AND the assassination of President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 - two immensely important historic events in the USA and indeed the entire world. He took a photo of JFK just after he'd been shot the first time through his neck / throat, but from a distance. He was always bothered that he'd been too shocked to continue to take photos after this one, as the limousine came closer to him and passed him.

I had just sat down at my desk. I was in afternoon kindergarten. They called the buses back and sent us home. No cartoons for a week, all news.

No description of the suspect went out before the arrest of Oswald from Dan Rather in Dallas, Texas. (I suspect these things are edited. I have heard one description of a white man suspect wearing a white shirt and Levis, this was played in a Garrison radio interview from 1988 or so.)

The infamous "Oh No!"

12:55 that day - Oswald is on his way to the boarding house, no description of the shooter has gone out. 21:33 video time, ultra nationalist Puerto Ricans went down the memory hole.

the motorcade sped on

Three shots from somewhere in the crowd. Child said he saw fifth floor shooter. (I always listen for the first description of the shooter.) Automatic fire, right rear, grassy knoll - (THANK YOU DAN RATHER.) Man and woman seen on grassy knoll, perhaps they are? Hiding in the bushes. Secret service surrounding a building, assassins may be holed up on fifth floor.