Why do these people seem adult to me ? I am 68 and what I see for news reporting today is child like in comparison. It is surreal. People don’t conduct themselves like this today.
There are many differences, including no editorializing. One thing to notice, too, is that people had a much stronger command of the English language. Very few "um" "uh" "uhm"s. And each sentence is a complete sentence, with a subject and predicate. Sounds like a very little thing but it makes a big difference.
Today's news is basically "newstainment". Where I live when Taylor Swift came to town for 3 days of concerts, that's ALMOST ALL you heard about. It was ridiculous.
These news presenters are proper journalists. They are well spoken and precise in their speech. Amazed at their calmness and unflappability dealing with the news as it came through on a live basis.
Yes also Charles Murphy you can clearly see the devastation in his face truly saddening when the news is broken that President Kennedy Died , the news flash before it truly devastating till this day
These guys had balls of steel. All of these guys cut their teeth either reporting during World War II or fighting in it. The composure and class of these guys is astounding. Modern American journalists could learn a thing or two.
I wasn't even born when this happened but the incredible professionalism of the reporters and the terrible tragedy of the event is extremely compelling to watch and listen to. Thanks for posting.
These news reporters, Frank Mcgee, Chet Huntley, Walter Cronkite, etc were true professionals and didn't include their personal comments. Today's news reporters could truly learn from these great men
So true. Today's media is so politically and now racially biased. They put people on trial before their is one and now we're being called white supremacists just for living life and voting different from the way they would.
Today's talking empty heads have neither the capacity, willingness or ability to learn much anything of value. Paid MILLIONS to LIE, puppets on a string as are the vast majority of "public servants" JFK the last great Democratic President we will EVER have !
Today's news reporters have been "taught" that it is their job to form public opinion about the news -- through such things as advocacy journalism and interventionist journalism. They don't give half a hoot about anything prior generations of journalists could teach them. Today's news reporters believe they are more intelligent, more informed, more correct, and more righteous than those who came before them, and that they have the moral standing and duty to tell the great unwashed masses the path they should follow.
Walter Cronkite absolutely DID insert his opinions and personal politics into his broadcasts. I grew up watching Uncle Walter 5 nights a week. Each network presenter immediately upon learning of the assassination, started insinuating that “Far Right protesters” had something to do with this because of Right-leaning protesters hit Adlai Stevenson with their cardboard protest sign weeks before. When it turns out it was a Far Left Marxist, not a single one apologized for blaming innocent Conservatives. Exactly like today.
Imagine going LIVE for almost 2 days (if I remember right) --- no commercial interruptions. At the beginning receiving all kinds of information - from factual to eye witness accounts, to erroneous reports, the Nation in utter shock, confusion and disbelief and trying to sort it all out. NBC has broadcast this numerous times over the years. Just an amazing piece of coverage and real journalism with facts and sources double-and-triple checked, sans political slant, bias and opinionated commentary. Those guys were the best of the best. I was 12 then - The sadness of that day can never be understated.
The closest that modern-day "journalism" came close was with the coverage of 9/11. Even on radio, WINS-AM in NYC's coverage was many days minus ads and it was interesting to hear the coverage as the men and women "on the pile" were looking for victims, and the emotions running high during this time. The foreign coverage by NHK English of the Japan Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami was on for several days. As there were no commercials, there was non-stop coverage for, I believe, 2 weeks. It was sobering as you realized you were seeing literally hundreds of people dying in front of you, as cars and people and houses were swept away during the tsunami. Anchor Gene Otani was experienced in marathon broadcasting as he had stayed on air for many hours during the Kobe Earthquake previously, and was on during the 3/11/2011 East Japan Earthquake & Tsunami catastrophe.
@@fromthesidelines Yes 4 days overall, concluding Monday with the funeral. I was speaking specifically to continual non-stop Live coverage, so I may be wrong there. I can't remember.
@@tuxitalk1World Thanks for the information about the coverage of the Japanese Earthquake and Tsuami - I was not aware of that non-stop coverage. Watching live is amazingly sobering - or if you see something during 9/11 like people jumping from 100 story buildings and Towers collapsing on themselves it is staggeringly painful. You sure won't ever forget it.
This is fantastic and riveting. This channel does a public service by making this material available. I wish someone would do the same with all the Watergate testimony.
Hot take: NBC's coverage was superior to CBS's. Some will rightly complain about the bad audio from the phones/mics, but CBS had their difficulties as well. I think it took CBS 10 minutes to warm up their cameras, and - maybe I'm misremembering - but they stayed awfully long on the Trade Mart thing, a lonely camera filming shocked people for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, NBC was quick to hook up with affiliates. McGee, with two-fisted telephones almost like a gag from "Airplane!" or something, directly quoting Bob MacNeil at Parkland Hospital. Gripping stuff. The absolute professionalism from Huntley and Bill Ryan and David Brinkley. No tears. Bravo.
All three networks had to wait for the cameras to warm up. CBS was the first to break in to national coverage while ABC and NBC was doing it through the affiliates.
Eddie Barker, a local anchor covering the Trade Mart speech was the first to announce Kennedy’s death when a Dr. from Parkland in attendance told him after speaking to Drs at Parkland.
My mom is a die hard Republican Conservative, I am 42...i have never,ever heard her speak of the late Pres with anything but the utmost respect regarding his skill and steady hand.she's no fan of his politics, or his family legacy,,but she respects him for his nerves of steel,and cool head under pressure.
I have a privilege of knowing mr Robert MacNeil... he later had a wonderful news program called MacNeil/Lehrer Report on PBS.. he is still doing great at age of 85..
On Friday, November 22nd 1963, as a route salesman for a Dallas/Ft. Worth vending company, I was filling the Coke machine in the Parkland Hospital cafeteria about a half hour before the presidential motorcade rolled in. I was planning to stay and have lunch but the Friday special was liver and onions, and I NEVER order organ meat in a hospital cafeteria. If roast chicken had been the special, I would have been there when Kennedy arrived. By the way, I had filled the Coke machine in the lunchroom of the Texas School Book Depository that morning. That means that if Oliver Stone and other conspiracy theorists are correct and Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed in the cafeteria drinking a Coke moments after the assassination, it was placed in the machine by Yours Truly. This gets better. The company I worked for was closed on Saturday , in observance of the national tragedy, so on Sunday, while getting paid double overtime, I had to make up the stops I didn't get to on Saturday - including the Dallas Police Headquarters. I had just pulled my truck into the parking garage when I spotted one of my regular customers, Jack Ruby -owner of the Carousel Nightclub where we had a couple of machines. He waved to me as I drove past. He was on his way on foot to somewhere in the garage.
@@MrRKWRIGHT it was a fully loaded ford F-350 Dually with a smokestack. Big bunny (Easter bunnys nickname) was with Santa they paid cash which was kinda unusual, he was a nice fella though we had a nice conversation . He told me about this guy on his naughty list who pretends he’s a important historical figure who waved to Jack Ruby right before he shot oswald because he filled up some coke machines in Dallas in the 60s.
I am amazed by Frank McGee's incredible poise and command of the language under extraordinary pressure. Walter Cronkite gets the bulk of the credit for his work that day, but in my opinion McGee was just as brilliant. And if I were he, I would have thrown that stupid speaker attached to the phone across the studio.
My hat is off to Bill Ryan of NBC news. He rose to the occasion like a Titan, while Huntley and Brinkley were hesitant, and disjointed, Respect to Mc Gee.
@@davidmoser3535 Ryan, I believe, was more a local news guy, on WNBC-TV in New York, than a national guy. So he was probably filling in here for David Brinkley. Probably drafted in for the news emergency. So more credit to him for his work on the national network.
@@davidmoser3535 A newspaper article described Huntley as "stumbling and totally out of his element." NBC kept going to Brinkley even though there was only limited information from DC until Air Force One returned. The reasoning is obvious: H&B were their stars. But neither H nor B had the Cronkite work ethic, on JFK or other big stories such as the space race. (Cronkite was able to rattle off prep including the Adlai Stevenson attack effortlessly as he waited for early developments to trickle in.) Frank McGee was the one anchor in NBC's 1960s stable that could be compared to Cronkite. He anchored the space coverage until management forced H&B to the fore. Kudos to Ryan, who should have gotten the prominence earned by so many other reporters that day.
The reaction of McGee at 43:36 is one of the most heart-rending I have ever seen. This footage is so compelling that up to that point, you can still find yourself rooting that JFK makes it.
The murder of JFK was the Pearl Harbor of its day or the 9/11 of its day. The NBC newscasters are to be praised for their coverage of one of the greatest tragedies in American history.
These newsmen were total pros. Sober, seeking and reporting the facts as they unfolded, not jumping to conclusions. The TV technology was primitive 60 years ago but today's supposedly more well-connected media could learn a multitude of journalistic lessons from how these men on NBC handled themselves on 11/22/63.
I was in 4th grade and the announcement was made just before we were dismissed at our usual time, 3:30 EST. Our teacher told us to go straight home. We just lived two blocks away. To my surprise, my grandfather had come to pick me up. Unless I had two broken legs, I was expected to walk. He asked if I knew what happened and I said yes. I remember a birthday party I was invited to the next day was cancelled. And the tv droning on and on.
I was seven years old and in school with the rest of my class. The (Good) Sisters of the IHM told their students of the tragedy. This news went out to all students grades 1 through 8. A girl in my class cried out, "He was my uncle!" and let out a scream. We were dismissed early from school (the buses had to be called-in early) and we didn't return until two Mondays after President Kennedy was assassinated. My parents attended the mass memorial service for our slain president and recorded unique footage of the cortège and of Black Jack, the Riderless Horse. These memories of mine are lying dormant most of the time but they can be summoned at a moment's notice.
My friend, these journalists and technicians, using the technology of their day, did such a fantastic job in covering this sad, heart-rending event. We own them all a debt of gratitude.
Thank you for sharing all of these "as it happened" broadcasts. These broadcasters were the Pioneers. I was only 1 year old at the time, but it's fascinating, being able to imagine what it was like.
My parents were watching this broadcast when I got home from school. Hard to believe the shock and disbelief, but I'll still feel it for the rest of my life. RIP JFK...
I was in 2nd grade and we were lined up waiting to be dismissed at 3. I knew something was wrong when one of the teachers came in an whispered something to my teacher. She wad totally shocked and of course I found out when I got home as my dad was watching coverage of it.
Don Pardo doing the initial announcement. That man touched so many points of history. WBAP eventually became KXAS here in D/FW and was the first to broadcast in color in the Southwest
NBC wasn't "on" at 1:30pm(et). They allowed their affiliates to schedule local programs until 2pm (in New York, repeats of "BACHELOR FATHER" filled that time period on WNBC-TV). Phil Gries managed to record the audio of Don Pardo's bulletins from a TV speaker, and most of the opening moments of NBC News' initial coverage {which began around 1:50pm}. The network didn't start "rolling tape" until 1:56pm(et), when the first images were preserved [6:11].
Listening to this today, sixty years later. Still so terribly sad. I can't imagine how Jacqueline Kennedy held herself together as well as she did. I'm sure inside she was falling apart.
My mom and dad has just been married a year and first heard about it watching NBC. Huntley and Brinkley. They were in shock as was everyone then. They were pretty much glued to the tv the next few days.
my mom dad married in aug 4 1962 my mom was at work and they let everyone go home they were too shook 😪😪😪😪too work the entire nations came to a hault that day
Im so SORRY to be the one to inform you of this but...THERE ARE NO ACTUAL" NEWS MEDIA " anymore! Only a bunch of opinionated idiot's cramming their personal agendas down our throats!!! Both sides!! If a real breaking news story..an actual event takes place like plane crash or shooting or famous death!...it gets briefly worked in THEN ITS RIGHT BACK TO THEM GIVING US THEIR OPINIONS AND TELLING US HOW TO THINK!!! once again BOTH SIDES DO IT!!! although the left is considerably more despicable about it.
Definitely....The media then were reporters and professional journalists. Today they just speak the narrative put together by the Global Socialists such as George Soros!
You have Reagan to thank for the mess now by getting rid of the fairness doctrine. That’s why propagandists like Murdoch are allowed to broadcast “news.” And they are registered as entertainment by the FCC as their court defense.
It's also interesting to see cigarette smoke from just off-camera in some of the scenes (see especially around the 2:57:00 mark). In the early days of TV, it was common to see ash trays on the sets of game shows and talk shows, too; check out old episodes of The Tonight Show. For the most part, few actually were seen on TV taking a puff, but it was clear that when the camera wasn't on them, they were taking a puff or a drag.
@@zelmoziggy that as well as back then I believe that cameras had to ‘warm-up’ so they probably rushed to switch them on and try to warm them up as it were
@Sparky Runner : "The Judeo-Masonic conspiracy is an antisemitic and antimasonic conspiracy theory." Therefore, anybody who espouses such drivel can be ignored. If that is you, I will not be responding further.
@Sparky Runner wow... I don't comment a whole lot on RUclips, but figured you might need a different perspective. The internet was supposed to archive things like this video, not confuse people so much with propaganda. Have you even ever been into a masonic lodge? On what basis are you expressing this conspiracy theory? I implore you to actually reach out to a Mason. I suggest you go to your local lodge. If you don't know any masons or even what they actually believe, you're just deluding yourself into thinking you're awake, and not intelligent enough NOR ready enough to handle the spiritual nature of what they do. Because of being tight lipped, and not boisterous (most masons, not all), people like you assume it just HAS to be nefarious. This is not the case. The core tenets of Masonry are merely the growth of men, in the deepest sense. If individuals don't heed those lessons, and choose to participate in conspiracy against his fellow man in a negative fashion, that is the fault of the individuals... Not Masonry. JFK is no longer living and breathing as so many confused people seem to be sure of. He is still alive, though. Just like all men, he was a great man with character flaws. The same flaws that Masonry seeks to quell. I feel sorry for people who cannot even begin to parse simple information like facts due to this technology you're using right now. You're so close, you're on this channel, and then you take a left turn when you stopped listening and thinking, and started to assert conspiracy theory. There is conspiracy fact, like the Iran Contra Affair, or the murder of Caesar. Then there is unhinged theories like Qanon's hot take that JFK and Donald Trump are in cohorts to save the world, while one isn't physically able, and the other is actively pillaging that same world before your very eyes. Stop being so certain of that which you've only seen RUclips videos, and heard from grifters online.
@Sparky Runner you're conflating far too many things. You're making assumptions and connections where there are none in regards to esotericism. Nobody said anything about the constitution. Nobody said anything about the illuminati. Weishaupt et al have been gone a very long time. Unplug your ethernet. Step outside and look at the stars. Pick up a book. Anything to ground you back into reality, and out of the rabbit hole. Ordo ab Chao.
Supposedly, the first three minutes of nonstop coverage (1:53-1:56 P.M. EST) were audio only because cameras in the studio hadn't yet warmed-up thanks to all those vacuum tubes.
I have watched this footage many times. At around 4:02:00 or so, Frank McGee strikes a poignant note on the death of President Kennedy at only 46 as a stunning reminder of one’s own mortality. McGee himself would be dead at 52 (if memory serves) less than eleven years later, the victim of bone cancer. I wish there were someone like Frank McGee in broadcast news today. Indeed, he was one of a stellar team. The same could be said of CBS News at that time, too. McGee was a deft painter of word pictures and one of the smoothest of anchors. Over forty-five years now since we lost him. I never knew Mr. McGee, but I miss him.
Frank McGee was also a male chauvinist. The way he treated Barbara Walters when they hosted the TODAY show together less than ten years later was so appalling. When McGee and Walters interviewed anyone on that show, McGee would only allow Walters to ask a question after he had asked three of his own. He felt that he was above doing a morning show after having devoted so many years to REPORTING the news. I hate to break it to you all. But this was how Frank McGee operated. :( Personally Hugh Downs was a way-better co-host for Barbara Walters on both TODAY on NBC and 20/20 on ABC.
@@pinedelgado4743Yes, that tea party/View "journalism" is better suited to women. Let the men report the news; they know how to not gush melodramatically while going about the business of communicating gathered information.
This is something we rarely, if ever, see on TV these days: journalism. No mindless, hysterical babbling or speculation. Another thing: you can count the number of times McGee, Huntley and Ryan say “uh” or “umm” on one hand. These guys were professionals.
Absolutely spot on! No hyperpartisanship or wokeness evident here..... Just disseminating the facts (notice how they carefully avoid any semblance of speculation) as the information comes in across the wire. Kudos to these outstanding professionals as they provided this horrific news to a shocked nation. May God bless them!
@@sonoranrain2330Wtf does "wokeness" have to do with this historical and tragic event? "Wokeness" didn't exist yet in 1963, and its existence today is mostly in certain people's minds.
I love those old school land line black phones. Most people didn't even own their own phones then. They rented them from the phone company for a couple dollars a month on the phone bill. But those phones were durable goods. You could easily kill a man if you swung that handset around by the cord. The black (cause that's about the only color they had) plastic was super strong. You could use that plastic to make the black box on an airplane or for shielding on the space shuttle 😄. Those phones had real metal bells that made such a satisfying sound for the ring. The hardware on the dial was so solid that I don't think anyone ever has worn out the mechanism. Most people would get a phone and keep it for life. I love it when the reporter is holding two handsets at the same time. One for each ear. Made him look so serious, professional, and like a bad ass journalist. Can you imagine trying to pull off that look with a couple of dainty, wispy, wafer-thin iPhones? In all seriousness thanks for sharing this important news event. RIP JFK and the Governor.
This is so damn compelling, in large part because of the early technology involved. Just fascinating. 47:00. Makes my skin crawl, hearing the Texas School Book Depository, for the first time.
One rare advantage that NBC had over CBS was that they brought in two cameras in the New York newsroom ( compared to CBS's one) to show Huntley, McGee, and Ryan providing team coverage.
Not only that, but NBC was better prepared to go live because they had a separate "emergency flash" studio to work out of. Too bad it wasn't in color like their affiliate in Dallas.
Apparently CBS had to bring the one camera upstairs to the newsroom from a soap opera being broadcast on a lower floor. So they had to first secure that camera, bring it upstairs, and plug it in again, all of this taking a fair amount of time.
@@fromthesidelines Pardo's NBC career began in 1944, as a reporter embedded(in more recent parlance) with American invading forces on D-Day, on the Normandy beaches in France.
This was videotaped at NBC affiliate WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV) in Ft. Worth. That's why the NBC/New York segments are in black-and-white and the local reports from Dallas-Fort Worth are in color. At the time, Channel 5 had camera, film chain and VTR color but no network color feed from NBC.
I was in third grade, eight years old. Our principal, a nun, was crying when she announced over the intercom that the president had been killed. Later in the afternoon they walked us over to the church for Mass, where the priest wore black vestments. Then they sent us home. The TV was on, but my mom was on the phone talking to someone, and she was inconsolable. The next day, I watched Oswald's murder on live TV. It was a frightening, disorienting time for everyone, even a little kid like me.
I too was in A Catholic School. I was in the 6th grade. In 2021, it still hurts! We watched this coverage on a 12 inch black and white television in the classroom that was on top of a piano in the back of the room. We had just had lunch and when the confirmation of his death was announced, we were taken to the Chapel to pray and then sent home. It was ‘time standing still”. Our country has never been the same!
Reaction from Sir Winston Churchill: 3:51:27 Reaction from UK Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Leader of the Opposition (and future PM) Harold Wilson: 3:30:48 Reaction from French President Charles De Gaulle: 2:52:41 Reaction from West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (and former Chancellor Adenauer): 3:28:50
I can't say for sure, but I suspect if someone had a color TV on this day, they would have seen Huntley, McGee, and Ryan (he was 'borrowed" from WNBC, where he anchored their local newscast) in color. My guess is that the WBAP coverage was edited in later...WBAP may have had color video tape in 1963. NBC was doing live shows in color as early as 1954, but the records of these shows was in B&W, at first as a kinescope, then videotape from 1956 on.
@@michaelgreene4748No, the switch to WBAP isn’t edited in: we didn’t have frame synchronizers back then, so it was a dirty non-synchronous switch. The remote feed was so far out of sync with the studio cameras that the videotape recorder’s servos unlocked, creating the rolling you see. NBC was originating from a different studio from the one normally used for newscasts. Black and white cameras like TK-60s or TK-11s can be fired up fairly quickly and make acceptable pictures; color cameras back then took considerable time to set up to get proper color balance and registration of the red, green and blue channels… so when time is of the essence, they didn’t bother with color. Broadcast technology has come so far since then that it’s easy to forget how even minimal production took considerable skill and effort.
Geoff Cowles I read a news item about this airing for the 25th Anniversary “Get your VCR ready” which I did. After airing there was a news article about how a seemingly unknown Bill Ryan had carried much of the load as it seemed Chet Huntley was having difficulties. The writer had located a retired Bill Ryan who said he just happened to be in the hallway when somebody hollered “we need a correspondent (or newsman) and he was almost shoved onto the air.
David Couch Apparently he was mostly in radio and local to New York. He wasn’t really a national correspondent. I remember all the rest of these guys, but I had never heard Bill Ryan. Until I saw these historic videos.
Yes much better than the pc talking empty heads of today.....but why did he ask Jean Hill her address ? (29:45) what did that have to do with anything that she was saying, this was a reporter, not a police interview of a witness
You couldn't be more correct. These were adults trying their best under extraordinary circumstances and pressure to deliver the truth to the American public. Today's technology may be more advanced, but the people delivering the news leave much to be desired.
Frank McGee is uncanny. Even off the cuff, his delivery is articulate and concise. Listen to how he edits Robert McNeil on the air - McNeil: "Vice President, Lyndon Johnson, was driven off..." McGee (repeating McNeil's report): "Vice President, Lyndon Johnson, was driven AWAY..." Or - McNeil: "In downtown Dallas, President Kennedy encountered the biggest crowds...." McGee (repeating): "In downtown Dallas, President Kennedy encountered the LARGEST crowds...."
These are great videos to look back on David Von Pein you have done an excellent job putting all this Kennedy history together in such a great collection for us to enjoy
I was in grade school when our president was assassinated and definitely was old enough to realize what was happening. The principal informed us over the intercom. We all were in shock and eventually were sent home for the next week. My parents sat down with me to explain what was happening. They let me watch the funeral and all these years later I still can see the "riderless horse" and hear the sounds of the funeral procession. It is something that I will remember this forever. I saw when Robert Kennedy was assassinated and wondered what else would happen to the family. So sad.
Jean Hill’s account within minutes of the shooting described the shots as coming from directly across the street on the hill. Her critics have always torn her account apart and claimed she was only after attention. Really her statement did not change over the years
Her outspokenness is what kept her alive. Had she been in an "accident" or succumbed to "illness", it wouldn't have gone unnoticed, as were the majority of the others whose testimony disputed the gunshot(s) from the book depository, that they came from the fence line behind the grassy knoll.
Jean Hill also claimed she ran across the street and up the Grassy Knoll immediately after the shooting. However, there are many pictures of her sitting on the curb with Mary Moorman at the time she said she was "looking for the assassin." She was in shock for sure - as we can only imagine - and she also stated there was "a dog" in the JFK limo. In addition Mary Moorman does not agree with Jean's account.
I’m watching it now and even though it happened thirteen years before I was born, I teared up a little bit. Singer and teen heartthrob at the time, Paul Anka, was on tour in Europe, and was supposed to perform one last concert in Warsaw, Poland. But when the news came through via an international news feed on the radio; he broke down and started crying. Needless to say, he couldn’t perform that night. But he promised his fans there that he’d make it up to them, and wanted to at least say good night to them. His voice was raspy, and they could tell that he’d be crying. And this happened 30 years before he became a naturalized citizen of the U.S.
They are giving the facts and not getting excitable or scaremongering, they don't give any more information than they are hearing themselves and not speculating.
WBAP now KXAS like a number of NBC affiliates at that time had color capability so NBC could easily switch over to WBAP which unlike the network had a color camera up and ready.
3:09:50 this clearer picture quality makes it easier to see former President Eisenhower's facial reactions. It reveals more about his feelings than audio-only would.
Thanks for putting this up. I watched the return of the President's body with my mother, who was crying. I was only three years old, but I distinctly remember Nancy Dickerson's voice describing the jet.
David Brinkley was pretty much impossible to fluster. He delivered this exactly as he would deliver a slow news day. Rock solid, unflappable. I miss that kind of journalism. I don't need someone to tell me how to feel. Just give me the facts.
Brinkley, Chet Huntley, Bill Ryan, and Walter Cronkite were true news reporters and great anchors. Unlike today, they just reported the news and let us decide what it all meant. NBC's coverage was the best on that day. Dan Rather made several errors including when he told America that he had just seen the Zapruder film and spoke of JFK's head going violently forward which is simply untrue. Rather made a career of giving out disinformation. This is what separated the NBC coverage from CBS. Walter Cronkite did a great job for CBS but Rather performed horribly.
Rachel Maddox and Martha Radditz told you how to feel when Trump won the election. Maddox told you to prepare for the worst of disasters, and Radditz openly wept on camera.
You even after all these many many years I'm still ♥ heart broken and still cry when watching these old bulletins I loved that Pres vary much. Still rip T
jensmom604 I guess the what I like about this video footage is the professionalism of the old style journalists that are doing their best under massive pressure to get the story out while trying to glean the truth from the rumors that were flying around in every direction. If you were sitting in the midst of those journalistic giants and blurted out ‘get real he was a womanizer,’ you would look rather foolish.
jensmom604 The items you express were publicized decades after the assassination. I guess folks feel those issues were between the first lady and the President, for the President remains the most popular President of the 20th and now 21st centuries. So many Americans have maintained unwavering love for him despite the revelations of impropriety. So have I. I suspect many folks feel as you do. Polls show that many folks feel as I do. That's one of the beautiful elements of a democracy. We can respectfully agree to disagree.
I was in NYC at a taping ofJeopardy in 1974. Don Pardo was the announcer and he was holding up the ‘applause’ sign during the show to signal the audience.
Don Pardo was the announcer for a number of game shows on NBC, back in the day. He probably spent daytime in the studio most days and was probably the closest thing to on-air talent who could go immediately on air.
I believe this is the coverage I saw as a 5-year-old when I was watching TV that day. I ran into the hallway and told my grandmother, who was talking on the telephone -- and the words from the initial NBC bulletin mirror more closely what I remember telling my grandmother.
I was watching TV at home as well. I was home sick. I believe the show i was watching was "Make Room for Daddy", starring Danny Thomas. Does anyone else remember if that is correct?
I was in 3rd grade when my teacher was called out to the hallway by the principal. Our teacher returned to the classroom in tears. My first thought was that her husband had died. We kids were shocked, confused, upset when she told us the president had been shot and was dead. Some of my classmates started to cry, others put their heads on their folded arms on their desks. One asked if the teacher meant a local business owner by the name of Kennedy had been shot. I thought of Lincoln's assassination, but really was more confused and anxious at first and even nervously giggled. I walked home soon after in a cold, gray, drizzly November afternoon, but at least a few cars that I passed at intersections had their windows down so passer-bys could hear the news on the radio. By the time I got home, I was in sort of a daze. I knew my mother would be upset. She had voted for Nixon in 1960, but came to love Kennedy. She and my grandfather were both sitting in front of the TV when I entered the house, on our just delivered, brand new COLOR TV! Given the situation, I was hoping I wouldn't have to go to my youth church choir practice that afternoon. Much to my chagrin, I still had to go. I just wanted to watch the news. The rest of the weekend was spent in front of the TV, all programming in black & white, except to eat and sleep and attend the opening of the new airport in my city where my dad worked as an ATC. We also went to church on Sunday morning. Again, I didn't want to go (despite my mother's efforts, I was already a skeptic of organized religion), but because we did, we only heard about Oswald's death on the radio as we left the church parking lot on the car radio. When I returned to school the day after the funeral, everyone was very subdued and the flagpole with the American flag in our classroom had a strip of black crepe paper attached to it. Our teacher was often on the verge of tears when trying to talk about the president's death and as we repeated the Pledge of Allegiance. After all of these decades, I still remember SO MUCH and I still had to experience the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy before I turned 13.
Amazing to find out that many people were, like me, in a 3rd grade classroom that day. Got this from many other documentaries and replay. program comments. And all of us were old enough to get the shock, sadness, cry, and respect the presidency.
I was six, in first grade, and it's pretty hard to remember in any detail. But I had a similar experience to yours: our school didn't have a PA system, so our principal went to each classroom, telling each teacher individually. (I learned that much later on.) Our teacher, Mrs. Smith, told us the sad news, but I can't remember if she was emotional in doing so or kept herself composed. But she then told us to put our heads down on our desks and say a prayer for the president. I might have learned a little more during the walk home (I lived in the city; we all walked to and from school) from one of the older kids listening to a transistor radio, perhaps. When I got home, I saw as soon as I walked in that my mother didn't know. One of her friends had stopped in and my mother had turned the TV down in the living room while they had coffee in the kitchen. I told them what happened; they smiled; my mother thought one of the older kids had been pulling my leg, as the older kids so often did with the younger ones. I told her no, it was Mrs. Smith who told us; she told the whole class. My mother and the other lady hurried into the living room and my mother turned the TV back up and there it all was.
Thank you for posting. TV news coverage back in the day was still being developed as a medium. These guys did a great job but CBS was maybe a little better. This was one of the first breaking major news stories where TV took the lead ahead of newspapers and radio.
Just found out a friend of my father's, Mort Hochstein, whom I'd known too was the one that preempted a soap opera on NBC to switch to coverage of JFK. Huntley and Brinkley were out to lunch, so it was up to him to switch it and he got Don Pardo to make the initial announcement and then Bill Ryan until Huntley and Brinkley returned.
NBC was "down"- that is, the network wasn't scheduling any programs at 1:30pm(et). The local affiliates were scheduling their own programs {in New York, WNBC-TV scheduled a repeat of "BACHELOR FATHER"}.
Frank's repeating everything he is told on the phone is awesome. Journalists were so professional back then. So easy to understand. Must have been chaos as others are talking and making it difficult to concentrate.
Your work in preserving such a priceless legacy is much appreciated. Would it be possible for you to eventually add NBC and CBS coverage of Nov. 23rd, 24th and 25th? And JFK’s entire inauguration? There was also a CBS special documentary on Robert Kennedy, aired in prime time sometime during June 1967 (I do not remember the date). Any possibility of posting these?
I think the expectations of viewers have changed radically since 1963, and it is not so much about the integrity of the reporting today. People now seek news that aligns with the narrative they choose to believe - whether it is actually true or not. :-(
CBS has archive on RUclips from the moment of the first bulletin, until the President was laid to rest. It's in black and white, obviously, but it's amazing viewing.
45:16 Why weren’t they able to tell the anchor that the reporter’s voice was coming through and he didn’t have to repeat what the reporter was saying? I guess because it was such monumental news and they didn’t want it to be interrupted and then repeated if the feed was lost again. 📺
It will be 60 years ago this November since that horrible day. I remember it so clearly and I can still feel the sense of shock and horror that washed over me and my classmates as we first heard the news. Something was lost that day. Not just a wonderful president, but the optimism President Kennedy gave to us as a nation during his brief presidency. What is still so shocking is that the very forces of reaction that are now loose upon our nation existed then. But, they was considered fringe and rank lunacy. Now those forces have become mainstream and acceptable in one of two of our major parties and threaten our democracy to its core.
I was born the same year Kennedy got shot. I was only 9 mos. old when this occured. I do not remember it but my Mother told me that she put me down for a nap and she was painting the living room walls. She was on a ladder and she had her t.v. on and heard and saw what happened. When she found out he was shot and killed she fell off her ladder. My MIL was pregnant with my Husband and she was at the Doctor's Office. They had the radio on and she heard about the shooting and she broke down in tears.
I watched about nine consecutive hours of NBC's coverage on Friday, the 22nd. The only TV station in the Midwest college town I was residing was the NBC affiliate. I admired Chet Huntley and David Brinkley for years, so I felt fortunate. I had stood right in front of JFK while he was on the campaign trail in 1960. The dormitory I was living in housed 180 classmates; after JFK died, the dormitory emptied and I was left to follow the TV coverage alone the rest of the afternoon and evening.
So an obvious democrat from NY interviewed in NYC was blaming political opponents (1:53:28) immediately after JFK's assassination and they have never stopped that tactic in the 55 years since after any tragedy in this nation. The reporter on the street obviously selected this man after discussing his opinions before he went on the air. Of course, like most New Yorkers he was absolutely incorrect and the killer of the President was in fact an avowed marxist and narcissist. In fact, most acts of terror, violence and political bullying would come from the left throughout the 1960's through to our present time.
Why do the NBC commentators, especially David Brinkley, keep saying Lyndon Johnson will "serve out the remainder of Kennedy's term until January 1964."? The next presidential election would not come until NOVEMBER 1964, and the present term would not expire until 1965. I would think these men, in their position, would know American civics and the US Constitution, but evidently not.
Because they were upset. Kennedy, if he had lived and been defeated for office, would have left office in January 1965. They confused the years. A President had just been shot.
@@steelers6titles I was in the media 52 years and was a reporter for both CBS and AP (among others). Professional are trained not to make those kind of "emotional" mistakes, regardless of circumstances.
There was one story about the night LBJ came back to Washington. It was early in the morning 11-23-63 and he went for a walk outside the building he was in not the WH and as he was walking around one of the SS men got nervous saw a shadow it was LBJ and he almost got himself killed by one of his own guards
One difference from 1963 to today is that network news was not expected to make a profit, the money they made was from the entertainment programs. The news was considered a public service so news people did not have to yell and scream or do or say something outrageous , just bring the news and try to inform people.
I failed to mention that they were not perfect back then, the networks both radio and television kept reporting for hours that a secret service agent had been killed when of coarse that was not true. Many people think that the 1950's really ended on 11-22-63 and that the 1960's did really end until Nixon resigned because of watergate in August of 74. Just my opinion of coarse.
Sorry if it has been mentioned, I looked some but ..... 28:00 did you catch the first hand witness on the phone say that she basically knew some shots came from the south not the north from the depository, and saw someone running away.
By far, this is the highest quality version of the NBC coverage I have seen online. Thank you for posting.
Why do these people seem adult to me ? I am 68 and what I see for news reporting today is child like in comparison. It is surreal. People don’t conduct themselves like this today.
Real news reporting died with legends like Walter Kronkite. I'm 26 and even I think news reporting is backwards.
Pre Murdoch.
There are many differences, including no editorializing. One thing to notice, too, is that people had a much stronger command of the English language. Very few "um" "uh" "uhm"s. And each sentence is a complete sentence, with a subject and predicate. Sounds like a very little thing but it makes a big difference.
You are correct. Journalism today is bought and paid for by ideologues who want to control the narrative and the social agenda.
Today's news is basically "newstainment". Where I live when Taylor Swift came to town for 3 days of concerts, that's ALMOST ALL you heard about. It was ridiculous.
These news presenters are proper journalists. They are well spoken and precise in their speech. Amazed at their calmness and unflappability dealing with the news as it came through on a live basis.
I was thinking the same thing. I can't watch TV now.
How very true, Geoff - this shows just how to report the breaking current events as these events should be covered.
Yes also Charles Murphy you can clearly see the devastation in his face truly saddening when the news is broken that President Kennedy Died , the news flash before it truly devastating till this day
MODERN TV NEWS ANCHORS ARNT JOURNALISTS
Most of these guys saw a lot of death in WWll!
These guys had balls of steel. All of these guys cut their teeth either reporting during World War II or fighting in it. The composure and class of these guys is astounding. Modern American journalists could learn a thing or two.
Uncle Walter on CBS, in finally announcing the death, was visibly moved; he removes his glasses, and chokes up a bit.
You are exactly right Justin.
Learn a thing or two about what?. Report lies? They had details ALL wrong. Who needs a dry egg? That is who they are.
Bryan Williams was in a helicopter that was shot down 😂😂😂😂😂
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They were reporting things as they heard them. They also would add that they were unconfirmed reports.
RIP Robert McNeil, who died today. His job getting the story was nothing short of masterful.
With only telephones and witness reports. No bells and whistles, no whiz bang tech, just professional people with integrity
RIP Bob
I wasn't even born when this happened but the incredible professionalism of the reporters and the terrible tragedy of the event is extremely compelling to watch and listen to. Thanks for posting.
These news reporters, Frank Mcgee, Chet Huntley, Walter Cronkite, etc were true professionals and didn't include their personal comments. Today's news reporters could truly learn from these great men
So true. Today's media is so politically and now racially biased. They put people on trial before their is one and now we're being called white supremacists just for living life and voting different from the way they would.
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT.
Today's talking empty heads have neither the capacity, willingness or ability to learn much anything of value. Paid MILLIONS to LIE, puppets on a string as are the vast majority of "public servants" JFK the last great Democratic President we will EVER have !
Today's news reporters have been "taught" that it is their job to form public opinion about the news -- through such things as advocacy journalism and interventionist journalism. They don't give half a hoot about anything prior generations of journalists could teach them. Today's news reporters believe they are more intelligent, more informed, more correct, and more righteous than those who came before them, and that they have the moral standing and duty to tell the great unwashed masses the path they should follow.
Walter Cronkite absolutely DID insert his opinions and personal politics into his broadcasts. I grew up watching Uncle Walter 5 nights a week. Each network presenter immediately upon learning of the assassination, started insinuating that “Far Right protesters” had something to do with this because of Right-leaning protesters hit Adlai Stevenson with their cardboard protest sign weeks before. When it turns out it was a Far Left Marxist, not a single one apologized for blaming innocent Conservatives. Exactly like today.
Imagine going LIVE for almost 2 days (if I remember right) --- no commercial interruptions. At the beginning receiving all kinds of information - from factual to eye witness accounts, to erroneous reports, the Nation in utter shock, confusion and disbelief and trying to sort it all out. NBC has broadcast this numerous times over the years. Just an amazing piece of coverage and real journalism with facts and sources double-and-triple checked, sans political slant, bias and opinionated commentary. Those guys were the best of the best. I was 12 then - The sadness of that day can never be understated.
FOUR days, including Kennedy's funeral on November 25th.
Yeah, and they corrected what they said after the facts came in clearer and more updated. Very eloquent.
The closest that modern-day "journalism" came close was with the coverage of 9/11. Even on radio, WINS-AM in NYC's coverage was many days minus ads and it was interesting to hear the coverage as the men and women "on the pile" were looking for victims, and the emotions running high during this time.
The foreign coverage by NHK English of the Japan Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami was on for several days. As there were no commercials, there was non-stop coverage for, I believe, 2 weeks. It was sobering as you realized you were seeing literally hundreds of people dying in front of you, as cars and people and houses were swept away during the tsunami. Anchor Gene Otani was experienced in marathon broadcasting as he had stayed on air for many hours during the Kobe Earthquake previously, and was on during the 3/11/2011 East Japan Earthquake & Tsunami catastrophe.
@@fromthesidelines Yes 4 days overall, concluding Monday with the funeral. I was speaking specifically to continual non-stop Live coverage, so I may be wrong there. I can't remember.
@@tuxitalk1World Thanks for the information about the coverage of the Japanese Earthquake and Tsuami - I was not aware of that non-stop coverage. Watching live is amazingly sobering - or if you see something during 9/11 like people jumping from 100 story buildings and Towers collapsing on themselves it is staggeringly painful. You sure won't ever forget it.
This is fantastic and riveting. This channel does a public service by making this material available. I wish someone would do the same with all the Watergate testimony.
Hot take: NBC's coverage was superior to CBS's. Some will rightly complain about the bad audio from the phones/mics, but CBS had their difficulties as well. I think it took CBS 10 minutes to warm up their cameras, and - maybe I'm misremembering - but they stayed awfully long on the Trade Mart thing, a lonely camera filming shocked people for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, NBC was quick to hook up with affiliates. McGee, with two-fisted telephones almost like a gag from "Airplane!" or something, directly quoting Bob MacNeil at Parkland Hospital. Gripping stuff. The absolute professionalism from Huntley and Bill Ryan and David Brinkley. No tears. Bravo.
All three networks had to wait for the cameras to warm up. CBS was the first to break in to national coverage while ABC and NBC was doing it through the affiliates.
I think they both had the good and bad parts
It took all the networks time to setup and warmup the cameras. No one had planned until now to have a studio ready for breaking broadcasts.
Eddie Barker, a local anchor covering the Trade Mart speech was the first to announce Kennedy’s death when a Dr. from Parkland in attendance told him after speaking to Drs at Parkland.
@@KRD11 yes, Eddie from KRLD, I believe
My mom is a die hard Republican Conservative, I am 42...i have never,ever heard her speak of the late Pres with anything but the utmost respect regarding his skill and steady hand.she's no fan of his politics, or his family legacy,,but she respects him for his nerves of steel,and cool head under pressure.
I have a privilege of knowing mr Robert MacNeil... he later had a wonderful news program called MacNeil/Lehrer Report on PBS.. he is still doing great at age of 85..
I did an internship at the MacNeil-Lehrer Report. Robin was the greatest journalist I’ve ever been around
sad to hear he passed away over the weekend at the great age of 93
So far, I've heard David Brinkley say four times that his term will last until January 1964 (instead of 1965).
On Friday, November 22nd 1963, as a route salesman for a Dallas/Ft. Worth vending company, I was filling the Coke machine in the Parkland Hospital cafeteria about a half hour before the presidential motorcade rolled in. I was planning to stay and have lunch but the Friday special was liver and onions, and I NEVER order organ meat in a hospital cafeteria. If roast chicken had been the special, I would have been there when Kennedy arrived. By the way, I had filled the Coke machine in the lunchroom of the Texas School Book Depository that morning. That means that if Oliver Stone and other conspiracy theorists are correct and Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed in the cafeteria drinking a Coke moments after the assassination, it was placed in the machine by Yours Truly. This gets better. The company I worked for was closed on Saturday , in observance of the national tragedy, so on Sunday, while getting paid double overtime, I had to make up the stops I didn't get to on Saturday - including the Dallas Police Headquarters. I had just pulled my truck into the parking garage when I spotted one of my regular customers, Jack Ruby -owner of the Carousel Nightclub where we had a couple of machines. He waved to me as I drove past. He was on his way on foot to somewhere in the garage.
Wow, what a great story.
Yeah and I sold a truck to the Easter bunny a few years ago.
@@FLINTMICHIGANMEGABOWL What kind of truck does the Easter Bunny use to make his rounds:?
@@MrRKWRIGHT it was a fully loaded ford F-350 Dually with a smokestack. Big bunny (Easter bunnys nickname) was with Santa they paid cash which was kinda unusual, he was a nice fella though we had a nice conversation . He told me about this guy on his naughty list who pretends he’s a important historical figure who waved to Jack Ruby right before he shot oswald because he filled up some coke machines in Dallas in the 60s.
@@FLINTMICHIGANMEGABOWL Thanks for sharing. However, going forward, I'm muting you from being able to respond to my comments. Have a wonderful day.
I am amazed by Frank McGee's incredible poise and command of the language under extraordinary pressure. Walter Cronkite gets the bulk of the credit for his work that day, but in my opinion McGee was just as brilliant. And if I were he, I would have thrown that stupid speaker attached to the phone across the studio.
My hat is off to Bill Ryan of NBC news. He rose to the occasion like a Titan, while Huntley and Brinkley were hesitant, and disjointed, Respect to Mc Gee.
SO AM I.
"The only news here is that Walter Cronkite is covering this!"
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Ryan, I believe, was more a local news guy, on WNBC-TV in New York, than a national guy. So he was probably filling in here for David Brinkley. Probably drafted in for the news emergency. So more credit to him for his work on the national network.
@@davidmoser3535 A newspaper article described Huntley as "stumbling and totally out of his element." NBC kept going to Brinkley even though there was only limited information from DC until Air Force One returned. The reasoning is obvious: H&B were their stars. But neither H nor B had the Cronkite work ethic, on JFK or other big stories such as the space race. (Cronkite was able to rattle off prep including the Adlai Stevenson attack effortlessly as he waited for early developments to trickle in.) Frank McGee was the one anchor in NBC's 1960s stable that could be compared to Cronkite. He anchored the space coverage until management forced H&B to the fore. Kudos to Ryan, who should have gotten the prominence earned by so many other reporters that day.
The reaction of McGee at 43:36 is one of the most heart-rending I have ever seen. This footage is so compelling that up to that point, you can still find yourself rooting that JFK makes it.
CBS's Walter Cronkite was similarly emotional.
true
I think Johnson knew early on and at the very least the shot was grave and there was going to be a transfer of power.
yeah johnson was a real creep!! he had no personality.
The murder of JFK was the Pearl Harbor of its day or the 9/11 of its day. The NBC newscasters are to be praised for their coverage of one of the greatest tragedies in American history.
These newsmen were total pros. Sober, seeking and reporting the facts as they unfolded, not jumping to conclusions. The TV technology was primitive 60 years ago but today's supposedly more well-connected media could learn a multitude of journalistic lessons from how these men on NBC handled themselves on 11/22/63.
Because this is when reporters reported and left the editorializing to editorial writers
Amen!!
I was in 4th grade and the announcement was made just before we were dismissed at our usual time, 3:30 EST. Our teacher told us to go straight home. We just lived two blocks away. To my surprise, my grandfather had come to pick me up. Unless I had two broken legs, I was expected to walk. He asked if I knew what happened and I said yes. I remember a birthday party I was invited to the next day was cancelled. And the tv droning on and on.
I was seven years old and in school with the rest of my class. The (Good) Sisters of the IHM told their students of the tragedy. This news went out to all students grades 1 through 8. A girl in my class cried out, "He was my uncle!" and let out a scream. We were dismissed early from school (the buses had to be called-in early) and we didn't return until two Mondays after President Kennedy was assassinated. My parents attended the mass memorial service for our slain president and recorded unique footage of the cortège and of Black Jack, the Riderless Horse. These memories of mine are lying dormant most of the time but they can be summoned at a moment's notice.
Was in first grade. Had similar experience. Screaming from room next door. Walked home (could do that back then).
43:37 you can actually see the correspondent wince. Heartbreaking.
With the limited technology of that day, what they managed to do, on the fly, was absolutely incredible...
My friend, these journalists and technicians, using the technology of their day, did such a fantastic job in covering this sad, heart-rending event. We own them all a debt of gratitude.
The first announcement is by the Legendary Don Pardo, greatest tv announcer of all time, over 70 YEARS on NBC !!!
Thank you for sharing all of these "as it happened" broadcasts. These broadcasters were the Pioneers. I was only 1 year old at the time, but it's fascinating, being able to imagine what it was like.
My parents were watching this broadcast when I got home from school. Hard to believe the shock and disbelief, but I'll still feel it for the rest of my life. RIP JFK...
When I got home from school (6th grade) my mother was ironing clothes and crying. I will never forget that image.
I was in 2nd grade and we were lined up waiting to be dismissed at 3. I knew something was wrong when one of the teachers came in an whispered something to my teacher. She wad totally shocked and of course I found out when I got home as my dad was watching coverage of it.
@@dianafrost936 u went to school on a sunday?
Kris pirtsios Kennedy was assassinated on a Friday, Oswald on a a Sunday. So I was in school on Friday.
@@dianafrost936 You are correct, Diana.
Don Pardo doing the initial announcement. That man touched so many points of history. WBAP eventually became KXAS here in D/FW and was the first to broadcast in color in the Southwest
A fine achievement mate. Thanks for putting this together. Well done.
NBC wasn't "on" at 1:30pm(et). They allowed their affiliates to schedule local programs until 2pm (in New York, repeats of "BACHELOR FATHER" filled that time period on WNBC-TV). Phil Gries managed to record the audio of Don Pardo's bulletins from a TV speaker, and most of the opening moments of NBC News' initial coverage {which began around 1:50pm}. The network didn't start "rolling tape" until 1:56pm(et), when the first images were preserved [6:11].
Listening to this today, sixty years later. Still so terribly sad. I can't imagine how Jacqueline Kennedy held herself together as well as she did. I'm sure inside she was falling apart.
Yes, Stacy, Jacqueline Kennedy managed to keep her composure, even though she was devastated inside.
My mom and dad has just been married a year and first heard about it watching NBC. Huntley and Brinkley. They were in shock as was everyone then. They were pretty much glued to the tv the next few days.
my mom dad married in aug 4 1962 my mom was at work and they let everyone go home they were too shook 😪😪😪😪too work the entire nations came to a hault that day
The news media could take lessons from this news crew
Im so SORRY to be the one to inform you of this but...THERE ARE NO ACTUAL" NEWS MEDIA " anymore! Only a bunch of opinionated idiot's cramming their personal agendas down our throats!!! Both sides!! If a real breaking news story..an actual event takes place like plane crash or shooting or famous death!...it gets briefly worked in THEN ITS RIGHT BACK TO THEM GIVING US THEIR OPINIONS AND TELLING US HOW TO THINK!!! once again BOTH SIDES DO IT!!! although the left is considerably more despicable about it.
@@andypistole8363 The right is considerably more despicable about it, not the left.
McGee, worked 45 hours with little rest, reporting without a script.
Definitely....The media then were reporters and professional journalists. Today they just speak the narrative put together by the Global Socialists such as George Soros!
@@johnmacdonald7560 do they?
I wish I was around when the news was like this. No agendas, just information.
You have Reagan to thank for the mess now by getting rid of the fairness doctrine. That’s why propagandists like Murdoch are allowed to broadcast “news.” And they are registered as entertainment by the FCC as their court defense.
This video is a fascinating time capsule ...just for the advancement of technology alone
It's also interesting to see cigarette smoke from just off-camera in some of the scenes (see especially around the 2:57:00 mark). In the early days of TV, it was common to see ash trays on the sets of game shows and talk shows, too; check out old episodes of The Tonight Show. For the most part, few actually were seen on TV taking a puff, but it was clear that when the camera wasn't on them, they were taking a puff or a drag.
They were probably delayed getting on the air because it took a while to put up that wooden backdrop.
@@zelmoziggy that as well as back then I believe that cameras had to ‘warm-up’ so they probably rushed to switch them on and try to warm them up as it were
Happy 102nd Birthday, JFK, Mr. President.
I don't think he's too happy right now. Being dead and all.
@Sparky Runner : "The Judeo-Masonic conspiracy is an antisemitic and antimasonic conspiracy theory." Therefore, anybody who espouses such drivel can be ignored. If that is you, I will not be responding further.
@Sparky Runner wow...
I don't comment a whole lot on RUclips, but figured you might need a different perspective.
The internet was supposed to archive things like this video, not confuse people so much with propaganda.
Have you even ever been into a masonic lodge?
On what basis are you expressing this conspiracy theory?
I implore you to actually reach out to a Mason.
I suggest you go to your local lodge.
If you don't know any masons or even what they actually believe, you're just deluding yourself into thinking you're awake, and not intelligent enough NOR ready enough to handle the spiritual nature of what they do.
Because of being tight lipped, and not boisterous (most masons, not all), people like you assume it just HAS to be nefarious. This is not the case. The core tenets of Masonry are merely the growth of men, in the deepest sense. If individuals don't heed those lessons, and choose to participate in conspiracy against his fellow man in a negative fashion, that is the fault of the individuals... Not Masonry.
JFK is no longer living and breathing as so many confused people seem to be sure of. He is still alive, though. Just like all men, he was a great man with character flaws. The same flaws that Masonry seeks to quell.
I feel sorry for people who cannot even begin to parse simple information like facts due to this technology you're using right now.
You're so close, you're on this channel, and then you take a left turn when you stopped listening and thinking, and started to assert conspiracy theory.
There is conspiracy fact, like the Iran Contra Affair, or the murder of Caesar. Then there is unhinged theories like Qanon's hot take that JFK and Donald Trump are in cohorts to save the world, while one isn't physically able, and the other is actively pillaging that same world before your very eyes.
Stop being so certain of that which you've only seen RUclips videos, and heard from grifters online.
@Sparky Runner you're conflating far too many things.
You're making assumptions and connections where there are none in regards to esotericism.
Nobody said anything about the constitution.
Nobody said anything about the illuminati.
Weishaupt et al have been gone a very long time.
Unplug your ethernet.
Step outside and look at the stars.
Pick up a book.
Anything to ground you back into reality, and out of the rabbit hole.
Ordo ab Chao.
@@AstroPygmy comments too long punk
6:38:10 onwards as McGee ends the broadcast he is visibly teared up , true gentleman of the ages , great coverage
Supposedly, the first three minutes of nonstop coverage (1:53-1:56 P.M. EST) were audio only because cameras in the studio hadn't yet warmed-up thanks to all those vacuum tubes.
Yes that is true - they were scrambling to get any kind of organized !
This is where the reporting of live breaking news came into its own.
Chet Huntley, David Brinkley and the rest of the NBC team were fantastic newsmen.
I have watched this footage many times. At around 4:02:00 or so, Frank McGee strikes a poignant note on the death of President Kennedy at only 46 as a stunning reminder of one’s own mortality. McGee himself would be dead at 52 (if memory serves) less than eleven years later, the victim of bone cancer. I wish there were someone like Frank McGee in broadcast news today. Indeed, he was one of a stellar team. The same could be said of CBS News at that time, too. McGee was a deft painter of word pictures and one of the smoothest of anchors. Over forty-five years now since we lost him. I never knew Mr. McGee, but I miss him.
i agree. these guys were pros from the ranks of print journalists. not like todays prom queen talking heads
antoni boleslawowicz, thank you for such good, uplifting remarks.
Frank McGee was also a male chauvinist. The way he treated Barbara Walters when they hosted the TODAY show together less than ten years later was so appalling. When McGee and Walters interviewed anyone on that show, McGee would only allow Walters to ask a question after he had asked three of his own. He felt that he was above doing a morning show after having devoted so many years to REPORTING the news. I hate to break it to you all. But this was how Frank McGee operated. :( Personally Hugh Downs was a way-better co-host for Barbara Walters on both TODAY on NBC and 20/20 on ABC.
@@pinedelgado4743 , who cares? My dissatisfaction is that he didn't interrupt her more.
@@pinedelgado4743Yes, that tea party/View "journalism" is better suited to women. Let the men report the news; they know how to not gush melodramatically while going about the business of communicating gathered information.
"Former president Hoover has issued a statement." Wow. Hoover was still alive. I hadn't thought of that possibility.
Herbert Hoover died the following year, 1964.
All those old guys were still kicking then. Truman, Eisenhower, Churchill.
Obama was alive at that time too.
Hoover and Obama was alive at the same time
This is something we rarely, if ever, see on TV these days: journalism. No mindless, hysterical babbling or speculation. Another thing: you can count the number of times McGee, Huntley and Ryan say “uh” or “umm” on one hand. These guys were professionals.
Absolutely spot on! No hyperpartisanship or wokeness evident here.....
Just disseminating the facts (notice how they carefully avoid any semblance of speculation) as the information comes in across the wire. Kudos to these outstanding professionals as they provided this horrific news to a shocked nation. May God bless them!
@@sonoranrain2330Wtf does "wokeness" have to do with this historical and tragic event? "Wokeness" didn't exist yet in 1963, and its existence today is mostly in certain people's minds.
@@57highland Who did you think you were fooling? "Woke" oozes from every liberal orifice.
I love those old school land line black phones. Most people didn't even own their own phones then. They rented them from the phone company for a couple dollars a month on the phone bill. But those phones were durable goods. You could easily kill a man if you swung that handset around by the cord. The black (cause that's about the only color they had) plastic was super strong. You could use that plastic to make the black box on an airplane or for shielding on the space shuttle 😄. Those phones had real metal bells that made such a satisfying sound for the ring. The hardware on the dial was so solid that I don't think anyone ever has worn out the mechanism. Most people would get a phone and keep it for life. I love it when the reporter is holding two handsets at the same time. One for each ear. Made him look so serious, professional, and like a bad ass journalist. Can you imagine trying to pull off that look with a couple of dainty, wispy, wafer-thin iPhones? In all seriousness thanks for sharing this important news event. RIP JFK and the Governor.
This is so damn compelling, in large part because of the early technology involved. Just fascinating. 47:00. Makes my skin crawl, hearing the Texas School Book Depository, for the first time.
One rare advantage that NBC had over CBS was that they brought in two
cameras in the New York newsroom ( compared to CBS's one) to show Huntley,
McGee, and Ryan providing team coverage.
Peter Moran as for ABC, while they did a good job, viewers got to see workers frantically building a news set behind the reporters as events unfolded.
Not only that, but NBC was better prepared to go live because they had a separate "emergency flash" studio to work out of. Too bad it wasn't in color like their affiliate in Dallas.
That being said, CBS's coverage with Uncle Walter was more dramatic - he was like a one man gang.
Apparently CBS had to bring the one camera upstairs to the newsroom from a soap opera being broadcast on a lower floor. So they had to first secure that camera, bring it upstairs, and plug it in again, all of this taking a fair amount of time.
One of the greatest reporting of all time
It’s so strange hearing Don Pardo here when I only ever heard him on SNL.
Don was a staff announcer for NBC in New York for over 40 years.
@@fromthesidelines How very true, Barry - Don Pardo was the best staff announcer NBC ever had.
Also announcer for original Jeopardy! program with Art Fleming as host
@@fromthesidelines Pardo's NBC career began in 1944, as a reporter embedded(in more recent parlance) with American invading forces on D-Day, on the Normandy beaches in France.
Interesting that there is just audio at first. Back then, the television cameras had to warm up when turned on.
CBS had video
CBS cameras had to warm up also.
@@jl3322
CBS had to wait for their camera to warm up too. That's why there was a graphic on the screen first, that said CBS NEWS BULLETIN.
This was videotaped at NBC affiliate WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV) in Ft. Worth. That's why the NBC/New York segments are in black-and-white and the local reports from Dallas-Fort Worth are in color. At the time, Channel 5 had camera, film chain and VTR color but no network color feed from NBC.
I was in third grade, eight years old. Our principal, a nun, was crying when she announced over the intercom that the president had been killed. Later in the afternoon they walked us over to the church for Mass, where the priest wore black vestments. Then they sent us home. The TV was on, but my mom was on the phone talking to someone, and she was inconsolable. The next day, I watched Oswald's murder on live TV. It was a frightening, disorienting time for everyone, even a little kid like me.
Nope. Oswald was killed on Sunday, 2 days after he killed Kennedy.
hey i remember you from laurel and hardy
@@henryfoxwell762 he was a kid at the time...geesh.
I too was in A Catholic School. I was in the 6th grade. In 2021, it still hurts! We watched this coverage on a 12 inch black and white television in the classroom that was on top of a piano in the back of the room. We had just had lunch and when the confirmation of his death was announced, we were taken to the Chapel to pray and then sent home. It was ‘time standing still”. Our country has never been the same!
I was 10
Reaction from Sir Winston Churchill: 3:51:27
Reaction from UK Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Leader of the Opposition (and future PM) Harold Wilson: 3:30:48
Reaction from French President Charles De Gaulle: 2:52:41
Reaction from West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (and former Chancellor Adenauer): 3:28:50
"Happy 103rd birthday in heaven president-kennedy you'll be missed by everyone always & forever amen" 🙏🇺🇸.
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Actually , it's been 57 years . Your sentiment is spot on , though .
@@davidmoorecatdaddy6994 he was 46 when he was killed. Take that plus 57 and you get 103.
I'm not quite sure that he's very happy
I love how WBAP is in color and NBC itself is still B&W.
I can't say for sure, but I suspect if someone had a color TV on this day, they would have seen Huntley, McGee, and Ryan (he was 'borrowed" from WNBC, where he anchored their local newscast) in color. My guess is that the WBAP coverage was edited in later...WBAP may have had color video tape in 1963. NBC was doing live shows in color as early as 1954, but the records of these shows was in B&W, at first as a kinescope, then videotape from 1956 on.
@@michaelgreene4748No, the switch to WBAP isn’t edited in: we didn’t have frame synchronizers back then, so it was a dirty non-synchronous switch. The remote feed was so far out of sync with the studio cameras that the videotape recorder’s servos unlocked, creating the rolling you see. NBC was originating from a different studio from the one normally used for newscasts. Black and white cameras like TK-60s or TK-11s can be fired up fairly quickly and make acceptable pictures; color cameras back then took considerable time to set up to get proper color balance and registration of the red, green and blue channels… so when time is of the essence, they didn’t bother with color. Broadcast technology has come so far since then that it’s easy to forget how even minimal production took considerable skill and effort.
Bill Ryan does a great job in this,
Geoff Cowles I read a news item about this airing for the 25th Anniversary “Get your VCR ready” which I did. After airing there was a news article about how a seemingly unknown Bill Ryan had carried much of the load as it seemed Chet Huntley was having difficulties. The writer had located a retired Bill Ryan who said he just happened to be in the hallway when somebody hollered “we need a correspondent (or newsman) and he was almost shoved onto the air.
David Couch Apparently he was mostly in radio and local to New York. He wasn’t really a national correspondent. I remember all the rest of these guys, but I had never heard Bill Ryan. Until I saw these historic videos.
@@paganjew0108 If my memory serves me correctly, Geoff, Bill was a Detroit native; he was truly doing a yeoman's job in this coverage.
When reporters were adults.
Yes much better than the pc talking empty heads of today.....but why did he ask Jean Hill her address ? (29:45) what did that have to do with anything that she was saying, this was a reporter, not a police interview of a witness
Absolutely.
Exactly!!!!
You couldn't be more correct. These were adults trying their best under extraordinary circumstances and pressure to deliver the truth to the American public. Today's technology may be more advanced, but the people delivering the news leave much to be desired.
TRUE INDEED.
Frank McGee is uncanny. Even off the cuff, his delivery is articulate and concise. Listen to how he edits Robert McNeil on the air - McNeil: "Vice President, Lyndon Johnson, was driven off..." McGee (repeating McNeil's report): "Vice President, Lyndon Johnson, was driven AWAY..." Or - McNeil: "In downtown Dallas, President Kennedy encountered the biggest crowds...." McGee (repeating): "In downtown Dallas, President Kennedy encountered the LARGEST crowds...."
These are great videos to look back on David Von Pein you have done an excellent job putting all this Kennedy history together in such a great collection for us to enjoy
Thank you, Tim!
I was in grade school when our president was assassinated and definitely was old enough to realize what was happening. The principal informed us over the intercom. We all were in shock and eventually were sent home for the next week. My parents sat down with me to explain what was happening. They let me watch the funeral and all these years later I still can see the "riderless horse" and hear the sounds of the funeral procession. It is something that I will remember this forever. I saw when Robert Kennedy was assassinated and wondered what else would happen to the family. So sad.
This herd of animals looking for
Opportunity to Kennedys genocide.
Jean Hill’s account within minutes of the shooting described the shots as coming from directly across the street on the hill. Her critics have always torn her account apart and claimed she was only after attention. Really her statement did not change over the years
Her outspokenness is what kept her alive. Had she been in an "accident" or succumbed to "illness", it wouldn't have gone unnoticed, as were the majority of the others whose testimony disputed the gunshot(s) from the book depository, that they came from the fence line behind the grassy knoll.
She also talked about "the dog" sitting with the Kennedys, her account could not be trusted.
Jean Hill also claimed she ran across the street and up the Grassy Knoll immediately after the shooting. However, there are many pictures of her sitting on the curb with Mary Moorman at the time she said she was "looking for the assassin." She was in shock for sure - as we can only imagine - and she also stated there was "a dog" in the JFK limo. In addition Mary Moorman does not agree with Jean's account.
I’m watching it now and even though it happened thirteen years before I was born, I teared up a little bit.
Singer and teen heartthrob at the time, Paul Anka, was on tour in Europe, and was supposed to perform one last concert in Warsaw, Poland. But when the news came through via an international news feed on the radio; he broke down and started crying. Needless to say, he couldn’t perform that night. But he promised his fans there that he’d make it up to them, and wanted to at least say good night to them. His voice was raspy, and they could tell that he’d be crying.
And this happened 30 years before he became a naturalized citizen of the U.S.
They are giving the facts and not getting excitable or scaremongering, they don't give any more information than they are hearing themselves and not speculating.
Thank you for uploading this coverage!
WBAP now KXAS like a number of NBC affiliates at that time had color capability so NBC could easily switch over to WBAP which unlike the network had a color camera up and ready.
Unlike today, fewer than 5% of the tvs at the time were color capable. It would be the 80's before I had a color tv.
3:09:50 this clearer picture quality makes it easier to see former President Eisenhower's facial reactions. It reveals more about his feelings than audio-only would.
43:25 JFK's death is confirmed.
Thanks for putting this up. I watched the return of the President's body with my mother, who was crying. I was only three years old, but I distinctly remember Nancy Dickerson's voice describing the jet.
David Brinkley was pretty much impossible to fluster. He delivered this exactly as he would deliver a slow news day. Rock solid, unflappable. I miss that kind of journalism. I don't need someone to tell me how to feel. Just give me the facts.
Brinkley, Chet Huntley, Bill Ryan, and Walter Cronkite were true news reporters and great anchors. Unlike today, they just reported the news and let us decide what it all meant. NBC's coverage was the best on that day. Dan Rather made several errors including when he told America that he had just seen the Zapruder film and spoke of JFK's head going violently forward which is simply untrue. Rather made a career of giving out disinformation. This is what separated the NBC coverage from CBS. Walter Cronkite did a great job for CBS but Rather performed horribly.
Rachel Maddox and Martha Radditz told you how to feel when Trump won the election. Maddox told you to prepare for the worst of disasters, and Radditz openly wept on camera.
@@Maroons1p Which was totally unnecessary & unprofessional.
You even after all these many many years I'm still ♥ heart broken and still cry when watching these old bulletins I loved that Pres vary much. Still rip
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Get real. He was a womanizer and an adulterer, even brought his whores to the White House when Jackie was in residence.
He was also soft on communism.
jensmom604 I guess the what I like about this video footage is the professionalism of the old style journalists that are doing their best under massive pressure to get the story out while trying to glean the truth from the rumors that were flying around in every direction.
If you were sitting in the midst of those journalistic giants and blurted out ‘get real he was a womanizer,’ you would look rather foolish.
@@dianekimball6812 BUT now the maga people love russia and putin the former kgb leader,ironic?
jensmom604 The items you express were publicized decades after the assassination. I guess folks feel those issues were between the first lady and the President, for the President remains the most popular President of the 20th and now 21st centuries. So many Americans have maintained unwavering love for him despite the revelations of impropriety. So have I. I suspect many folks feel as you do. Polls show that many folks feel as I do. That's one of the beautiful elements of a democracy. We can respectfully agree to disagree.
“What kind of car was this?” ………..”what do mean it was the President’s car!” 😂😂😂
Thank you so much for presenting this.
Don Pardo at the beginning, Mr. 'It's Saturday Night Live'. Just seems really strange he was doing the actual news.
They probably grabbed anyone they could.
He had the duty that day, he was the announcer for the original Jeopardy , hosted by Art Fleming and many other NBC TV shows.
I was in NYC at a taping ofJeopardy in 1974. Don Pardo was the announcer and he was holding up the ‘applause’ sign during the show to signal the audience.
Don might have been a voice over guy for all things NBC at the time. It more interesting that Don was in the same position as Walter Cronkite
Don Pardo was the announcer for a number of game shows on NBC, back in the day. He probably spent daytime in the studio most days and was probably the closest thing to on-air talent who could go immediately on air.
Fantastic coverage considering the technology at the time. RIP JFK.
I believe this is the coverage I saw as a 5-year-old when I was watching TV that day. I ran into the hallway and told my grandmother, who was talking on the telephone -- and the words from the initial NBC bulletin mirror more closely what I remember telling my grandmother.
I was watching TV at home as well. I was home sick. I believe the show i was watching was "Make Room for Daddy", starring Danny Thomas. Does anyone else remember if that is correct?
@@jsdb321 Well, John, from what I understand, WNBC was airing an episode of "Bachelor Father" when the first bulletin came in.
I was in 3rd grade when my teacher was called out to the hallway by the principal. Our teacher returned to the classroom in tears. My first thought was that her husband had died. We kids were shocked, confused, upset when she told us the president had been shot and was dead. Some of my classmates started to cry, others put their heads on their folded arms on their desks. One asked if the teacher meant a local business owner by the name of Kennedy had been shot. I thought of Lincoln's assassination, but really was more confused and anxious at first and even nervously giggled. I walked home soon after in a cold, gray, drizzly November afternoon, but at least a few cars that I passed at intersections had their windows down so passer-bys could hear the news on the radio.
By the time I got home, I was in sort of a daze. I knew my mother would be upset. She had voted for Nixon in 1960, but came to love Kennedy. She and my grandfather were both sitting in front of the TV when I entered the house, on our just delivered, brand new COLOR TV! Given the situation, I was hoping I wouldn't have to go to my youth church choir practice that afternoon. Much to my chagrin, I still had to go. I just wanted to watch the news. The rest of the weekend was spent in front of the TV, all programming in black & white, except to eat and sleep and attend the opening of the new airport in my city where my dad worked as an ATC. We also went to church on Sunday morning. Again, I didn't want to go (despite my mother's efforts, I was already a skeptic of organized religion), but because we did, we only heard about Oswald's death on the radio as we left the church parking lot on the car radio.
When I returned to school the day after the funeral, everyone was very subdued and the flagpole with the American flag in our classroom had a strip of black crepe paper attached to it. Our teacher was often on the verge of tears when trying to talk about the president's death and as we repeated the Pledge of Allegiance. After all of these decades, I still remember SO MUCH and I still had to experience the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy before I turned 13.
Amazing to find out that many people were, like me, in a 3rd grade classroom that day. Got this from many other documentaries and replay. program comments. And all of us were old enough to get the shock, sadness, cry, and respect the presidency.
I was six, in first grade, and it's pretty hard to remember in any detail. But I had a similar experience to yours: our school didn't have a PA system, so our principal went to each classroom, telling each teacher individually. (I learned that much later on.) Our teacher, Mrs. Smith, told us the sad news, but I can't remember if she was emotional in doing so or kept herself composed. But she then told us to put our heads down on our desks and say a prayer for the president.
I might have learned a little more during the walk home (I lived in the city; we all walked to and from school) from one of the older kids listening to a transistor radio, perhaps. When I got home, I saw as soon as I walked in that my mother didn't know. One of her friends had stopped in and my mother had turned the TV down in the living room while they had coffee in the kitchen. I told them what happened; they smiled; my mother thought one of the older kids had been pulling my leg, as the older kids so often did with the younger ones. I told her no, it was Mrs. Smith who told us; she told the whole class. My mother and the other lady hurried into the living room and my mother turned the TV back up and there it all was.
Thank you for posting. TV news coverage back in the day was still being developed as a medium. These guys did a great job but CBS was maybe a little better. This was one of the first breaking major news stories where TV took the lead ahead of newspapers and radio.
Just found out a friend of my father's, Mort Hochstein, whom I'd known too was the one that preempted a soap opera on NBC to switch to coverage of JFK. Huntley and Brinkley were out to lunch, so it was up to him to switch it and he got Don Pardo to make the initial announcement and then Bill Ryan until Huntley and Brinkley returned.
NBC was "down"- that is, the network wasn't scheduling any programs at 1:30pm(et). The local affiliates were scheduling their own programs {in New York, WNBC-TV scheduled a repeat of "BACHELOR FATHER"}.
The phone conversation makes it more dramatic.
jake madden yes that put frank McGhee in the spotlight I think he did it intentionally!
A dog in the limo??!😲
43:35 you can see his emotion temporarily appear.
jake madden I believe he (McGhee) did it on purpose, so he would be forever tied to McNeal’s dramatic report! I don’t blame him, I would have, too!
Frank's repeating everything he is told on the phone is awesome. Journalists were so professional back then. So easy to understand. Must have been chaos as others are talking and making it difficult to concentrate.
RIP DON PARDO
He's the man
"what do we have for the contestants,don pardo?"
55 years ago today.
Where did the time go to.? We still can't get to the truth can we ?
I was four years old, I remember my grandmother crying, also remember JFK jr. saluting his fathers casket, we were the same age basically.
Your work in preserving such a priceless legacy is much appreciated. Would it be possible for you to eventually add NBC and CBS coverage of Nov. 23rd, 24th and 25th? And JFK’s entire inauguration? There was also a CBS special documentary on Robert Kennedy, aired in prime time sometime during June 1967 (I do not remember the date). Any possibility of posting these?
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I WOULD'VE have LOVED TO HEAR THAT SPEECH AT THE TRADE MART JFK WAS GOING TO CRITICIZE THE ULTRA CONSERVATIVE RIGHTWING COMMUNIST COCKSUCKERS.
POCKETS OF HATE AND TODAY WE GOT ONE IN THE WHITEHOUSE. KRAZY
@@DavidVonPeinJFK Some years ago NBC destroyed much of their early film and videotape library. Fortunately they did save this coverage!!!
@@thoroughbred-hp4ms right-wing communist? What have you been smoking? Duh I think you mean left-wing communist!😲😵
I think the expectations of viewers have changed radically since 1963, and it is not so much about the integrity of the reporting today. People now seek news that aligns with the narrative they choose to believe - whether it is actually true or not. :-(
Terrific job,preserving this history
A&E broadcast this completly live before this part and after in 91. It made you feel like you were going back in time.
CBS has archive on RUclips from the moment of the first bulletin, until the President was laid to rest. It's in black and white, obviously, but it's amazing viewing.
Back in 2003 CBS News released a book with a CD telling the events from Friday thru Monday. Very interesting.
I will never forget that day when the nun came in and told us to pray for the soul of President Kennedy because he was shot today in Dallas Texas.
Same here! Nun rolled a black and white TV in and told us to watch this important moment!
The nuns were all weeping at St
Justin's that bad bad day
This is the only color report I’ve seen on this! 24:00
Awesome upload. I think in 40-50 years the 9/11 TV report will be uploaded the same way and we'll be old and reminiscing over it. 😟
45:16 Why weren’t they able to tell the anchor that the reporter’s voice was coming through and he didn’t have to repeat what the reporter was saying? I guess because it was such monumental news and they didn’t want it to be interrupted and then repeated if the feed was lost again. 📺
My thoughts, too. Good point.
It will be 60 years ago this November since that horrible day. I remember it so clearly and I can still feel the sense of shock and horror that washed over me and my classmates as we first heard the news. Something was lost that day. Not just a wonderful president, but the optimism President Kennedy gave to us as a nation during his brief presidency. What is still so shocking is that the very forces of reaction that are now loose upon our nation existed then. But, they was considered fringe and rank lunacy. Now those forces have become mainstream and acceptable in one of two of our major parties and threaten our democracy to its core.
I was born the same year Kennedy got shot. I was only 9 mos. old when this occured. I do not remember it but my Mother told me that she put me down for a nap and she was painting the living room walls. She was on a ladder and she had her t.v. on and heard and saw what happened. When she found out he was shot and killed she fell off her ladder.
My MIL was pregnant with my Husband and she was at the Doctor's Office. They had the radio on and she heard about the shooting and she broke down in tears.
Yes, it's indeed horrific what's happened to his party over the last 6 decades.
@@bonniejohnson760we were the same age - I was 13 mos old
@serfcityherewecome8069 You know perfectly well that that post refers to the GOP.
I watched about nine consecutive hours of NBC's coverage on Friday, the 22nd. The only TV station in the Midwest college town I was residing was the NBC affiliate. I admired Chet Huntley and David Brinkley for years, so I felt fortunate. I had stood right in front of JFK while he was on the campaign trail in 1960. The dormitory I was living in housed 180 classmates; after JFK died, the dormitory emptied and I was left to follow the TV coverage alone the rest of the afternoon and evening.
So an obvious democrat from NY interviewed in NYC was blaming political opponents (1:53:28) immediately after JFK's assassination and they have never stopped that tactic in the 55 years since after any tragedy in this nation. The reporter on the street obviously selected this man after discussing his opinions before he went on the air. Of course, like most New Yorkers he was absolutely incorrect and the killer of the President was in fact an avowed marxist and narcissist. In fact, most acts of terror, violence and political bullying would come from the left throughout the 1960's through to our present time.
NBC by far on this day had the best coverage and up to the minute updates. ABC the worst!
What about CBS?
Why do the NBC commentators, especially David Brinkley, keep saying Lyndon Johnson will "serve out the remainder of Kennedy's term until January 1964."? The next presidential election would not come until NOVEMBER 1964, and the present term would not expire until 1965. I would think these men, in their position, would know American civics and the US Constitution, but evidently not.
Because they were upset. Kennedy, if he had lived and been defeated for office, would have left office in January 1965. They confused the years. A President had just been shot.
@@steelers6titles I was in the media 52 years and was a reporter for both CBS and AP (among others). Professional are trained not to make those kind of "emotional" mistakes, regardless of circumstances.
@@davemitchell116 Or a simple factual error.
The video clarity is amazing. Were the anchormen in a regular studio? The paneling behind them looks cheesy.
It was called a "flash studio". I don't think this was the regular NBC News studio.
Robert McNeil is MONEY
There was one story about the night LBJ came back to Washington. It was early in the morning 11-23-63 and he went for a walk outside the building he was in not the WH and as he was walking around one of the SS men got nervous saw a shadow it was LBJ and he almost got himself killed by one of his own guards
Bill Ryan was excellent this day. No teleprompter here
Thank you for putting this together
One difference from 1963 to today is that network news was not expected to make a profit, the money they made was from the entertainment programs. The news was considered a public service so news people did not have to yell and scream or do or say something outrageous , just bring the news and try to inform people.
I failed to mention that they were not perfect back then, the networks both radio and television kept reporting for hours that a secret service agent had been killed when of coarse that was not true. Many people think that the 1950's really ended on 11-22-63 and that the 1960's did really end until Nixon resigned because of watergate in August of 74. Just my opinion of coarse.
That also explains why color was late to news coverage.
Classic no bs coverage sad but essential . I was fifteen in gym class
Sorry if it has been mentioned, I looked some but ..... 28:00 did you catch the first hand witness on the phone say that she basically knew some shots came from the south not the north from the depository, and saw someone running away.
And most of the first hand witnesses said the shots came from the TSBD.
Meaningless, the scene was utter chaos.
Dealey Plaza is subject to sound "echo". That testimony would not be reliable.
So sad. I was 10 years old, and I will never forget it.
I was nine, and that event will forever be etched in my memory.
I was 10 too