KLIF-RADIO (DALLAS, TEXAS) (NOVEMBER 22, 1963) (3-HOUR, 17-MINUTE VERSION, WITH UNEDITED MUSIC)
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2014
- More than three hours of KLIF-Radio footage from November 22, 1963, the day of President Kennedy's assassination.
Coverage begins at 11:30 AM (Dallas time) on 11/22/63, with Joe Long of Dallas radio station KLIF reporting live from Love Field Airport as President Kennedy arrives in "Big D".
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59:55 (12:30PM CST) Moment of assassination 1:09:00 (12::39 CST) First bulletin of shots fired. 1:21:05 (12::51CST) 2nd bulletin. This recording totally captures the 1963 era and the moment the world changed forever.
I'm a long time Texan. Wish folks would realize all of us Texans, Republican or Democrat, were absolutely heartsick about this tragedy in Dallas. We were stunned and devastated.
Time heals all wounds brother
@@peachdog1193 True, and when it comes to bad people:
"Time wounds all heels" JOHN LENNON
@@spockboy John was shot, too. I remember that night. I was 21 and a senior in college. I was only 4 when JFK was shot.
Why would people not realize that?
No worries. my brother lives in Ft. Worth. I love Texas, but I Can't imagine the feeling. And I live near Philadelphia!
I think the difference with this particular upload is this: the presence of audio but the lack of video forces your mind to, in a sense, place you THERE, virtually. I find myself wondering what WOULD I have been doing if I HAD been listening to the radio IN Dallas while this had been going on. I find myself PLACING myself as a citizen of Dallas, listening to daytime radio. Fascinating.
That's why I like these longer recordings that include the everyday things people would've been listening to before the news reports started coming in.
@@retnavybrat Yep, extended radio recordings are just about the nearest thing to a time machine you can currently get. Have you found the WLW radio coverage on this same channel? If I remember right that goes on for more than 24 hours! In a way, the hours leading up to the assassination are more interesting because they give you the flavour of life then... ordinary everyday events. Really takes you there. The WBAP radio coverage also on this channel is kind of sad, but still fascinating with the detailed coverage of the hotel breakfast that morning and those last speeches. Wouldn't it be fascinating to find similar coverage of just an ordinary visit or ceremony somewhere else? One that didn't lead up to a tragedy. Outside of JFK's death, I recommend the WJSV complete broadcast day from September 21st 1939, and the recordings of CBS and NBC's coverage of D-Day.
@@dan4lau I believe the WLW recordings cover from the day of Kennedy's assassination through the day of his funeral. And, yes, I have listened to them extensively, but I usually listen to the "regular" stuff more than the aftermath of the assassination itself.
I agree. I wonder if there are recordings of mlk assasination, and rfk to with music as well. The songs of the time and commercials add more nostalgia to it.
I have come back to this vid a few times in the past 24 hrs to continue listening to it and have just seen your comment.
I left a very similar comment myself yesterday as I had my phone in my pocket listening whilst working and then on my lunch sat in a restaurant and I thought the exact same thing.
Like you said, fascinating to listen to!
If I could go back in time it would be to that day without a moments hesitation.
As soon as the music and adverts came on, I felt like I was immediately transported into the life of someone from Dallas who would have been listening to this at home or at work, unaware of the huge reception the motorcade was getting as it went through the streets and certainly not knowing what was going to happen at 12.30pm.
All that in mind, at the same time knowing how Mr and Mrs Kennedy looked that day, what the car looked like etc., whilst hearing so much normalcy also made me feel like a helpless time traveller.
A really fantastic video!
Thank you so much for uploading!
David Von Pein has the best channels on RUclips. Ive been a fan and subscriber for years, and it never ceases to amaze me what recording or film he's unearthed this time.
+AdonisJones
Thank you---very much. :)
He certainly has gathered perhaps the most comprehensive archive of radio and TV coverage of that awful weekend and other radio newscasts from the Kennedy era (January, 1961-November, 1963).
David Von Pein's JFK Channel I
Mr. Von Pein, you are truly a fountain of information. Thank you for posting such an incredible historical record of the Kennedy years from the bright endless promise at the beginning to its senseless tragic end. These should be required listening.
Even if it were an ordinary day, it is a fascinating recording.
True. It totally captures the 1963 era!
If you're interested in an ordinary radio day, Washington DC station WJSV in 1937 recorded an entire broadcast day from sign-on to sign-off for posterity. It's fascinating
@@ADAMSIXTIES I totally agree. I work in radio and this is amazing to have captured a whole recording instead of just the aircheck breaks of the DJs. In the movie "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" the radio station is like another character and I'd love to listen to a whole day of that station from that era.
Its almost haunting how the announcer was saying how Dallas was hostile toward politicians but there were no embarrassing incidents so far... Then starts bragging about the security...
they warned jfk not to go there.
‘ The secret service have been on the prowl’ - ‘nothing has been left to chance’ - ‘weather has improved significantly’ chilling phrases which will never be forgotten!
In 1997, my high school US History teacher took us to the Holocaust museum a block away. Upon leaving, we rode right past the sixth floor museum, Dealey Plaza, and the grassy knoll. I was going to say something about the location, but decided to wait for the teacher. Nothing was said. The location was completely ignored by the teacher and the students. To make matters worse, we never covered this in class, at all.
From then on, I always spoke up, even if it meant interrupting others. Anytime I pass the area, I will always bring it up. We aren’t proud of our history, but it shouldn’t be forgotten.
That's not only disturbing but a terrible attitude and so disrespectful to JFK's honor to look the other way as if it never happened.
And are you saying your school never taught about his assassination at all? Did you know he was a president or did they just jump from Eisenhower to Johnson and leave Kennedy out altogether? I'm glad you didn't follow their lead.
@@isabellind1292 everyone knew about JFK being president (I hope). Forrest Gump came out a few years prior, and he was in it, which apparently, was a HUGE deal with Boomers. A lot of other movie references about JFK, like BTTF, when Marty asks in 1950s grandfather where John F Kennedy Dr was, and he responds with “Who the hell is John F Kennedy? So I figure, like Eisenhower, and Johnson, people knew he was a president, just probably couldn’t tell you their significance in US History, which was kinda the entire subject we were supposed to be learning about.
I think I had a good teacher, and am thankful for the field trip, but I am unsure how/where in the US the Holocaust occurred. We probably should have been talking about the concentration camps we put Asian Americans into. But I guess before you can understand how terrible that was, we needed to understand how terrible this was.
We went on the trip during the time we would have covered the 40s, so we were a few decades away from JFK. We briefly covered Korea. I remember that thanks to that Billy Joel lyric “Stop them at the 38th parallel! Blast those yellow reds to hell!” I thought it was odd that we completely skipped past the early 60s, but chapter skipping is nothing new. You only have so much time in a semester. So we learned about the next important American historical event: the Vietnam war. That is when we learn that Johnson was the president, and the giant highway loop that circles outer Dallas is named LBJ after him. I remember in that class hearing an anti war chant “Hey! Hey! LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?” And figuring that the chant would also fit the very highway, as Im sure many children died on it.
It was my parents who took me to the sixth floor museum in the mid 90s. In 1999, we would visit the memorial of him in DC, which, later on that trip, apparently JFK JR died. I found it odd that my parents would be glued to the set. I mean, if Chelsea Clinton died in a plane crash, sure, it would be sad, but it would not effect me on a personal level. That was when they explained to me how they all felt like he should had run for office. Though learning about the tragic life of the Kennedy family, I’m pretty sure the family legacy is cursed.
Sometimes speaking up doesn't make a difference. One year in the mid-1980s, before it was demolished, my school had its year-end "banquet" in the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. After the arrival-and-schmoozing phase began to fade and people began to take seats around big round tables, I looked around with a shrinking feeling of foreboding. Ooh -- I think I recognize this place. I asked, just generally at my table, if this wasn't the room where Bobby Kennedy had his last rally before exiting through the kitchen and meeting his fate. Even though I had only been a wee sprat when that happened, and even though probably goodly half of the people at the table had been eligible to vote in 1968, the response I got was of the huh? what? variety. So I repeated my question, and nobody knew the answer. But I was positive. The whole place looked so sadly familiar -- and it was the Ambassador Hotel ballroom, fer cryin' out loud, people!! Wake up to history! (P.S. The salad croutons were soggy.)
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Wow, all that description of the security precautions and the announcer saying "nothing has been left to chance" sounds eerily like tempting fate in retrospect :(
No "tempting of fate" here; the announcer simply wasn't aware that the "fix" was in.
"Nothing has been left to chance"
"...well, except for that building full of potential rifle nests over there."
man has to believe he has control over fate
@@porkyfedwell announcer was right for the wrong reasons
I've listened to do many of these. I love it. I'm a history teacher and can't tell you how valuable these are. I listened to one from Los Angeles this afternoon and it was amazing how the radio hosts didn't even know but the radio reports were coming in.
I tried to click open the existing reply to your message, but it wouldn't open for me, so please excuse me if I repeat information. Were you listening to Arthur Godfrey's show on KNX? I would guess that the show, first aired (and recorded) in the morning on the east coast, at a time when Air Force One had not even yet left Carswell AFB for Love Field, was re-broadcast three hours later in Los Angeles.
And ironically, the lyrics of Tommy Roe's "Everybody": "One time or other everybody listen to me /
You lose somebody you love / But that's no reason for you to break down and cry . . ." just at the moment Jackie Kennedy was losing JFK.
Pretty amazing. Another historical footnote on another famous shooting was when they were wheeling in John Lennon to the ER suffering from his wounds the hospital intercom in the hallways were playing a muzak version of All My Loving.
Don't forget the other song with the line, I'm at the point of no return and for me there is no turning back. And America had just past the point of no return. I can't apeak for anyone else and there is no way to prove anything, But the mere fact that those two songs played after JFK was shot, Makes me wonder if the Media was part of the Conspiracy, Like and I am just spitballing here, Using those two songs as a message to whoever needed to hear it and would know what it meant,
@@jimmym2486 Probably not, Jimmy, given that both those songs were played after the shooting, and that Tommy Roe's "Everybody" was No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 that week so KLIF and other Top 40 music stations would have had it on 2-hour rotation. Gene McDaniels' "Point of No Return" had charted a year earlier. Still, those two are an eerie coincidence.
BTW, among the other songs we heard, Nino Tempo and April Stevens' "Deep Purple" was #3 on that week's Billboard chart, the Beach Boys' "Be True to Your School" was #19, Lenny Welch's "Since I Fell for You" was #20, Bobby Rydell's "Forget Him" was #60, the Chiffons' "I Have a Boyfriend" was #80 and Bobby Darin's "Be Mad, Little Girl" was #90. We didn't hear the #1 song for the week, "I'm Leaving It Up to You" by Dale and Grace.
@@dallasheltzell I'm a classic top forty freak and am very impressed with your clever knowledge.
OMGosh! 💓"DIZZY"💓
I remember very well the Patio Diet Cola jingle ("Drink new Patio Diet Cola; refreshing way to stay slim!") as well as the Robert Hall song ("We're doing our Christmas shopping - at Robert Hall this year...") The interruption of "I Have A Boyfriend" by the Chiffons with the earth-shaking news bulletin is an amazing contrast of a totally lightweight pop song with a history-changing event. And that the song immediately resumes afterwards followed by the upbeat DJ babbling about silly stuff and then the regular cheerful commercials is astounding. If you happened to have heard the bulletin but weren't positive what was said and kept listening, for a few minutes, you wouldn't have known that something as tragic as this had actually happened.
That first bulletin was very eerie . With that vintage beeping signal
In hindsight, it seems strange for the DJ to return to business as usual after that initial bulletin --- knowing what we know now; knowing what they would learn within the hour. But the content of that first bulletin stated only that there had been reports of 3 shots fired at the Presidential motorcade and that KLIF news staff were checking to confirm these reports. There was no report that anyone had been hit or injured, much less killed, just that the news team was working to confirm reports of gunfire. While they were doing so, the DJ had to fill with something --- the news team obviously wasn't ready to take over the broadcast with continuous reporting.
Didn't Patio soda become Diet Pepsi? In like 65 or 66.
@@malcolmmarshall5946 Patio Diet Cola didn't last very long. However, I'm sure Diet Pepsi probably was reformulated to taste more like regular Pepsi before it was put on sale.
Tommy Roe,who sang "Everybody" retired last year(2018) after surviving triple bypass surgery.
Hope he's well
Is this the same Tommy Roe who had that big hit in 1969 with Dizzy
@@arthurweems2839 Yes it is.
@@kirkteeters1046 thanks
@@arthurweems2839 He also had a major hit in 1966 with "Sweet Pea".
This KLIF coverage was made available to many radio stations throughout the USA by the Dallas station in exchange for simple on-air credit to KLIF and/or McLendon Broadcasting. Here in Louisville, ex-McLendon station WAKY dialed it up and aired it...KLIF bails out for full news coverage at 1:21:00 on this reel.
Robert McNeil of nbc said as soon as the president was hit in the head he became moribund, which means unconscious and near death. His lips were not moving. That sounded so ludicrous when bill ryan of nbc quoted Yarborough as saying it. In other words the president was dead as soon as the bullet hit him in the head.
I was home sick with a sore throat. Mom has As The World Turns On. I remember like it was yesterday.
+C. Wilson The first bulletin on network TV was on CBS at 1:40 Eastern time/12:40 P.M. Central time (braking into "As The World Turns"). I think a rerun of "The Real McCoy's" was being shown on the West Coast (reruns of "McCoys" probably aired on CBS at 10:30 A.M. in the East, 9:30 in the Central time zone).The only reason that the broadcast of the initial news bulletin even exists is because "As The World Turns" was still being broadcast live, and it was being taped to be fed to California three hours later.
Man, same with me (I was home sick, don't remember what I had). 1st grade, and I also remember that weekend vividly.
+altfactor I lived in Long Beach California. As The World Turns was on West Coast. I didn't understand the Real McCoy's comment. Did you mean that was on East Coast Time or what?
The first CBS-TV bulletin was aired at 1:40 Eastern time, 10:40 A.M. Pacific time.
As far as I know, "As The World Turns" was normally broadcast to the West Coast at 1:30 Pacific, a three-hour delay.
I think what he means is that on the West Coast a rerun of "The Real McCoy's" was being shown at the time of the assassination while on the East Coast As the World Turns was being aired.
The very first inkling that anything was wrong is at the 1:09 mark, which would have been about 12:39 PM in Dallas (this recording apparently starts at 11:30 AM, based on it's time references throughout).
It is very clear how they were far more concerned with getting facts correct - even switching back to music, commercials and idle chatter for a while. This is so much better than today - when media outlets would be far more concerned with ratings or spinning the incident in a way to make the "other" political party look bad.
Spot on!🎯
This is so amazing to listen to! You get a real sense of what life was like back then in Dallas. It also gives a sense of this from a criminal perspective by talking to police in real time. In some ways better than what the networks were doing at the time. I agree with another comment: without video you can draw a picture!
Not just in Dallas but the whole USA was like back in the late 50s/early 60s
There's no way Kennedy. could've "still been conscious on the way to Parkland hospital." Not after sustaining a head shot like that.
Sadly he was already basically dead, you're right.
Clint Hill will agree with you on that point.
I think the Zapruder film clearly shows the devastating head injury.
@@pattynielsen5506 Yes, a terrible thing to see.
Not with that much brain matter exploded all over the seats. Sorry to sound gory, but that’s what the Zapruder film shows.
Came back to this after hearing that Gary DeLaune, who was covering the assassination for KLIF, passed away yesterday at the age of 88 (DeLaune was recovering from a COVID diagnosis and also contracted pneumonia)
I also noticed that after he anchored the assassination story, DeLaune went to San Antonio to become a sports broadcaster for KENS-TV until he retired recently.
my hat goes off to Officer Tippet for spotting Oswald walking down the street.
That first break-in during the Chiffons is heartbreaking...
When I hear that Chiffons song, I picture Jackie smiling in her beautiful outfit. Very, very sad.
Newspaper reporters did a lot better reporting back then. Note how many timesthey "wanted to get it right" and stated what is a fact and what is rumor.
Yep, when news was news
No determining whether it was real or fake news propaganda
I counted 7 "Whoopee"s. May I have my $11.90 now?
1:13:00 Is then the report comes in
2:05:25 Announcement of death
I'm wondering if that's a syndicated show on a reel they're cutting into for the updates.
So weird hearing Kennedy has been shot and then break to a Colgate commercial
My family lived in Dallas from 1960-62, before moving to San Antonio. I know the man who lived directly across the street from us was a leader of a branch of the John Birch Society. He had invited my father to one of their meetings and all I knew was Daddy left early and said when he got home that they were a group of nuts. Kennedy had visited San Antonio the day before he was killed. Some kids took off to get a look at him but very few kids in my school took off. He visited a school that was being named after him on the far side of town.
I had been walking into the lunch room at my high school sometime shortly after 12:30 and had over heard a mention that gunshots had been heard around the motorcade and rumors were he might have been shot. I went on into the lunchroom and mentioned what I had over heard to some of my friends who didn't believe me and told me it was a tasteless joke. I left the lunchroom without eating and went out looking for a radio which might have more news. Found a lot of the teachers right outside the counselors office, listening intently to the news reports. A bunch of us students gathered outside the office to pick up what we could. When the next classes started, they started broadcasting the news into the classrooms over the intercom, but they did not release us early. I remember thinking when they had announced Kennedy's death that that meant Johnson was the new president, which I thought was a terrible thing for our country.
Kennedy was buried on my youngest brother's 10th birthday, the same day Kennedy's young son turned four years old. We spent most of the next few days glued to the tube. Daddy was watching TV when Ruby killed Oswald. It was all so horrible and overwhelming.
This is the radio station my sister and I listened to when we lived in Dallas. We shared a bedroom and a clock-radio and were into rock n roll music. Top Forty, News, Weather and Sports. If my father could hear it, it was too loud.
Broadcasts such as this fold time into a worm hole of sorts. It's as though this day is actually current. Amazing listening...particularly when one notes that when outlining the route, Elm is not mentioned. (Main to Houston and on to Stemmons)It is also fun to listen to the rock format that two months later would realize the earthquake that was the Beatles and the British Invasion.
I was waiting to see the motorcade come by about two blocks from where it happened.
@@jimrushing1025 Did you happen to hear the gunfire?
Since the only way to get from Houston through the railroad underpass and onto the freeway heading toward the Trade Mart was/is via Elm, I don't think the Love Field reporter's omission of Elm mattered. Besides, the route printed in the newspaper showed the Houston-Elm jog to get to the on-ramp, didn't it?
Hearing this again takes my mind to another place.
I'm resisting the urge to make an inappropriate joke...
So wrong, Jack...
Wow, you can hear the quivering of the voices of the radio hosts. Shocked.
Is this the station that Oswald and Frazier listened to on the drive into Dallas?
The Robert Hall commercial at 1:10:35 of this clip uses the world "Christmas" a lot.Today, some retailers use the word "Holiday" instead of "Christmas" for their Christmas-season advertising, whether it be radio, TV, cable, the Internet, social media, or print.
Oh yea....Christmas.. Holiday....HolyDay..is still the derivative of Holiday.... It's simply a compound word...
I don't know....when I was a kid, people said "Happy Holidays" all the time, and nobody thought twice about it. Now, for some reason, it's become a point of contention. I always thought the term "holidays" was a reference to both Christmas and New Year's. I suppose it can refer to any holiday during that season....Christmas, New Year, Chanukah, Kwanza, etc. The term has never really offended me. If anything, I think using the term Christmas less in relation to commercialism is a good thing (just ask Charlie Brown).
In 1963, no one would have thought of exploiting a holiday like Christmas as an excuse to get resentful. The War on Christmas used to be over the commercialization of it. The people who won that war-- the TV people-- now think it's better if we're all angry at each other, especially at that time of year, just so we don't get any ideas about brotherhood. That's why you hear so much about it. They push the idea like toothpaste.
Not anymore bro, not after Trump won
This is simply not true. I grew up in the sixties and 70s. And people used these phrases interchangeably to acknowledge the long holiday period between thanksgiving and new years. Just look at old ads in historical newspapers, or old family Christmas cards. Everybody wants to be a victim these days, trying to make political issues of essentially non-existent grievances.
I'll tell you another thing that is surreal about this: if you listen carefully to the broadcast, and particularly to the points where they read off the current time, you're aware that, even as they were playing music and running ads for grocery stores or movies or whatever, the President was already shot, at Parkland, and dying. It's surreal. The President was shot around 12:30 and declared dead at 1:00. The "news bulletins" on KLIF didn't even start rolling in until around 12:39, and certainly not in earnest until almost 1:00 pm.. So while we're trying to figure out "just how serious this is" in between 60's music and ads for skin care products or whatever, a man has gone from life to death. We're listening to a change in the trajectory of a country over, essentially, a 20 - 30 minute time period.
Are you confusing the news gathering capabilities of 1963 with today?
He was dead the second after the second bullet hit him despite electrical activity in his heart when he arrived at Parkland. So all the reports of "seriously wounded" are sadly wrong.
Spot on.
Thought the very same thing.
They actually have a small news segment at 12:30pm which is when we know he was shot so it’s surreal knowing what was going on in Dealey Plaza whilst that was playing; and then music and adverts carry on playing as JFK would be laying practically dead in the back of the limousine.
Thanks for uploading this.
As a completely ancillary notation , I love the commercials in addition to the actual news bulletins.
For those of you reading this in 2063,have a nice Thanksgiving dinner!(Nov.22 that year falls on Thanksgiving).
On 11/22/63 I will be 100
At 102 I won’t give a damn
I'll be 84 then so hopefully I'll still remember that.
I'll be 92 if still alive.
I'll be 101...i won't care.
this is so interesting to hear what was happening in Dallas that day. I was only 7 yrs old at the time. but it those are memories, of how my family felt that day.
The jingle at the beginning of this clip was probably played only during daylight hours, since I thought KLIF dropped power at sunset to just 1,000 watts back then.
I listened to a few radio stations here on RUclips reporting ,the event of Nov 22/63 . KLIF comes across as the only station that rocked , other stations around the country were playing Doris Day , Mantovani and the soundtrack from Little Abner .
1st Report of the shooting@ 1:09:09
It happened @ 1:09 ??? Hmmm? PT 109??
Thank you, Mr Von Pein, for the marvelous job you've done in unearthing all the films and radio broadcasts pertaining to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Keep up the good work!!
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The foreboding that the announcer at Love Field showed for the President’s security is a bit eerie in retrospect. Also the time between Love Field and the Assasination when KLIF is on regular programming is haunting for us modern listeners! We know what’s coming, and though we obviously can’t stop it, we still dread it!
This is the first time I had ever heard the Brenda Lee song "As Usual". The lyrics sound almost like the words of a young widow. Hearing it in this context makes me think of Jackie.
It starts at 1:09:10
thanks
Clint Hill had stated, in a much later interview, that when he had jumped onto the back of the limo, shoving Mrs Kennedy back into the limo, and laying spread eagle over the two of them, he had noticed the head wound and could see that a huge amount of brain matter had been blown out, enough that he could tell the wound was not survivable. Mrs. Kennedy had gone onto the back of the limo, obviously in shock, to retrieve a large section of the president''s skull and brain matter. She had carried that in her hands until at some point, in the treatment room at Parkland, where she handed that over to one of the doctors. According to the statements made by that doctor, again, much later.
1:22:22 - Notice the ad following the report on the Kennedy shooting features two loud rifle shots in rapid succession! Weird coincidence, right?
Very weird indeed.
Not rifle shots.
The WLW aircheck was definitely Soundscriber as I was approached by someone to use mine for a dub of the reel.
I remember listening to the " mighty 1190 " . Great music , great dj's . Incredibly sad day , obviously.
I've always thought the songs KLIF was playing just after the shooting were creepy. First we have Tommy Roe singing "One time or other, everybody listen to me, you lose somebody you love." And then we have Gene McDaniels' "Point of No Return." Yikes!
Keep in mind that it was 11-22-1963, so that was how bulletins were handled then. Nowadays it would be continuous coverage for hours on end.
Berry Gordy, president of Motown Records in Detroit, was having a bitch of an argument with Marvin Gaye when this news broke.
@@charlesmeadows6285 Even in 1963, if the situation was catastrophic enough, it would be continuous coverage for hours.
Once JFK was confirmed dead, the TV networks suspended all regular programming until November 26 (the day after JFK's funeral).
@@a_can_of_soda Good point, but back then that was the way all news outlets handled something like that. Yes it was a huge story.
Thanks for this important historical document. Why does Gordon McLendon make the point on several occasions that LBJ was the second Johnson to become president after the assassination of his predecessor?
Saying something to come across as an educated man. It came off to me as self-serving.
23:36 - the first musical track played is Elvis. I did not realise that straight off. But it is. Its bloody Elvis. But what might catch people out, and it did me, is that it is not a since universally familiar Elvis track. The Great One.
An ad for Compoz a sedative. My parents were on librium and valium most of the 60-70s lol
Gordon McLendon would go on to run a chain of TV stations, one of which was KCND-TV in Pembina, North Dakota. KCND would become CKND TV Winnipeg in 1975, now known as Global Winnipeg.
McLendon would also run against Ralph Yarborough in the 1964 Democratic Senate primary as well.
If only we could time travel and warn them...or should we just watch it happen in real time and return to the future?
So if the Lincoln convertible had tuned to 1190 by chance, the last thing John F. Kennedy ever heard was those two dorks talking about candy bars?
The Democrats to this day still have Liberal/Progressives vs conservative/moderates within the party. 9:35
‘Was taking an algebra test in Indianapolis at Brebeuf Preparatory High School, a Catholic/Jesuit institution. They couldn’t dismiss us after a Mass for JFK because most parents were still at work. We all sat there listening to this kind of report over the PA system. ‘Awful, just awful ...
I wonder if this aircheck was from a Soundscriber at or a Stancil Hoffman at KLIF. Highly unlikely from anywhere else. The speed correction suggests Stancil or other "skimmer" logger as opposed to the Soundscriber which used a very slow speed with a rotary head.
Can you prove that?
@@charlesmeadows6285 seriously, that's the funniest thing I've ever read online
This is great, David. Thanks!
2:05:24 the tone turns sombre when they knew officially that the President has expired
It happened during the Milky Way ad.
1:22:30 that Balbo Cleanser ad.
Not the right thing to play at that very time
It is amazing how literate the radio and TV reporters were 51 years ago compared to today. BTW, is that Gordon McLendon himself doing the commentary?
+Frank Santore Yes. He owned KLIF (and several other stations), and also apparently anchored KLIF's special-event and breaking-news coverage besides the death of JFK.
The audience and the readers have been mostly dumbed down.
McLendon was at the Trade Mart because he was an important businessman. As things developed, he got a phone to report on how it was there, then got a ride (probably a police car) to the radio station to co-anchor with Joe Long, KLIF’s News Director.
it would feel much more authentic if there wasn't a youtube ad interrupting it every 3 minutes. So annoying.
IF they had never announced and placed in the newspaper at least two months before his trip a map of the motorcade route, chances are JFK would not have been shot. "Foolish people" put not only a drawn map of the motorcade route, but the EXACT streets the motorcade would travel on. This allowed the assassin's (yes there WAS more than one) time to scope out the route of travel and decide on an area to "commit their crime" and plan their exit. Totally irresponsible
My friend. The route was planned by the same people or entity that planned the shooting.
How were the people that wanted to see Kennedy going to be able to do that without knowledge of the motorcade route? Totally irresponsible is posting "This allowed the assassin's (yes there WAS more than one)" without any proof from you.
Love for you to tell that to the Warren Commission report.
@@karimC35 Nonsense
I'm reading Vincent Bugliosi's book on the assassination...he talks about how Jack Ruby was obsessed with getting sodas and corned beef sandwiches to the staff who was working long hours to cover the tragedy.
Yea Vincent apparently believes that ruby just happened to be across the police station and just decided on a whim to kill Oswald.
Can someone please identify the song at 1:23:14-1:23:26 ??
It can be found on RUclips here: ruclips.net/video/u_DovXa-Jyc/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/u_DovXa-Jyc/видео.html "Theme From 'The Cardinal'".
Very erie when the attention signal came up then the announcer floated in then back out.
Thank You David!!!
1:22:35
INTERESTING THAT THERE WAS THAT MUCH SECURITY AT LOVE FIELD BUT BY THE TIME THEY GET TO DEALY PLAZA IT'S GONE
Who won the $11.90 for the station's "Whoopie" contest?
i did
On the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, nobody did.
I am curious about KLIF having a FM frequency back then. Was that the case?
At 51:00 there seems to be a warning alarm but then they go right into commercial. Were they going to make an announcement and then we’re told to stop? I’m curious, some people are good with time lines here. I’m assuming at that point he had been shot already. It’s just much later they make the announcement. I’ve listened to this many times and that moment always stuck out to me.
Still sad after almost 57 years.....I was barely 17 yrs old at the time, now 73...…...we've gone from having a "real" President to an imposter in the White House today......
I'm right behind ya, 61 years old. Yes, times have changed, for the worse.
Good place to start is at 1:09:10
18:40 One could only imagine what must have gone through the minds of those who got to shake President Kennedy's hand at the point and then learning about his being killed less than two hours later (about 2 hours between the President's arrival and when the official confirmation of JFK's death was announced)
Anyone happen to know the name of the song at 34:16?
Nevermind. found it.
it's "Deep Purple" by Nino Tempo and April Stevens.
It was the #1 song in the billboard charts that same week.
I was 13 year's old n at school n it still hurt me as it was yesterday my question is why can't we do anything to d killer's
I was also thirteen. As far as the "killers" is concerned, Lee Harvey Oswald was the killer, and he was murdered himself.
I always hope in vain, to hear a different end to this sad story. If it had continued to rain, he would have lived. Kennedy insisted on keeping the top down that day.
And I'm amazed how the route and security details were aired.
I'm sure Oswald found it all quite informative.
Is this the station that played the commercial for "The Wheeler Dealers" with the audio by co-star Pat Harrington, Jr.? I know I heard it somewhere, and it used to be mentioned in the Wiki page for that movie.
I found it at 1:05:17
This HAS to be the Capitol Records reel dubbed from the KLIF master tape before it was edited down for the Fateful Hours album. Dave Dexter, who was a big shot at Capitol, used to authorize mild-to-severe amounts of reverb be slathered onto tapes shortly before editing prior to pressing on record. Beatles 45 singles on Capitol strongly illustrate this.
The actual KLIF master is probably lost or shit-canned and KLF or a researcher got this from Capitol's vaults. Master tapes from radio stations, particularly from this era, were very "gated" to maximize sound on AM receivers in both home and car.
Glenn Quagmire Wow......giggity.
Glenn Quagmire Dexter was the one primarily responsible for rejecting the first 4 Beatles singles. Stories vary as to who at Capitol finally got it with Wanna Hold Your Hand but Dexter has since gone on record as saying "these guys would mean absolutely nothin over here" with Love me Do, Please Please, Me to you, She Loves You . He was burned by Cliff Richard a few years prior - He championed him and Capitol spent 5 grand trying to break him in the US but didn't make a dent.
+Glenn Quagmire Most AM rock and roll Top 40 stations back then used reverb. This was normal. Capitol didn't add it.
Virtually all rock / pop stations at that time used reverb (sometimes MASSIVE amounts) in their broadcasts.
Sounds like you were in the business...
Good thing the call letters didn't end with a T.
Interesting thing here is having a realtime listen from the moment of departure from Love Field to the very first report of a shooting. Incidentally, I've always wondered why the slight echo on this recording. Not on this upload because it's present on lots of edited versions I've heard elsewhere. It must have something to do with how it was originally recorded, or perhaps subsequently copied?
The "Echo Chamber" effect was deliberately put in there by the radio station itself (KLIF). It was a 60s thing, I guess.
@@DavidVonPeinJFK More and more intriguing... I notice it's present even in the pool outside broadcast describing Kennedy's arrival, which was also broadcast over WBAP... on which recording it lacks the echo. I wonder if it was a unique KLIF gimmic as I've encountered it nowhere else. In any case David, glad to take the opportunity of saying to you personally... THANK YOU so very much for all your wonderful uploads. There are no words to describe the value of the collection you've made available to us all.
The reverb (echo) was on the station's entire audio chain, so anything that aired would have it. The pool feed was plain, so it wouldn't have echo when heard on the stations that didn't use reverb. Reverb was a key ingredient for hundreds of Top-40 stations from the '60s through the '80s, especially in the Eastern U.S. Fans of reverb believe it made stations sound big and exciting.
@@georgebrusstar2539 Now there's something I didn't know George. (I hope we're all on first name terms on the internet?) :d I've been curious enough to do a bit of digging around and found these two other recordings of KLIF, the first from 1961, from DVP's own channel no less, and another which says it's 1962.
ruclips.net/video/Ia1IiVxpmc4/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/Ia1IiVxpmc4/видео.html
Now on the first one I would be prepared to say there was definitely no reverb, but on the second I'm not so sure. I think by the sound and style you can tell it's all the same station. So for KLIF it must have been a recent addition, and I wonder if the reverb amount fluctuated from day to day. Neither of these things would at all surprise me of course, particularly the recent adding of the effect. After all, we were only just starting the 60s.
@@dan4lau Hi Daniel- I'm not certain of when the reverb was introduced at KLIF, but I imagine it was right around that time. (Many stations began using reverb in the early '60s, and by the time of the British Invasion it was pretty ubiquitous on Top-40 stations in the eastern U.S.) The link you provided (both appear to be of the same audio) seems to be of a linecheck, meaning it was recorded directly off the board and not from over the air. I say this because the fidelity sounds too "clean." So the reverb wouldn't have been present on that tape anyway.
1960's style radio: heavy echo on all voices
The echo was similarly present on the records that said radio was playing.
Listen to this at 🌙 is more scary than during the day
My head is spinning round and round - Elvis. Kind of creepy
Makes you wonder how LHO knew when and where the Kennedy car would travel..that day..that time.
I would imagine that the route Kennedy and his entourage were taking had been well publicized in the local media since there were thousands of people lining the route hoping to catch a glimpse.
The motorcade route was well publicized in the days leading up to the visit. Kennedy and his close aides wanted a strong turnout. They understood how valuable to them the footage would be in the '64 election. LHO saw how close it was coming to him at work and took advantage. In fact, my guess is he got a second chance that day. Bonnie Ray Williams was actually on the 6th floor eating chicken when JFK was supposed to come by. But JFK was late. Late getting to Love Field, late leaving because of all the glad-handing with the crowd. Then, when Williams exited to the 5th floor around 12:15, LHO had a second chance. Chilling how random fate can be.
The motorcade route was published in the Times Herald a few days prior.
Trevor Aikman Yes. It was as random as that. He would have gone to work that day not knowing if the weather would stay rainy (not knowing the bubbletop was not bullet proof) which would have changed history. Williams staying on the 6th floor as you say would have thwarted his plans too. As the cheers grew louder and the lead motorcycles and cars turned the corner onto Houston, he would have done a once over of the 6th floor, and taken the chance that fate gave him. The cards fell right into his twisted lap that day.
That's what's so fascinating about the whole thing. Up until then, people just assumed there was an impenetrable force field of protection around a president (as there virtually is now), so much so that they might just assume they wouldn't have a chance in hell of getting to him. I think the Secret Service just counted on that bluff or smokescreen to a large degree. The only people they could stop were the nuts that came at the POTUS with a knife or a handgun. They had no plans for busy downtown building windows. How could they? (Even JFK himself knew it) NOW they do, but their budgets have changed so drastically.
LHO was always the guy who was too dumb to know he couldn't do it. Just like he showed how easy it was to get to the USSR and stay. No one in their right mind would try because most people are too aware of all the potential hurdles and pitfalls. So everyone (KGB, CIA, FBI, State Department) just looks at this guy and thinks "he must be some kind of genius!" and then realize there's nothing there but dumb luck. He succeeded because he just didn't care about or wasn't aware of the consequences. He took his chance on Nov 22, 1963 and succeeded in changing the world. It still just staggers the mind.
DAMN!! I didn't see that coming
Spoiler alert.
McClendon’s report from the trade mart sounded like there was a near riot. Watch live CBS coverage, with Eddie Barker, and it looks just stunned. Lots of hyperbole here.
The information given out by this station is not nearly as accurate as that given out by KLDR, who were much more timely and accurate with their information.
1:21:05 is probably what you're looking for :)
Checked and Checked and Rechecked, are you sure about that?
1:09:11 the first bulletin
1:23:11
Anyone know the name of the song at the above mark?
"The Cardinal." I don't know the artist on this version, but I own a CD of the Santa Clara Vanguard drum corps playing this in their first season, 1967. Coming after the Aunt Jemina commercial (which likely was the last ad all weekend), KLIF was apparently dropping rock n' roll for easy-listening music as the JFK story was developing.
Greg Sells thank you!!!!
@@gregsells8549 Theme from 'The Cardinal'. ruclips.net/video/u_DovXa-Jyc/видео.html
@@gregsells8549 Roger Williams
There were three loud BURSTS of gunfire. If you have multiple shots then it cannot be just Oswald with his piece of junk bolt action rifle.
"This apparently is the work of more than one man."
Obviously, wrong.
@@thud9797 Sure it is...
In 1988 I watched JFK as i Happened on A and E, During the broadcast they interviewed Jean Hill. For some reason (maybe because everyone was in shock) The reporter asked her address iand she gave it Long Story Short She is saying this in ``1963 and I an watching in 1988 But I got her phone number and she was very nice so I just asked her one question, Did she think there was another shooter ans she said yes
Jimmy M If you listen to the different broadcasts from across the country, it’s very easy to figure out there were two shooters from lots of eyewitness accounts.