New Kennedy Assassination Tapes Revealed

abcnews.go.com ^ | 15 Nov 2011 | Jack Cloherty

[smokingfrog]

Nearly 48 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, fresh audio evidence from that fateful day has surfaced. The evidence comes in the form of the original reel-to-reel Air Force One radio recording, containing conversations between officials on the plane, the White House situation room, and others. The original tape was long thought to be lost or destroyed.

The tape contains never-before-heard conversations between the presidential aircraft and the White House and immediately after the assassination of President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.

It was held privately for years by President Kennedy’s military aide at the time, Chester Clifton. Clifton was in the Dallas motorcade when Kennedy was shot and killed, and on Air Force One and involved in the radio discussions. The tape was obtained by the Raab Collection of Philadelphia.

According to Nathan Raab, the Vice President of the collection, the tape is the raw, unedited version of the edited audio tape from Air Force One that is in the National Archive. The Raab Collection says the raw tape “is about 30 minutes longer than the edited version, predates it by years, and contains incidents and code names never before heard by the American public.”

“That this tape even exists will change the way we view this great event in history,” said Raab. “It took decades to analyze the shorter, newer version and it will take years to do the same here. This provides a concise ‘tale of the tapes’ and offers great insight into ongoing research.”

The tape contains a dramatic first-hand report of the President’s assassination, and the wounding of then-Texas Governor John Connolly. ..

[Yardstick]

Different views of the bullet here (scroll down):

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/sbt.htm

[Founding Father]

Immediately and I mean immediately after the gunshots were reported over the radio, the first thing all of us heard from each other was the gunman was not a Texan. Why? Because Texans knew the VP was LBJ. Your Daddy knew LBJ had stolen elections years earlier and was a power hungry man that would stop at nothing. Common knowledge among Texans.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 11/15/2011. Seems pertinent since the JFK files have (for the most part) been released at last. I'd forgotten about this topic, found it while looking for something else. Thanks again smokingfrog.