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Posted on 11/22/2025 5:05:28 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
As The World Turns" was airing on CBS the afternoon of November 22, 1963, when Walter Cronkite broke in to tell the nation that President Kennedy had been shot. Coverage then went back to the soap opera, but not for long. Charles Osgood reports on how America learned of the shooting of a president.
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And Cronkite was convinced that it just had to be a Right-Winger that did it.
First report of JFK assassination from WFAA News in Dallas
https://rumble.com/v3515gm-first-report-of-jfk-assassination-from-wfaa-news-in-dallas.html?mref=1wxk5&mrefc=92
Uncle Fester was more reliable than Uncle Walter.
This is NBC’s feed. It was Don Pardo that first broke the news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJnoFA0u2Eg
Huntley and Brinkley were much better than Cronkite IMHO.
I’ve watched a lot of these over the years- the initial CBS News report is just creepy...
There is a Dallas radio station report i heard once where the reporter is one the scene while its happening and you can here the police cars screaming by- its incredibly intense but i’ve never been able to find it again after hearing it once...
Our school let out early that day. Mom cried. Never forget it.
What was interesting, in those days the big TV cameras took about a half hour or so to warm up (vacuum tubes) and stabilize, so it was Audio only for a while before Cronkite could be televised.
Oddly enough the very very first reports - that blood was seen from his head, and Kennedy was most likely dead, was the most accurate. Everyone who was actually there knew it was mortal, it was just a matter of conveying that to the press. Certain national security concerns probably prompted the delays in the “official” announcement.
They did have some stray voltage, claiming a secret service agent had also been shot. That never happened, one wonders how that got reported.
Eddie Barker was the first to say that Kennedy was dead when he was at the Trade Mart building where Kennedy was going to speak. I used to drive by there every day to work.
I also recommend the movie “Parkland” which is available for free on YouTube.
On the NBC feed, you can hear Robert McNeil over the phone telling Frank McGee that JFK had died. McGee winced when he heard.
Check YouTube, they have hours and hours of radio broadcasts from that day. I think Oreon Samuelson (farm market reporter) was the first radio announcer to make the report. He was around forever, I recall his booming baritone reporting March feeder cattle prices and June hogs on 1040 WHO into the 1990s.
There was a lot of “fog of war” reporting. They also said a secret service agent was killed, and that LBJ himself was wounded.
Yes, David Von Pein’s YouTube channel is the go to for all things JFK.
Believe me- i have!!
This one was live as it happened across the street from the knoll- it was not at the farm market...
Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the Messiah arrives. He wrote, literally, any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil. Well join me - I’m glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan.
- Walter Cronkite
Thank you for these links. Extraordinary.
I recall walking home from school early but I don’t have a memory that it was a cold late November.
We are now are now as far removed from the assassination of Jack Kennedy as the world of 1963 was from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901…
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