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To: janetjanet998

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.


9 posted on 11/22/2025 5:16:14 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: Freedom4US

On the NBC feed, you can hear Robert McNeil over the phone telling Frank McGee that JFK had died. McGee winced when he heard.


11 posted on 11/22/2025 5:17:25 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Freedom4US

There was a lot of “fog of war” reporting. They also said a secret service agent was killed, and that LBJ himself was wounded.


13 posted on 11/22/2025 5:20:09 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Freedom4US
"They did have some stray voltage, claiming a secret service agent had also been shot."

Possibly misreporting of the JD Tippet shooting.

24 posted on 11/22/2025 6:04:30 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: Freedom4US

Mermirriman Smith, the UPI correspondent was in the Motercade. Everyone in the Modercadeckneq that he was dead, but this was the UPI Nulliten at 1: 36 PM: President Kennedy seriously wounded. Perhaps seriously, perhaps fatal by Assadians bullet.


33 posted on 11/22/2025 6:33:34 PM PST by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WwILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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