San Diego responds to President John F. Kennedy assassination
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- On the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, we uncover our coverage of the tragic day of November 22, 1963--and the days that followed. These are original scripts.
November 22, 1963
CBS network and wires services, Associated Press and United Press International broke the first word of the assassination and here at Channel 8 workers watched the teletypes in disbelief.
The news forced the telephone company to enforce emergency priority control measures in San Diego. Outgoing phone calls were curtailed in Escondido, Linda Vista, Pacific Beach and downtown San Diego.
In Escondido, outgoing service to 5000 residents was cut-off for a period of seven minutes. This was only for ow priority phones. 12-thousand phones were put out of service in Linda Vista for one hour...10-thousand in Pacific Beach for 42 minutes...and about 15-thousand phones in downtown San Diego for 40-minutes. Additional telephone operators were brought in to handle the heavy volume of long-distance calls. This was the first time an emergency situation has caused curtailment of phone service in San Diego.
People in front of KFMB Station
While first reports were still coming in...with the president lying in the hospital emergency room. The word still indefinite as to whether he was alive or dead...persons everywhere grouped around radios and television sets for the latest word. They stood in stunned silence around a television monitor set up in front of Channel 8 at Fifth and Ash. Businessmen and women, workmen, shoppers, and students stopped whatever they were doing... stunned by the news...unbelievable news that the President of the United States had been shot. Within thirty minutes of the first reports, word came that the President was dead. Most persons were speechless ...too choked with emotion to describe their feelings.
Immediately on word of the President’s death, flags all over the city were lowered to half-mast. Flags of all Navy ships, shore stations, public and downtown office buildings were lowered on their staffs. The action was in accordance with military regulations stating the flags are to be lowered immediately if the president is reported to be dead.
Bob Regan at Civic Center
It was quiet and restful in the board of supervisors chambers at Civic Center where Board chairman Robert Cozens pointed out the flag-draped portrait of President Kennedy which looks down on the deliberations of the body. Cozens spoke his thoughts. Another supervisor who was at Civic Center this afternoon attempting to conduct business to a background of tragedy was Frank Gibson. At 3 o’clock employees at Civic Center were permitted to leave for home.
Western Union
Hundreds of messages of condolence are being sent to Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy from San Diego residents.
Downtown
Jim Price and Mel Knoepp deliver the horrible news to San Diegans-many unaware of the details.
Bob Regan reporting from MCRD
This was the second of two memorial services held at the Marine Base this afternoon-one for Protestants, one for Catholics. Colonel H.J. Woessner took part in the mass.
Churches
One activity in which many persons engaged today was to go to their church for silent prayer and meditation. This was a time to call on their God for the strength to face the personal and national challenges ahead. In San Diego, most churches kept their chapels available for those who came for silent prayer. Memorial services were announced for many churches tonight. The Council of Churches will hold an inter-faith memorial service on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Westgate Park. The Catholic Diocese has planned a solemn Pontifical mass of requiem of noon on Monday at Saint Joseph’s Cathedral at 3rd and Beech. San Diego was unusually quite tonight as most people apparently stayed close to their television sets to get the full details on today’s tragedy. Some attended this evening’s services where congregations were able to announce that the services would be held. And as was so pronounced during the day, the sympathy of the public crossed all religious and political lines.
A wrap of the day’s events on November 22, 1963
Harold Keen interview with Larry Hollis, a witness to Lee Harvey Oswald’s capture. He was a sailor stationed at Miramar.
Immaculata Mass at the University of San Diego
A table draped with the American flag, simulating a casket, held the attention of most of the worshippers as the choir sang the ancient and traditional music of the requiem mass. The Bishop of the San Diego diocese, the Right Reverend Charles Francis Buddy, presided at both masses. The bishop praised the late President, calling him a religious man as well as a great leader. Two masses were held at 7 am and 9 am.
November 24
Harold Keen interviewed San Diegans downtown.
San Diego Union Extra: Lee Harvey Oswald Slain
November 25
NTC Memorial Service
22 thousand Naval personnel at the Naval Training Center gathered today at Preble Field to participate in a ceremony.
60 years ago, and America as we knew it, ended.
You are correct. I don't believe any President after has fully stood for America they was this man tried. He wasn't perfect. He wasn't a saint. But, in a greater way he did try. And it had a lot to do with why he was murdered.
dramatic much
Agreed!!
And the world as well.
@GeorgeVreelandHill That's _faux_ romanticism, a self-regarding viewpoint.
Thank you for uploading this footage.
60 years ago Today.
It's crazy to think that the majority of the people in the video if not all are very most likely Deceased by now
The younger ones would be in their 80s- but it would be curious if anyone viewing this recognizes any family members and could identify them. A part of their family’s history and something to share with the younger family members (if they care, which might not be the case).
On a different observance in viewing this video, it looks like people dressed and expressed themselves better back then than today.
Yes, it seemed like going out in public in the downtown part of a major city called for dressing up to a degree that people today wouldn’t consider. I was an 8 year old kid at the time and my parents would have worn nice clothes and of course hats when they were out in public. And when I say nice I mean conservative, since the more unusual aspects of 60s style happened later in the decade.
@@radamik I was a teen in the 1970s so we wore that era clothes. Standards was starting to come down a bit but nothing like today. Thanks for chiming in. :)
What was your first clue? The lack of men in sweatpants and hats turned backwards or was it the fact that men shaved back then and didn't wear their jeans so half their ass and the underwear is showing?
As an 11 year old San Diego native and 6th grader at Harley E. Knox Elementary School, the images captured in this video on that tragic weekend, brought back bittersweet childhood memories: The style of the pretty young woman, the Channel 8 logo, downtown views of Civic Center and the Kress store building, palm trees, sailors, pigeons, the Mexico border entrance, newspapers being printed ( I collected all of The San Diego Union assassination articles from that fateful weekend, which I still have 60 years later), etc. My father was a 19 year electronics mechanic at the San Diego Naval Shipyard, where JFK was greatly admired as a Navy hero. However, the SDNS was closing, and seven months later my father was transferred north to the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Goodbye San Diego. It was a great place to be a kid...
What a great video
Wow great footage from a turbulent time in US History
More script info: San Diego Union Extra: Lee Harvey Oswald Slain
News of the murder of the man accused of being the presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, caused the San Diego Union to put out an unprecedented Sunday extra. Union Editor Herb Klein said it was the first time in his memory that an extra had been printed on a Sunday afternoon. Cause of the extra was the dramatic shooting of Oswald by Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby. Oswald was surrounded by police when he was fatally shot at close range. More than 75,000 copies were printed and Union circulation officials said it wasn't enough.
November 25
NTC Memorial Service
22 thousand Naval personnel at the Naval Training Center gathered today at Preble Field to participate in a final farewell tribute to their fallen commander in chief. The training center band played appropriate field marches and “Adoramus Ti…then Captain W.B. Wideman, Center Commander, delivered the eulogy. A 130-voice choir sang the Navy hymn before a firing squad sounded a three volley salute and taps were sounded.
The people are speechless.
Our country will never recover from this tragedy, its been 60 years , yes Dallus has never recovered from this incident. THIS IS WHEN OUR COUNTRY , DIED ONVTHIS DAY NOVEMBER 22, 1963.
Dallas has recovered. DFW has millions and millions of people and the population is still growing. Bobby Kennedy was killed in L.A. L.A. recovered.
Don't get so worked up with phony emotional melodrama. @charlmaynehawthorne9372
Cue,The BEATLES fellas..America and The World is DEFINITELY going to need Help in Healing...(1964) 🇬🇧 🌎 🇺🇸
Help me if you can I’m feeling down
It seemed like a different America back then with no conspiracy theorists podcasts, tic tok, twitter or social media to get their information from it was just nat'l and state radio, TV news programs. But, the civil rights protests, Vietnam War protests and social changes were getting started. Plus, the music was and still is the best.
It was better then…technology,The Internet has really ruined things despite all the conveniences and certainly you are correct about the music. It will live on not like today’s garbage.
I know our country has never been the same since , November 22, 1963, I was nine years and to this still shocking event, we should not forget , this day , better take heed to crime, it has played again with Ronald Regon, those opposed the narrative will be destroyed.
interesting comment by the girl at 24 minutes.....hmm
Reminds me of Night Of The Living Dead.
“I’m just a patsy”~ Lee Harvey Oswald
The 60th and still not all the answers 😒
The lady at 22:50 was a sharp cookie.
60.years.on
Anybody.the.wiser
The excuse or reason the Dallas Police used is that they wanted to show that Oswald was not beaten by the Dallas Police or anybody else .The only visible mark Oswald had , is when Oswald resisted arrest at the theatre . You can take it or leave it , but there should or could have been a better way to display Oswald , without putting him in danger .
Smiles, Chuckles , with quite a few. Strange
Many people smirk when nervous.
In the beginning of this video you could see the Teletype bringing in the news. These kids today think Text Messages are something new. It is old technology. Teletype is how every airport got the hourly weather reports.
The guy at 16:00 said he was in Dallas that day because his parents live there and a doctor recommended that he leave his kids with his parents to separate them from his wife?
Huh?
He took his children to his in laws because his wife was pregnant with twins and the doctor advised that for his wife health. I had to use the closed caption to understand it.
These women that's all they do is pop out babies
Amazing that republicans could still respect a democrat. Now both sides would call it a victory if this happened to the opposition!
Less than a year later the "Gulf of Tonkin incident" leading to full $cale invasion of Vietnam. Pure coincidence
This happened in WWII.
@@barbaras2669 ??
@@barbaras2669 Oh my............Hope you're well and happy holidays ma'am.
60 years ago, the era of the baseless, paranoid conspiracy theorizing began.
Back when smoking was good for you
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Johnson was supposedly shot at and received the silver star while riding in his airplane😂
In WWII.
Not supposedly, his airplane was shot at. LBJ didn't have to fly. He could have had reports sent to him. He chose to fly and see the conditions himself for his reports to FDR. He felt it was important as he told General MacArthur who questioned him about it that servicemen see congressmen willing to share in the dangers faced by the troops.
He was. I have read about the flight. Everyone on the plane was terrified, but Johnson was not, the crew said.
Did they interview gomers pile.
Look ! A true intellectual ! Very wise marcus, large caps not necessary.
Hi swag
By snag
4:07 Nov. 21,2023. I have been trying to get the true story of where is was (in front of a television that Jack Ruby bought my mom so I could watch the assassination on live T.V. I carry the weight of the entire assassination on my shoulders as I have my whole life. The kill shot was from a gun with a silencer on it and probably not heard at all. The assassination was carried out by Louis Presnell from GREENBACK TENNESSEE. Columbus Senter Hicks was the driver of the car. Jack Ruby also rode to the assassination with Senter And Louis. Jimmy Hoffa was deeply involved and stayed at Louis's family home and watched the assassination. If Louis hadn't killed Kennedy both the Hicks and Presnell family's would have been killed. This comment is just a drop in a bucket of the facts that happened that day. I was left to tell what really happened that day ,but I had to wait at least 50 years and was told if I told the story before 50 years my younger sister Wilma would be killed. I waited 52 years and did everything I was told to do to break the story, but the CIA and FBI HAVE kept my attempts dismantled, sensored and muffled for the past 8 years. George
Sure
Tell it to a newspaper not to UA-cam.
Maga rats back in 1963
Notice no septum ring woke infinite gender believers prancing around. Great times.