CBS Newsflash From Nov. 22nd 1963 Re: The JFK Assassination
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2014
- This video footage from the late morning - early afternoon of Nov. 22nd 1963 was taped live from CBS. As is often the case with such events, the initial reports prove to be the most accurate. Included the following:
1) A report of a "few individuals" seen moving around near the underpass of the (Stemmons) bridge;
2) Shots fired from the crowd gathered along the parade route;
3) Some Secret Service agents reporting what sounded to them like "automatic weapons fire";
4) ...coming from the REAR of the chief executive's car;
5) ..."possibly from a GRASSY KNOLL";
6) Officers seen running up this grassy knoll (as was reported later by Mr. Cronkite) with guns drawn;
7) ..."suggesting that this is where the shots came from".
Notice also in these initial broadcasts that the rifle recovered from the sixth floor of the TSBD was first and numerous times reported to be a MAUSER bolt action rifle (in 7.65mm Mauser caliber).
Notice also how the story changes over time from "shots heard coming from the grassy knoll" to "3 shots being fired from behind the Presidents motorcade", to the switching of the weapon recovered from the TSBD into a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, in 6.5 mm Carcano.
Notice also in several frames of this time in Mr. Cronkite's office, is a strange man in a suit and dark sunglasses standing around the perimeter against the walls. Nobody speaks to him and afterwards, nobody knew who he was or how he had gotten into the broadcast room.
This footage positively demonstrates the official coverup that took place literally within hours of the shooting.
One thing that was missing from Mr. Cronkite's initial report, was the fact that Jackie had said: "Oh no, they've shot Jack!"... THEY'VE...
I have to say, I’m 26 and I’ve never seen this before. I’m shocked at just how different today’s “news” has become. This is so calm, professional, and to the point. Today it’s an absolute joke. What a mess.
100 percent
lmao you need to stop watching fox and cnn. Puppy food ads after the president has been shot is calm and professional huh?
Whoosh.
Stop watching msm
Batgirl I prefer the news delivered via real journalists without any political comments interjected! Just the facts where people are calmly allowed to make up their own minds!
@@jackmcfakie7857 Jack those ads were already prepaid. Technology has leaped a long way since 1963, The Kennedy Assassination is the first news event that was covered live as it happened on television. Pretty well by an iconic newsman, in my opinion, Please get off your ignorant high horse.
I swear UA-cam is the closest thing to a time machine
So true
When was the last time you heard the term station identification
Or at least, the library of Alexandria
This is a really insightful comment. Thank you.
It's fascinating isn't it? I was a history major and love this stuff. The change in media is pretty telling too.
Fr not only that by its amazing but terrifyingly real
I was 9 years old sitting in my 4th grade classroom. Our teacher, Mrs. Hart and the whole class listened to the announcement over the speaker in our room. She broken down in tears and we children were all immediately dismissed. I’ll never forget that day.
BS
David Brinkley
This illustrates how the media influnces us subliminaly. I was eleven in 1963 and couldn't have cared less about Kennedy and his influence on my world however whenever I think about November 22 I think of Kennedy. Thus we all remember when it happened and where even in our later years. We are slaves to the pernicious influenza of the world wide intrusive media and as time goes by it just gets worse. We saw people weeping and wailing with all the 'camelot' bullsh at the time of his death - later we found out what a reprehensible individual he was. .
@@rogeredwarrddeshon5000 As a former broadcaster and media producer I definitely take your point, but there were plenty of people who knew at the time that he was a human being with successes and failures like any other. You should have heard my dad on JFK. Mrs. Kennedy cultivated the Camelot thing _after_ his death, trying to mythologize his legacy. Even if he wasn't the golden boy she would have liked people to think, he didn't deserve what happened to him. People tend to go over such shocking events many times trying to make sense of it all, even if they know the basic facts.
7th grade. Mr. Rainwater, our principal, came over the intercom to announce it. He also announced that the school board was closing all the schools. Buses arrived and took everyone home.
Absolute professional. Reporting to the nation one of the most momentous events of the 20th century in a completely calm manner. Any young journalist who wishes to know what professionalism is...then watch this video.
Yeah...it's been a huge mistake that American society has been tolerated to evolve beyond the "Back When" era.
Amen!
@@ThomasFromTNnot "evolved," but devolved. Like you, nothing of value to add, only a mindless snipe.
The magic secret sauce to this type of coverage is apparently to smear black people, right-wingers, and a couple near the grassy knoll for what happened to JFK. VP Johnson's arm injury. Some sterling journalism from Walter is the 450 lb 🤡
God bless Mr. Cronkite. The pauses after reading the paper saying President Kennedy has died shows how the emotion hit him in real time and he kept it together to continue reporting to the American people.
Walter Cronkite is and was a legend.
An iconic moment in American history.
kennedy made a fatal mistake in going to texas, he didnt need to go there his vice president is from there
this 30 year old man that these guys are saying who did was someone who they had to put the blame on, a fall guy
oswald was a fall guy, a patsy!
To see Walter Cronkite being so stoic and unflappable throughout the broadcast is amazing. Even when Kennedy’s death is first reported he maintains his composure. You can tell that he was holding out hope that the reports were wrong. It wasn’t real for him until the official report came in. Watch at 58:35 to see a mountain of a reporter crumble inside and struggle to maintain his professional deportment. Brings me to tears every time to think how hard his heart was breaking and still he carried on. Truly an amazing man and giant of a newsman.
He wasn't called "the Most Trusted Man in America" for nothing!
Yeah he kept saying it wasn't confirmed keeping people a little more calm because the reports weren't confirmed. When they were you can see tears...
@@nicoleknight9412 He was the best. No one better.
Mm
Mm
How Cronkite managed to keep his composure as he announces the president's death Is simply astounding.
Dianne Klemmer in his book The Way It Was, Cronkite took a break from announcing Kennedy's death, when he answered the phone, a lady said she wants to make a complaint about Walter crying his crocodile tears on TV. Little does she realized that she was talking to Cronkite and he let her have it by saying, "Madam, this is Walter Cronkite, and you are a goddamn idiot!" Boom!
Mr. Cronkite was very fond of JFK...he thought very highly of him and admired him...those were NOT crocodile tears...he was devastated yet kept it going. His voice does break momentarily but he manages to hold on. The country loved Cronkite and he loved is back. There are NO reporters even CLOSE to Cronkite to this day.
He had wonderful self control and something a lot of reporters doesn't have these days. . Integrity.
@@davidgibson7615 The woman had no compassion and was an idiot!
Keith childers you can thank Ronald Reagan. He deregulated the media and caused a deterioration of it.
I can never forget those great CBS voices in addition to Cronkite: Charles Collingwood, Robert Trout, Eric Sevareid. These were the best.
A bit of interesting trivia - the reason it took so long for them to switch to a live camera in the newsroom instead of just the CBS bulletin screen was because the old studio cameras would literally take about an hour to warm up. Because of this, after the assassination they started keeping at least one camera warmed up and ready for use regardless at all times.
They didn't leave the cameras on because a) they took a shitload of electricity just to power up, and b) vacuum tubes get so hot that they have a relatively short lifespan. If you kept your cameras on all the time, you'd be spending half your time just replacing the goddamn tubes.
the what tubes?
It is extremely common for sound engineers to keep their equipment on
all the time. I guess this practice had not been deemed wise in 1963.
But I imagine that they learned their lesson. By the time I did audio work, it was common practice to keep the tubes (later the electronics) warm and ready for operation.
Eric: the camera lens pick-up tubes that initially convert the visual scene into an electronic signal. In this day of 1963, they were of the image orthicon tube family. or "Immy" in engineers' slang. (This nickname was the root of the feminized "Emmy Award" statue name.) The cameras were far less stable and much less reliable then than now...it took about 15-20 minutes of setup and circuit heating to stabilize the video output. Today, a Sony or Ikegami studio camera sets up completely in 2-3 minutes from cold start.
King Bee big deal
Walter Cronkite - A true master at work. processing all that information while presenting it to the audience almost flawlessly.
GOAT
Technology may have improved, but Cronkite handled that like a true professional, he's 10 times better than the chumps in the news media today.
Only 10xs better? You're letting them off easy. I would say at least a hundred.
About par with today's hacks. Falsely blaming it on opposition to Adlai Stevenson lol.
What are you talking about?
@@mtaylor3771 Um did you even watch the video? Cronkite kept making up stuff about who was to blame, like opponents of the UN. Then he said a Secret Service agent died. Virtually every word he said was silly unfounded nonsense. Some great reporter lol.
Cronkite couldn't be seen live at the beginning of the coverage because the cameras in the studio needed time to warm up and could have blown if not properly warmed up first.
I had just started second grade. We were told over the loud speaker that the President had died and we were all to go home. I walked home to find the TV on and my mother crying. I remember it being a really sad day.
Thanks for posting this entire CBS broadcast. I don’t remember any of it, and to see this has been fascinating.
Yes, I was also in second grade. My mom picked me up and she was crying. Such a shock.
I’ll never forget this tragic day and how visibly Mr. Cronkite was so emotional 😢
He barely held emotion in then regained composure
How old were you? Where were you? What was the reaction of yourself and of those around you?
Walter Cronkite could be reporting paint drying on a wall and my eyes would still be glued to to television! They don’t make em like they used to!
Amazing how accurate Cronkites reporting is. Right number of shots, right about the head wound, right about Connelly’s injuries. The last of the breed that checked their sources before reporting.
I was a Senior in high school when this happened. When the announcement was made over the intercom by the principal we were told that he was just wounded. All of the students were in shock and many were in tears. When we were told later that he had died I really couldn't believe it! We watched the events unfolding on TV for the next few weeks. To this day whenever I see anything about JFK I can't help but cry. Mother said that that's how she felt about FDR. It was and is such a horrible senseless thing! 😪
Our Country needs someone like Walter Cronkite today that we could trust and listen to that we would know that we were being told the truth! Later when Cronkite reported on the lies that our Country was being told about Vietnam and giving is the truth, Johnson said that if he had lost the trust of Walter Cronkite he had lost the war and the Country! Too bad that it couldn't have happened years sooner!
In high school, we had an English teacher tell us that when this happened; the principal announced it over the intercom about the President being assassinated a boy in her room burst out laughing. She said he wasn't happy, just traumatized abd laughed instead of crying.
I was in Miss Powers' first grade class at Delcroft Elementary School in Folcroft, PA (near Philadelphia) that year. Unfortunately, I have no memory of that day at all. Since I was only 6 years old then (the same age as Caroline), I was just too young to understand who JFK really was, what went on back then, and for what he stood for.
This was the era when many women worked at home while their husbands worked/children were at school. I bet many children came home from school to find their mothers glued to the TV or first broke the news of President Kennedy's assassination to them
kennedy got assasinated over vietnam
@@robertosso5210You have won the irrelevancy prize.
Cronkite's reporting was truly a class act.
Very much UNLIKE the absolute CLOWNS that are on television today.
Every other news anchor today owe a lot to Cronkite. They would've gone to the Cronkite school of broadcasting. He's the Stan Lee of news.
I was 3 when this happened, I didn't completely grasp what was going on. I do remember Mom and Dad being upset about it. And at Sunday School and Church that Sunday it was 'different'. However I can remember vividly Cronkite & CBS covering the assassinations of MLK & RFK in 68 and Apollo 13 and Kent State/ Jackson State in 70. Our family always turned to Walter Cronkite for the real news.
The man america most trusted newsman
A professional journalist of the highest standard.
Walter Cronkite was the best tv reporter ever!!!! Everything about him screams trust
He was the commencement speaker at my brother's graduation from the University of Michigan in 1984. You could hear a pin drop.
@@kathrynmccullough1686 I would had paid tp hear what this man said. I grew up seeing this man deliver the news.
This was a badass, epic performance by Cronkite.
@@vinceedwards3978 Me too. He was the best!
Edward R Murrow was very good too, although he was a chain smoker.
The great Walter Cronkite struggling to hold back his emotions at 58:57, after confirming that President Kennedy was indeed dead. Incredibly sad day in history.
Yes, the shocked and worried look on his face as he announces the news. Same look as the news reporters had when 9/11 happened. Both very somber days indeed. I was 10 years old when Kennedy was shot and remember the shock and grief of the world.
Watch the men in the back about a minute before the announcement. They're looking at the AP wire, and as soon as one sees the official report of Kennedy's death, he rips it off and brings it to Cronkite.
Does anyone else get teary-eyed every time they hear this broadcast, no matter how many times?
my grandma always said this and pearl harbor were the saddest days of her life.she passed on before 9/11
God bless your grandma.
May she rip
Buffalo Horn, to people like your grandmother back then between 1941 and 1975 it must have seemed like the world was coming to an end.
The attack on Pearl Harbor, World War 2 , President Franklin Roosevelt dying from a stroke in office, the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan, The Korean War, The assassination of President Kennedy, The Vietnam War, The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Presidential Candidate Robert Kennedy, the fall of Saigon, the resignation of President Nixon the assassination attempt on President Ford, the US Embassy in Iran taken hostage, the assassination attempt on President Reagan and the wars which have followed along with 9/11/2001.
I was born in 1970 but have seen lots of these events in the past 49 years.
@Sparky Runner The Japanese fleet was photographed by recon aircraft steaming toward Pearl two days before the attack. FDR and the War Department knew full well what would happen; they wanted to use the attack as a valid reason to enter the war. The FBI had nothing to do with Military Intelligence or manipulating intelligence. The War Department could do that on their own just fine.
@Sparky Runner Not everything is an orchestrated conspiracy. Most of the time, shit just happens. The Titanic sinks, F-16s computers crash and so do the planes, Apollo 13's oxygen tank explodes, Three Mile Island melts down followed by Chernobyl; chalk it up to human error.
The quality of the video and audio is excellent. It absolutely transports you back in time
He put on his glasses to cover the the tears that were welling in his eyes. The consummate journalist. Thank you for you service to our country.
much respect for Walter who stayed professional throughout this whole mess
Uncle Walter...
If you really did some research on him you'd know Walter was very left leaning
Until the 1968 Democratic convention...
@@jamesgentry13 James read my comment.
Ask the US Marines in Vietnam that question
I was in the first grade. We were sent home early. I will never forget the first time I saw adults -- our principal, teachers, and bus driver crying. It was beyond comprehension.
Me too exactly! From my first grade classroom we were told by our teacher.
I too was in first grade. But faces (my teacher, my mom when I got home) are all pretty hard to see after so many years. Our school didn't have a PA or intercom system, so our principal went to each classroom, telling each teacher. Mrs. Smith, our teacher, told us. I don't remember how she looked, though, or what exact words she used in telling us. But I know that she then told us to put our heads down on our desks and say a prayer for the president, and she turned out the classroom lights. After a minute or so, she turned them back on, and we were told that we'd now be going home. But on the East Coast, where I live, it was almost time to go home anyway, I think. When I got home, I found that my mother hadn't heard the news; she had turned the TV volume all the way down when a friend dropped in for coffee, something she always did when there was company in the kitchen. I told them, mom and her friend; they just smiled; they didn't believe me. My mother thought that one of the older kids had once again told one of the little kids (me) a "tall tale", to see if I'd believe it. No, I said, it was the teacher who told us; it was Mrs. Smith. They suddenly realized ... and went into the living room, and mom turned the TV volume back up, and there it all was.
I was in 6th grade on that day. So true, the shock and despair people felt as a Nation was totally beyond comprehension. Grown people crying, all choked up, some even wondering if it could lead to WWIII. The complete sadness can not even begin to be described. And, as others have said, you could always trust "Uncle Walter."
59 years later and you can feel the sadness and anguish coming from Walter Conkright. The day the world changed forever.
The reason Cronkite was not on camera at this time was because the old tube cameras of the day took an half hour to warm up.
I remember siting in a 5th grade classroom in Mountain View, Ca, waiting for lunch. A boy that delivered milk for noonday lunch, opened our classroom door and screamed "The President was shot in Dallas". The teacher, that had been sitting on the front of her desk, fall over and fainted. The school was dismissed, and we walked home in silence. When I got home, my Mother was sitting in a chair crying. The whole thing seemed unreal.
It is unreal. But the times we're in now are definitely bizarre....in a different way. I don't know where humanity is headed😔
I, too, was in 5th grade and our school didn't have school supplied lunch...we all walked home for lunch. We were all back in class except for 2 fellow students who were Street crossing guards, came running in screaming Kennedy had been shot. All I remember after that was the principal coming over the PA system to announce school was being closed and we were all (4th grade and up) to head home and parents of younger kids would be picking them up personally. All I felt was fear and numbness...most of us crying. This was in Chicago suburb.
Ok boomer
@@jackmcfakie7857 Wow, you're so creative, child. Did you think of that all by yourself>
@@----I...have...no...clue.... Yeah, I'm young. Not a child though, but yeah still with the best years of my life in front of me. So like the opposite of you boomer.
Walter Cronkite, greatest news person ever, bar none......
Without question
Wow, a nostalgic visit with Nancy Hughes of "As the World Turns". She played that role for more than another 50 years.
Great with sincerest appreciation of a grateful nation during crises in Tet, the firing of Archbald Cox, and Dallas.
@Kevin Wilson Along with the great Edward R. Murrow, also from CBS prior to Cronkite in the '50's.
Back in my day, he was known as "Uncle Walt"...
Eddie Barker announced that Kennedy was assassinated at 37:50, you can hear the audio background sound of few ladies breaking down and sobbing. That was something else.
Sadly, I remember this day well. I was in the 2nd grade in Catholic school and our teacher was called out of the room by the principal. She came back in tears and took the class to to the assembly hall with the school's other classes. We were told the President was shot and we should all pray for him and his family. Then we were dismissed when our parents came to pick us up. On the way home I remember how deserted the streets were and saw many people in tears.
Yes, everything stopped
We have come a long way in the area of technology and have improved greatly in getting pictures/videos out there immediately, but not so much in the area of journalistic integrity.
There is no real journalism in this country anymore, just political hacks!! Usually on the Democratic side!! That’s why no one watches the news anymore.
@@sanchovegas6664 Uh, I watch the news, and I am SOMEONE. You are generalizing to fit your agenda, which is allegiance to Donny Grump.
@@sanchovegas6664 you sound like a proud graduate of Trumptard U!
+@@sanchovegas6664 Sucks when Fascists are not on the air. They have so much integrity.
@@sanchovegas6664 ..CNN is under JOURNALISM...Fox news is under ENTERTAINMENT ..😂😂
A true journalist. You'd never be able to guess Cronkite's politics from his reporting. The way journalism is supposed to be. You'd never see this today.
You are right.
#fakenews throughout Cronkites broadcast. JK. But a reason why first reports are not always the most accurate.
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Cronkite was a liberal
You'd know after his Vietnam War coverage.
My gosh Walter was a true professional.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy,
changed our world forever. After his brother, Bobby Kennedy, was also killed in this manner, it changed once more. Each negative event seemed to continue the downward spiral. The whole atmosphere of living changed.
It may be the times, the Vietnam “war”, and down the line, Nixon and Watergate. We realized America wasn’t perfect, and our bubbles were burst. 🙏♥️✌️🕊
Whenever I think of John and Robert, besides profound sadness, I always think..."What If" 🇺🇸🕯🕯🇺🇸
And Malcolm, Rfk, mlk. Afterwards. Js
The needless deaths of Robert and MLK in 1968 with the subsequent election of Nixon that year REALLY killed the hopes and dreams of the '60's, along with the Vietnam war dragging on with no apparent conclusion on the horizon. JFK's death killed the innocence that blossomed in the previous decade once and for all, but the chaotic events of 1968 killed all hope for a kinder, more gentle, less selfish society.
@@robertbykowski1398 on Christmas that year 1968 the first men ever to fly to and orbit the moon happened. Such a crazy year.
The same year (1968) in April, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
I feel terrible for the doctors too. He was brain dead instantly after the second shot. They had to have immediately known that his head wound was too severe to even try to save him. But they had to go through the motions under a lot of pressure, knowing they would have to pronounce him dead and then face the press. They took some heat for not saving him, because the extent of his injuries was not announced until after the autopsy.
he was dead dead. Not brain dead lol. He was dead in the convertible when the shot blew his skull apart and splattered his brains all over the car and Jackie.
He had no head left. End of
@@thinkbeforyouvote No, the ER doctors have gone on record to say that the part of the brain responsible for keeping the heart beating and the lungs breathing, the medulla oblongata, was remarkably intact when he arrived on the table. There was no chance of survival, but his heart was breathing and he was still breathing, so he wasn't dead dead yet.
@@atticusjackson2273can’t be a president without a brain
He was gone by zap frame 313
I remember this scaring me as a 4-year-old when it interrupted my mom's soap As The World Turns. My school called her and told her that classes were canceled for the day.
My Mom was a 3rd grade public school teacher on her lunch break. She stopped at the local Dutchland Dairy store to pick up some food and milk, only to return to school and be told the news and that she could go home because all afternoon classes were being cancelled. I was only one-and-a-half years old at the time, being taken care of by my aunt during the day while both parents worked.
Heartbreaking. Hearing Walter Cronkite's voice crack and seeing his eyes water as he takes off his eyeglasses really hits with emotion. Hearing priests being called in to give last rites made it final. Terrible day. Tragic day.💔😪
I was in Jr. high school and once he was declared dead school was released.
I walked home and my mom wntd. to know why I was early. I told her JFK was shot/dead. She slapped me and said it wasn't something to joke about. she turned on tv and saw it was true. the whole family was glued to the tv next few days and saw Oswald shot as it happened..A terrible day for America.
@@anneheimburger3186 I wonder how many other kids were treated like that that day. I imagine your mom felt bad about what she did when she found out it was true.
@@tuxitalk1World
My mother was a malignant narcissist,
50 years later she said it was probably not the right thing to do. But she.never
Apologized.
@@anneheimburger3186 Tragic day?.If that happend to President Trump MSSHITHEAP and Communist network news and all the politically correct assholes would jump for joy!!!!.
The triviality of the commercials going on as a national tragedy is taking place seems unbelievable.
This brings back so many memories. I had gone home from work to have lunch with my mother. We were watching As the World Turns when the news break came on. When I went back to work, many hadn’t heard the news yet. Some didn’t seem to believe me. It was unbelievable!!!
I wasn't alive when this happened and have seen this several times but everytime Walter Cronkite says "the President is dead" or "has been assassinated" it's chilling. I can't imagine how Americans felt when they heard that as it happened.
I was 10 years old at the time and remember all of this vividly. News coverage for 3 days staight from time of shooting til time of funeral. All very chilling and sad.
I was in 3rd. grade. At school. I recall this day well. It was when I learned there was a U.S. president, which I had not known until this horrific event. I watched the funeral on tv. I was 22 when I met John Jr. when he was 16. Where I worked at the time. Jackie would shop where I worked. I saw her many times in the 1970s. I saw Walter Cronkite once too. NYC is a small town. 😉
At 58:35 Walter Cronkite make the official announcement of the death. Walter Cronkite has been the most talented professional broadcaster the US had at any time, so that calling him "Legend" is not an exaggeration but simply an understatement of the truth. The sorrow that he feels about the death of JFK, and that he shares with the entire world, will be a lifelong memory for anyone who watched him on that day of November, or watch him now.
I am a huge history fan! These events live as it happened are fascinating!
I was 10 years old at the time and I remember that day and time very vividly. Quite sombering times. Was in school when I heard that Kennedy had just been assassinated. Students and teachers alike all breaking down sobbing. We were all sent home immediately. For 3 whole days TV was nothing but news reports and coverage of the funeral.
@@joehicks6765 I think America lost a bit of innocent that day, I wasn't born but I'm Scottish/Irish and we feel like he's one if us
RIP Mr President
@@joehicks6765 We sent you The Beatles straight away afterwards to cheer you all up which really worked well. By the time ''I Want To Hold Your Hand'' shot to number 1 it gave you a whole new reason to buck up and get on with life again working towards a brighter future.
It is coup d etat first all ...after every every thing will be différent..
It’s amazing the difference between networks, I watched the first part of the NBC broadcast. They were posting essentially the same news, but they had Chet Huntley and two other men on camera, and it was very chaotic. CBS, although at first was only broadcasting audio was much more informative with only Walter Cronkite speaking.
My parent's were in high school chemistry class when this happened. 23 years later I was in that same classroom with the same teacher when the Challenger blew up.
15 years later I was in the same classroom with the same teacher when the planes hit the towers
This is exactly why Walter Cronkite was the voice that America trusted. I’ve viewed the other network reports, and there isn’t the “personal contact” that Walter Cronkite with the nation. I was coming out of my elementary school in Jacksonville, Florida when I heard about the assignation. I didn’t believe it. After running home, I saw my mother on her knees crying her eyes out in front of our TV (watching Walter Cronkite). I believed it then.
This and Jim McKay's "They're all gone." Two of the most poignant moments in 20th century news coverage.
I remember my family gathered around the tv that summer evenign when Jim Mckay made the announcement of the murdered Isarali athletes. Unforgettable.
In case anyone is interested. Bob and Lisa got divorced because she was messing around with another guy. Scandalous!!! My mother watched that soap opera.
LOL
The question is, though: WHY did Bob invite Lisa to come to Thanksgiving dinner? Did she actually come to it? And what was the outcome, if any?
As the world turns
Most time I ever spent watching a soap opera.
Brenda Meetings, and Bob was so pissed that he took out his anger by killing JFK. Now we know who really did it!
My Father was 7 years old and remembers a teacher running in his classroom and said crying that the President has been shot!! That's crazy
I also was 7, and in 2nd grade. My teacher AND my principal were in tears. It was unnerving.
Meanwhile, during the puppy food commercials, people are going insane, wanting information. Can't even imagine.
The commercial was run before it was announced Kennedy was shot. That's why it was the last one.
Hey, I enjoyed those puppy commercials
I was only 6 years old watching this , I remember waiting and waiting, and then he announced he was dead. Very sad.
If this happened in these modern times Twitter would crash in about 15 seconds...
For sure, Walter Cronkite would never add his personal political comments. True professional news journalist.
When journalists didn't treat important news as entertainment.
And when politicians didn’t treat politics as entertainment, much less being entertainers themselves.
The days of separate news and entertainment divisions has sadly passed...
Thanksgiving 1963 in a few more days...and he was buried on John-John's birthday...unbearable.
Oswald was buried on the same day Monday 25 November 63 in a Potter's field. They couldn't find any1 willing to be pallbearers so they used newspaper people who were there to cover the event. One of them was the editor of our city paper.
@@williamhaynes4800 Two men on a collision course with destiny. The world and this country would never be the same.
I was only seven when this happened. I remember it clearly as it was the first time I ever saw my mother openly crying.
Me, too, Paul, except it was my dad. I'd never seen my dad cry.
I should add, years later in 1983, I became a friend with someone connected to this tragedy. His name was Peter Worthington , a celebrated Canadian journalist who went on to become a founder of the Toronto Sun. As a young reporter, his newspaper sent him down to cover the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald. Peter was standing right next to Jack Ruby, when Ruby stepped forward and shot Oswald. There is a famous photo which went around the world capturing that moment, and right in the centre was the startled face of Peter Worthington.
I was seven years old too. Second grade. Everyone walked around like zombies at the shock and tragedy for weeks. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Considering everything we now know, this early reporting sounds absolutely surreal. I will never forget that day.
I’m shocked how spot on or near the truth was so early on. Many witnesses who saw the shooter in the 4th floor window.
I am one of Kennedy's Children, as we have been called. That weekend is seared into my earliest memories in life, as vivid in my mind today as it was 60 years ago.
I was 6 years old when it happened. I remember crying with my mom. Worried about my dad who was at work I was afraid something would happen to him. My stomach felt like when I fell off my horse. I cried for the children who were my age . I still cry seeing this.
I was 8 years old. I remember my teacher crying when she told us JFK was dead. I stumbled home in the drizzly rain of a bleak November day in Michigan and saw my mother and grandfather glued to the TV. We had just bought a color TV and the news coverage was all in black &white. I still had to go to church choir practice, which I would've been happy to miss since I just wasn't the religious type even at that age. That afternoon is still all so clear in my memory. And no, there was never a cover up in Walter Cronkite's newsroom, EVER!!
What do u mean about newsroom coverup
@@ptrekboxbreaks5198 So many conspiracy theories about his death.
Walter Cronkite reported this as if he was doing a radio report before television. Descriptions and updates were crisp and to the point.
There were great newscasters back then but none were the caliber of Walter Cronkite. I still remember him taking his glasses off and telling America that JFK " had died some 20 minutes ago" . You could hear and see the great sadness in his face and voice but held back his emotions as the great news man he was
Tragic. I was 8 yrs old, just saw fragments. Back then CBS had pristine journalism.not now
charley tisdale All the three major networks had pristine journalism back then; the TV reporters came from radio and they wrote their own reports.
Some of the television reporters in the 1950s and early '60s also had careers in newspaper journalism, such as Walter Cronkite, who wrote for for United Press International (UPI) before he was hired by CBS. I think David Brinkley had also worked as a reporter for a Wilmington, North Carolina newspaper before he, too, was a reporter for UPI prior to his employment at NBC.
In fact, I also recall having heard or read at the time Frank Reynolds had become ABC's evening news anchor (1968-70, sole, and 1980-83, as Washington, D.C.-based anchor for trio of "World News Tonight" co-anchors including Peter Jennings in London and Max Robinson in Chicago) that Reynolds was the first of the major network anchors whose news career had been exclusively in TV, no previous radio or newspaper journalism background.
I remember watching the funeral when I was 7 yo.
I was not yet born. My mom recalls she was feeding my sister who was a month old.
When I was 4 years old,as one of my earliest memories,I remember my Mother crying and lighting candles on the mantle piece ,the day President Kennedy died.
So interesting to watch this "as it happened."
It wasn't so "interesting" to live through it. I'll never forget the look of concern my parents had on their faces. No one knew what was coming next. How could he just be shot in the streets of an American city? Things were a lot different back then and immediately changed for the worse shortly after his murder.
@@patrickslevin6424 so interesting, tell me all about man!!! 😁🙏 Please lol , I like to learn
@@patrickslevin6424 I'm watching the whole thing as we speak, what I want to know is, what do you mean by things "Got worse from there" For all we know after he made Cuba his B*tch, Russia got scared and so hired him
@@Ahmad-yi7me I will tell you what I knew through the eyes of a 3rd grader if you can give me an idea of what you want to hear?
@@Ahmad-yi7me We used to believe what the leaders told us and generally they hid nothing. You could believe what they said. After Kennedy died and Johnson took over it seemed like the whole world was rocked. Civil Rights movement, marches in the street. The Vietnam War really went into overdrive and for the 1st time people questioned and acted on whether our leaders were telling us the truth. Turned out they weren't. Then Nixon came along and didn't have to cheat but did anyway.....no one could believe a President would break the law. And on it went.
I was in third grade when the assistant principal, crying, stuck her head in the door to our classroom and said that the president had been shot and killed. Our teacher started to cry . . . and guess what happened then . . . all the kids began to cry, and we were sent home. A dark that still remains clear after all these year. :'(
I was a toddler of a year and a half old when this happened. I have no memory of this tragic day, but my older sister does; her vivid memories are striking and touching. What a tragic, landmark day.
i was in 6th grade..the class was watching our weekly Spanish lesson on public access tv ...
the classroom phone rang...the teacher answered ,then came over to the tv and tuned in to coverage of this...this was the one and only time i seen my Korean war vet teacher with tears in his eyes ..
Five years old here, a kindergartener at Trinity School in New Rochelle, NY- as best as I can remember, school let out early that day and I decided to walk home instead of waiting for my mom to pick me up; three weeks prior, I walked home after a Halloween party, as we were let out early that day, as well. Something felt different as I walked home: the streets were pretty deserted and it was very quiet- what's going on???
Walter Cronkite, one of the last newscasters, who reported the new, not opinion. We miss you Walter!
I like the newsroom as it's happening rather than the studio
That is the news room as it happened
It's so cool that the footage was kept intact, including scenes from the soap on at that time. Reporting from Dallas was none other than Dan Rather, who would become a giant in his own right
A giant lying failure.
Then Dan rather would sadly report the events on 9/11, following in cronkites footsteps
Did anyone notice Walter actually waited until it was official... He was thorough ... Not like news today... He gave no opinion ,just the news as it happened... No experts on split screen giving opinion ,and conjecture... No so called news anchors adding to the story... Just facts... Miss those days...
Got that right! Cronkite left when the world did not appreciate the level-headed newsmen & newswomen. We need to get back to this style of journalism.
He did blame it on the "Right Wing" which was wrong. Other than that, he got it right.
And he didn't scream it every second of every minute of every hour of every day, like CNN did about Anna Nicole Smith and Jon-Benet Ramsey (in other words, he didn't act like we needed to know what we already knew, IIRC).
@@alsmith7382 The "Right Wing" had anti-JFK editorials in the newspapers. There were JFK Wanted For Treason posters up all over Dallas. Assuming RWNJs were responsible was an educated guess. Walter was among many broadcasters voicing this assumption while being clear they didn't really know. Also, JFK got letters from supporters warning him away in view of Stevenson's reception. One woman said the RWNJs had declared they hadn't even got started, and specifically mentioned McKinley.
I agree, with a couple exceptions. Whether it was Cronkite or CBS, the issue of “right-wing extremists” possibly being to blame held no water, and in fact a far-left Communist activist extremist was the gunman. Additionally, CBS checked in on the thoughts of Truman (a Democrat) and didn’t mention the most recent former president, Eisenhower (a Republican). Maybe it was s coincidence? Maybe not.
29:41- "Don", handing Cronkite the wirephoto, is Don Hewitt, his producer on the "CBS EVENING NEWS". By 1968, he created and produced "60 MINUTES"
Barry i had the pleasure of interacting with don Hewitt and Mike Wallace at a broadcasters convention in Tucson Arizona they were class acts helped me greatly!
I'm glad to hear that. 😊
My late father was 26 years old. He worked at Campbell Soup company here in Chicago on the night shift. That morning he came home ate breakfast and went to bed. He said when he woke up at about 1:30pm he turned the tv on and they were talking about the assassination. My dad said he was at first confused because he had been sleep but after he realized what had happened he was in a state of shock. He said when he went to work that night it was all anybody talked about the whole night.
Picture rolling...need to adjust vertical hold on the TV!
How many of you remember that!😂
Don't touch that dial!
I believe it was rolling because as someone else mentioned the TV cameras of the day took a long time to warm up, and they rushed to get live video on the air before it was ready.
@@hallieboy actually the TVs of the time did that and you had to adjust the vertical hold. The first TV I remember is a 1959 Zenith Black and White picture with a 21" diagonal screen.
@@knobdikker Oh I know! First TV I remember was a 1955 Philco. It was old and we had to constantly fiddle with it to get the picture steady. But in this case the rolling was on the broadcast end...those old huge cameras took forever to stabilize.
I’m guessing it was my generation’s tracking on the VHS 📼 players 😅
Some things from my childhood are a bit fuzzy in my memory; but the events of this day in 1963 are deeply etched in my mind. I was in the 4th grade in Jacksonville, Florida. I remember the exact spot I was in when a kid came up and told several students of the Assassination. Most didn’t be leave him. I ran the 4 blocks home. I opened the front door. I am 68 years old, but I can still remember seeing my blessed mother, crying. on her knees, in front our television.
39:35 one of the saddest parts when they remove the presidential seal...probably how everyone that room knew it was true
Oh yes it is 😓
The black man who is dabbing his eyes..that gets me every time..
And that was so unnecessary.
I was there at the TRADE MART, and at first they said he had been shot AT, but would soon be there, then it was said he was slightly wounded, then they made us leave immediately, since it was not known what was coming
@@laurahoward5426 Had they started serving lunch? It looked some people were eating salad.
The first time a historical event was broadcast as it was happening. I was 7 at the time. I remember it clearly to this day... TV really stepped up at the time and helped bring the nation together in it's grief.
This is sad. You can tell that Cronkite doesn't want to believe that Kennedy's dead. He just doesn't want to accept it, and with every bit of information pointing to the fact that he is indeed dead, it becomes more dreadful to not only Cronkite but I can just feel that the viewers too felt that exact same way. It's fascinating to watch for me because it's history and I was negative 31 years old, but it's also very sad.
My grandma was 8 years old when she was sent home early, coming home to her crying mother and her father’s coming home very early, she vividly remembers her family sitting around their television.
Yes, I was 10 years old at the time and remember that this was on the TV for 3 whole days. News coverage from time of the shooting til time if the funeral. Very sombering.
I was seven years old. The country came together in grief and great sadness. I remember it like it was yesterday. Everyone was glued to their TVs and read every word in the newspapers.
60 years this November! Who would believe that this happened 🤔
This country has never recovered from this sad day. It changed history and the world forever- on so many levels. Very sad day for Walter Cronkite.
When Robert was killed, we had to re - live it. Once was devastating enough, but twice, was just too much to bare. That was really the end of the one, two punch, that took away any hope that America had left...... 🇺🇸🕯🕯🇺🇸
unfortunately this happened all because of vietnam
It’s interesting that the Grassy Knoll is mentioned multiple times early in the reporting. I couldn’t imagine watching this live. Cronkite was terrific and extremely professional. Also, LBJ and Kennedy in the same motorcade is unreal to think about.
Many of the Kennedy Cabinet were overseas at the time too, if I read the history texts right.
You can thank UPI's Merriman Smith in the press car for "grassy knoll" & the initial "three shots were fired" bulletin. CBS got teletype 10 min after the shooting & put Walter on. Would have been sooner if the news bureaus hadn't jammed the lines, all transmitting at once. ABC Radio broke the story 4 minutes _before_ Walter.
Sure brings back terrible memories even for me as a child then. They sent us home from school immediately when Kennedy was shot. We only lived 10 mins from grade school I think I was in 3rd grade. Sent us home, and we watched TV non stop of this coverage. Of course I wasn’t watching this soap opera, and not sure still if my mom was, but we walked into the house and Mom was surprised we were home, she asked why, and we said they sent us all home cuz the President was shot! Mom was shocked, turned on our b&w TV and watched the news. consistently, and my older sister was watching the exact moment when Oswald was shot on live TV. I was in the other room and she screamed out someone just shot Oswald! And we all came running in to watch the events. I was 7, my sister was 11 at the time. My brother was 4.
sejrec56 I was in elementary school and it was not announced until just before our regular dismissal time. My teacher was called into the hall. When she came back, she told us. Most of us had likely never heard the word assassination. I remember sitting there in stunned silence. We were told to go straight home; those who lived close enough to walk.
When that third bullet hit him that's when it killed him. About the same time since they don't show it, the Niagara Starch commercial came on.
Walter Cronkite, reporting the death of president Kennedy, fighting back tears and struggling to keep his voice even is one of the best examples of professional journalism I've ever seen.
A will of iron and balls of steel!
Modern day journalists would do well to study that man.
The thing I was scared of the most as a young child, under 10 years, was when one of those news bulletins came on. It seemed like an important person had been shot and killed. It still gives me the creeps still to this day. In the late 60's and 70's they cut in with a bulletin or special report too much. The evolution of television has changed now in that we can get a story almost in real time and I choose not to watch very often.
I was 10 years old at the time and can remember this as if it was yesterday. Very haunting. I can remember being scared for quite a few days afterwards.
I was 9 years old. I remember the nuns crying at school and my dad crying at home. terrible day
SUNMAYDEN518 Same here ... In 4th grade Catholic school ... Sister Mary Laudette gave us the sad news. My parents were Republicans. No crying at my house.
my parents were republican too; but my dad voted for kennedy
I was in 2nd grade, a teacher came in and whispered to our teacher, class was dismissed, I didn't know till I got home, my mom was crying.
i was the same age. remember it like it was yesterday. even at that age,i knew life was never going to be the same
SUNMAYDEN518 your 65 or 66 now
Now that's a newsroom.
That cute puppy food ad was the last ad that would be seen for several days on network TV.
Modern America had never before seen something like this on "home turf". 9/11 came next. JFK was before my time, my parents were still newly married. 9/11 was something I'll never forget as I had the T.V. on in the background.
ddivincenzo1 Will idiots like you stop using the term "before my time," please?!? 😠 You known how naive you to others when you make a statement like that?!?
The assassination of Robert Kennedy was on live TV, in color in 1968.
On CBS, yes. NBC and ABC allowed their local stations to schedule their own programming at 1:30pm. In New York, WNBC-TV was showing a repeat of "BACHELOR FATHER", while WABC-TV aired an old episode of "THE ANN SOTHERN SHOW". NBC interrupted ALL PROGRAMMING to start their continuous coverage around 1:50pm(et). ABC had all their affiliates in place at 2pm.
ALL regular programming- and commercials- were suspended from 1:47pm(et) on that day, until the end of the network's broadcast day on Monday, November 25, 1963.
There is a wonderful exhibit at the new Newseum in Washington about the transformative role this event had on electronic news reporting.
I totally remember this. I was 6 at the time, and was home from school that day because I was sick, and Grandma was taking care of me while my parents were at work. She was watching "As the World Turns", and I was napping on the couch. We both got upset at the news, and both of us started crying. Walter Kronkite was as professional as always, but you could tell it was affecting him a lot. Hard for him to stay composed and professional, but he did. (Jan Griffiths).
I was also 6 at the time and you sure a better memory than I do. All I remember were people crying at the time.
I was 8 turning 9 in early Dec. I was at school, we were informed of the shooting & then the news of JFK's death. I recall that day well. 😞
I was 6 and what I recall was scaring me the most was my big sister coming home from school crying.
58:42 - I cry with him, no matter how many times I've seen this.
It was Cronkite's greatest moment.
To be able to keep most of his composure at such a tremendous moment, is a monument to professionalism in journalism.
That professionalism has been lost, since news is now part of the entertainment industry.
Cronkite comforted his viewers throughout the nation as they registered the shock, then the sadness.
He was this nation's good shepherd on November 22, 1963.
I was not born until 1981 and when I watch this I cry
The moment when the whole world stopped.
@@kileykline1791 same thing happens to me
@@bigpapasmurfz6252 I remember when Diana died, and the British newsreader, Martyn Lewis, had a similar momentary lapse of composure. Despite all the years of training, it can’t be easy to report stories like these without thinking of the effect it will have on the nation or the world.
I was trying to not watch this, but as one who wasn't even born when this happened, it's just...I can't turn away.
same. born in '07 but it's quite intresting
Same here.It happened 11 months before I was born.
Jarrod i think it's important to understand history u can't understand your nations character if u don't know about things that occurred before your birth!
I was 11 yrs old in 1963. I'll never forget Walter Cronkite when he told us the official word of JFK's death.
Me too, such a sad day 😢😢😢
This is a good reminder of how, even today, initial information can be sketchy and details incorrect.
I was in school that day, in the 3rd grade. I remember the principal coming into our classroom and whispering in our teacher's ear. She turned white, stood and collapsed on the floor. We were scared and confused, not knowing what had happened. My mom came to pick me up from school and I could tell she had been crying. She was the person who told me what had happened. I was only 8 years old, but I think I understood the first terrible tragedy in my life had happened. My most vivid memory of that event will always be little John-John as he was known saluting his father's funeral procession as it passed.
One of the greatest newscasts of all time. Unfortunately it was a tragedy that let this happen. It took over 30 minutes for the cameras to worm up to even get on air. This is one of many reasons that Walter Cronkite will always be on the Mount Rushmore of real news. I would add Edward R. Murrow, Frank Reynolds, to that monument. If you can add the 4th let me know.
How about Peter Jennings?
@@montymcdaniel8482, I would definitely agree with the choice of Peter Jennings. Jennings' straightforward delivery on ABC's World News Tonight, along with his calm demeanor during major news events like 9/11, made people all over the USA trust, respect and admire him.
Yes, Peter Jennings. His 9/11 coverage was heartfelt and resonant.
How about the young reporter from WFAA Dallas, who earned his credibility that day when he confirmed President Kennedy's passing? His name - Dan Rather.
David Brinkley
I clearly remember as a six year old watching the coverage and also the funeral days later. Truly a sad day in our country's history 😢
I first saw this footage on the 25th anniversary of JFK'S death in 1988. Its still creepy today. Cronkite was an absolute professional.
Television image quality has improved almost as much as the seriousness and professionalism of on-air reporters has decreased since 1963.
One of the absolute best television reporters ever.
When news reporters actually reported the news, impartial and factual, rather the opinion and politics we get now.
Thanks to your generation, this country has gone to shit! Thanks, ya old fuck! 😆
I was 14 years old on that terrible day and 60 years later I still shed tears. 😢
This November is the 60th anniversary of the JFK murder.