The way the newsman interviewed the couple with their children, in such a state of shock and distress, was, despite his own evident anguish too, beautifully sensitive.
When he read the word “priest”, he knew what was up. He started crying. He kept it classy and kept going, but he knew. He was there and saw it in person.
This is pretty much a Time Machine back to that fateful day. A sort of a livestream style broadcast from 1963. Fascinating to see this broadcast in full as live viewers experienced it.
The eyewitnesses are so young. I can only imagine how terrifying it was to watch events happen and be in the line of fire with their young children. Then interviewed on camera minutes later. So overwhelming.
Bill and Gayle Newman. They are retired, in their 80s and still maintain to this day that the third shot (that killed JFK) came from their right...that it came from either the Grassy Knoll or the overpass.
@@MatthewBaumgartenIs Bill Newman still alive today? I noticed that his wife Gail appeared without him on the recent “JFK” 60th anniversary show on Hulu. Hope he is still well and alive. He and Gail are in their 80’s.
It was literally the shot heard round the world. He offered hope and peace to a world weary of war. I've never felt that optimism since. I was 8. Probably the most united our world has ever been in their common grief.
Losing. Why do people like you never learn that. There are 60 words where a single “o” has a “u” sound: to, two, do, who, whom, move, prove, lose, tomb. Why have you never noticed that?
@@RethaGreen-ce5ve Wow you must’ve been up on your parenting skills if your child thought that! A Man catching wild animals, risking his life, knowing he has two children and a wife! ! But I can see Joe your sons thought process worked! By you not only thinking it but actually mentioning it in a comment! As if finding it comparative holds water to , A man who is the most powerful man in the world , with a vision to end needless wars. and freedom of all peoples being his priority ! The POTUS!!! That actually earned the right to be called that for the first time in history! . Get some help!
His mind was racing a million miles a minute yet somehow he was laser focused and doing the best possible job he could. He was quarterbacking the whole operation down to the care and hospitality of his guests. Astounding work from this guy.
I was a 1yo and my mom told me she was holding me by the radio when she heard the news in 1963 at about 1pm CST. I now know this changed the world's course at that moment.
These two newsmen were very professional and when he read "a priest had been called" and he knew it wasnt good. When they got to the hospital, Jackie wouldn't let go of the President. Clint Hill , Jackie's Secret Service protection, took off his suit coat and put it over the President 's head and then she let go. This is something Jackie would remember the rest of her life. I believe she had PTSD.
They didn't announce that he had died right away. I was in 6th grade and we were dismissed right after the announcement came over the loudspeaker. When I got home his death had been confirmed. This is making me cry watching this.
@@fflubadubb I was in the 6th grade also, in Brooklyn, NY. My teacher was away in the morning and when we came back from lunch, he had returned and told us about Kennedy. I dont remember if we left to go home. But I remember I watched TV all weekend and saw Oswald get shot. First person I ever saw killed.😮😮
I would rephrase that as "If this happened to Trump (or Biden, or any president), SOME people, unfortunately, would be celebrating in the streets." Not as an endorsement but simply as a factual statement.
That is the silliest response in comments I have ever read... If you don't think the media is biased and flat out tell lies then You are Part of the problem
. . . or because they have the abilitly to think critically. Even in this broadcast there's potential evidence supporting why you shouldn't blindly believe the media. The newcaster repeatedly said it was an automatic weapon. If the official narative is to be believed, the weapon was a bolt action rifle. So either the media or the government had it wrong. It doesn't matter if the media intentionally lies(for whatever reason) or if it unintentionally gets the story wrong, it's wise to take the word of the media with a grain of salt.@@Quaker-tc8ue
NOT LIKE TODAY THE lamestreet media is part of the DEMOCRAT NATIONAL COMMITTEE WHAT A SHAME.the media think there immune from this this unbelievable what this guy is doing you would think they are PRAVDA THE COMMUNIST NEWS OUTLET,there idiots to think this guy doing a great job,just look at the border and the city's being destroyed, I wonder how many illegal aliens are taken in to there houses NONE THEY ARE HIPPOCRATES 😮😮😮😮😮😮
Isn't the young family with little kid's the same family in the much watched video directly after the shooting laying on the ground covering their kid's up? Amazing video. Thank you.
Yes everyone else is running and they lay there for pictures. Then they go to the station to be interviewed. 10 seconds after he was shot three photographers surrounded them , quick thinking i guess
Wow Everyone is in shock. So profoundly sad. I was about the age of the little boys in 1963. I wonder if those who did this this fully comprehend the impact- outside of their agenda, this was going to have. To this day, it still feels so deeply sad.
I turned 3 that October. I distinctly remember grownups crying. When Walter Cronkite announced that the President had died, it seemed the world was ending.
I was 10 years old and at school in New Hampshire that day. Teachers were all congregating in the halls and we all knew something was off. Then my teacher came into the classroom crying and said the president had been shot. We were all sent home. That whole week we watched TV which covered news on the president's assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald's shooting and then onto JFK's funeral. Unforgettable.
I was sitting in my 3rd grade class at 9 years. I too remember my teacher being called into hallway, then returning crying. These early years of 1960 were tremendously hard not only on adults, but definitely hard and painfully disturbing to young children. In 1960, children were subjected to weekly take cover drills which I still have anxious feelings now whenever I hear the old type Air Raid Sirens. We had red alert and yellow alert sirens blaring away twice or sometimes 3 times a week. Yellow alert sirens meant that all children would walk home to be with relatives. Red Alert 😢 All children in schools were told to immediately Run, not walk, but run home. We were all told that we would only have 10 minutes to get home. What these authorities were actually telling us was that we had approximately 10 minutes before we’d be killed by Russian nuclear bombs . This entire story people tells you that the children of U.S. have been constantly subjected to LIFE LONG PTSD ! President Kennedys Assassination was just a few years after the Cuban crisis. No More Wars for United States….. other countries need to start taking care of themselves. No way on earth would I allow any of my children to be shipped away to die. I would surely give up my citizenship first.
5:18 Interesting how specific the witness is about where he heard the gunshots, and the fact that it doesn’t match the official description. 10:17 He specifies the same location. He seems very certain about it to me.
Kudos to the news crew and Mr Watson for identifying the enormity of the moment, and having the foresight to tape the events that day. Back then, most shows were not taped, and those that were, were often later taped over. If its not already, this piece of American history needs to be sent to the Smithsonian.
Well said. Like I just told my son: it's not like everyone had a cell phone, DVR or even a camcorder in '63 or anything remotely like we have now. This here is an artifact and it certainly should be sent to Smithsonian. A moment in history as it happened caught on film a rare feat back then.
In Europe, JFK is still greatly revered and respected today. Many squares, main streets, large buildings, bridges, monuments, parks, etc. bear his name. Greetings from Vienna
And Berlin, they re aired a speech, the famous speech from Berlin by JFK, and this was back in 2003, and a lot of people showed up again to hear JFK talk posthumously, via the recording, and the Hist Channel A&E was there to film the emotion, one old Berliner was in tears.
I remember that day so well, a friend and l had lunch at the Eatwell Cafe on main st. heck, l even recall what we had for lunch, we both had open steak sandwiches and soft drinks .we walked outside and joined the crowd lining the street. Waiting a few minutes and here came the motorcade, then we saw the President and Mrs Kennedy waving and we waved, they were so close you could nearly touch them. Then we went back to our office (law firm) we had no ldea that he'd been shot, but aswe walked in everone was huddled around a big TV in the reception area, someone was saying shhh ! The Presidents been shot! We were mortified and in shock,It was the very same broadcast we watched as the one in this video! I was 22 yrs old in 1963, am 82 now and still perfectly recall that day. True story.
6:00 When they were describing seeing the fatal shot. At 6:19, he says, "that's all," and that look on his face speaks volumes about what he observed. They knew there was no way he survived that shot and that he was dead. I bet, though, that they were instructed not to say anything to the effect that they saw Kennedy "get killed" because they wanted to make sure not to report anything about his death before any official announcement was made.
Great coverage. Thanks for providing this. This was also an awesome account by the family who were able to give a play by play report even in their state of shock. The wife laid over one of their children to protect them. What an amazing account.
Oh…those precious little babies. It’s terrible that this lovely family had to witness President Kennedy being murdered. Mrs. Newman is just the prettiest little thing.
That's right George. It was also the moment the cia gained full control. No small blackmail or set up wars to fail, re Bay of pigs. They literally had the full power. BTW thank you all your work keeping the memory of the wonderful Marilyn Monroe alive through your pics, many so very rare. Thank you❤🌹🕯🙏🏻🙏🏻
70 miles away in Athens, Texas I was sitting at my desk in the 1st grade when this happened. The principal had already keyed the mic on the PA system while discussing with his secretary how he should tell us about it. We heard the entire back and forth conversation. He then turned to the mic and said "Boys and girls - we have lost our President Kennedy in Dallas." Our teacher burst into tears, and so did the rest of us. We had just had our lunch, and our parents came earlier than usual to pick us up from school. I remember running up to my mother and hugging her legs, crying... 🥀
A gentleman named David Von Pein had videos relating to the Kennedy Assassination. Extended videos. I always keep looking at Channel 8's coverage of this event. 60 years later people are still talking about this.
It was a different world back then, People treated others with respect. Children were safe playing outside. Women could go about the streets without fear of being attacked.
This interview is very disturbing. I realize the shooting was fresh and the president not yet declared deceased however it's clear the young family was still in shock and traumatized. To discuss this in front of the children and the wife so shook up she could no longer compose herself and left, the news room should have known better. How ironic the guy said he hoped that whomever shot the president lives and is not killed, lives to regret what he did. How prophetic.
No, they aren't traumatized. They are certainly shaken up, but people that are reared on the Bible and with morals and to be strong, aren't weak pansy snowflakes like 99% of the wicked and evil generation of our day. That includes you. This diabolical and evil generation need to repent in sack cloth and ashes and get into the Word of God (the King James Bible) and thus stop living wicked, selfish, effeminate lives.
No, they aren't traumatized. They are certainly shaken up, but people that are reared on the Bible and with morals and to be strong, aren't weak pansy snowflakes like 99% of the wicked and evil generation of our day. That includes you. This diabolical and perverse and evil generation needs to repent of their wickedness and pride and humble themselves in sack cloth and ashes and get into the Word of God (the King James Bible) and thus stop living wicked, selfish, effeminate lives. period. Quadruple period and punctuations.
My mother was in a Woolworth, in Rhode Island (and was pregnant with me), when the store made an announcement over the loud speaker that President Kennedy had been killed. She said everyone in the store, including herself, started crying. She said she suddenly became really scared too. 😢
I lived in Massachusetts I was about the same age as John John and at home with my mom we were watching the edge of night I think having lunch in our den and it interrupted they said The President had been shot but that’s all I remember but I knew it was bad when my dad came home from work. Him and my mom were very somber and in disbelief I think they still couldn’t believe what had happened . Then I remember Monday morning watching the funeral on tv I remember seeing John John salute his dad’s casket and even though I was young I was sad seeing him salute his dad. I couldn’t believe how Jackie kept it together she kept all America together it was then I knew there was good and bad in the world at 3-4 years old. Yes I did understand what was going on
I’ve never seen this footage before…I remember the family from other photos of them lying on the ground; Watching the news room trying to get info (and all the cigarettes) was fascinating.
Thank you WFAA for releasing the tapes this is the first time that we have ever seen this at live thank you for opening up the vault and shout out to the boys in Dallas
Thank you. I was around the same age as the children in the laps of eyewitnesses so I couldn’t process. What a woeful day. America has never been the same-certainly an inflection point in US history.
Felicia Morris is a name you should google. She and Al Shelton have actual footage from the grassy knoll. These are from different angles and clearly show 2 men with rifles in the parking lot. They both "committed suicide "
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), born May 29, 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts, was the only U.S. President in history (to-date) to receive the Purple Heart medal.
This witness is clearly shaken but seems as credible as can be. He is telling us what the Parkland doctors saw-the wounds in the front were entrance wounds and the shots came from the front in the grassy knoll area 13:12 . It was a conspiracy. Who was that shooter and who sent that person? That’s the question for the ages.
If we were to believe the “death bed” confession of E. Howard Hunt, he said that it was a “Frenchman” who fired the shot… The person who headed the “executive action” program (assassination) for the U.S. was a man named William King Harvey.. These two guys were involved in assassination plots against Fidel Castro…if you want to find the person who made the call to higher the killers, I would look at William K. Harvey EDIT::: All evidence now points to it being a person like Lucien Sarti as being the assassin who was behind the fence on the grassy knoll.
As terrible as this was, it was a learning lesson for America, never have your president, or anyone of importance cruising around in a convertible, especially in an area as crowded as it was in Dallas that day. I was born a few years after this happened, but it's always interesting to see or see again, clips from all those years ago, good footage.
I hate the fact that after all this time we’re still being kept in the dark about this awful crime. Like most horrible things in the world this can probably be traced back to money.
It can also be traced to the fact that Kennedy's womanizing put his life and political reputation in jeopardy. After he deported Ellen Rometch from the country and sent her back to Europe during the Congressional TFX hearings, Attorney General Bobby Kennedy warned anyone willing to protect LBJ from prosecution that he would open up everybody's closets, which meant that if JFK's career was ruined the Kennedys were going to take others down with them. The Kennedys did not want Johnson on the ticket. At the time LBJ's bagman Bobby Baker was under indictment for corruption and Republicans in Congress wanted to implicate the Vice-President. LBJ was on his way to prison. Baker had procured call girl Elly Rometch to "date" JFK at the White House which put the President in the crosshairs of blackmail. RFK had Rometch sent back to Germany to get her out of the way. Republican leaders were in the process of recalling her to the USA to get her sworn testimony when JFK was killed. Had he lived, the scandal could have ruined him and put Johnson in jail. No wonder Kennedy was rubbed out in Texas.
I was 12 when it happened. It looks like these witnesses being interviewed said the shots came from the grassy knoll. If remember hearing on the radio the same thing. Then the Warren commission report said the shots came from the opposite direction from the school book depository contradicting what I heard from the initial witnesses. After that report everyone said there was some kind of a coverup because witnesses said shots were from the grassy knoll and not the school book depository so this guy in the school book depository Oswald couldn’t have possibly fired the shots. Then he gets killed to shut him up. Then I knew it was nothing but a bunch of lies from the Warren Commission and Oswald was just an innocent patsy. Everyone I knew said that after the Warren Commission report the government is lying to cover up the real truth about the assassination. Everybody said Johnson had Kennedy killed so he could be President. Johnson was behind it and he made sure a patsy he had killed to protect the real assassin who he hired.
I don't know about him being a completely innocent patsy but It's definitely a legitimate conspiracy in my personal opinion. It's been 60 years and all the information in regards to his assassination hasn't been released.
This raw interview with the young parents is almost directly after the assassination, which means there was little to no time for any other influences on what they had just witnessed.
Umm, the Newmans didn't see any gunman behind them. They were basing their thoughts on what direction the shots were fired from by the seeing where it appeared to them to hit Kennedy. Had Jay Watson and Jerry Haines met Howard Brennan and put him on live TV, people would've been told about a gunman in the TSBD or reporter Bob Jackson (the same newsman who took the famous picture of Ruby shooting Oswald)who saw a part of the rifle(Carcano) being drawn back into the sixth floor window.
These reporters did a fantastic job under the circumstances. I was in 2nd grade and remember this day. Watching this I am reminded just how primitive things were then.
Assassination of President Lincoln was controversial as well. Audience member gave conflicting eyewitness (earwitness accounts). Some said the assassin jumped and ran; some said he fell, several gave accounts of different things said by the assassin. The young man that wrestled the gun from the assassin (in the theater box with Lincoln), later went mad; stabbed and killed his wife-and suffered so much mental anguish that he was forever institutionalized. It’s more than the human mind can comprehend or recover from, severe PTSD. The Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations will forevermore be debated, and argued. I believe Clint Hill was about the same condition as the young man at Lincoln’s side-Major Rathbone (if I remember his name correctly).
Glad yall release this. I had seen some of it years ago but this is full length. I have always found it fascinating how some heard 2 shots, some heard 3, others said more. I think it depends where you were standing. Either way, it was more than 1 shooter.
@@frankg.39 It was more than one. The DOCTORS AT PARKLAND HOSPITAL said the neck wound was without doubt an entry wound from a frontal shot which means there was more than one shorter. The Parkland doctors were the first to observe Kennedy up close, and they would certainly have no reason to lie. Sorry, but it’s kind of hard to refute their observations and testimony. The gig is up. It was a conspiracy.
"Mr. and Mrs. Nunley..." Poor Jay Watson was corrected THREE times. The eyewitnesses were just as much in shock. But I wonder who the REAL Nunley's were.
The TV news man offered coffee because in those days bottle water was not that popular and almost every restaurant people went they had coffee l and coke many years later drinking water was the thing
The acoustics in Dealey Plaza made it extremely difficult for any earwitness to the assassination to be able to tell where the shots came from. There were people standing near the book depository who thought the shots came from the grassy knoll, and there were people standing on the grassy knoll who thought the shots came from the book depository. There were also people standing near the book depository who thought the shots came from there, and people standing on the grassy knoll who thought the shots came from there. One very interesting fact though is that only about 5% of earwitnesses thought they heard shots coming from more than one direction.
Exactly. Sound echoes in such settings. I live in Hollywood. Police and news helicopters fly above us frequently. Because of the buildings that surround us, sometimes it's impossible to tell where the helicopters are unless we spot them visually.
I feel so badly for this young couple 😢. They look like they were in absolute shock 😮 I was 5 yrs. old and remember watching TV with my Grandmother. When she heard the announcement….she started screaming and crying. Needless to say, I was so upset to see her that way!!!! What a sad day in our country .
This reporter should've been honored for his performance under conditions which no one should ever have to experience. He took an awful situation, and handled it as well as could be handled.
I was 8 when this happened. I still remember the shock of this story and the events of this terrible day. I also remember Lee Harvey Oswald being shot. The impact was so great. This was a true event when the world actually stopped.
I was trying to respond with a description of a video where you can see what they look like in recent years but these goofs keep deleting my comment on it. I did not even include a link so I don't know what the big issue is.
"The Julie Bennell Show" "On November 22, 1963, lifestyle and fashion talk program The Julie Bennell Show occupied the noon hour of WFAA-TV's broadcast schedule."
Yes parents smoked in the cars with kids,in the house,my dad blew smoke at me when I just washed my hair,I hated my parents smoking, the house stunk,the car smelled,we stunk,crazy but that is the way it was when I was a kid growing up in those days.
Yes, that’s an excellent point. I’ve never heard anyone else bring that up. Probably someone has before, but I never heard anyone else say that. GREAT QUESTION. All these witnesses saying they initially thought it was firecrackers. You’re right. I highly doubt they would have heard firecrackers going off that far away. That implies that at least one shooter was much closer.
"Both newscasters heard what they was firecrackers, my question is how could they hear the “firecrackers” from the sixth floor of a depository?" The sixth floor is only 72 feet above the ground. Firecrackers can easily be heard from much farther away that 72 feet.
@@wiltchamberlainisthegoat13 "All these witnesses saying they initially thought it was firecrackers. You’re right. I highly doubt they would have heard firecrackers going off that far away. That implies that at least one shooter was much closer." I'm honestly not following your reasoning. The sixth floor of the TSBD is only 72 feet above the ground. Firecrackers can easily be heard from much farther away than 72 feet. So can gunshots.
They were part of the huge government cover up. Thousands of people involved in this. All in collusion. Even governor Connollys wife was part of it. The little boy in the studio interview waa part of it too...thats why he didnt say anything.
The wherewithal these young folks had was mind blowing. Society is too dumb to give articulate, self-effacing, non-attention getting thoughts/answers today.
They didn’t get original details wrong…..once LBJ in charge is day Fred’s press over. Just watch when Dan rather comes on scene on klrb. Also, the story starts to go towards their lie of Oswald and 6th floor. The Newmans in the video weren’t even called as witnesses to warren commission.
Technology has come a long way. If cell phones existed back then, everything would have been known instantly, and everybody would of had the assassination recorded. Up until the last 10 years or so, I did not have a clue that the Zapruder film did not come out till years after the incident. We have definitely come a long way.
i saw a doco from a Eastman Kodak man who was called from home to go in and make copies of frames of the Zapruder 8mm original in the next day or so after. He was there in Kodak until early morning . But it looks like LIFE magazine bought rights for the film and was copyrighted since
But, don’t you think it’s a ‘little odd’ that only ONE video is ever shown? Not only did my dad practically live with a movie camera in his hand my whole life (and I was 5 when this happened and remember watching the funeral on tv), but even the newsman said they (and crew) were there, and yet NO news crew had footage?!! They even show a ‘hand drawn’ map of the area. Hmm. 🤔 It’s the same with that ‘day in 2001’. For a city (New York) where every visitor has a camera or video camera in hand, you only see ONE video of the first plane, and one of the second hitting. 🙄
Simple. The other shooter that committed the fatal shooting came from behind the grassy knoll and the picket fence. But, who and what entity was the origin of the other shooter?
