Clear and precise reporting without any hysteria. Those were the years when radio journalists had to be well spoken and lucid. Sadly, this form of professional and authoritative journalism has disappeared.
Most of these broadcasters cut their teeth covering WWII. That was the style of reporting they learned by necessity and it carried over. No nonsense, and concise writing.
No outpouring of feelings, no commentary, no therapeutic talk, no endless pundits... just the news spoken simply and clearly . God! how backwards we have gone.
It wasn’t by accident. We decided somewhere in the 80’s that news was no longer a public service, but was now profit-driven and it changed our country forever.
This. Especially when it comes to news channels, there is less difference between them and talk radio propaganda. News are a business, not a public service. You have to make them emotional and captivating in order to maintain the ratings. And this is not an environment for serious news, but for pure doomsday propaganda, comparable to what the early talk radio preachers did, starting from the late 1930s.
@Truth Seeker the goal is to overwhelm you with so much disinformation and bullshit you can't decide what is fact and what isn't, why it is important to gather your news from as many outlets as you can
What you've assembled here is an extraordinary compilation which gives historical context to the assasination. Given all the books, documentaries and other media coverage of the event nothing captures the experience and mood of the country at the time in the way that these broadcasts do. Your efforts are a significant contribution to history and to the understanding of it.
I was in seventh grade and heard some of this coverage possibly from either WCBS or WPRO, Providence RI. For decades after I experienced cold chills and an literal physical-like flashback to the very places I was standing. As Yogi Berra called it, deja vu all over again.
6:00 Listen to how Alan Jackson is hesitant when he came to the fork in the road on whether to report what Mr. Hill said which of course was 'he's dead'.
Alan Jackson probably wanted more information before saying this statement from Clint Hill. However, once CBS's Dan Rather said he confirmed JFK had passed away from his gunshot wounds, Alan Jackson was one of the first to announce JFK's death on radio or television.
ABC radio read the flash including the Clint Hill quote. The world didn't end. I think Jackson made an emotional and bad decision here made worse by his decision to add untrue "facts" that Hill accompanied the president into the hospital. As for the speculation Jackson wanted more information before he announced the quote, it came over the wire services and was obviously checked for its authenticity before flashed to the world. This is not an example of journalistic discretion...it was an ethical breach. I applaud Dan Rather's wording quoting the young boy who accurately saw Oswald's rifle being withdrawn from the 5th floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. Just about all of the radio and TV voices called him a "small colored boy".
Here’s an observation of something I found interesting: When Alan Jackson first announces on the CBS news network that JFK had been shot - and taken to Parkland Hospital - he’s reading the wire reports from AP and UPI; he mentions Secret Service Agent Clint Hill (at 6:10)... The thing is, Alan Jackson didn’t read that wire copy exactly as to how it was written, and how we eventually learned what it actually said; which is that Agent Hill had been overheard by reporters on the scene, saying “he’s dead”. You can tell by Jackson’s pauses while reading that he’s unsure whether to report the wire verbatim. Instead, Jackson edits the copy on the fly, as he’s reading it, to leave that part of the wire report out, and after a pause, he says that “Agent Cliff Hill escorted the president into the hospital”. (This is true, Hill did escort him into the building, but Kennedy was on a stretcher, and by all accounts, dead at that point). Perhaps Jackson didn’t want to be the first to report that JFK was dead, or perhaps he didn’t quite trust the wire reports... it’s interesting, in listening back, and knowing now what that UPI wire report Jackson was holding and reading ACTUALLY said, and how he handled it with a judgement call, deciding to leave that part out, at least for that moment. This is history as it happened folks, mistakes and all; considering the confusion, panic and trauma of that day, and the limited technology in communications that they had then, these journalists did a remarkably good job. Radio was still many people’s source for news at that time, but Television news emerged that day, and it came of age that weekend. The world changed that day, in many, many ways.
Yep. You are exactly right. I think he just didn't want to read it until there were confirmations. I mean you could imagine he reads that people are already going crazy with not knowing what was going on. Yet, you are right again in that he probably didn't trust "Clint" Hill not "Cliff" Hill which was on the report since he was a secret service agent not a WH official of some kind. Good job with your research!
CBS doing a report on unwed mothers , today nobody cares . We have become a way too permissive society , even divorce was considered something that was tasteless .
I noticed the same thing too because NBC and ABC radio news broadcasts just read the Clint Hill quote verbatim. I wouldn't make too much of what Alan Jackson did as a broadcaster in this situation. Alan Jackson probably just wanted more verification before telling the country that JFK was dead. Alan Jackson was an experienced radio newsman. Alan Jackson had covered WW2 including the Normandy invasion. My thoughts are Alan Jackson wanted a source from a reporter he knew or trusted. He reported the death of JFK as soon as CBS reporter Dan Rather reported JFK was indeed dead from his bullet wounds. So Alan Jackson was trying to be careful and cautious. I think this is all we should make of this incident. I wish journalists today were as careful on the air.
One thing probably all ready mentioned, was that in 1963, announcements of the Preidents death, could only be announced on tv and radio after an "official announcement", ie, from a Presidential press secretary. This is a good system, but it wouldnt be done today.In fact the 2 priests announcement shouldnt have gone out, either. Malcomb Kilduffs official announcement followed within a few minutes.
@@davidmoser3535Reportedly, the Secret Service asked the priests to not say anything about JFK’s condition to the reporters. For whatever reason, when asked if the President was dead, one of the priests blurted out, “he’s dead alright”.
One of the amazing things, even for 1963 is that the network signs off after the first bulletin, and throws it back to the local stations (or network shows on the west coast...Arthur Godfrey was on the air in L.A.). Considering this was so unexpected (even though there was talk of trouble in Texas) I think all of the networks, particularly CBS, here, did a very admiral job!
I think "Arthur Godfrey Time" was fed on a tape-delay to all CBS Radio stations on the West Coast (not just KNX Los Angeles) starting at 10:10 A.M. Pacific (1:10 Eastern).
Today, the networks would have stayed with this story and not gone back to regular programming, instead, repeating details until more fresh details came in.
I think most WW2 or Korean war combat veterans would immediately know, after hearing, "someone saw blood coming from the president's head," that the president wasn't going to make it. Combat veterans know from experience that about 80 percent of gunshot wounds to the head are fatal. So when you hear someone has had a serious rifle shot wound to the head, go get the undertaker right away. The undertaker is more important to the patient than the doctor.
It may not be politically correct to say it, but when someone suffers that kind of wound, it's a mercy that they die (which, as you said, happens in most cases). Same thing with Martin Luther King. Had he lived, he'd most likely have been a quadriplegic and required mechanical respiration. I read in one of the books about the assassination that JFK suffered a severe spinal wound just before the bullet tore through his head. The author opined that the spinal wound alone would probably have killed JFK.
For some time the identity of the host of the WCBS talk program that gets interrupted has not been known or at least not to those of us who collect JFK coverage. I can now confirm that the regular WCBS host from 1:15 to 3:00 each weekday was Ed Joyce who later became President of CBS News in the 1980s and wrote a book about his experience in that job "Prime Times, Bad Times" (he clashed frequently with Dan Rather, who of course ironically saw his career take off as a result of the events of this day).
Note here: the time difference between the wire services' flashes and the CBS NetAlert bulletins was used by the radio network to alert ("talk up") the affiliated stations with a countdown (in Cue channel) into the on-air bulletin. Also, CBS Radio needed to fire their NetAlert control pulses down the network line before the sounder hit air.
This may be related to what you're saying. In 1978, I visited WMBS in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. WMBS, incidentally, has been a CBS radio affiliate for many decades. Now, to get to my point. The announcer on duty showed me something that was like a beacon that would indicate when the network had a major story, which was a cue for the station to switch over to the network.
Yep, I remember the CBS Net Alert box. We had one at WILS in Lansing when I worked there in the 80's. It had a beacon light and audible alarm that the network could trigger in the event of pending break-in. As I recall, the box was set up to distinguish the priority of the alert (breaking, urgent, bulletin, etc). The network usually gave the board op 1-2 minutes notice to monitor the cue channel and decide whether or not to air the alert. I remember a few urgent alerts tripping the box, but never anything reaching "bulletin" status. Fox had a similar net alert system for its affiliates in the late 90's (perhaps they still do). We had one in the master control room at WSYM-TV, with another one in the newsroom. The newsroom box would trip for any urgent story, while our box would only trip for urgent bulletins. Much like the CBS boxes, the Fox units would trip a beacon as well as a VERY loud tone and voice relay over the box itself. There was no way to miss it!
Here in Louisville, the big CBS afilliate in 1963 was WHAS-AM/FM/TV, with an excellent shared radio-TV news room. CBS correspondent David Dick, a WHAS alumnus, told me years later about the tensions and great reporting that day.
For a "Net Alert ", couldn't the system have over-ridden local stations to put a bulletin of this sort on the air without anything being done at the local station?
At 16:14, Alan Jackson related that police had surrounded the Texas School Book Depository, which one report said was the source of the gunfire, but another report said the shots came from a "grassy knoll." Nobody suspected at that moment that decades later people would still be debating that point.
@@ethanedwards7557 the Warren Commission lied. Plus the shot that hit him in the temple came from in front of him. He was past the School Book Depository. I think the throat bullet was from Oswald and the other from the second shooter.
I was in high school. An obnoxious kid was exulting about, "They shot him in Texas". We thought nothing about this, until the teacher walked in with that LOOK on her face. Oh, shit...
What time did the radio bulletin come across? Was the local WCBS bulletin on the air before anyone else? I know that ABC Radio is reputed to have the first network report.
I'm not exactly sure, Joe. I think the WCBS bulletin came pretty close to the ABC Radio (Don Gardiner) first bulletin. I don't know if WCBS actually beat Gardiner's 12:36 bulletin or not. But it must have been close.
My guess is that if the first CBS Radio Network bulletin was at 1:42 P.M. Eastern time (12:42 Central), then WCBS's first bulletin aired around 1:39 EST/12:39 CST. KNX Los Angeles also had it's first bulletin at around the same time, before the first network one.
Altfactor, do you recall the time of the ABC Radio bulletin and if WABC broke in before the network? I'm really wondering if we can pin down the very first radio and television bulletin in the USA.
The ABC Radio Network's first bulletin was at 1:36 P.M. Eastern time (12:36 local in Dallas). I don't know if WABC had a bulletin before the network; but given that the network's first bulletin was at 1:36, I doubt WABC broke-in before the network since I thought the first bulletin moved on the United Press International wire at 1:35 EST (12:35 Dallas time). The first television bulletin was on CBS-TV at 1:40 EST (12:40 Dallas time); I believe ABC-TV and NBC-TV's first bulletins were both around 1:43 or 1:44 EST.
Alan (or Allen Jackson) was the only one wise enough not to read the quote from Clint Hill that "He is dead" This is a great collection has been great to listen and look at all this history on JFK the Kennedy's
That's true. I noticed right away that he stopped at the point where Clint Hill had said, "He's dead!" Knowing that from later reports, you can hear the pause and change of direction in his reporting that Alan Jackson did right at that point. This is a sign of an EXCELLENT and very skillful reporter who wasn't wanting to start an unconfirmed rumor until he heard anything to the contrary. Yet another difference from the reporting of today!
The local newscaster at WCBS was Joseph Dembo... who would later rise through the ranks of CBS and be ultimately be in charge of the entire news division on the radio side.
To compare, here's the exact text of the UPI Bulletin that he was reading from at that point, around 5:50 in the video... "The President --- his limp body in the arms of his wife --- was rushed to Parkland Hospital. The governor also was taken to the same hospital. Clint Hill, a Secret Service agent assigned to Mrs. Kennedy said "he's dead" as the president was lifted from the rear of the White House touring car. Mr. Kennedy was rushed to an emergency room in the hospital."
+Joe Postove He's not on any of the radio coverage from 11/22 and while I don't have 100% of the TV coverage from the weekend, he's not on anything I've come across.
The Wikipedia page for Douglas Edwards states that for several years after leaving the CBS News television anchor chair in 1962, he headed the evening local news team for WCBS-TV in New York City. He later switched to CBS Radio News where he remained until his retirement (along with reporting some television news briefs). But he apparently was doing local news at the time of the JFK assassination in 1963.
I have to admit I am a little confused here. The time check at the beginning is 1:15pm. I assume that is EST. That would make the time 12:15pm in Dallas, 15 minutes before the shots were fired. Did I miss something?
David, since tomorrow is again the anniversary of the assassination do you have anything new? I've been wondering where Douglas Edwards was all this weekend. Thanks!
At the beginning, he commentator was talking about unwed mothers, among other things. He said, at 0:59, that there was as much stigma about unwed mothers then (1963), as in Victorian times. That wasn't the main point of this posting (I know that), but just goes to show, to use a trite phrase "How times have changed". Also, WCBS-AM and FM simulcast back then. I listen to WCBS-AM on terrestrial radio at times. I live in West Virginia, so can get it that way after dark and in the very early morning. I have listened to it online occasionally. Damn good radio station, for my money, however one chooses to listen.
Most FM stations were full simulcasts of their AM counterparts back in the day. It was 1967 when AM/FM non-duplication rules were implemented by the FCC. After that, AM/FM broadcasters in larger markets were required to provide separate programming on FM stations for a portion of the broadcast day. The non-dupe rules were dropped in the mid-late 80's as part of broadcast deregulation. Of course, AM was still king in 1963, and FM was pretty much an afterthought.
In 1980, I picked up WHN in or around Boston (I do know I was in Massachusetts). It was on 1050, which is now WEPN. 1050 is very directional, I think it has to do with protecting CHUM in Toronto, which is also on 1050. I don't know if it's still this way, but at one time, 1050's signal faded about 40 miles west of NYC, maybe even closer: I don't remember now. A DJ friend of mine told me that it was to protect KYW (1060 in Philadelphia). He also told me about CHUM.
WHN was my favorite radio station of all time. It's now WEPN, as I said before, and during its last 8 years as a country station, I listened whenever I could. I've lived in West Virginia all my life and couldn't get it very well down here.
I would opine that if you were not alive that day or if you weren't alive on September 11, you wont get the effect. Of course, there were many mistakes. To me, it felt like I had a concussion from 1230 Eastern time until 4 hours after Oswald was killed, 2 days later.
21:20 "FOUR cartridges"? The Warren Commission said three..only three bullets were fired by the shooter from the Depository, and besides, Oswald was recognised as a poor shot, unable to fire three shots in the elapsed time, never mind four.....
It's also interesting that in this broadcast, the focus on the grassy knoll was quickly shifted to the TSBD. I've never heard any mentions of remains of the "lunch" other than in this broadcast.
WCBS of course, went all-news in 1967. Had the station been all-news in 1963, I wonder how the station would've handled the first minutes of this tragedy.
I agree. One can only wonder. WCBS and WINS have been sister stations since 1995.I read somewhere that they complement one another. I guess what that means, among other things is that where WCBS focuses more on national and world news, WINS leans more toward local news. Also, WCBS is more sedate in their presentation, whereas WINS is more "in-your-face". WCBS appeals more to the Wall Street crowd, WINS to the cabbie, construction worker, truck driver, etc.
I guess they played the national anthem to fill time while they tried to gather more information. The tape recording is distorted, so maybe there was a problem with the playback machine.
It is interesting to catch the mistakes in the reporting at certain parts of the broadcast, such as when they said that JFK was transferred to an ambulance which took him on to the hospital. Yet they later said that he was removed from the limousine. Also, the erroneous report that an SS agent was killed, when in reality that never happened.
If this exact incident happened 11-22-2022, there would be Numerous similar mistakes. That simply is the way it is, we are human, we make mistakes.There is no deception whatsoever, yet people are too cynical, grasping at nothing. Example Qanon, etc.
@@davidmoser3535 I am not saying that there was purposeful deception going on. But I AM saying that were mistakes made in the reporting that were just ridiculous---even for that time period.
He was warned and warned to not go to Dallas. But he was terrified of appearing afraid. He told the Secret Service to stay off his car. Not blaming the victim, but still...
@Just think Actually, you are wrong! JFK had lots of Secret Service protection, but waved them away from the side of his car. That can be seen on the video of when the motorcade began at the airport. Perhaps you should educate yourself before making such statements, "Just Think"
@Just think What are you talking about?? Who is "The Lawson?" JFK himself directed the Secret Service agents not to stand on the sides and back of the limousine! Just as others in here have already told you, there is a film of him making them get off the limousine as they left Love Field.. Plus, you can research it and find out about it in several accounts of that day! I will say again: "Educate yourself on the topic before you post again!" Again, please explain who "The Lawson" that you referred to is!
Was always kind of perplexed how CBS Radio's Alan Jackson was willing to go on the word of the announcement of the two priests as opposed to CBS TV's Walter Cronkite who waited until acting White House Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff gave the official announcement to the press.
Both CBS-TV (Walter Cronkite) and NBC-TV (Bill Ryan on the set with Chet Huntley and Frank McGee) reported the bulletin about the two priests saying President Kennedy was dead, although they emphasized it was not an official report of the President's death.
IIRC he actually went on Dan Rather's report. Rather had confirmed it with a doctor at Parkland over the phone, I think, 10 mins or so before Fr. Huber and the other priest told the reporters outside.
I believe that someone in the newsroom heard the conversation with Rather who said he had sources telling him Kennedy was dead. The person in the newsroom wrote "JFK DEAD" on a piece of paper and handed it to Jackson, who thought it was an official announcement and so he went with it.
Dan Rather spoke via phone from his Dallas newsroom to a doctor and two priests at Parkland Hospital, all of whom stated that the President was dead. He then phoned CBS in NY with this information. CBS relied on their own reporter (Rather) rather than the UPI report to announce the death of the President, not surprising given the enormity of the news.
The clip started at 1:15pm, then about 3 minutes in the bulletin which had to be about 1:40PM, the bulletin flashes. It would be great David, for we completists to have that missing segment.
@@DavidVonPeinJFK The unedited CBS Radio coverage, with better quality, is at the link which follows. I believe that the recording you have has a serious edit! When Allan Jackson says, "We repeat: it has just been announced that President Kennedy is dead," in your recording the national anthem immediately follows. What actually happened on the air is that CBS Radio played a few seconds of a different instrumental, then cut it off, Jackson spoke some more, and then the national anthem is played. I presume the LP phonograph record wasn't properly cued up to the correct cut. You can hear this apparent mistake, as it is in cut #2 in the 12:40 to 1:45 p.m. section, about 12:30 into the clip. I have WCBS radio coverage unedited on cassette tapes and I could digitize maybe the first hour, but this link I am giving you has WCCO with better quality than I have. radiotapes.com/specialpostings.html
Ironic that the report of a presidential assassination would be preceeded by a discussion on teenage pregnancy. Life and death in the space of less than 5 minutes.
While looking online just now, for a photo of the CBS Radio NetAlert device, I found this link about a test record that affiliates could use to check & calibrate their NetAlert boxes. strangebiz.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-cbs-radio-netalert-iii-test-record.html
It was stated in the movie JFK that Clay Shaw owned and operated the Trade Mart in New Orleans, which was established to promote trade with Latin America. I wonder if he was likewise the owner of the International Trade Mart in Dallas.
These 'trade marts' were very likely fronts for the CIA. The first so-called 'trade mart' Shaw was affiliated with was in post-war Italy, as a front to funnel money to right wing parties to fight communist and socialist parties. If you look for videos of the Dallas Trade Mart awaiting the president's arrival and getting the news of his being shot, you will see a panning shot of the place that convinces me, at least, that if they didn't snuff him on the way, they were going to get him at this Trade Mart. The place is all catwalks and doorways with all kinds of sniping angles. Researchers have also learned that the Secret Service had originally picked a different, much easier to secure location [the Women's Building, I think it was called] and the Trade Mart was only selected after intense pressure from either Mayor Cabell, Connally, or one of LBJ's other Texas friends. The first location would have avoided the 120-degree turn in front of the TSBD. Check out the channel America's Untold Stories on here for some fascinating discussions about the assassination and the people involved.
Mr. Jackson is showing discretion and wisdom in not reporting Clint Hill’s emotional remark in the heat of the moment. Hill was right, but waiting for official word is the only right answer here.
Although a correct statement, Agent Hill was not a doctor and so the network wanted official verification. Back then it was important to check your sources, verify the info, and don’t report until verified. Unlike today where if the headline is salacious then broadcast it, and the truth be damned.
@@PatrickMersinger Jackson did not run Cilnt Hill's quote: Hill's quote was originally noted by UPI's Merriman Smith...he had asked Hill how JFK looked, and Hill responded :"He's Dead, Smitty". (Merriman Smith had covered the White House since the early days of WWII, so presumably everyone who had any connection with the White House knew who he was.) Dan Rather, whose radio reports Jackson cited when he called JFK's death ahead of the Mac Kilduff press conference, had developed sources within Dallas, and discussed it with KRLD's Eddie Barker, who presumably also had sources at Parkland Hospital. and the Dallas Police Department. A lot of stuff was going on behind the scenes at the networks, with unheard (on air) producers making calls to verify news before the on-air people broadcasted the news.
At 5:00, Alan Jackson gave a report. It seems that he was still with CBS News very recently. BTW, Walter Cronkite would've turned 100 yesterday. For my money, "Uncle Walter" was the best ever.
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LBJ and JFK were in the same motorcade, but not in the same car. Johnson's car was 2 cars behind the car that JFK and John Connally, with their wives, were in. The car in between them had Secret Service agents.
Network protocol. There was a continuity book in the newsroom and control rooms dictating what was to be done under such tragic circumstances. Interesting side note: one of the CBS-TV staff announcers on 22 November 1963 was Warren Sweeney, whose career at the network dated back to the 1930s. On 7 December 1941, he was the announcer for a network broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera. Sweeney interrupted the conclusion of the program by walking on stage and announcing news of the attack on Pearl Harbor. At the conclusion of his announcement, Sweeney asked the orchestra to play the national anthem-which they had already played a few minutes earlier, as part of the program. I’ve often wondered if Sweeeny simply felt it was appropriate under the circumstances, or following network protocol
This recording is somewhat edited. When the announcement was made, what followed would have been comedic if it weren't so absolutely tragic. Someone at CBS Radio tried to play a recording of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," but the speed setting on the record player was too fast. A few seconds later, the first movement of Beethoven's 6th Symphony began to play, but that movement was happy in tone, and not really appropriate as something to be played after the death of a President. After a few seconds, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played.
The announcement of JFK's death is on part 1, around 36:10, followed by "Adagio for Strings." The Beethoven symphony and The Star-Spangled Banner were edited out.
At 9:00 the radio announcer said "it seems that there's a moral crisis in our country and today maybe a result of this ".....Can you imagine what that man would've said if he was able to timetravel to 2019 and see what a hypocritical, over sensitive, politically correct JOKE our country has become now...he had no clue how much deeper the tear in our moral fiber could get. If the next 56 years continue to deteriorate at the rate at which the previous 56 yrs have...There's ZERO CHANCE our country will still be in existence.
At this rate, it'll be over a helluva lot sooner than 56 years. I was 5 months and 12 days old when JFK was shot, so of course I have no memory of it, but I've said (and thought many a time) that I was born just before it all went crazy.
These broadcasts bring back the stunning memories of that tragic day, when, as an 11 year old in San Diego, being sent home from school to follow the television coverage for the next four days. The days of innocence unraveled like the pearls from Mrs. Cleaver's necklace...
Yes. On June 20, 1963, the last first-run episode of "Leave it to Beaver" aired. Five months and two days later, is when the innocence died a violent death. There was a book that described the period from V-J Day (September 1945 to the JFK assassination) as the "Happy Days" era for the USA.
Right you are! There was a book titled "Richie," a true story about a teenage boy from Long Island who got enmeshed in the world of drugs. He was fatally shot in 1972 at age 17, when he threatened his parents with a knife.Her name was mentioned in the book. The book was by Thomas Thompson. There was even a movie made about it nearly five years later, titled "The Death of Richie."
No it was NOT Oswald. He was seen drinking a pop on the first floor according to the doctor who treated him. After arrested when asked about it he answered that HE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THAT UNTIL HE HEARD IT ON THE NEWS. He was shot by Ruby to silence him. BTW the so called MAGIC BULLET FRAUD is simply impossible the Warren Report put that whopper out as a fact.
LBJ and his behavior after Oswald got shot are highly alarming. He called the doctor working on the suspect and demanded on the phone a DEATHBED confession but Oswald did not survive was we know. Why would he want a deathbed confession when nobody really knew who shot the President. Jack Ruby and Oswald seem to know each other. The grassy picket fence area was not ever even brought up again.The same Dallas doctor treaded both the President and Lee Harvey Oswald. He wrote a book about it in 1992 and was told to stay quiet to keep his job. He said Kennedy was shot from the front not the back the whole front of his head on right was blown off. If he survived he would ne brain dead.
Janet O'Conner...No, non, no. You have your radio reports mixed up. The comment about Johnson asking about Oswald's possible deathbed confession came 2 days after the JFK assassination after Jack Ruby shot Oswald.
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Is it just me but isn't it inappropriate (as in this radio recording) that Americans sometimes describe their 19th century as Victorian? Unlike George III who ruled America for early years of his reign, Queen Victoria never did. Independence living Americans of the time would certainly not have been disposed to call their time the Victoria era! So surely historically inaccurate to do so now. Other opinions on this much appreciated.
I'm fast realizing that the nature of David's channel is such that I can identify salacious, exploitative, gratuitous content from other channels much more easily. For example, one channel that would claim to be on a par with David's opens most of its uploads with the most graphic frames of Abraham Zapruder's film. It's just so distasteful and disrespectful.
