NBC NEWS COVERAGE OF THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY (TV)
Summary
A portion of the NBC News coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the events surrounding it. Included is live coverage of events broadcast on Friday, November 22, 1963, the day of the shooting. Anchoring in New York are Frank McGee and Bill Ryan, with reports from Tom Pettit in Dallas, Merrill Mueller, Nancy Dickerson and Sander Vanocur in Washington, D.C., and Jim Jensen in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. The broadcast begins at approximately 12:17 p.m. Eastern Standard Time with a report from St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, where funeral services for the late president will be held on the following day. McGee then cuts to Jensen, who reports on the Kennedy family in Hyannis Port. After a brief discussion of plans for the public viewing of the president's body in the Capitol Rotunda, McGee switches to Tom Pettit in the basement of Dallas police headquarters. Pettit describes the transfer of alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to the Dallas County jail. Suddenly, confusion and panic breaks out, and we hear Pettit gasp, "He's been shot -- Lee Oswald has been shot." Amid the commotion, Pettit tries to obtain more information about what happened from other witnesses: Jeff Edwards of KXL Radio in Los Angeles, Frank Johnson of United Press International (UPI), Deputy Chief M.W. Stevenson of the Dallas Police Department and Officer Patrick T. Dean. From New York, McGee reports that the assailant has been identified as Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Coverage then switches to Washington, where Merrill Mueller in the studio and Sander Vanocur and Nancy Dickerson at the White House describe the arrival of the caisson and the departure of the cortege to the Capitol where the president's body will lie in state. (This tape ends abruptly.)
Cataloging of this program was made possible by The Marc Haas and Helen Hotze Haas Foundation, 1995.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: November 24, 1963 Sunday 12:17 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:42
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T:18554
- GENRE: News
- SUBJECT HEADING: Assassination; She Made It Collection (Nancy Dickerson)
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV, 1963
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Frank McGee … Anchor
- Bill Ryan … Anchor
- Tom Pettit … Reporter
- Jim Jensen … Reporter
- Merrill Mueller … Reporter
- Nancy Hanschman Dickerson … Reporter
- Sander Vanocur … Reporter
- Patrick T. Dean
- Jeff Edwards
- Frank Johnson
- Lady Bird Johnson
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Caroline Kennedy
- Ethel Kennedy
- Jacqueline Kennedy
- John F. Kennedy
- John F. Kennedy, Jr.
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- Jack Ruby
- M.W. Stevenson