JFK Assassination: As It Happened, is a six hour and fifteen minute
NBC news compilation of footage following the assassination of President John.
F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The program provides raw minute-by-minute
coverage beginning just before 2:00 P.M. ET and ending shortly after 8:00 P.M. ET.
The viewing experience is very much like a time machine – we are transported
back to that day and that time and that moment when many historians argue the
turbulent 1960s really began. The complete recording is presented below, a
digital copy of a VHS videotape recorded in 1993 from a public television
broadcast.
NBC news anchors and
correspondents featured include Frank McGee, Bill Ryan, Chet Huntley, David
Brinkley, Merrill Mueller, Robert MacNeil, Tom Pettit, Edwin Newman, and John
Chancellor. The technology of the times is pushed to limits as engineers
frantically switch between studios, film segments, and reporters breathlessly
rushing in with the latest breaking news. At a time when cameras where heavy
and had vacuum tubes, film had to be developed and then edited and spliced with
a razor and tape, and teletype instead of computers, one is amazed at how
efficiently the crews got the news on-air.
Segments from JFK Assassination: As It Happened have
previously been featured on Aeolus 13
Umbra and include:
I explore the assassination of
President Kennedy in depth in the Aeolus
13 Umbra article The
Assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald. Growing up in the wake of the
assassination, I came to believe that there was a vast conspiracy to kill the
president. In fact, in 1990 I began to research the tragedy in order to find
documentation to support my preconceived beliefs, yet I discovered just the
opposite. While others may have wished Kennedy dead, Oswald was the only
assassin and did so out of purely personal reasons, mainly a sociopathic need
for narcissistic self-aggrandizement that he hoped would have resulted in a war
between the United States and the Soviet Union. Readers, of course, are free to
draw their own conclusions; however, in the nearly 25 years since I came to the
realization that Oswald acted alone I have encountered no evidence to change my
mind. Skeptical readers are invited to read the article above for more
information.
JFK Assassination: As It Happened, is presented below in its
entirety from my personal archives:
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