The Kennedy Assassination PART 1 (NOVEMBER 22, 1963)
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Actor: Bill RYAN, CHET HUNTLEY, FRANK McGEEDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-19
Studio: NBC-tv
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DVD Review: NBC-TV COVERAGE OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963 (PART 1 OF 2)
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Kennedy Assassination--Part 1" features two hours of NBC-TV as-it-is-happening news coverage from Friday, November 22, 1963 -- the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in downtown Dallas, Texas, while riding in his open-top limousine through Dealey Plaza.
This DVD, which comes from the video company "Video Yesteryear" (and is the exact same footage that can be found on its VHS counterpart), begins with NBC's live TV coverage at 12:57 PM (Dallas time), or 27 minutes after President Kennedy was shot from the Texas School Book Depository Building on Elm Street in Dallas.
The DVD starts at the exact point when NBC began taping the coverage. The network had been on the air live for several minutes prior to when this footage begins, but technicians hadn't begun recording the telecast until quite a few minutes later.
This raw footage of NBC's first-rate coverage of 11/22/63 includes the dramatic and sad moment when President Kennedy is pronounced dead by NBC newsman Frank McGee (as he gets the official word while talking on the phone to fellow correspondent Robert MacNeil, who was riding in the Dallas motorcade when the shooting occurred).
Presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, 45 minutes after killing JFK from his 6th-floor perch in the Book Depository, shot and killed a Dallas city police officer (J.D. Tippit) in the Oak Cliff section of the city, and was captured shortly thereafter while attempting to hide in the darkened Texas Theater, a short distance from the Tippit murder scene. Tippit's murder and Oswald's arrest are also covered on this two-hour DVD.
Part 2 of this 2-disc DVD series includes another two hours of NBC-TV coverage from November 22nd, concluding with footage of new President Lyndon B. Johnson's first address to the nation from Andrews Air Force Base.
This type of "live" coverage of a major news event is always very interesting to watch years and decades later. The capacity of NBC's facilities (and personnel) was stretched to their limits during the four days of virtually non-stop TV news coverage that occurred between approx. 1:40 PM (Eastern Time) on November 22nd and the conclusion of JFK's funeral on Monday, November 25th.
The JFK assassination is considered by many as a turning point in the world of TV news reporting. A story this huge had never been covered before during the TV era. And when looking back on the original footage by all three major television networks (NBC, CBS, and ABC), there are a number of "what do we do next?" moments shown live to everyone in America. But, under the stressful circumstances, I think this was to be expected. In my opinion, the TV networks did an outstanding job of covering the sorrowful events of that November weekend in 1963.
I think it's also very interesting to note (while viewing the many hours of TV footage that exist from those four days in November) that virtually ALL of the information being reported by all the TV networks favored a "Lone Assassin" scenario, with very, very little evidence and info to support any type of a "conspiracy" whatsoever. This fact, IMO, is quite telling.
Because, in my view, IF a vast conspiracy and subsequent "cover-up" had been in place on November 22, 1963, I believe (given the immense amount of TV coverage, with reporters scrutinizing everything coming across their news desks during those initial hours and days after JFK was killed) at least some pieces of the conspiracy would have leaked through to the sweeping television coverage of the event.
To think (as many theorists do) that these conspirators were so smart and quick to immediately eliminate virtually every last scrap of info leading to a "plot" of some kind, making sure none of the multi-shooter plan seeped through to the media, is to think (IMO) that any such evil-doers were akin to "Superman"!
For example -- Virtually all initial reports concerning the exact number of rifle shots heard by witnesses in Dealey Plaza stated "3 shots". And while it's true that the very first report of the shooting from UPI's Merriman Smith (which was broadcast over all the TV networks) stated "Three shots were fired...", it's also worth noting that Smith's initial bulletin was NOT the only "three-shots" account that was reported during those early hours just after the shooting. For instance, Jay Watson of ABC affiliate WFAA-TV in Dallas (who happened to be in Dealey Plaza during the shooting and nervously reported the first bulletins to the unaware Dallas TV audience) is heard multiple times on November 22 saying he heard "3 shots" fired. Plus, other members of the media are also on film relaying their own personal beliefs that exactly three shots were fired by the assassin.
Could these ultra-clever conspirators have somehow managed to "manipulate" several reporters who were relaying the news live to the world immediately after the event, and have them ALL report on hearing just "three shots"? Or were the conspiratorial shooters so good that they made 4 or 5 shots sound like only three? Highly doubtful, IMO.
The "synchronized" shooting scenario is possible, I suppose. But I just don't buy into those theories claiming various conspiracy scenarios, some theories incorporating a ludicrously-enormous number of rifle shots being fired at the President (up to a dozen shots, per some of the crazier shooting scenarios), which is just utter nonsense, given the known and available evidence.
The bulletins and almost all subsequent reports from November 22 to 24, 1963, supported precisely three shots being fired...all from ONE gun...and all being fired from ONE place (the consensus after a little initial confusion being the Book Depository Building which housed Lee Harvey Oswald and his rifle at 12:30 PM on November 22nd).
And there were certainly no other suspects or co-conspirators connected with Oswald in either murder, including J.D. Tippit's.
I challenge anyone to watch (or listen to) some of the as-it's-happening news coverage from November 1963 and try to reconcile that news coverage with anything closely resembling Oliver Stone's and Jim Garrison's crazily out-of-whack "6-Shot, 3-Gunmen" theory that is portrayed on the theater screen in Stone's 1991 film "JFK".
You can't do it....because there's NOTHING close to that kind of multi-shooter nonsense to be found within ANY of the networks' news reports concerning the death of President Kennedy.
The history-making date of 11/22/63 will be remembered forever as the tragic day when John F. Kennedy's life was ended so violently. This DVD brings back that day in vivid detail, as told by the NBC newsmen who reported the solemn events to a grieving nation.
David Von Pein
September 2004
February 2009
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