11.19.2013

Friday, November 22, 1963


-- United Press International teletype (image from kennedy-photos.blogspot.com)
-- Explainer (from UPI history website): @

Video
* David Von Pein's JFK Channel (this has an extensive collection of footage, including the breaking news reports of the major broadcast networks): @
* "The JFK Assassination: As It Happened" (Von Pein website): @
* From ABC News: @
* JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America" (The History Channel, 2009): @ and @ 
* Speech in Fort Worth: @
* "President Assassinated" (newsreel): @

Audio
* Lyndon Johnson taking oath of office aboard Air Force One (from LBJ Library): @
* Air Force One recordings: @
* Radio coverage: @
* BBC programs: @

President Lyndon B. Johnson
* President's daily dairy (from LBJ Library): @ and @
* From LBJ Library: "November 22, 1963 and Beyond": @
* From LBJ Library: "Nov. 22, 1963: Tragedy and Transition": @
* Selections from Mrs. Johnson's diary: @ (text) and @ (audio)

Front pages
* Dallas Morning News: @
* Dallas Times Herald: @
* Fort Worth Star-Telegram: @ and @
* Boston Globe: @
* New York Times: @
* Washington Post: @
* Los Angeles Times: @
* The Guardian (UK) : @
* Daily Mirror (UK): @
* Daily Trojan (University of Southern California, November 26): @
* Other newspapers (from www.downhold.org): @
* Other newspapers (from rarenewspapers.com): @

Other resources
* Timeline (from Dallas Morning News): @
* "Remembering JFK" (Fort Worth Star-Telegram): @
* "The Death of a President" (The Associated Press): @
* The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection (National Archives): @
* The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza: @
* JFK Tribute website (Fort Worth, Texas): @
* The JFK Assassination (Mary Ferrell Foundation): @
* The Harold Weisberg Archive: @
* The Kennedy Assassination (John McAdams): @
* "November 22, 1963: Death of the President" (from JFK Library): @ 
* "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy" (Warren Commission report, from National Archives, 1964): @
* "Marking JFK anniversary, GPO releases digital Warren Commission report" (Washington Post): @
* "Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House of Representatives" (from National Archives, 1979): @
* UPI reporter Merriman Smith's account of the day (November 23; Smith was the first to report the shooting, as shown in teletype above): @
* "Total Domination" (American Journalism Review, 1998): @
* "The Flight From Dallas" (Esquire, 2013): @
* "The Hours Before Dallas: A Recollection by President Kennedy's Fort Worth Advance Man" (Jeb Byrne, 2000): @
* Life magazine, November 29: @
* Life magazine, December 6: @
* Life magazine, December 13: @ 

2 comments:

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