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Here is a bulletin from CBS News: in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting. [40] While Cronkite was reading this bulletin, a second one arrived, mentioning the severity of Kennedy's wounds:
On September 2, 1963, Kennedy gave an interview with Cronkite, helping CBS inaugurate network television's first half hour evening newscast. [29] It should perhaps be noted that CBS did not include any further coverage from Dallas or Washington as the other networks had until after the announcement of Kennedy's death.
He served as substitute anchor during portions of CBS's coverage of the Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963, relieving Walter Cronkite only minutes after Cronkite had announced the official confirmation of Kennedy's death. [7] Collingwood was CBS's chief foreign correspondent from 1964 to 1975, covering warfare in Southeast Asia.
When John F Kennedy became the fourth sitting US president to be assassinated, at the hands of a gunman, in Texas 60 years ago, the country was left stunned and heartbroken.. The handsome and ...
Kennedy's death was one of the first truly mass-media events, with the entire nation watching minute-by-minute television coverage on the day it happened and the days that followed, catching all ...
Who killed John F. Kennedy? 60 years after the President's assassination on November 22, 1963, a botched investigation clouds our conclusions about the crime.
Kennedy's personal physician, Rear Admiral George Burkley, [138] signed a death certificate on November 23 and recorded that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the skull. [ 139 ] [ 140 ] Three years after the autopsy, Kennedy's brain—which had been removed and preserved for later analysis—was found to be missing when the Kennedy ...
A Reporter's Life by Walter Cronkite was published by Ballantine Books on October 28, 1997. The 384-page memoir chronicles Cronkite's decades of reporting, focusing on his experiences with D-Day, the Civil Rights Movement, the John Kennedy assassination, NASA's first crewed Moon landing and Moon walk, freedom movements in South Africa and much more.