The Dallas station that broke the story to its own city. Continuous air from the first bulletin, recorded off the air on 22 November 1963.
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22–25 November 1963
Four Days in November
Dallas to Arlington
Start with KLIF, because KLIF is the sound of a city finding out about itself — a Top 40 station that dropped its format mid-record and did not pick it up again for three days. Then move outward: Voice of America telling the world, shortwave from New York, and the flight deck of Air Force One negotiating a swearing-in over the Gulf. Sunday morning belongs to the Dallas Police radio traffic, recorded on dictabelt, as Oswald is moved to the county jail. Monday belongs to Arlington. American networks carried seventy hours with no advertising at all.
18 recordings · 10 broadcasters
Who carried it
Dallas Police Department5KLIF Dallas3Network pool2Reid Collins / KLIF2Voice of America1WRUL New York1WGIR Manchester1Air Force One / SAM 260001CBS1NBC News Radio1
Friday, 22 November 1963
The Dallas station that broke the story to its own city. Continuous air from the first bulletin, recorded off the air on 22 November 1963.
The Dallas station that broke the story to its own city. Continuous air from the first bulletin, recorded off the air on 22 November 1963.
How the United States told the rest of the world, in the hours after Dealey Plaza.
Shortwave coverage beamed abroad from New York on the afternoon of 22 November 1963.
Four Days in November
WGIR New Hampshire — a local station takes the network feed
22 Nov 1963 · 1h 34m
A small New England station's air on the afternoon of the assassination.
Off-air recording of American network coverage from the afternoon of the assassination.
Off-air recording of American network coverage from the afternoon of the assassination.
The radio traffic between Air Force One, Andrews and the Cabinet aircraft on the flight back from Dallas. Held by the US National Archives; public domain.
Sunday, 24 November 1963
The Dallas Police Department's own radio traffic on the morning Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in the basement of police headquarters.
The Dallas Police Department's own radio traffic on the morning Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in the basement of police headquarters.
The Dallas Police Department's own radio traffic on the morning Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in the basement of police headquarters.
The Dallas Police Department's own radio traffic on the morning Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in the basement of police headquarters.
The Dallas Police Department's own radio traffic on the morning Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in the basement of police headquarters.
Monday, 25 November 1963
CBS's three-hour assembly of its own coverage, from the Dallas motorcade to the burial at Arlington on 25 November 1963.
Tuesday, 26 November 1963
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The Highest Price: the life and times of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
26 Nov 1963 · 2h 34m
NBC News Radio's memorial documentary, assembled in the days after the funeral.
The contemporary documentary LP narrated by Reid Collins, built from KLIF and network actuality across all four days.
The contemporary documentary LP narrated by Reid Collins, built from KLIF and network actuality across all four days.