From the archives: JFK's assassination in Dallas covered by CBS News in 1963



The images of John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963, remain haunting, blurred into our national consciousness …

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  1. This was well before I was born, but the thing that stands out to me is how Jackie, knowing her husband’s many infidelities, knowing his shortcomings as a husband, his affairs, etc., still stood by him with such dignity, grace and loyalty. She was loyal to him, until the very end, and probably few women would be like that in today’s world. That was a very different time.

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  2. The graphic over Robert Pierpoint's description of the casket being carried out of the White House says November 25, 1963. It was Sunday, November 24th…about 45 minutes after the shooting of Oswald. Come on, CBS.

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  3. What an awful day that was. I didn't experience it firsthand (obviously), but I still feel so bad for our president, his family, and how much pain and the sense of helplessness our nation felt. May he rest in peace.

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  4. I was in 5th grade when it happened. A teacher came in with tears in her eyes and told my teacher the President was assassinated. We were all glued to our TV through the weekend. It is still vivid how shocking the news was.

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  5. It is absolutely mind boggling that the government is still withholding a lot the secret files regarding his assassination to this day, sixty years later. Yes, I know some of files were released this year, but the government is still holding a lot of files they deem “too sensitive “. Too sensitive for who?

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  6. I was 4 years old when my Grandmother, who was visiting for Thanksgiving, called me into the TV room to ask me to watch the CBS assassination coverage which is now on YouTube. I'll never forget what she told me with an ashen face, "John, something awful happened today." 😢

    A couple of years later in elementary school my teacher copied and passed out the coincidences between the Kennedy and Lincoln assassinations paper. I'm not saying it means anything, but it's worth a look anyway:

    Lincoln was elected President in 1860 and Kennedy was elected in 1960 exactly 100 years later. There are seven letters in each name, both Presidents were assassinated on Friday and both in the presence of their wives.

    Both were directly concerned with civil rights and both had the legality of their elections contested.

    President Kennedy’s secretary’s name was Lincoln, who warned him not to go to Dallas; Lincoln’s secretary’s name was Kennedy, who warned him not to go to the theater.

    Both of their successors’ names were Johnson, Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson. Each name contains 13 letters. Both men served in the U.S. Senate and both were southern Democrats. Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 and Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908.

    Booth and Oswald were both southerners favoring unpopular ideas. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and hid in a theater and Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and hid in a warehouse.

    Booth and Oswald were both murdered before a trial could be arranged. Booth and Oswald were born 100 years apart and each name, Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth, has 15 letters.

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  7. You see the young presidential couple smiling, shaking hands, being enthusiastically welcomed, and then you see them get into the limousine.
    You know what's coming and even after all these years you wish it didn't

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