JFK Videos

[David Von Pein]

I thought I'd start this thread in order to share several of the JFK-related videos I've collected over the last 25+ years. I'll add more videos on a regular basis.

This first video is a real rarity, because it's the only assassination-related video I have in my collection that comes from Fort Worth television station KTVT-TV (Channel 11). It's silent 11/22/63 footage that focuses on Parkland Hospital shortly after JFK was shot. It includes a glimpse of the hearse as it leaves Parkland with JFK's body....

[David Von Pein]

[John Corbett]

Interesting. Of course I knew of the SS recreation but this is the first time I saw that reporters were allowed in. I believe the CBS reporter said his name was Lou Wood. He sounded a lot like Cronkite. I noted he said the three shots were fired in under 10 seconds. Apparently the Six Seconds in Dallas myth had not yet been formulated.

[David Von Pein]

Interesting. Of course I knew of the SS recreation but this is the first time I saw that reporters were allowed in. I believe the CBS reporter said his name was Lou Wood. He sounded a lot like Cronkite. I noted he said the three shots were fired in under 10 seconds. Apparently the Six Seconds in Dallas myth had not yet been formulated.

Related to what John just said above, in the 11/29/63 phone call between Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover (linked below), Mr. Hoover made this statement to LBJ (at the 9:15 mark):

"Those three shots were fired within three seconds."



Now, as I think some more about the seemingly absurd "within three seconds" remark made by Hoover, I suppose it's possible that what Hoover meant to convey to LBJ is this:

"[Each of] those three shots [was] fired within three seconds [of each other]", which would mean about a six-second shooting timeline in total.

But Hoover's statement as it was spoken certainly makes it sound as though the FBI (as of November 29th) thought the entire assassination, from start to finish, took only three seconds (at most). ~shrug~

More of the FBI's early mistakes relating to JFK's assassination are discussed in my article HERE.

[John Corbett]

Related to what John just said above, in the 11/29/63 phone call between Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover (linked below), Mr. Hoover made this statement to LBJ (at the 9:15 mark):

"Those three shots were fired within three seconds."



Now, as I think some more about the seemingly absurd "within three seconds" remark made by Hoover, I suppose it's possible that what Hoover meant to convey to LBJ is this:

"[Each of] those three shots [was] fired within three seconds [of each other]", which would mean about a six-second shooting timeline in total.

But Hoover's statement as it was spoken certainly makes it sound as though the FBI (as of November 29th) thought the entire assassination, from start to finish, took only three seconds (at most). ~shrug~

More of the FBI's early mistakes relating to JFK's assassination are discussed in my article HERE.

Hoover might have been the most clueless person in the government surrounding the facts of the assassination. It's almost as if the facts weren't going up the chain of command to Hoover or they were getting garbled before they reached him. Either way, he didn't seem to know much at all and tried to fake his way through his conversations with LBJ.