Teletype Messages with Wire Service News Coverage of John F. Kennedy Assassination, November 22, 1963
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Artifact Overview
In the routine course of business, Ford Motor Company received a steady flow of news and financial reports from the Wall Street Journal. These dispatches came over the teletype machine on November 22, 1963 describing events from the arrival of President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline in Dallas through the official report of his death several hours later.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Dispatch
Date Made
22 November 1963
Subject Date
22 November 1963
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Report from Dow Jones Co. / Wall Street Journal wire service, based in New York, New York. Received at Ford Motor Company offices, Dearborn, Michigan.
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
97.1.1798.5
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Theodore H. Mecke, Jr.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Inscriptions
Printed on page one:
THE PRESIDENT WAS SLUMPED OVER IN THE / BACKSEAT OF THE CAR FACE DOWN - CONNALY LAY ON / THE FLOOR OF THE REAR SEAT / IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL AT ONCE WHERE / KENNEDY WAS HIT BUT BULLET WOUNDS IN / CONNALLY-S CHEST WERE PLAINLY VISIBLE
Printed on page two:
RE PLAINLY VISIBLE INDICATING THE / GUNFIRE MIGHT POSSIBLY HAVE COME FROM AN AUTO- / MATIC WEAPON / IT WAS DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE IMMEDIATELY / WHETHER THE FIRST LADY AND MRS CONNALLY WERE / INJURED / VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON WAS IN A CAR / BEHIND THE PRESIDENT-S / THERE WAS NO IMMEDIATE SIGN THAT HE WAS / HURT - IN FACT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE AT ALL / AT WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED
Printed on page three:
TO JOHNSON SINCE / ONLY THE PRESIDENT-S CAR AND ITS SECRET SERVICE / FOLLOW-UP CAR WENT TO THE HOSPITAL / AT 1 50 P M EASTERN STANDARD TIME ACTING / WHITE SECRETARY MALCOLM KILDUFF WAS ASKED / WHETHER THE PRESIDENT WAS DEAD / - I HAVE NO WORD NOW - KILDUFF REPLIED
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Related Content
Set
JFK Remembered: Assassination
- 32 Artifacts
This memo was written by Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy administration, just after he learned of the death of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. He describes, in very personal terms, his reaction to the news from the President's brother, Robert Kennedy, that the president had been shot.