Teletype Message with Wire Service News Coverage of John F. Kennedy Assassination, November 22, 1963

THF228290 / Teletype Message with Wire Service News Coverage of John F. Kennedy Assassination, November 22, 1963

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

Creators

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.

Collection Title

Teletype Messages with Wire Service News Coverage of John F. Kennedy Assassination

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

97.1.1798.31

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)

Dimensions

Height: 27.5 in
Width: 8.5 in

Inscriptions

Printed on front: JONES CLOSING BOND AVERAGES... / CLOSING GRAIN PRICES... / ADD - SENATE ADJOURNS / WASHN - AP - THE WHITE HOUSE FLAG WAS LOWERED / TO HALF-STAFF WITHIN MOMENTS AFTER THE NEWS / ARRIVED / TELEPHONE SERVICE IN THE NATION-S CAPITAL / COLLAPSED TEMPORARILY - THE SUDDEN LOAD OF TELE- / PHONE CALLS SWAMPED CENTRAL STATIONS AND IT WAS / IMPOSSIBLE TO GET A DIAL TONE TO MAKE CALLS / CLOSING GRAIN PRICES... / ADD - KENNEDY / DALLAS - AP - KENNEDY-S BODY WAS REMOVED FROM / PARKLAND HOSPITAL AT 2 05 PM -CST- IN A CREAM / COLORED AMBULANCE WITH CURTAINS TIGHTLY DRAWN / MRS KENNEDY RODE IN A PASSENGER SEAT IN THE / AMBVULANCE - - A TYPE OF VEHICLE WITH TWO / SEATS FOR PASSENGERS / SHE AND THE BODY WERE ESCORTED FROM THE / EMERGENCY ENTRANCE OF PARKLAND BY TWO MOTORCYCLE OFFICERS / MRS KENNEDY WALKED OUT THE BACK DOOR OF THE / EMERGENCY ENTRANCE AS THE BODY WAS TAKEN OUT / THOSE WHO SAW HER ENTER THE HOSPITAL AN / HOUR AND A HALF EARLIER SAID SHE HAD NOT / BEEN HYSTERICAL / WHITE HOUSE AIDE KILDUFF SAID THE PRESI- / DENT-S BODY WOULD BE FLOWN TO WASHINGTON THIS / AFTERNOON / 3 30 PM FOREIGN EXCHANGE... / LONDON MARKET AVERAGES... / NEW YORK CLOSINGS... / ADD - KENNEDY / DALLAS - AP - THE DALLAS SHERIFF-S DEPARTMENT / SAID A RIFLE HAD BEEN FOUND IN A STAIRCASE ON / THE FIFTH FLOOR OF A BUILDING NEAR THE SCENE / OF THE ASSASSINATION - IT WAS A 7 65 MAUSER - / THE GERMAN-MADE ARMY RIFLE HAD A TELESCOPIC / SIGHT WITH ONE SHELL LEFT IN THE CHAMBER / THREE SPENT SHELLS WERE FOUND NEARBY

Keywords	United States, District of Columbia, Washington United States, Michigan, Dearborn United States, Texas, Dallas Correspondence Dispatches Documents Printouts Ambulances Assassinations Deaths Flag raising and lowering Reporters and reporting Teletype United States presidents Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994 Dealey Plaza Historic District (Dallas, Tex.) Dow Jones & Co. Ford Motor Company Parkland Hospital (Dallas, Tex.) Texas School Book Depository (Organization)

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