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

Dispatch

22 November 1963

22 November 1963

Report from Dow Jones Co. / Wall Street Journal wire service, based in New York, New York. Received at Ford Motor Company offices, Dearborn, Michigan.

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Theodore H. Mecke, Jr.

Printed on front: SENATE ADJOURNS SESSION / WASHN - AP - THE SENATE ADJOURNED UNTIL NOON / MONDAY AFTER A PRAYER BY ITS CHAPLAIN FOR / PRESIDENT KENNEDY KILLED IN DALLAS TEX / THE HOUSE WAS NOT IN SESSION / THE PRESIDENT-S YOUNGER BROTHER SEN EDWARD / M KENNEDY D-MASS WAS PRESIDING OVER THE SEN- / ATE WHEN HE RECEIVED WORD OF THE SHOOTING / HE WENT TO HIS OFFICE BUT LEFT THERE ALMOST / IMMEDIATELY - HIS STAFF SAID THEY DO NOT KNOW / WHERE HE HAD GONE / ATTY GEN ROBERT F KENNEDY THE PRESIDENT-S / OTHER BROTHER AND CLOSEST ADVISOR WAS HAVING / LUNCH AT HOME WHEN WORD OF HIS BROTHER-S SHOOTING / REACHED HIM / ALL ACTIVITY AT THE WHITE HOUSE - - / AS APPARENTLY IN EVERY OFFICE OF THE GOVERN- / MENT - - CAME SWIFTLY TO A STOP WHEN NEWS OF / THE AMBUSH SHOOTING IN DALLAS ARRIVED / SIX OF CABINET AWAY / WASHN - AP - SIX MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY-S / CABINET WERE OUT OF THE COUNTRY FLYING TO JAPAN / WHEN THE PRESIDENT WAS KILLED TODAY / AN HOUR AND A HALF OUT OF HONOLULU THE / SECRETARIES WERE ADVISED OF THE KILLING AND IM- / MEDIATELY TURNED BACK - THEY WERE EXPECTED TO / SPEED BACK TO WASHINGTON / THE PARTY WAS ON THE WAY TO A MEETING WITH / MEMBERS OF THE JAPANESE CABINET / IN THE PARTY WERE SECRETARY OF STATE RUSK / SECRETARY OF COMMERCE HODGES SECRETARY OF / LABOR WIRTZ SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR UDALL / AND SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE FREEMAN WITH THEIR / WIVES / OTHERS ABOARD WERE WALTER HELLER CHAIRMAN / OF THE PRESIDENT-S COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS / AND MRS HELLER WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY / SALINGER AND ROBERT MANNING ASSISTANT SEC- / RETARY OF STATE FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS / ADD - KENNEDY / DALLAS - AP - LT ERICH KAMINSKI OF THE SECRET / SERVICE BUREAU SAID THE ASSASSIN-S WEAPON / APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A -HIGH-POWERED ARMY OF / JAPANESE RIFLE OF ABOUT 25 CALIBER- - THE / RIFLE HAD A SCOPE ON IT HE SAID / THE ENTIRE BUILDING WHERE THE SNIPER WAS / LOCATED WAS EVACUATED - PEOPLE WERE WORKING IN / THE BUILDING AT THE TIME OF THE SHOOTING / ALLAS POLICE INSPECTER J H SAWYER / SAID -POLICE FOUND THE REMAINS OF FRIED / CHICKEN AND PAPER ON THE FIFTH FLOOR - APPARENT- / LY THE PERSON HAD BEEN THERE QUITE AWHILE- /AFTER KENNEDY WAS SHOT THE PRESIDENT-S / SECRET SERVICE DRIVER RACED AWAY FROM THE SCENE / HEADING FOR THE NEAREST HOSPITAL AND TRYING TO / GET THE PRESIDENTIAL PARTY OUT OF RANGE OF / FURTHER GUNFIRE / THE TRANSPARENT PLASTIC ROOF OF THE VEHICLE / HAD BEEN REMOVED FOR THE MOTORCADE / SECRET SERVICE AGENTS RIDING WITH THE / PRESIDENT AND IN A SECOND CONVERTIBLE FOLLOWING / CLOSE BEHIND IMMEDIATELY DREW PISTOLS AND / AUTOMATIC WEAPONS - BUT THEY WERE UNABLE TO / GET A SHOT AT THE GUNMAN