Teletype Message 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
97.1.1798.54
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: 11 in
Width: 8.5 in
Inscriptions
Printed on front: K / UPR575 /BULLETIN: / (DALLAS) --- PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY OF TEXAS / HAVE BEEN CUT DOWN BY ASSASSINS BULLETS IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS. / THEY WERE RIDING IN AN OPEN AUTOMOBILE WHEN THE SHOTS WERE / FIRED. / THE PRESIDENT, HIS LIMP BODY CRADLED IN THE ARMS OF HIS WIFE, JACQUELINE, / HAS BEEN RUSHED TO PARKLAND HOSPITAL. /
UPR76 / MORE KENNEDY BULLETIN X X X HOSPITAL / THE GOVERNOR WAS TAKEN TO THE SAME HOSPITAL. / THE PRESIDENT HAD SPOKEN THIS MORNING IN FORT WORTH, THEN FLEW / TO DALLAS. / MCH KL145PES 2 / HE WAS TO DELIVER A SPEECH DURING A MOTORCADE THROUGH THE CITY. / NEWSMEN SOME FIVE CAR LENGTHS BEHIND THE PRESIDENT HEARD WHAT / SOUNDED LIKE THREE BURSTS OF GUNFIRE. / SECRET SERVICE AGENTS IN THE CAR FOLLOWING THE PRESIDENT'S / QUICKLY PULLED AUTOMATIC RIFLES. / THE BUBBLE OF THE PRESIDENT'S CAR WAS DOWN WHEN THE SHOTS / RANG OUT. / THE PRESIDENT SLUMPED OVER IN THE BACK SEAT, FACE DOWN. / CONNALLY LAY ON THE FLOOR OF THE REAR SEAT. WOUNDS IN THE / GOVERNOR'S CHEST WERE CLEARLY VISIBLE. / THE WOUNDS INDICATED AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON WAS USED. / THREE LOUD BURSTS OF GUNFIRE WERE HEARD BEFORE THE PRESIDENT / AND GOVERNOR FELL /
BULLET WOUNDS WERE PLAINLY VISIBLE IN CONNALLY'S CHEST. / IT WAS DIFFICULT TO TELL AT FIRST WHETHER THE FIRST LADY AND MRS. / CONNALLY WERE INJURED. // AN ESTIMATED 250-THOUSAND PERSONS LINED THE STREETS. / AT 12:50 P-M CENTRAL TIME, ACTING WHITE HOUSE NEWS SECRETARY / MALCOLM KILDUFF WAS ASKED WHETHER THE PRESIDENT WAS DEAD. HE SAID / "I HAVE NO WORD NOW."
VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON WAS IN THE CAR BEHIND THE PRESIDENT'S. / THERE WAS NO IMMEDIATE SIGN THAT HE WAS HURT. / SOME OF THE SECRET SERVICE AGENTS THOUGHT THE GUNFIRE WAS FROM / AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON FIRED TO THE RIGHT REAR OF THE PRESIDENT'S / CAR... PROBABLY FROM A GRASSY KNOLL WHICH POLICE RUSHED. / CONGRESSMAN JIM WRIGHT OF FORT WORTH SAID BOTH KENNEDY AND CONNALLY / WERE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED BUT WERE ALIVE. / A CALL HAS BEEN SENT OUT FROM SOME OF THE TOP SURGICAL SPECIALISTS / IN DALLAS. A CALL ALSO WENT OUT FOR A PRIEST. / FK1P11/22CST
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