This forensic re-enactment of the assassination
of President Kennedy was conducted by the Warren Commission in
Dealey Plaza on May 24, 1964. The re-enactment was first filmed
from the position of the Zapruder film, then from the position
of the Nix film, then from the position of the Muchmore film.
Alyea film of 6th floor of Texas School Book
Depository
jkasknot.wav - "And
so, my fellow Americans - ask not what your country can do for
you - ask what you can do for your country".
jkshalbr.wav - "Let
every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we
shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support
any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success
of Liberty".
More President John
F. Kennedy
jkjimcrw.wav - Kennedy's
announcement of legislation he introduced to Congress designed
to end "Jim Crow" laws.
jfkgomon.wav - "We
choose to go to The Moon in this decade, and do the other things
not because they are easy, but because they are hard".
Before the Assassination
jkblopr1.wav - President
Kennedy makes a humorous gaff during a speech in Houston mere
hours before his assassination.
jkjaqi01.wav - Kennedy
jokes about his wife's popularity at the Dallas Chamber of Commerce
banquet the morning of his assassination.
jkcchat.wav - Texas Chamber
of Commerce President Raymond Buck presents President Kennedy
with a hat at a banquet the morning of the assassination.
jkcurry1.wav - Dallas
Police Chief Curry speaks at an 11/18/63 news conference on measures
that will be taken to protect the President in preparation for
his arrival in Dallas.
jkcurry2.wav -
From the same news conference as above, Police
Chief Curry continues to his department's preparations
and makes an appeal to the general public to be
on the lookout for anything suspicious.
jkmotr01.wav - News
coverage of the Presidential motorcade through the streets of
Dallas just prior to arrival at Dealey Plaza.
Reactions After the
Assassination of JFK and Wounding of Gov. Connally
jkwfaabl.wav -
WFAA TV Dallas breaks in to their regularly scheduled broadcast
to report the shooting of President Kennedy.
jkprkl01.wav - KLIF
TV reporter Roy Nichols covers the vigil outside Parkland Hospital
moments prior to the announcement of the death of the President.
jkdeath1.wav - WFAA
TV Dallas first reports the death of President Kennedy via telephone
from Parkland Memorial Hospital.
jkwfaaaz.wav - WFAA
TV Dallas introduces and interviews at their studios Abraham
Zapruder, who filmed the famous "Zapruder" assassination
film, during his first public comments on the murder on the day
of the assassination.
jkwfaadd.wav -
WFAA TV cites sources in Washington DC in reporting the death
of President Kennedy.
jkwfaaot.wav -
WFAA reports that a Secret Service agent and a Dallas policeman
were just shot and killed close by to where the President was
shot. The policeman was Tippet - the report of the murder of
the agent was apparently in error.
jkabcnyc.wav - ABC Network
Reporter Jules Bergman reports from Times Square on the public
reaction in New York City to the President's death the day of
the assassination.
jkasreac.wav - The then
US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson makes a moving tribute
about the President the day of the assassination to news reporters.
jkbgreac.wav - Barry
Goldwater's reaction to the assassination.
jkdereac.wav - Former
President Eisenhower makes a public statement in grievance of
the death of President Kennedy.
jkhtreac.wav - Former
President Truman reacts to the President's death to reporters.
lolegalh.wav Lee
Harvey Oswald speaks to reporters after his first interrogation
by Police authorites, requesting legal assistance and denying
having shot the President. Real
audio Version
loviolnc.wav -
Reporters chase after Oswald as he first arrives for questioning
by the Police, and again denies having committed "any acts
of violence".
jkhwchrg.wav - Dallas
District Attorney Henry Wade in a press conference gives the
time of Lee Harvey Oswald's being charged with the Tippet
& Kennedy murders.
jkoslndl.wav -
Oswalds' landlord, Earlene Roberts, recounts Oswald's activites
immediately after the assassination.
jksgtjh.wav -
Dallas Police Sgt. Jerry Hill gives a press briefing on the arrest
of Lee Harvey Oswald.
President Lyndon
Baines Johnson
jklbjsi.wav -
The swearing-in of Vice President Johnson as President aboard
Airforce One, recorded on a dictabelt, and read from the contents
of a dictionary.
jklj1prs.wav -
Pres. Johnson gives first Press Conference as President at Andrews
Air Field, Washington D.C., immediately upon his return from
Dallas.
* Some files digitized by 1995-1997 James Charles
Kaelin.