“THREE SHOTS WERE FIRED AT PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S MOTORCADE”
(KENNEDY ASSASSINATION). Original Associated Press International teletype reports of the Kennedy assassination. Dallas, 1963-64.
Original Associated Press International teletype with breaking news of the Kennedy assassination, beginning with text from Kennedy's (undelivered) speech and followed soon by "President Kennedy has been shot in Dallas," followed by accounts of his being rushed to Parkland hospital. Teletype segments go on to record the president's death, the search for the assassin, the swearing in of Johnson as the new president, the arrest and shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald (and later the arrest of Jack Ruby), and Kennedy's funeral. $15,000.
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