He also on numerous occassions announced a switch to washington and assumed it was to the house of representatives when in fact it was to either a member of senate or a correspondent who was talking about the senate.
I agree. Don Gardiner did a superb anchoring job on ABC Radio. Alan Jackson was very good on CBS Radio...better than his colleague Dallas Townsend. On NBC Radio , I personally couldn't stand Morgan Beatty. He sounded like a know-it-all and was more of a commentator than he was an anchor, claiming to have the inside scoop on the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and sounding as if he knew everything and knew far more than the correspondents in the field. He also made numerous assumptions about various aspects of the story that were proven to be false. He also on numerous occassions announced a switch to washington and assumed it was to the house of representatives when in fact it was to either a member of senate or a correspondent who was talking about the senate.
Frank McGee repeating someone else's words, though, didn't have quite the same impact as Walter Cronkite getting emotional.Listening to the NBC coverage I feel they were well ahead of the other two networks in terms of radio, while in terms of television, CBS and NBC were both impressive
Frank McGee repeating someone else's words, though, didn't have quite the same impact as Walter Cronkite getting emotional.
On CBS Radio, when the UPI bulletin comes in, Alan Jackson seems to heave a big sigh, then reads the text with the preamble, "Ladies and gentlemen, the president is dead." He finishes the flash, there's a pause, then someone tries to roll some music, playing at the wrong speed. He is also the one who pauses, then skips over the earlier wire service report that Cllint Hill said to Scotty Reston, "He's dead."
On ABC, stalwart Don Gardner reads the flash, says, "Let us pray," silent pause (which sounds edited in on the version I've heard), then turns it over to Quincy Howe for comparison to other assassinations.
NBC Radio had Edwin Newman reading takes as they were fed to him. He gets the one about the "two priests who were with President Kennedy say he is dead," drop his voice in volume and says, "I will repeat that, with the deepest regret, two priests who were with President Kennedy say that he is dead." (Emphasis mine. Does anyone remember if they were carrying TV audio at the time the official announcement is made?
And which network (I think NBC-TV) that reported the first official White House confirmation of the death was a shot of the flag being lowered to hast-staff.
Some new JFK recordings from Detroit (NBC-WWJ on 11/22, a half hour of WJBK-FM on 11/23) are now available at Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
http://www.mcrfb.com/
On CBS Radio, when the UPI bulletin comes in, Alan Jackson seems to heave a big sigh, then reads the text with the preamble, "Ladies and gentlemen, the president is dead." He finishes the flash, there's a pause, then someone tries to roll some music, playing at the wrong speed. He is also the one who pauses, then skips over the earlier wire service report that Cllint Hill said to Scotty Reston, "He's dead."
On ABC, stalwart Don Gardner reads the flash, says, "Let us pray," silent pause (which sounds edited in on the version I've heard), then turns it over to Quincy Howe for comparison to other assassinations.
NBC Radio had Edwin Newman reading takes as they were fed to him. He gets the one about the "two priests who were with President Kennedy say he is dead," drop his voice in volume and says, "I will repeat that, with the deepest regret, two priests who were with President Kennedy say that he is dead." (Emphasis mine. Does anyone remember if they were carrying TV audio at the time the official announcement is made?
And which network (I think NBC-TV) that reported the first official White House confirmation of the death was a shot of the flag being lowered to hast-staff.
Interesting to see the newspaper wire had the same basic items as the broadcast wire.
I remember reading that in those days, Dallas wasn't staffed like a major market. I don't know the time stamp on the story you read, but because it was a breaking story all day, they decided to run the same story on both wires.
