You've likely seen the famous CBS News broadcast with Walter Cronkite delivering the news of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy. Perhaps you've never heard the  coverage as the events in Dallas unfolded. This is audio from WBAP in Fort Worth as it reported the shooting on November 22, 1963.

The WBAP coverage begins with the Kennedy motorcade beginning its trip to the Trade Mart where the president was scheduled to give a speech.

The first news flash of the shooting occurs at 50:44 in this video.

WBAP plans on rebroadcasting portions of the live coverage on the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination on November 22, 2013.

 

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