WRUL (RADIO NEW YORK WORLDWIDE) (SHORTWAVE STATION) (NOVEMBER 22, 1963)

[@DavidVonPeinJFK]

In 1963, WRUL was a shortwave radio station in Scituate, Massachusetts. In 1966, the station's call letters were changed to WNYW ("New York Worldwide"). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNYW_(shortwave)

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Bravo, David for bringing us new audio when we think it is all in. You are doing great work, Pal!

[@franksantore2810]

@DavidVonPeinJFK Again, Von Pein you are the GOAT!

[@stlmopoet]

Yes! Thanks for finding a new source.

[@tomsullivan6032]

Thank you David again for another historically important find!

[@classiclife7204]

Still one of the best channels on KZbin. Meantime, these folks running the shortwave broadcast were calmingly professional.

[@johndonohoe3778]

One of the best broadcasts I’ve heard. Should be a learning tool for today’s broadcasters.

[@autoscape1963]

Thank you, David. Hard for me to express what your channel means to me. November 22, 1963: I was in 3rd grade at St. Williams Catholic School in Chicago's West side. Over the PA System Sister Pascaletta said: ' Attention all teachers and students, we have received word that President Kennedy has been shot in a motorcade in Dallas Texas'. I remember immediately asking myself "what is a motorcade?" I never heard that word before. The teacher instructed us to begin praying the Rosary. After a minute or two, she instructed one of the students to continue leading the prayers while she went into the hall to see what information she could gather. After about 15 minutes, Sister Pascaletta came back on the PA and announced the death of the President. Our teacher was trying to control her emotions as where several of the girls in my class - they were quietly sniffling and choking back tears. We had an early dismissal - my father who was off on Friday's picked us up on the corner where the bus would ordinarily drop us off. It was pouring rain in Chicago at that moment. I remember watching the arrival of the presidential plane in DC that evening and my mother being horrified at being able to see the blood stains on Jackie Kennedy's pink suit. She remarked how touching it was that Jackie wanted to ride in the ambulance with the body of the President. We watched the news the entire weekend and of course we were off on Monday. Your channel is the most thorough archive of any world news event that can be found. My sincere thanks for the education, and for keeping this most important historical event in the forefront of our memories. Bless you sir.

[@kamilla1960]

Thank you for collecting these rarities.

[@edwinjohnson7580]

I was born 19 months later. The stress level and levels of dread in the country listening to the radio and watching television during the first hour had to have gone through the roof.

[@bobtaylor170]

You can't imagine. I was in 6th grade. They wouldn't tell us! But we all knew something terrible had happened. Everybody in my class managed pretty well, but I didn't. I had what would later be called PTSD, the result of having survived a murder attempt four years earlier. The tension, because the egotistical principal wanted the pleasure of telling us all the bad news herself. The tension was so bad it provoked a PTSD affective flashback in me.

[@NYNick49]

Thank you, David, for this remarkable historic recording.

[@lisabradford8180]

i don't know how you find these gems of history but i appreciate it. thank you 💖💖

[@williamcallaghan2023]

thank you very much David for finding this coverage, another great finnd

[@saphirus1able]

Thanks so much for obtaining this and sharing it David!

[@greencm7142]

Amazing that you are still able to find these radio broadcasts. Your channel is excellent.

[@billholdensaunt4086]

another fantastic find david as a talk radio fan for 35 plus years as well as a current avid sw listener it is so interesting to hear first hand how a sw broadcast went down during the event. Just a beginning student with all things jfk and imo you are at the very top of sources on yt as well as with your personal sites. It is so refreshing to know that someone like you took the time to put this all together for generations to study. I was only 11 at the time however to this day remember it like it was yesterday like most where and when in detail

[@bobtaylor170]

Thanks as ever, David.

[@paulcurioso7742]

Thank you David,for this historic brodcast.

[@gmaneis]

For those of us who were alive at the time, this recording brings back the tension and horror of those first reports. It was a terrible day for the USA and the world.

[@suzannekasztelan430]

This is incredibly gripping.

[@nickhoagland6568]

David !! ! I was afraid you had found all the broadcasts available from 11/22/63 and you give us this wonderful video! Thank you Thank you Thank you!

[@disneyforthewin]

Your a magician David. Thank you sir.

[@williamcallaghan2023]

can really feel the emotion in Don Gardiner's voice, trying to keep it together, did an excellent job

[@tomsullivan6032]

Great find DVP! Thank you.

[@iVenge]

The variety of perspectives offered in broadcast media in those ninety minutes is simply fascinating.

[@sjwilloughby-greene8214]

This makes me so sad.

[@marktwain5232]

I was 17 years old in High School. At 1:50 PM EST (12:50 PM CST in Dallas, TX - approximately 20 minutes after the shooting) a Schoolboy Patrol member walked into the HS Principal's office and turned on the uncertain and confused radio coverage over the speakers in every classroom.) He had heard of it walking past school bus radios in the maintenance garage. It was an astounding day. What it felt like to be an American on 11/21/63 completely changed on 11/22/23. The bullet through JFK's head from the Grassy Knoll essentially instantly killed 58,000 American young men in the Vietnam War. It just took time for their deaths to reach them. Me. U.S. Army 1969-1971. I lived. The rest is completely pathetic history down to this day.

[@CuteLesbo69]

​@@marktwain5232the bullet did not come from the grassy knoll.

[@marktwain5232]

@@CuteLesbo69 Where did it come from then? I was in Dallas, TX on business 16 years later in 1979. In the late afternoon, I walked down to Dealey Plaza and stood behind the corner of the picket fence on the Grassy Knoll and meditated on the entire scene for over an hour. Dealey Plaza is without a doubt one of the greatest places on Earth to assassinate someone. Do you, yourself, have military training with weapons of war? The gradient of Elm Street is far steeper in person than it looks. That is not an easy shot from the TSBD 6th floor window with a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle with a jimmied scope in the three shot time frame. There is no way I could make that shot to the head. Back and to the right. Back and to the right. And it was not from the car speeding up. This was a military level crossfire ambush. What is your theory?

[@CuteLesbo69]

@@marktwain5232 ok first, please don't take any of my comments as an attack, I just really enjoy talking about this. So yes I do believe it was Oswald and Oswald only. The back and to the left movement is from the Jet effect of the bullet leaving the front of his head, the spray out pushed the head back and to the left. No, I do not have military training, but was raised with firearms. The 3 shots fired in the time frame have been proven to be possible. If you want to break down the evidence and claims etc. step by step, I recommend you read "Reclaiming History" by Vincent Bugliosi. He really goes indepth on things.

[@franksantore2810]

@@CuteLesbo69 Bugliosi's book made me believe that the conspiracy theories are not true. For ALL of them to have occurred, you would had to have 350 people all perfectly aligned and on board with the conspiracy. Here's one that debunks everything. If the clerk at the Western Union office had been late in giving Ruby a receipt for the payment he sent to Karen Carlin, Oswald would have been safely on the truck to the county jail.

[@pastorearl1]

"Perhaps a turning point in world history..." how prescient. Another amazing one. I heard one part on your ABC compilation where someone interrupted the broadcast to give the news in Spanish. Now I realized who that was. By the way, was the announcer Don Pardo? It certainly sounded like him, but he was doing the announcing at NBC for the first bulletins. Just wondering. Thanks again!

[@DavidVonPeinJFK]

I'm pretty certain Don Pardo isn't part of this shortwave broadcast.

[@jjf5690]

Great content thank you... Can you find reactions from ppl like the guy who stopped at a show to tell the audience the president was dead and you can hear there crowd ? If there is any more videos like that

[@VincentVanDerHyde-y4b]

I was 21. Standing by the API and UPI teletype news machines. The damn bells went off like never before. "Three shots have been fired at the Presidential motorcade......." I fled home to the TV for the next 4 four days solid. The whole country came to a halt.. No traffic. Nobody on the streets. Nothing open. All in front of the TV.

[@GTurch52]

Amazing!!!

[@Albertanator]

Very powerful!!!

[@ronaldwilliamson7963]

This station was owned by the Mormon church, but was being sold at this time. I remember listening on a trans oceanic zenith to a popular standards music show on this station called Mel in Manhattan.

[@scottaznavourian3720]

For the record this was lkke the 4rh or 5th time jfk was ever given the last rites. In a somewhat morbid reaction when his mother heard about him getting them in Dallas she assumed he was going to make it again...

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

This shortwave broadcast on the Dallas Texas shooting was very fine simply the news and news flashes

[@thud9797]

Father Huber should have called somebody to pick them up and sneak them out of the hospital instead of walking into the lions den of reporters who you know nailed them down on whether the President had died or not and not wanting to lie they had to admit it. He should have seen that coming and he regretted the story that he was the one who leaked that information for the rest of his life.

[@charlesmeadows6285]

I wonder if anyone knows all about shortwave radio and how far does it transmit?

[@pauldavis7310]

Depending on weather conditions, time of day or night and power of transmitting station it can reach around the world.

[@TimDavis-f7j]

I was only a year and a half at the time so I have no memory of President Kennedy's assassination, however I remember my Mom telling me years later that for about 45 minutes the country had no president until LBJ was sworn in on the back of Air Force One

[@vostock83]

Which network owned this radio station?

[@DavidVonPeinJFK]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNYW_(shortwave)

[@futuremath08]

Most of the American people were depressed upon hearing this news, but in the South there were celebrations.

[@prinefan5]

ABC's Bob Clark needed to stop playing grab ass in parking lot.

[@davidmoser3535]

you need to stop playing pocket pool with your nuts

[@prinefan5]

@@davidmoser3535 possibly so. But Bob Clark was obviously playing grab ass with some of the other press guys instead of answering the phone.

[@JamesKosty-l3b]

I was 6 years old. I remember it well.