22–25 November 1963
Dallas to Arlington
Start with KLIF, because KLIF is the sound of a city finding out about itself — a Top 40 station that dropped its format mid-record and did not pick it up again for three days. Then move outward: Voice of America telling the world, shortwave from New York, and the flight deck of Air Force One negotiating a swearing-in over the Gulf. Sunday morning belongs to the Dallas Police radio traffic, recorded on dictabelt, as Oswald is moved to the county jail. Monday belongs to Arlington. American networks carried seventy hours with no advertising at all.
18 recordings · 10 broadcasters
Who carried it
22 November
1963
Archive recordings
52 min
The Dallas station that broke the story to its own city. Continuous air from the first bulletin, recorded off the air on 22 November 1963.
22 November
1963
Archive recordings
1h 0m
The Dallas station that broke the story to its own city. Continuous air from the first bulletin, recorded off the air on 22 November 1963.
22 November
1963
Archive recordings
1h 14m
The Dallas station that broke the story to its own city. Continuous air from the first bulletin, recorded off the air on 22 November 1963.
22 November
1963
Archive recordings
8 min
How the United States told the rest of the world, in the hours after Dealey Plaza.
22 November
1963
Archive recordings
24 min
Shortwave coverage beamed abroad from New York on the afternoon of 22 November 1963.
22 November
1963
Archive recordings
1h 34m
A small New England station's air on the afternoon of the assassination.
22 November
1963
Archive recordings
22 min
Off-air recording of American network coverage from the afternoon of the assassination.
22 November
1963
Archive recordings
1h 4m
Off-air recording of American network coverage from the afternoon of the assassination.
22 November
1963
Archive recordings
2h 22m
The radio traffic between Air Force One, Andrews and the Cabinet aircraft on the flight back from Dallas. Held by the US National Archives;
24 November
1963
Archive recordings
31 min
The Dallas Police Department's own radio traffic on the morning Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in the basement of police headquarters.
24 November
1963
Archive recordings
31 min
The Dallas Police Department's own radio traffic on the morning Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in the basement of police headquarters.
24 November
1963
Archive recordings
30 min
The Dallas Police Department's own radio traffic on the morning Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in the basement of police headquarters.
24 November
1963
Archive recordings
30 min
The Dallas Police Department's own radio traffic on the morning Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in the basement of police headquarters.
24 November
1963
Archive recordings
30 min
The Dallas Police Department's own radio traffic on the morning Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in the basement of police headquarters.
25 November
1963
Archive recordings
2h 56m
CBS's three-hour assembly of its own coverage, from the Dallas motorcade to the burial at Arlington on 25 November 1963.
26 November
1963
Archive recordings
2h 34m
NBC News Radio's memorial documentary, assembled in the days after the funeral.
26 November
1963
Archive recordings
21 min
The contemporary documentary LP narrated by Reid Collins, built from KLIF and network actuality across all four days.
26 November
1963
Archive recordings
25 min
The contemporary documentary LP narrated by Reid Collins, built from KLIF and network actuality across all four days.