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Three original Associated Press teletype rolls reporting the breaking news of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas, Texas, and the subsequent manhunt for assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963. The rolls comprise over 60 feet of bulletins (AP114 to AP228), including one roll—primarily AP114—measuring approximately six feet in length; a second, covering AP117 to AP170, extending roughly 30 feet; and a third, spanning AP204 to AP228, reaching nearly 25 feet. The teletype rolls include reports on the shooting, witness accounts, Mrs. Kennedy’s reaction, Secret Service and police response, events at Parkland Hospital where the President was ultimately declared dead, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson’s swearing-in, and the pursuit and arrest of the gunman. Highlights are as follows:
AP114: “Reporter Jack Bell reports three shots were fired as the presidential motorcade entered a triple underpass in Dallas that leads to the Stemmons freeway. After the president was shot, the Secret Service waved the motorcade on at top speed to the nearby Parkland Hospital.”
AP131: “The President is assassinated…President Kennedy is dead. Sniper with a high-powered rifle shot him to death as Kennedy rode in a motorcade out of downtown Dallas…Mrs. Kennedy holdng his blood-stained head kept crying ‘Oh no.’ Kennedy died of a shot in the brain…At the hospital Kennedy was given a blood transfusion – in vain…He died about 30 minutes after he was shot.”
AP134: “Police now say President Kennedy was assassinated by a shot fired from a warehouse. The entire building has been evacuated…[Police] said the sniper apparently had been there for some time. The Secret Service said the assassin apparently used a high-powered army or Japanese rifle of about .25 caliber.”
AP136: “Police have arrested a white man in the Riverside section of Fort Worth in connection with the shooting of a Dallas policeman. The man denied any connection with the assassination of President Kennedy.”
AP142: “Police in Dallas have arrested a 24-year-old in connection with the fatal shooting of a Dallas Policeman shortly after President Kennedy was killed. The man is Lee H. Oswald. Police are quizzing him to see if he had any connection with the slaying of the president.”
AP161: “Lyndon Johnson has taken the Oath of Office as President of the United States after the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Doctors at the Dallas Hospital where the President was taken said he never regained consciousness after being shot, but he was administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic church. The president’s body is being returned to Washington tonight and will lie in state at the White House tomorrow. The funeral is expected to take place in Boston. The Secret Service, the FBI, and the Dallas Police are joining in what may be the biggest and most determined manhunt in the nation’s history — the hunt for the killer of President Kennedy.”
First Five-Minute Summary: “Within an hour of the shootings, Dallas police had arrested 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald—who works in the building from which the assassination shots were fired. Dallas Police Captain Will Fritz says it has been established that Oswald was in the building when the rifle shots were fired. A Dallas policeman was fatally shot shortly after the assassination some four miles away from the assassination scene, and Fritz says Oswald has been charged with murder in that death—and has been identified by witnesses as the policeman’s slayer.
Oswald has been associated with a pro-Castro Cuban group and at one time—when he was in Russia—surrendered his passport and said he wanted Russian citizenship. He has denied any shootings…
Lyndon Johnson took the oath as the 36th president of the United States shortly after President Kennedy’s death. Johnson took the oath in a compartment of a jet plane at Love Field in Dallas, and he took over the reins of government when he arrived in Washington Friday night. Almost immediately after arriving in Washington, he said in a broadcast to the nation—‘I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help—and God’s.’” Rolled and in overall fine condition, with edgewear, and some tape-repaired tears, the worst occurring to a football score bulletin.
