Saturday, November 16, 2013

 In 1963 I was news director of WOLF Radio in Syracuse, New York. Five bells clanged on the UPI wire service machine. I knew that was a bulletin. Before I could get to the machine, another WOLF employee called and told me that shots had been fired in Dallas according to ABC Radio. I didn't know it but I was about to almost lose it when I had to tell my listeners that the President of the United States was dead. This is a 25 minute timeline of the events of November 22, 1963 through November 24th, the day the president was buried in Arlington, Cemetery. Much of what you will hear was the result of hours of phone calls to Dallas because WOLF had no national network and for many hours I had to go it alone. Ultimately a competing station allowed WOLF to pick up it network programming. In 1969 I had moved to WPOP in Hartford and decided to go through my old tapes to produce an anniversary program of what it was like on the day Kennedy died. This is the result of that effort.