Walter Cronkite

This is water grind guide in our newsroom and there has been an attempt as perhaps you know now on the life of president Kennedy. He was wounded in an automobile driving from Dallas airport into downtown Dallas, along with governor Connelly of Texas, they've been taken to Parkland hospital there where their condition is as yet unknown. We have not been told their condition at Dallas in the downtown hotel room, a group had been gathered to hear president Kennedy when his waiting his arrival. Let's switch down there now where Eddie Barker of krld is on the air. As you can imagine, there are many stories that are coming in now as to the actual condition of the president. One is that he is dead. This can not be confirmed. Another is that the governor Connolly is in the operating room. This we have not confirmed. The president was whisked from the scene of the attempted assassination or assassination depending upon his condition of course at this hour by bus to Parkland hospital. And the president undoubtedly is in the emergency room at that hospital which would be on the first floor of Arthur. No word is yet. We are awaiting something more official. It is, of course, difficult certainly to go on scanty reports. Back at the CBS newsroom in New York, we have just been advised from Dallas that blood transfusions are being given to president Kennedy, let us recall for you now what has transpired in this reporting they've been told by some of the hospital and the president is that only a woman that they've been told that they are all the same. Well, that's a repeat of something that you heard reported to you directly a moment ago from KR LD television in Dallas. And that is the rumor that has reached them at the hotel that the president is dead. Totally unconfirmed apparently as yet. However, let's go back to krld in Dallas. Operating room. We do not know what his condition is. But the report is that the president is dead. This is not confirmed. This is something that we're just came to us a minute ago. The word we have is that president Kennedy is dead. This we do not know for a fact what word we have is that he is dead. He was shot by an assassin at the intersection of elm and Houston streets. Just as he was going into the underpass, the word we have is from a doctor on the staff of Parkland hospital who says that it is true. He was in tears when he told me just a moment ago. This is still not officially confirmed, but as I say, the source would normally be a good one. That was very Barker at our affiliate in Dallas, Texas, speaking from the room where president Kennedy had been scheduled to make an address to three Dallas organizations, but an assassin's bullets cut him down on the way a two that meeting from the airport. It was just an hour ago that the incident took place. We have just learned however that father huber, one of the two priests called into the room, has administered the last sacrament of the church to president Kennedy. Regarding the probable assassin, the sheriff's officers have taken a young man into custody at the scene, a man 25 years old we are we just have a report from our correspondent Dan Rather in Dallas that he has confirmed that president Kennedy is dead. There are still no official confirmation of this, however, it's a report from our correspondent Dan Rather in Dallas, Texas. We're now going into that analysis luncheon, the president had planned to address let's go back prayers. We understand our underway. This shall be the. Vice president Lyndon Johnson, has not been seen in the corridors of the Parkland hospital. He was said to perhaps have been slightly wounded in the arm, misses Lyndon Johnson says that the vice president though is fine. Throughout the streets of Dallas, the Dallas police had been augmented by some 400 policemen called in on their day off because there were some fears and concerns in Dallas, that there might be demonstrations at least that could embarrass the president and because it was only on October the 24th that our ambassador to the United Nations adley Stevenson was assaulted in Dallas, alleviating a dinner meeting there. From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official, president Kennedy died at 1 p.m. central standard time. 2 o'clock eastern standard time, some 38 minutes ago. Vice president Johnson has left the hospital in Dallas, but we do not know to where he has proceeded. Presumably he will be taking the oath of office shortly and become the 36th president of the United States.