The Missing Four Minutes, Part 2

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson · Nov 13, 2023 · 12m

TVC 627.3: From November 2013: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays audio of the first national news bulletin for NBC News, read by booth announcer Don Pardo at approximately 1:47pm ET on Nov. 22, 1963, announcing that President Kennedy had been "cut down by an assassin's bullet." Due to the technical limitations of TV broadcasting at the time, NBC had no tape of this bulletin or the first four minutes of its own news coverage. Those first four minutes were considered lost for more than twenty years, until it was discovered circa 1988 that only Phil had the presence of mind to make…