AHTER 1963 05 John Kennedy Assassination Part

As it comes in, obviously it's going to be sketchy for some time, because you can imagine what is happening to every circuit. Radio and telephone between the East Coast and Dallas, Texas at this moment. Obviously the circuits are jammed.

The information that we have, which is no time obviously for speculation, facts are all that are warranted. Here is something else. It was impossible to tell at once where Kennedy was hit, but bullet wounds in Governor Connolly's chest were plainly visible, indicating the gunfire might possibly have come from an automatic weapon.

There is this, uh, representative Albert Thomas, a member of the House of Representatives, said he was informed that President Kennedy and Governor Connolly are both still alive have been shot in an assassination attempt. This is from Dallas. It is the first word we have that they are in fact still alive. It is the first thing definitive that we have. As

we say, we can give you only as much as we have. It is that both men were wounded by an assailant or a salence. It's not known who did it or why. And it was also reported from Dallas that it was not determined whether the secret service in Dallas police returned the gun fire that hit the president and the Texas governor. There is no word that the

assailants have been captioned or cited, probably because the focus of attention now understandably is on the president and not so much on those who committed this act. I have some additional information here, Bill, which would indicate that the Secret Service man guarding the president had no chance to return fire. This item says reporters about