[GreenKeys] Interesting item on eBay web site item#3632597599: JFK Assassination Teletype Machine /Documents
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Title of item: JFK Assassination Teletype Machine /Documents
Seller: cyber_sellers
Starts: Oct-18-03 08:51:18 PDT
Ends: Oct-25-03 08:51:18 PDT
Price: Starts at $9,000.00
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Item Description:
At Cyber Sellers�, we have clients that presents us with amazing items. This is truly one of them. We are offering a historical one of a kind item:
An Official Associated Press� Teletype Machine with the all actual teletypes that came from this machine the day JFK was Assassinated! These documents were saved in a briefcase, wrapped in plastic for 40 years! This is a 100% authentic and sworn letters of authenticity will come with this purchase signed by Mr. Merle Hill. In the photos displayed is one of Merle Hill present day and another as the news editor with the actual teletype machine behind him.
Our client was given this machine as a retirement present in 1982 as the Telegraph and news editor of La Crosse Tribune in La Crosse and has decided that it should go to someone who can give it a �more proper display.� We had contacted Associate Press headquarters in New York to offer this fabulous find. They are building a museum that will open in late 2004, but unfortunately negotiations broke down.
The documents are unbelievable, whether you believe the government�s version that Oswald was the one or if there was truly a conspiracy at the highest level. These documents will give you the unfiltered version that the American public never saw.
JFK Teletype Documents
Teletype Dimensions
Height 41.5�
Width 20�
Length 21�
Weight @200 lbs
BRIEF OVERVIEW
Interesting Information/Highlights
Merle Hill was the Telegraph Editor and News Editor for The LaCrosse Tribune, Associated Press (AP) from 1946-1982. In the newsroom he had both Minnesota and Wisconsin wires.
Teletype paper #
#12�First declaration that Kennedy was indeed dead was not until page 12.
Note: Teletype paper is called �News copy�
#13�*FLASH*- used only for �earth-shaking� events! This is the only FLASH Mr. Hill had ever seen in 36 years of work!
#14�*BULLETIN*- this is the detail of the FLASH.
4th Lead is the first complete story
�hidden assassin w/ high powered rifle..� By this BULLETIN the �whole world knew Kennedy was dead.�
#14 is �Galley 1��.Galley means �chunk of type�
Galley trays are �Lead Lines of Type�
�Galley� and �Add� are synonomous
#15�Galley 2
#16, #17�Reaction Stories
#18�Oswald arrested but public and press still unaware he was involved in assassination
#20� �Add� to #17 (follows last word �capital�)
#21�Johnson sworn in (sameday)
#22�Subsequent stories� �With Kennedy�
#24� �With Kennedy�� Sporting event cancellations
#25�*KENNEDY�S BIOGRAPHY*
Papers have biography information on file for �such a time as this.�
#26�(4) Galleys for story
Crossed-out material is called �Garble�� Transmission problem (unusable)
Text of Johnson�s speech to Joint Section of Congress (�Morning Cycle�)
�Very long, interesting piece of copy!�
�Wrap-Up�� this is what was printed in the paper�teletype documents weren�t actually sent in by Mr. Hill. (He sent in the Wrap-Up information� this was more efficient, time-wise)
Here is a sample of the actual print on some of the teletype including all the teletype garble errors: (We did not include all the print for security of this auction)
1. bulletin
DALLAS AP - President
Kennedy was shot today just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas. Mrs. Kennedy jumped up and grabbed Mr. Kennedy. She cried, �Oh, no!� the motorcade sped on.
AP photographer James W. Altgens said he saw blood on the president�s head.
Altgens said he heard two shots but thought someone was shooting fireworks until he saw the blood on the president.
Altgens said he saw no one with a gun.
2.
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BULLETIN
DALLAS AP � President
Kennedy was given blood transfusions today at Parkland Hospital in an effort to save his life and he and Gov. John Connally of Texas were shot in an assassination attempt.
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LEAD KENNEDY SHOT
DALLAS P � President Kennedy and Gov. John Connally of Texas were shot from ambush today.
It was not known whether either was killed.
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DALLAS � add Kennedy lead
179: killed.
Kennedy apparently was shot in the head. He fell face down in the back seat of hits car. Blood was shot on his head. Mrs. Kennedy cried, �Oh, no!� and tried to hold up his head.
Connally, remained half-seated, slumped to the left. There was blood on his face and forehead.
The President and the governor were rushed to Parkland Hospital near the Dallas Trade Mart, where Kennedy was to have made a speech.
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DALLAS AP � President Kennedy was shot today just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas. Mrs. Kennedy jumped up and grabbed Kennedy. She cried, �Oh, no!� The motorcade sped on.
AP photographer James W. Altgens said he saw blood on the Presidents head.
Altgens said he heard two shots but thought someone was shooting fireworks until he saw the blood on the President.
Altgens he saw no one with a gun.
AP reported Jack Bell asked Kenneth O� Donnell, presidential assistant, if Kennedy was dead. O� Donnell gave no answer.
Kennedy was reported taken to Parkland Hospital, near the Dallas Trade Mart, where he was to have made a speech.
Bell said Kennedy was transferred to an ambulance. He lay in a seat of the car. Blood stained his clothing.
Bell reported three shots were fired as the motorcade entered the t r I p l e underpass which leads to the Stemmons Freeway route to Parkland Hospital.
Pandemonium broke loose around the scene.
The Secret Service waved the motorcade on at top speed to the hospital.
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DALLAS, Tex. AP � Rep. Albert Thomas, D-Tex., said today he was informed President Kennedy and Gov. John Connally of Texas were both still alive after having been shot in an assassination attempt.
Thomas, standing outside the corridor of the emergency room in which both Kennedy and Connally were under treatment, said he had been told that the President was still alive but was �in very critical� condition.
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2nd Lead Kennedy
DALLAS AP � A sniper shot President Kennedy and Gov. John Connally of Texas in downtown Dallas today. U.S. Rep. Albert Thomas of Texas said both were still alive in a hospital emergency room.
The Secret Service said the President remained in the emergency room and the governor was moved to the general operating room of Parkland Hospital.
d One Secret Service mad was overheard telling another that there was no need to move the President because emergency facilities were entirely adequate in the emergency room.
Two Roman Catholic priests were summoned to the emergency room where the President lay. One was identified as a Father Huber.
Malcolm Kilduff, acting White House press secretary said the two priests had been �asked for.�
Kennedy 3rd graf 179-180.
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Dallas-add 2nd lead 182: for.�
�What does this mean?� he was asked.
�I don�t know,� he said, �anything except that the priests were asked for.�
Dallas police were quickly posted in the corridors leading to the emergency room and Secret Service agents turned reporters back 40 feet from the door.
There was an unconfirmed report the ice President Lyndon Johnson had been wounded slightly. One spectator said he saw Johnson walk into the hospital holding his arm.
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BULLETIN
DALLAS AP � President Kennedy was given the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church today after an assassin shot him down while the President was riding in a caravan.
A priest who helped perform the last rites said he did not believe the President was dead.
The priest left the emergency operating room at Parkland Hospital and walked out of the hospital.
10.
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URGENT
3rd Lead
DALLAS AP- President Kennedy and Gov. John Connally of Texas were gunned down by a hidden sniped as they drove out of downtown Dallas today in what had been a triumphal motorcade.
There was no immediate word on the extent of the wounds suffered by the 46-year-old chief executive and the governor.
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DALLAS-Two priests who were with Kennedy say he is dead of bullet wounds.
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BULLETIN
DALLAS AP - Two priests stepped out of Parkland Hospital�s emergency ward today and said President Kennedy had died of his bullet wounds.
The priests came out of the ward at Approximately 1:37 p.m. CST.
The announcement by the priests brought audible sobs from a crowd of scores of newsmen and other citizens crowded around the emergency entrance.
Sen. Ralph Yarborough, D-Tex., talking only to newsmen. Collapsed in sobs as e told of witnessing the slaying on the President.
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DALLAS-President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. CST
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BULLETIN
4th LEAD
DALLAS AP � President John F. Kennedy, thirty-sixth president of the United States, was shot to death today by a hidden assassin armed with a high-powered rifle.
Kennedy, 46, lived about an hour after a sniper cut him down as his limousine left dowtown Dallas.
Automatically, the mantle of the presidency fell to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, a native Texan who had been riding two cars behind the chief executive.
There was no immediate word on when Johnson would take the oath of office.
Kennedy died at Parkland Hospital where his bullet- pierced body had been taken in a frantic but futil effort to save his life.
Lying wounded at the same hospital was Gov. John Connally of Texas, who was cut down by the same fusillade that ended the life of the youngest man ever elected to the presidency.
Connally and his wife had been riding with the President and Mrs. Kennedy.
oThe first lady cradled her
The first Lady cradled her dying husband�s blood-smeared head in her arms as the presidential limousine raced to the hospital.
�Oh no,� she kept crying. Connally slumped in his seat beside the President.
Police ordered an unprecedented dragnet of the city, hunting for the assassin.
They believed the fatal shots were fired by a white man, about 30, slender of build, weighing about 165 pounds, and standing 5 feet and 10 inches tall.
The murder weapon was reportedly a 30-30 rifle.
Shortly before Kennedy�s death became known, he was administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. He had been the first Roman Catholic president in American history.
Even as two clergymen hovered over the fallen President in the hospital emergency room, doctors and nurses administered blood transfusion.
Kennedy died of a gunshot would in the brain at approximately 1 p.m. CST according to an announcement by acting White House Press secretary
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