[GreenKeys] Kennedy TTY Traffic Re-creation for ITTY? on nov 22 ? Just a thought!.

Eric epvgk at limpoc.com
Sat Nov 16 15:51:28 EST 2013


On 11/16/2013 12:47 pm, Cory Heisterkamp wrote:
> I like the idea, but it raises a few good questions. In a typical day,
> was there any sort of "archive" for news sent over the UPI or AP wire?
> I'm assuming that after a tape was sent it was trashed.
> 

Given the number of "Original Kennedy Assassination Teletype" prints for 
sale on ebay for thousands of dollars it seems like every one ever 
printed was saved until now :) Either that or there's a cottage industry 
of people with a stash of old yellow paper and a model 15 making a 
killing on forging them. :)


> Part of the fascination of a recreation like this would be to make it
> as authentic as possible, to have other, real stories coming in over
> the wire before the Flash.
> 
> You see scrolls of typed output saved from major events, like this,
> and the moon landing (and put on eBay at preposterous prices). Does
> anyone have the scroll from the assassination?
> 
> When I have my 28 up and running, you'd be surprised the number of
> people, young and old, that ask me if the news coming in is current,
> or "old". -Cory
> 
> On Nov 15, 2013, at 2:44 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> Kennedy TTY Traffic Re-creation for ITTY? on nov 22? Just a
>> thought!
> 
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