[GreenKeys] Kennedy TTY Traffic Re-creation for ITTY?
John Nagle
nagle at animats.com
Sun Nov 17 19:36:08 EST 2013
On 11/17/2013 8:39 AM, greenkeys-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> 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. :)
I've wondered about that myself. There are 16 "original Kennedy
assassination Teletypes" on eBay right now, including one that's
supposedly from the Dow Jones "Broad Tape" news service.
John Nagle
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