Denis Morissette Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) Maybe soon, maybe not. Or maybe never. We’ll see. Anyway, there was that old man with a bowtie and a big microphone when Malcom Kilduff was talking. Nobody seems to have ever bothered to find out who he is. We now know his name. It’s Arthur W. Bales, Chief of the White House Communications Corp. He seems to have recorded the whole conference. I doubt his recording is mentioned in the WC or HSCA volumes. He was in a motorcade vehicle and got off in front of the grassy knoll before heading to Parkland. Researcher Alex Harris is making the necessary efforts to get a copy of the audio I feel confident are still existing. Linda Zambanini is the one who found a photo of Bales for my Motorcade Identification project blog. Edited March 19 by Denis Morissette Correction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis Morissette Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 There is another microphone that popped up at one point on the table in front of the speakers. It is probably the microphone used with a PA system in that room which is actually a classroom for nurses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis Morissette Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 (edited) The image I posted shows weird. I’ll try again later. Edited March 19 by Denis Morissette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis Morissette Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 In addition to the already known cameramen, Atkins, Craven, Welch and Alyea, I learned that 2 more cameramen were also filming. One was identified as Warren Faulks of KRLD by Linda Z. https://postimg.cc/SYY9L2XM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis Morissette Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 The other one is unknown. He’s behind Welch of WBAP. We’re still working on identifying him. He has a square press badge, so he’s local. https://postimg.cc/ts7chGWP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gayle Nix Jackson Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Denis!!! Thank GOD for JFK research like this. You Linda and Alex deserve huge Kudos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Morrow Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 How is the audio of the Parkland doctors' press conference going to be available soon? Has the U.S. Government even acknowledged that such a recording exists? The last time the government got its hands on such recordings, such as the TV films, they disappeared never to be found again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis Morissette Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 6 minutes ago, Robert Morrow said: How is the audio of the Parkland doctors' press conference going to be available soon? Has the U.S. Government even acknowledged that such a recording exists? The last time the government got its hands on such recordings, such as the TV films, they disappeared never to be found again. From Bales’ reports, it’s clear he recorded at Parkland. Doesn’t matter if the government acknowledges the recording or not. https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2018/02/whca-after-action-reports-112263.html? m=1&fbclid=IwAR3ouyWoxZE4YlnJCUZ6veg21CxecJf1lNb2J46iKDQTAF7Xhw4Y_z9ITZQ_aem_AYW8LiGvPLvGWHtoCpxRuP3Kvnbs4ipSitBiK1FvF-fdZ7dbcqdGk8-_SnJauwsejnw What recording exactly that disappeared in the government’s hands? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis Morissette Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 38 minutes ago, Gayle Nix Jackson said: Denis!!! Thank GOD for JFK research like this. You Linda and Alex deserve huge Kudos! Thanks, Gayle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Von Pein Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) Of course, the transcript of the Perry/Clark conference at Parkland does exist (see link below). But having an audio version of it would, indeed, be nice (should it actually exist). http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2010/10/parkland-press-conference-11-22-63.html Edited March 19 by David Von Pein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micah Mileto Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 An essential read with Gary Mack and David Lifton: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.assassination.jfk/c/bRJ690ZcAUg/m/NgC6NPEDpUEJ?pli=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Von Pein Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) "While the absence of any recordings of the 2:18pm Perry-Clark press conference is disappointing, there is information that explains why. First...I learned there were NO live cameras in that room. Here's why: 1) KRLD's two remote cameras were still at the Trade Mart as late as 1:35pm, when technicians started the long process of packing it all up and moving over to Parkland. This would have taken at least an hour. One camera was put in place in time for Dr. Robert Shaw's conference, which started around 3:30pm (that time is off the top of my head, but it was quite some time AFTER Perry & Clark finished.) 2) WFAA's cameras and remote truck were enroute back to the studio after having been in place at Love Field for the 11:35am landing and live broadcast. Their plans were originally to provide live pool coverage of JFK's return flight. At some point, their truck was sent to Parkland and had just arrived in time to catch the hearse with JFK leaving for Love Field. The other camera, I recall from some other source, was still being unloaded to bring inside the hospital. It would be virtually impossible to have it set up and available until at least 2:30-2:45 or later. They may very well have been waiting for Clark-Perry to finish to get into the room. 3) WBAP's remote truck sat in east Fort Worth at the side of the turnpike (now I-30) with a blown engine and no back up. Eventually, it was towed to Dallas City Hall and sat on Commerce Street the rest of the weekend. 4) KTVT, which offered its remote truck to WBAP in exchange for permission to carry NBC programming (the station was an independent in those days and had only a small news department), headed to Parkland from east Fort Worth, arriving just before 2pm. Their only live camera was poking up through the truck's roof and was turned on and recording as they arrived. Just a few minutes later, the hearse left the hospital with JFK and that scene was recorded. Again, it would have taken 30-45 minutes or more to get that camera moved out of the truck, into the hospital and set up. In short, none of the stations had video equipment in place to capture the press conference. As for TV news film cameras, there is a series of still photographs taken by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram of the Perry-Clark conference. The one in Lifton's book was taken early in that sequence. Many of the 30-40 images were shot from the back of the room and show a large, relatively empty classroom with only a few reporters present. Not one microphone or news film photographer are anywhere to be seen! What this means is that, despite Dr. Malcolm Perry's later explanation to the Warren Commission that there were microphones present, no recordings were made and only a handful of reporters covered it. This may not make sense to everyone, but TV news was equipment-challenged in those days. The best example is that of WBAP, then and now the NBC affiliate (today known as KXAS), which was far and away the #1 station in the entire Dallas-Fort Worth market in 1963. TV sound film cameras were cumbersome and generally not used for "spot" (breaking) news stories. So little use was made of sound in those days that the station only owned two sound cameras -- one was assigned to the Fort Worth office and one to Dallas. The Dallas camera that day was held by the station's Bob Welch, who filmed the only sound record of Malcolm Kilduff's announcement of JFK's death at 1:30. Bob then left the hospital and headed to downtown Dallas where there was more important news to cover. I do not know much about the other stations, other than WFAA had a silent camera there, but it only caught a few seconds of Perry's entrance into the room, suggesting that the photographer may have been sent by the station to another location and was, therefore, absent when the pictures were taken. As for the radio stations, the photographs show no microphones or audio tape machines in the room. I have heard original and first-generation copies of the radio station tapes, some of which have been in private hands, and there was no live radio broadcast on either KLIF, WFAA, KRLD, KBOX, WBAP, or any other major station, with the possible exception of WRR. Their tapes, or copies, are at the National Archives, but since indexes exist and there's no mention of such a broadcast, perhaps WRR wasn't there. The station was, and remains, owned by the city of Dallas (a highly unusual situation) and did not have much of a news department at all. So what does all this mean? I have to think, with some first-hand understanding of the business in those days, that only minimal coverage was done. Those kinds of stories are generally routine in nature and can be covered by the newer reporters or the wire services. The big story was what was happening at the TSBD, in Oak Cliff and at the police station, so that's where most reporters went. Others went to Love Field and were there from about 1:45 or 2pm until nearly 3pm. With breaking stories happening in four different parts of the city, Parkland was left virtually unattended." -- Gary Mack; December 22, 1999 Edited March 19 by David Von Pein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis Morissette Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 Mack didn’t see Bales with his mic or this unidentified cameraman behind Welch. He didn’t see the microphone on the table either. Hard to miss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Morrow Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 22 hours ago, David Von Pein said: Of course, the transcript of the Perry/Clark conference at Parkland does exist (see link below). But having an audio version of it would, indeed, be nice (should it actually exist). http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2010/10/parkland-press-conference-11-22-63.html David, could you fill me in on what happened to the video and audio version of the Parkland doctors' press conference? Exactly who (Secret Service or maybe FBI?) confiscated the audio/video and what the world ever happened to this important bit of history? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Von Pein Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 (edited) 2 hours ago, Robert Morrow said: David, could you fill me in on what happened to the video and audio version of the Parkland doctors' press conference? Exactly who (Secret Service or maybe FBI?) confiscated the audio/video and what the world ever happened to this important bit of history? I'm not sure any audio or video recording exists of the doctors' conference at all. It would be nice if such a recording did exist (either audio or video). I'd very much like to add it to my JFK A/V collection. So, Robert M., if you're hiding it in your basement or bomb shelter, please retrieve it and digitize it asap. 😜 Edited March 20 by David Von Pein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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