Your help appreciated,
Pat Speer
On page 544 of Pictures of the Pain, Trask quotes from the radio
interview, and describes it as "one of several emotional interviews
recorded on audiotape that day." His source for this interview is
footnoted on page 560, and is an LP by Colpix Records entitled The
Actual Voices and Events of Four Days That Shocked the World." This
leads me to believe Trask is a clueless as we are as to what time this
was actually recorded.
Some EBAY listings for this record claim it was put together by WNEW,
if that's any help. I don't have the record, but if you do, maybe it
would be worth a look.
How it happened? Huh? Looks like another scalper site to me. Every thing
for sell with no value. Every link is a sell. Isn't there supposed to be
some rule against this sort of petty self promotion on this board. If not
I'll set up a fake, pretentious board too.
Anybody can get those interviews from the many documentaries. Why pay for
something when it is already free?
If my memory serves me correctly, Brehm told me in 1979, when I
first came to know him, that the radio interview was done with him
over the telephone from home. There is also an interview he gave from
home, I'm thinking with CBS, that is on LP album, and in the
background the radio is playing "Winchester Cathedral". I honestly
cannot recall which interview that is, nor do I recall if it was ever
broadcast on TV.
Thanks, Steve, That sounds about right. I originally believed the radio
interview was first, but in listening to them on DVP's channel, it's clear
Brehm is more emotional in the TV interview. He also makes no mention of a
third shot after the head shot. Since he only mentions this later, on the
phone, at home, it seems possible he only decided there had been a third
shot AFTER hearing reports by others that there had been in fact three
shots.
Personally, I don't think Brehm changed the amount of shots he
actually heard, because he said many times that the 3rd shot seemed to be
the one that scared him the most. It scared him most because he thought
the gunman was going to start "shooting up the place". What most people
base his hearing 2 shots on is his agreement with a reporter who said "Two
shots", but, this does not mean that this was all Brehm heard.
Regarding the NBC interview at 3:15, look closely and in the background
is 5 year old Joe Brehm, looking out the window. Brehm said that they
remained at the sheriff's office for 3 or 4 hours. Evelyn Brehm, who
worked for Sanger-Harris at the time, was watching the coverage of the
assassination in the store when the interview came on, and she screamed
"Oh my God, that's my husband!".
Thanks, Dave. Upon further digging, I've come to believe that the
interview originated with KLIF. There is a Brehm interview on an LP
entitled KLIF--The Fateful Hours.
If anyone has that LP, and knows what it says in the liner notes, it
would be appreciated.
From my video records, an audio -only portion of Brehm’s interview was
broadcast at 3:13 pm from WBAP-TV. It ran approximately one minute and 30
seconds with reporter Tom Whelan on the air.
Whelan began the report with a description of J.C. Day removing a rifle
from the TSBD. He then played the emotional Brehm interview.
The video portion of the Brehm interview was broadcast on the Huntley-
Brinkley Report sometime later in the evening. It is not at a home
however. It looks like police headquarters and there are several
reporters’ microphones in his face. In the first few seconds, there is a
man in a hat standing behind Brehm and behind them is what looks like a
desk with several hats piled on top of each other. There is also some kind
of sign on the wall. I believe the reporter who is holding a phone up to
Brehm is James Kerr, as this is the same interview that Whelan played
earlier.
The reporter's name is Charles Murphy, and, he made many mistakes during
the broadcast in describing events on that day, including calling J.D.
Tippit "Officer Tipper".
As far as Brehm's misnaming the street he was standing on, and your claim
that Brehm was not a reliable witness, that is really stretching it a lot.
Brehm was obviously very affected by what he had just witnessed, and it's
no big deal that he misnamed the street he was standing on, under the
circumstances. For God's sake, Tony. He just saw the president of united
states, a person he deeply admired, get his head shot off.
I saw the record at only one local library many hears ago.
No I don't "miss the point". The point is, is that you are just
wrong.
You are correct with what Murphy said, but he was at WBAP-TV (NBC) not
KRLD-TV (CBS).
I did not mention which station he was with in my posts, but yes,
I knew he was the NBC affiliate, WBAP-TV.
I went back and watched the NBC footage on DVP's Channel, and the footage
at 3:13--right before Jean Hill and Mary Moorman--is the video interview,
not the radio interview.
Does the video "As it Happened" help at all?
Excuse me Mr. Speer, but you made an outrageous claim regarding an
extremely important issue when you said there was no large protrusion in
the back of JFK's head following the final shots, and stated that it was
an illusion caused by Jackie's right hand.
I replied by posting a video in which it is quite easy to see that even
if her hand was blocking part of the head, the protrusion remained and
was just as massive as it was before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXglIRrg3Kg
Why did you evade my response?
When I make errors like you did, I publicly acknowledge them and admit I
was wrong. Why can't you do the same?
Robert Harris