FYI....
On December 5, 2016, I launched my Master Index catalog of all the programs in my video/audio collection, which is an extensive resource that might prove useful to some people out there. This catalog, which I regularly expand, includes thousands of video files (JFK-related and otherwise), most of them available for streaming, downloading, and embedding through the handy Google Drive file hosting service.
If anybody finds a broken link or a misspelled word (or some other mistake), please let me know.
Thanks.
Click the logo below....
JOHN CORBETT SAID:
Thanks, David. I've bookmarked this one. Hopefully next time I want to check out a related video, I'll remember to go to your library first.
CHRIS BENNETT SAID:
Thanks, DVP.
I've watched dozens of hours of material that you have collected. Always appreciated.
HUGO LANGENDOEN SAID:
Thanks for this great list of resources. It is wonderful to have so many items in one place!
[...]
Every time I take a look, I see / find something interesting.
Thanks for all the great work you are doing with this collection.
MICHAEL WALTON SAID:
This is a really nice collection, David. The CC [Closed Captioning] button shows up, but when I click on it, the subtitles (auto mode) don't come on. Is it possible for you to go into it and turn it on? It wouldn't just be for me, as you can imagine how older folks actually do use captions.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I have no control over that Captions button, Michael. There is no way for me to turn it "on" or "off". But that CC/Subtitles button shouldn't be there at all. No captions have ever been available for Google Drive videos [as of early December 2016]. That option, in fact, was just added to the function controls on the Drive video players within the last few weeks. Prior to that, no Captions button was there at all.
What I think has happened is that the Google Drive players have now totally mimicked the players used at YouTube. (They're both "Google" entities, of course.) They are identical in design, and they've now decided to transfer the "Captions/Subtitles" button over to the Drive players too, even though the captions are not available at Drive.
Now, it's quite possible, Michael, that captions will be available for those Drive videos at some point in the future. Perhaps the recent addition of the Caption button means that they plan to make such an option available there soon. I really don't know.
Of course, as you no doubt know, those "Auto Captions" that are used at YouTube are almost useless. They only represent a loose approximation of the actual quotes from the video, and most of the time the results are hilarious. But on some occasions, a few of the words being spoken are actually represented correctly in the captions. But more often than not, they are mangled badly.
I occasionally click on the Caption button on my Drive videos just to see if that option will start working some day. But so far, no dice.
MICHAEL WALTON SAID:
What you say makes sense, David. For what it's worth, the auto function is getting much better. I read a while back that Google bought out this small start-up that has come up with a better speech to text translator. After I read that, over the ensuing months I've noticed a big improvement on auto captions. For example, I was watching the 11/22 Cronkite bulletin elsewhere on YT and was amazed at how much better it was.
You can always tell when it's auto vs inserted text when the captions roll up one line at a time.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
That's good news. I hope Google Drive will add the Captions to their videos in the future. It would be quite useful to many people, as you suggested.
VINCE PALAMARA SAID:
Dave,
Your collections are outstanding, man!
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Much obliged, Vince.
Finding a rare video (or audio) gem to add to my archive is always a treat. Such as this 1961 interview with President Kennedy [also embedded below], which was done live from the President's box in the stands at Griffith Stadium in Washington prior to the opening baseball game of the '61 season. It is the only time (to date) that a POTUS has been interviewed from the stands at a baseball game. That particular video is especially satisfying for me, because it combines two of my favorite subjects for archival purposes—JFK and baseball.
MICHAEL WALTON SAID:
It's nice to see you have 70's Reds games on your channel. I grew up cheering for Rose, Bench, Morgan and the others. I remember when I was 7 years old, we walked over from Newport to the newly opened Riverfront. We had good blue seats and before the game, Bench was down by the rail signing autographs. I went down late and tried to reach my hand through the others to see if he'd take it. He actually pushed hands away to make a "parting of the seas" and reached up and grabbed mine to sign. A great moment for me as he was one of my favorites along with Rose.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Michael,
I had a similar experience at Riverfront as a 10-year-old in 1972, which I talk about in this Amazon review (I still have this book too).
ALLAN G. JOHNSON SAID:
I don't know if it's my new laptop or the new windows 10 OS, but the videos and audio on your site are awesome. They are quick to access and run flawlessly. Your site is still the best one-stop resource for both original and latest material on this subject, as well as everything else you post on it.
Well done.
JEAN DAVISON SAID:
Great work, David, as usual. Thanks for putting that online.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Thank you (all)!
P.S./FYI -- I have added dozens of additional links to the Index in the last few days (re: movies, more baseball games, another JFK speech [from 10/26/63], a rare interview with Johnny Bench [when he was just 20 years old], and many other miscellaneous items).
JOHN CORBETT SAID:
WOW. One more thing to thank you for, David. That is an awesome collection of baseball audio and videos you have there, including one that is near and dear to my heart, game 7 of the 1968 World Series, in which Mickey Lolich outdueled Bob Gibson to complete a Tiger comeback from being down 3 games to 1. As a lifelong fan of the Tigers, that game is in my top 3 favorite sporting events of all time. I was a high school senior at the time and the game began while I was in class. .... I made it home in time to see the last inning. Now I'll be able to watch that game from the start.
I'm going out on a limb and guessing you are a fan of the Cincinnati Reds. I'm very interested in that interview with Johnny Bench. My family moved to Columbus, OH in 1966 and I believe it was about a year later he made his first appearance with the Reds. I never became a Reds fan, but you couldn't help but be impressed by how good Bench was. You just couldn't steal second base on him when he first came up.
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I have a challenge for you. If you remember a few years ago, you asked [in
this 2011 Internet post] why there weren't more video clips of other visits JFK made to other cities. I pointed out that typically such videos weren't saved because storage space cost money. I pointed out that even videos of great sporting events were not saved except for highlights and I pointed out as an example game 7 of the 1960 World Series in which the Pirates beat the Yankees on Mazeroski's lead-off 9th inning home run.
Even though it was one of the iconic games in the history of baseball, nobody thought to save a tape of it other than the highlights. At least that was what was believed for years. Then somebody discovered a film in Bing Crosby's vault of that game. Crosby was part owner of the Pirates at the time, but he couldn't attend the World Series because he was booked to perform in Paris at the same time. He was able to listen to the game on Armed Forces radio. Back home, he had someone film the TV broadcast of the game. It turned out to be the only footage of one of the greatest baseball games played.
When it was discovered, ESPN acquired the rights to it and played the entire game in a special broadcast. If you could somehow score a copy of that game, it would be a great addition to your library. Maybe you already have and I just overlooked it. If so, let me apologize now. In any case, I will be looking at some of those old broadcasts, particularly the 1968 World Series game.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Hi John!
Yes, I'm a Reds fan. (Although I don't follow too much baseball these days, except for the Cubs amazing win in the 2016 World Series.) But back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I kept track of every Reds game and every Reds player. I would keep track of all the stats by hand (via my pocket calculator and a manual Olympia typewriter with sticky keys). How's that for dedication? :-)
And it was during those years when I was unbelievably obsessed with Cincinnati Reds baseball (the 1970s and '80s) that enabled me to also record many Reds radio highlights on audio cassette tapes, which in recent years I've transferred to digital copies for my computer, and I've now added those recordings to my audio/video index too [linked below]:
And I want to say "Thanks" to you, John, for bringing up the rare TV broadcast of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series. It's been available on YouTube for two years now, and I've watched it twice. But until you coaxed me today to add it to my own Index of programs, I had not yet done so (and I'm not quite sure why I hadn't). I had been satisfied, instead, to stick with the last two innings of the radio broadcast of that classic game.
But after reading your "challenge", John, I've now added the complete television broadcast of that 1960 game to my archives too, right here.
ROBIN UNGER SAID:
Large extensive Archive, David.
I can see that you must have spent thousands of hours collecting that material and uploading it Online.
I for one appreciate the hard work that has gone into creating this resource.
MICHAEL WALTON SAID:
Agree with Robin. Unbelievable amount of work and effort David has put into his archive, and I think the historical record is better for it. Kudos to David.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Thank you, Robin (and Michael).
DAVID VON PEIN LATER SAID:
More stuff from the Master Index:
On June 8, 1962, at the White House....
On the same day, Juan Marichal pitched against Bob Gibson in this baseball game....
Among the great players who participated in the above game at St. Louis....
Willie Mays, Stan Musial, Curt Flood, Orlando Cepeda, Willie McCovey, Ken Boyer, and the aforementioned Marichal and Gibson.
And Harry Caray and Jack Buck in the radio booth.
As Harry would say: Holy Cow, what a lineup!
AND A LITTLE LATER, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Reds vs. Mets....
May 21, 1975....
Billingham vs. Seaver....
1st ever HR for Doug Flynn....
AND STILL LATER, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
How about this one for an old-time baseball goodie? ---
The 1934 All-Star Game....
Featuring such greats as Ruth, Gehrig, Hubbell, Frisch, Medwick, Foxx, and Dickey....
This is the game which had Carl Hubbell striking out 5 straight future Hall-of-Famers....
JASON BURKE SAID:
Now *that* was worthwhile.
JOHN CORBETT SAID:
Now that [1934 All-Star Game] is one hell of a find. I didn't even know there were complete recordings of old radio broadcasts of baseball games. I knew certain highlights have been saved (The Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant).
Where the hell am I going to find the time to watch/listen to all these great old broadcasts of classic baseball games that DVP has given us. Maybe if we get a crippling snowstorm in the Midwest that forces us all to cocoon for about a week I might be able to get to them.
Just kidding, David. This is much appreciated.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I also recently discovered this collection of old baseball games:
Classic Baseball Radio Broadcasts.
And here's the complete 1951 "The Giants Win The Pennant" game....
JOHN CORBETT SAID:
This is a gold mine. There goes my free time for the next few months.
Thanks again.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
An addendum (just for John Corbett)....
http://otrrlibrary.org/Baseball Broadcasts
JOHN CORBETT SAID:
WOW, that is one great collection. The one that has me baffled though is the Cubs/Mets from 1966. That was the first year the Mets didn't finish dead last in the National League. They finished 9th. The Cubs finished 10th. I'm trying to figure out why someone would save that broadcast. Maybe it was a rabid Mets fan and that was the game they move out of the cellar. Maybe it was considered historic back then.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Well, I saved a bunch of Reds radio highlights from 1982, '83, and '84 -- three of the worst years ever for the Big Red Machine. I saved them because that just happened to be the point in time in my life when I was closely following the team every day (and keeping all the stats , etc.).
Fortunately, though, 1985 was much much better for Cincinnati when I was still in my "baseball obsessed" mode---an exciting 2nd-place finish in '85 plus Pete Rose chasing down and passing Ty Cobb (and we should have had the NL MVP that year too, IMO--Dave Parker--but he lost out to Willie McGee).
I started keeping track of Reds games in 1972, but my stat sheets were much thinner and didn't include very much. I wish I had been able to tape a lot of games off the radio in '72 and '73 (with Al Michaels), but I was just a small tot back then (and I couldn't afford to buy the tapes or the tape recorder either).
I was recently able to download and save one regular-season Reds TV game from 1972 (below). It's a game that was played just four days after I personally obtained 13 Reds autographs (including Johnny Bench's) in the Riverfront Stadium parking garage. I'm hoping I can find more Reds games from this era in the future:
ALLAN JOHNSON SAID:
Why on earth did the Reds decide to fire Sparky in 1979?
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I've been asking myself that question since they fired him.
ALLAN JOHNSON SAID:
Do you think the Reds would have been better off keeping him?
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Well, overall, yes, I think so. Sparky Anderson was an excellent "players" manager. But as far as the 1979 season specifically is concerned, it would be hard for Sparky to have done any better than his replacement (John McNamara) did during the '79 regular season. McNamara led the Reds to the N.L. West championship that year.
Hindsight is always perfect, though. If the Reds had been able to see into the future, I kind of doubt they would have let Frank Robinson get away after the 1965 season either. (No trade could possibly have been worse than that one.)
DAVID VON PEIN LATER SAID:
Hey John C.! At Amazon.com today, I came across this excellent 2012 review for the Season One DVD of "This Week In Baseball" (the classic baseball highlights TV show hosted by Mel Allen), and I was wondering if you were the "John Corbett" who wrote it?
JOHN CORBETT SAID:
No, but I wish I was. I'll check it out.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
The reason I bumped into that review is because I was doing some research on "This Week In Baseball", in order to try and verify the exact dates when the episodes were first aired (although I know it was a syndicated program, which means the shows might have aired on different days in different cities).
Anyhow, I've now added some of the "TWIB" episodes to my Video Index (which is why I wanted to confirm the air dates, since I hate inaccurate data on my webpages).
These "TWIB" shows are fun to see 40 years later. Remember Mark "The Bird" Fidrych of the Tigers? (Sadly, I just learned today that Fidrych was killed in 2009 in a freak accident involving a dump truck he owned. He was only 54.)
JOHN CORBETT SAID:
I not only remember Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, I was the home plate umpire for the first pitch he ever threw in professional baseball (1974). It was for the Bristol Tigers of the Appalachian League (rookie league). I think he was drafted in about the 19th round by the Tigers and generally players drafted that low aren't considered major league prospects. He was a surprise. He started out as a short reliever for Bristol (they weren't called closers back then).
It was the first series of the season and I remember the Bristol first base coach (last name Hogan but don't ask me his first name) walking past me between innings and asking me if I ever watched Sesame Street. I told him I didn't but he asked me if I knew who Big Bird was and said I did. He told me to take a look at the relief pitcher they were bringing in and see if I thought he looked like Big Bird. Sure enough, he was tall and gangly with a Harpo Marx hairstyle and he looked every bit like Big Bird. I looked over at the dugout and Hogan and I both started laughing.
Hogan was the one who nicknamed him Big Bird and it eventually got changed to The Bird. That's how his manager would call for him. "Bring me The Bird". He was every bit as flaky in Bristol as he was in Detroit, so it wasn't an act. He was genuine.
What I remember about him was he threw hard and always kept the ball down, but you thought more about how flaky he was rather than how good he was. I never expected him to go to the big leagues.
Next spring I was working at the Tigers training camp in Lakeland and I was walking past the stadium to the practice fields where the minor league games were played and I saw The Bird warming up in the bullpen and his catcher was Lance Parrish, who had been Bristol's third baseman the previous year. I thought, what are those two Z-ballers doing in the big league uniforms?
I would never guess that just a year later The Bird would be the starting pitcher in the All Star game and President Ford would be in the locker room before the game wanting to meet him. Parrish of course became the Tigers regular catcher for about a decade in the Sparky Anderson era.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Wow! What an amazing "Mark Fidrych" story, John. Thanks. (I'm glad I brought "The Bird's" name up in the conversation. It was worth it to hear that great true baseball story.) :-)
BRAD MILCH SAID:
How about a video index by subject, David? Here's a couple of examples how such could really aid your visitors (especially me):
1. I'm looking for a video clip of Jesse Curry asking the public to bring their home movies and photos of the assassination to the police to help them in their investigation. I remember seeing that clip on TV the assassination weekend, but don't remember if it was aired on national or Dallas TV. I refer to David's video index, look up Jesse Curry, read a brief synopsis of news conferences featuring Mr. Curry & THERE IT IS!!! David has just saved me hours of digging, searching, downloading & screening through video clips. He has become my hero in the process.
2. Jim DiEugenio wants to know when the Malcolm Couch film was first shown on national or Dallas TV. Jim is curious about whether the Franzen family (seen in the Zapruder film) are also seen in the Mal Couch film. Jim refers to David's online video index, quickly finds the clip he wants & downloads it. David now is hero to 2 people who start camping out near his house in hopes of gaining David's autograph.
Multiply it out & estimate how popular you could become in a very short time, David. It might get so big that you'd be able to be Taylor Swift's next door neighbor....who knows? David might even start receiving Christmas gifts from Jim. It could really snowball.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Thank you, Brad.
With respect to a "subject index"....
I like the idea, but to a certain extent that's exactly what my "Master Video Index" is --- it's a (mostly) alphabetical listing of every downloadable/streamable video file that I've got in my collection.
And one of the greatest features of Internet web browsers is the "Word Find" tool, which I use every day of my life. And I hope people are using it as an aid when searching my Video Index, because it's invaluable. For instance, take the "Jesse Curry" example you mentioned above (although I think you might have made a small error there; see this post for an explanation)....
If somebody wants to find a video with "Jesse Curry" in the title, they can just load up my Video Index page (which only takes about 3 seconds to fully load, because the page consists of virtually all text, with very few pictures) and then simply start typing "Jesse..." on their keyboard. You only need to type "Jess", in fact, and the "Search As You Type" feature on most browsers will take you instantly down to the Jesse Curry files on my page.
The "text searchable" nature of the Index is something I pointed out two months ago, in fact....
"When I started to put that catalog of links together, I wanted something comprehensive, fast-loading, and text searchable. And the new index meets all of those criteria." -- DVP; 12/8/2016
A more intricate and "subject"-specific series of indexed entries would probably be useful too. But, Brad, at what point do you think such a detailed index would become kind of cumbersome and awkwardly large? And what things should be included in such a sub-index of subject matter? And what things should be excluded? The list of sub-topics is practically endless (as your two examples above tend to illustrate). My Master Index is pretty huge right now as it is (and getting bigger every week), sans any kind of detailed "subject" information.
I tried to incorporate as much pertinent information into the title of each video file that the space would permit for just a one-line title (and I did want to keep the titles down to only one line, because I think it looks better that way).
Thank you, Brad, for your suggestion.
BRAD MILCH SAID:
David Von Pein has made it possible to relive the assassination experience as it was broadcast in real time on CBS, NBC & ABC TV networks as well as Dallas & other Texas viewing areas. Coverage comparisons can be made & visuals for school projects or personal use are available as a result of David's tremendous global education & humanitarian effort he's put into his JFK & related materials online for free.
None of that was even remotely possible 53 years ago when the horrors of the ambushes of President Kennedy, DPD Officer Tippit & prisoner Lee Oswald suddenly burst into a multitude of lives globally. Back then, one had to drag through mountains of public library microfilm to get JFK information.
David has laid the assassination, as it happened, right at everyone's keyboard for free.
As a result of all the educational & humanitarian gifts David has given to the world, I constantly personally try to not lose sight of the fact that regardless of what David believes happened in the assassination of President Kennedy & who was responsible for it, he can either be 100% correct or 100% wrong in his online assessments. People will learn from him one way or the other.
With deepest respect,
Brad Milch
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
No matter what anyone might say to the contrary, nobody had a loaded gun pointed at Brad Milch's head while he was typing his comments above. (Did they, Brad?) :)
IN ANOTHER DISCUSSION....
BRAD MILCH SAID:
This [Education Forum thread] is getting good, Cliff [Varnell]. .... It kinda reminds me of the old Yankees in the last inning of the World Series: Yanks are down by 3. Bases are loaded. 2 outs. Next at bat: Mickey Mantle [Roger Maris next, following Mickey].
Mickey's at the plate batting left handed instead of his usual right, signaling sportscasters & fans alike that Mickey's 'going for the fence'. Sandy Koufax has been replaced by Mr. 'LHO did it', David Von Pein, who has unexpectedly been brought to the mound from the bullpen. David's looking to strike Mickey out & put the Series to bed.
The suspense is thick. Those in the stands are munching on hot dogs, peanuts & cracker jacks. Others not present have their ears glued to small transistor radios....
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
But don't forget ..... DVP (that's me) led the league in saves with 44. (To go with a not-too-shabby 2.89 earned-run average.)
And I've always had good success in my 16-year career against Mantle. Mickey's only 17-for-71 (.239) lifetime against the southpaw hurling of DVP, with just 2 long balls (one in 1964 and the other [a grand-slam, unfortunately] in '66).
So the odds are with DVP in this battle against The Mick. :)
http://drive.google.com/Mickey Mantle Video #1
http://drive.google.com/Mickey Mantle Video #2
BRAD MILCH SAID:
I had a feeling you'd excel in the situation, David. You stand up to power sluggers day in & day out. I hope EF [Education Forum] readers & researchers alike can read thru the lines & realize that the underlying message was: excluding DVP (David Von Pein) from the game only causes the game to suffer.
You're tougher than I'll ever be, David. That's one of the reasons I admire reading your posts & your unwavering viewpoints about the JFK case.
Respectfully & sincerely,
Brad Milch
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
But if you were to ask most conspiracy believers around the Internet, they would say that I have had grand-slams hit off me every time I take the mound. :)
Actually, though, for the "official" record books [~chuckle~], I only pitched in one game during my glorious 4-year (Optimist Little League) baseball "career" (1973-1976). I hurled two-thirds of an inning in one game when our team was apparently getting our brains beaten out so badly that there was nobody else left to put in except first baseman Von Pein. :) (I did okay, though, giving up no runs with one strikeout.)
Sorry about this additional "baseball" diversion, but I was watching this old reel of home movies that my brother recently transferred into a digital computer file, and it includes this one minute of footage that my father took of me playing baseball as a 12-year-old in 1974 (the "1973" film caption is incorrect), which prompted me to create the homemade "Topps baseball card" seen below. (Has anybody else here ever wanted to see their name and picture on a Topps bubble gum card?)
Yeah, I know, this "card" should be more rectangular than this, but I did the best I could with the two fuzzy pictures I captured from my father's home movie.
And, Brad, I hope you will take notice of the bond I share with the Hall-of-Famer you mentioned earlier--Mickey Mantle. We both wore the same uniform number (7). The similarity ends there, however. Mickey batted .298 lifetime. I hit about .198. I guess maybe that's why the Reds weren't beating down my door to draft me. :)
[2020 EDIT: It seems as though perhaps my memory of my hitting prowess
as a youth isn't as good as I thought it was, because I recently came across some old newspapers from my hometown of Richmond, Indiana, and discovered this clipping, which indicates that in the middle of the 1974 baseball campaign I was swinging the lumber at a robust .389 clip. I never remember hitting for that high of an average in my Little League days. But I guess I was wrong. :-)] ....
MICHAEL WALTON SAID:
Another lefthander, huh, Dave? :)
I would have LOVED to have gone up to Indy, or you come down to KY, for a match-up:
BRAD MILCH SAID:
@David Von Pein & Michael Walton:
I hope you both didn't suffer the horror I discovered when I learned my good 'ol dad had taken advantage of me leaving home for the Army, cleaned out my room & tossed out all my trading cards & comics (one featuring Mantle & Maris - I think it was a Batman or Superman issue). A small fortune in collectables slipped right thru my little fingers...including my Beatles trading cards (crying hysterically)....
I've never gotten over it, nor forgiven. My mother kept it from me for a long, long time. She KNEW how much the old Yanks meant to me....mom never let on that she suspected me of blowing my lunch money on Topps baseball & Beatles trading cards & gum.
PS: David's baseball time trip was marvelous, to say the least. Possibly one of the best pieces he's ever written. It belongs in David's Hall Of Fame too (along with the video clip of JFK tossing out the ball from a Washington stadium that David has posted at his video blog), IMHO.
That fine-looking young man with #7 on the back of his uniform shirt clearly demonstrates that David Von Pein is not the monster some try to make him out to be.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
@Brad:
All of my old Topps baseball cards are now gone too. My dad didn't toss them out, though. I myself threw them all away years ago. Geez, how stupid I was for doing that! I'd love to have those cards back today. And I'm a persnickety fusspot too, keep in mind, so I kept each card in perfect (mint) condition all the time. Who knows what my "Johnny Bench In Action" card from '72 would be worth today in the mint condition I kept it in. :)
@Michael:
Great Kentucky Post newspaper clipping. A no-hitter, eh? That's incredible (even for a Knothole player). The best I could ever do was two doubles in one game in 1976 (plus a few good plays on defense while digging out low throws at first base).
Your newspaper clipping reminds me of something else from my "baseball past" that I wish I still had today -- the box scores from my Little League games. Yes, as incredible as it might sound today, the local paper in my small hometown (The Palladium-Item in Richmond, Indiana) actually would publish in the Sports section the complete box scores for every Optimist League game played. [Edit: Three years later, I located some of those old box scores. See the photos below.]
Another thrilling Baseball Bonus 😁 ....
DVP's Little League-related newspaper clippings from 1973 and 1974:
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Thank you both (Brad and Michael) for sharing your baseball memories. I know it has nothing to do with the JFK case....but, heck, there are a few things in the world besides the events of November 22nd, 1963, right?
DAVID VON PEIN LATER SAID:
MARCH 2, 2017, ADDITION TO MY MASTER VIDEO INDEX....
Category Breakdown....
DAVID VON PEIN LATER ADDED:
Some additional Master Index "Category" links....
JFK Assassination Debates
JFK Assassination Films
Interviews (JFK-Related)
DAVID VON PEIN LATER SAID:
July 2017 additions:
"The Mike Wallace Interview" (1957) (w/Bennett Cerf):
http://drive.google.com/file/d/29rTEdfTHBhZGs/view
Witness testimony from the O.J. Simpson murder trial (1995):
DAVID VON PEIN LATER SAID:
The month of September 2017 saw these items added to the Master Index:
1967 Sylvia Meagher interview --- HERE.
JFK calls former President Eisenhower during the last days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962 --- HERE.
DAVID VON PEIN LATER SAID:
High-definition video upgrade....
"The Last Two Days" (1963 Official White House Color Film)....
DAVID MEDZORIAN SAID:
Color corrected as well. Best version I’ve seen of the complete film. Thanks for posting.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Indeed, David. And I could kick myself for not discovering this HD version of "The Last Two Days" sooner. It's been there for the downloading at the JFK Library site (unlike most of their other videos) probably for years. I just never knew it was there until yesterday (December 11, 2017). I was talking by e-mail to a representative of the Library yesterday and she provided me with the download link.
And I've added one more "new" HQ "Official White House" video to the ol'
Master Index too that I never knew was available for downloading either. It's
43 minutes of color funeral footage--on film.
DAVID MEDZORIAN SAID:
I was the very first person to ever visit the JFK Library back in 1979 (I live only a few miles away). I’ve visited their AV department a hundred times and there is a ton of material that has yet to be digitized.
Unfortunately, when the networks originally gave copies of their JFK material to the library back in the 60’s, the library took that videotape and converted it to lower quality 16mm kinescopes. In the last twenty years, they stopped doing that and now there is some actual videotaped material that still looks pristine such as the American University speech.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
New (December 2017 Additions)....
Dallas Police Department Radio Transmissions From November 22, 1963 (Extended Version) (46 Minutes):
Also....
A one-hour interview in 1967 with JFK's personal physician, Dr. George Burkley (click the picture below):
DAVID VON PEIN LATER SAID:
A little more baseball....
DVP Recap and Radio Highlights:
Linked here are some pages from my personal scorebook for Pete Rose's record-breaking game on 9/11/85. The total time I spent in 1985 compiling all of the Reds stats and typing up all this material on my Olympia manual typewriter: 168 hours. (Just kidding....it was only 99 hours.) :-) ....
DAVID VON PEIN ALSO ADDED:
And....
An ABC-TV newscast from November 1961:
And....
A CBS-TV end-of-year special program, recapping the year of 1963:
And also....
DAVID VON PEIN LATER SAID:
On March 17, 2018, I put together this compilation video of "Kennedy-Related" clips from the television game show "What's My Line?"....
A FEW MONTHS LATER, DVP ADDED:
More than 200 really good songs:
ON AUGUST 3, 2018, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
A fellow by the name of Scott Johndrow recently was kind enough to provide me with two higher-quality versions of my all-time favorite Kennedy-related film---"Four Days In November". And (of course) I was compelled to immediately add them to my Google Drive archives (linked below).
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ON SEPTEMBER 9, 2018, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Here's another baseball-related item added to my audio/video archives today --- it's an LP record album featuring highlights from the Cincinnati Reds 1976 world championship season. I didn't even know this album existed until yesterday. Glad I found it. It rounds out my collection of Reds Highlights Albums from the 1970s:
ON JANUARY 19, 2019, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I recently added to my collection this video version of President Kennedy's January 20, 1961, inaugural address:
ON FEBRUARY 19, 2019, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Two more additions to the "Master Index":
ON MARCH 1, 2019, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Another unforgettable date in U.S. history---December 7, 1941. Here's a radio program from that day:
ON MARCH 27, 2019, JOHN McADAMS SAID:
Question for David Von Pein:
YouTube used to have an interview with Domingo Benavides.
It was in color, and done by Eddie Barker, if I remember correctly.
I found the 1964 CBS recording on your site, but I can't find later CBS documentaries.
Am I missing something?
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Hi John....
Here's my archived version of the 1967 interview with Domingo Benavides:
FYI Note --- Almost everything I have in my A/V collection can be located by searching for the pertinent keyword(s) at my Master Index webpage.
JOHN McADAMS SAID:
Yea, I expected you to have that, in the best quality available at this late date, and you did. :-)
If there is any problem with the splendid collection of resources you have on the web, it's finding things.
I notice you have the 1988 PBS NOVA documentary. I have a copy in 3/4-inch tape. Fat lot of good that is. :-(
You also have Frontline "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?" with the material that has been *cut out* of the DVD currently sold, and also on the current PBS online version.
Really impressive resources.
INSTANT REPLAY....
JOHN McADAMS SAID:
If there is any problem with the splendid collection of resources you have on the web, it's finding things.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Which is the precise reason I created this page in 2016....
JOHN McADAMS SAID:
My advice would be to put the link at the top of each of your pages.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I did --- more than 2 years ago.
I guess you just never noticed.
:-)
ON APRIL 12, 2019, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
As an extension of this earlier comment, I've added a few more Cincinnati Reds games to my Baseball Scorebook Archive, including the game linked directly below (Opening Day 1985):
Oh, how my poor index finger must have ached after typing up those 66 pages on my old Olympia manual typewriter. (I must have been nuts!) (I'm a one-finger typist. Still am, even on the computer. I couldn't type with 2 hands if I tried.)
But, thanks to the Internet (and places like Google Drive), now I can share this over-the-top "baseball overload" stuff. Prior to just recently, the evidence of the extent of my "baseball possessed" years was locked up in a dresser drawer, unseen by human eyes (except my own) for 30+ years.
I only wish my scorebook pages could come with a built-in "Download" feature. Doing it manually with a camera and Paint Shop takes forever. (I doubt I'll take photos of all 400+ games in my Scorebook Archive. But I'd love to--some day.)
ON APRIL 21, 2019, JOHN McADAMS SAID:
Message for David Von Pein:
Your videos have been my salvation in my JFK class this semester.
Marquette has removed the ability to play VHS tapes in classrooms. So a lot of good footage I had on those tapes was no longer usable.
But I found the footage I need -- mostly the two 60s CBS documentaries, and the 1993 Frontline documentary -- on your site.
The current DVD of the Frontline documentary has key footage cut out, especially the Odio material, but other stuff too.
So kudos for your efforts.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Thanks for the "kudos" message, John. It pleases me to know that at least a few people are getting some good out of the stuff I've put online.
And I want to remind you, John, that the videos I have stored and shared through Google Drive can all easily be downloaded at the touch of a button too. The "Download" button is located in the top-right part of each Google Drive webpage:
JOHN McADAMS SAID:
Yep, and they all import fine into MovieMaker.
The only videos I show pretty much unedited are the first 75 minutes of "Four Days in Dallas" [sic] (Wolper), and the movie "JFK" (an evening session).
Otherwise, class time is valuable, so I use edited clips, such as Ruth Paine explaining the coffee klatch that resulted in Lee getting his job or Domingo Benavides describing the Tippit shooting.
As I mentioned earlier, key footage was cut out of the Frontline documentary as released on DVD, and your having it online was a godsend.
Joe Newbrough on how 544 Camp Street was entirely separate from Banister's office and the Sylvia Odio testimony are two segments I used in class last Wednesday.
"CLAVIGER" SAID:
Yes indeed, Kudos!
David Von Pein has a truly remarkable website. A veritable treasury of photos, debate, and discussion. It has been most helpful to me in researching this case. The Photo Gallery is a truly valuable well-organized resource.
Any college student taking a Debate Class can learn much from study of David's logical, calm response to heated and provocative debate. Hopefully this useful academic resource will be around for a long time to come.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Thank you, clav.
DAVID VON PEIN LATER ADDED:
ON MAY 2, 2019, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I found a great interview with Robert MacNeil today at the Television Academy website, with lots of interesting tidbits revealed by MacNeil (some of which I had heard before, some I hadn't). Here it is:
DAVID VON PEIN LATER SAID:
I recently found the following two 1983 interviews at Jim Feliciano's "Motor City Radio Flashbacks" website:
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DAVID VON PEIN ALSO LINKED TO THIS:
DAVID VON PEIN LATER ADDED:
Pre-assassination film taken at Dallas' Love Field on 11/22/63....
More Films....
IN SEPTEMBER 2019, DVP ADDED THESE ITEMS:
IN OCTOBER 2019, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Two more new (or expanded) video items....
4+ hours of NBC-TV coverage from Day 2 of the four-day assassination weekend (Saturday, November 23, 1963):
And....
An expanded version of my "Man In The Street Interviews" video:
DVP ALSO SAID (IN MID-OCTOBER 2019):
Back to baseball again....
I recently added many "World Series Finales" to my collection of Major League Baseball games. I currently have 50+ games in the folder below, dating back to 1952.
ON OCTOBER 29, 2019, DAVID VON PEIN ADDED:
Three "Improved Picture Quality" videos....
ON NOVEMBER 2, 2019, DVP SAID:
I just discovered the existence of several "new" 11/22/63 color films at the
Sixth Floor Museum website that I had never seen before (linked below)....
RUDY & VERA CLAUSS FILM:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j-tQ1-FKfpjnczEYZkApE/view
KEITH GRIFFITH FILM:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GVmx1mzzrVuUAaqUB/view
PAT SANDERS FILM:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-bnPfj7tpO-U2at3ymgr/view
A.C. HICKMAN FILM:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fnFrWfVBKizuwkPEKl/view
FRANK MAROTTA FILM:
https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/20036/frank-marotta-film
JOHN McADAMS SAID:
Way back in my 2011 book, I mentioned Von Pein in the Foreword as having done excellent work preserving and making available important footage.
He doesn't seem to have slacked off.
Given my "legacy" VHS tapes will not play on the equipment in any Marquette classroom, the footage he has uploaded has been my salvation this semester and the last.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Thanks again, John. :-)
Much gratitude also needs to be extended to the Sixth Floor Museum and the JFK Library for making available on their websites (for free) large amounts of Kennedy-related video and audio material. Kudos to both organizations.
ON NOVEMBER 4, 2019, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Today I created a new version of one of my favorite Major League Baseball radio broadcasts that I'm proud to own on cassette tape. It's a game between the Cincinnati Reds and New York Mets that was recorded by my brother on July 21, 1976, in the middle of the Reds world championship season. My brother taped the game on two very (very!) cheap "Tracs" audio cassettes. (Remember those el-cheapo things? In the '70s, you could get a 3-pack of them for about a buck at K-Mart. They were cheap, but hey, they did the job.)
The reason this particular 1976 baseball game is special to me is twofold. One, it was personally recorded by my own brother on the day the game was played. And two, it is (AFAIK) the only recording of a Cincinnati Reds baseball game that includes the entire uncut audio of the two pre-game shows ("The Main Spark" with Reds manager Sparky Anderson and broadcaster Marty Brennaman and "Turf Side", hosted by Joe Nuxhall) and the uncut audio of both of the post-game programs ("Star Of The Game" and "Scores And Comments") that were aired on the Reds Radio Network, plus many of the original commercials and all of the wraparound intro and outro jingles which were heard on Cincinnati's flagship station, WLW Radio. The inclusion of these items makes this 7/21/76 Reds broadcast a most unique and rare baseball recording indeed.
My newest "version" of this radio broadcast includes a new background image, an impressive nighttime view of Riverfront Stadium and the Cincinnati skyline:
11/25/2019 EDIT: And here's yet another of my versions of the 7/21/76 baseball game, featuring a different (and even more spectacular) nightscape HD photo of the Cincy skyline:
DVP LATER SAID:
Two more "upgrades" from my baseball archive [related comments here]:
ON NOVEMBER 10, 2019, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Latest JFK video....
I've merged my 3-part "NBC Radio 11/23/63" series into this one-parter:
There's some very interesting discussion among the NBC reporters in the above radio broadcasts from November 23, 1963, touching on such topics as:
....Can Oswald get a fair trial in Dallas (or anywhere) after Captain Fritz made his bold "This case is cinched" statement?
....Will the Cold War heat up significantly (if at all) following the murder of President Kennedy?
....Why is Communist China treating JFK's death as practically a non-story?
....Who was the main target of the assassin's bullets---President John F. Kennedy or Texas Governor John Connally?
ON NOVEMBER 29, 2019, DAVID VON PEIN ADDED:
Here's another video that I have now merged into a 1-parter, containing six hours of KLIF Radio's coverage from the assassination weekend:
ON DECEMBER 4, 2019, DVP SAID:
Just Added! --- Video versions of the last three Kennedy/Nixon Presidential Debates of 1960 (I already had the video version of the first debate), courtesy of The Miller Center (MillerCenter.org):
DVP THEN SAID THIS ON DECEMBER 18, 2019:
I found something today (on YouTube) that I had never seen before---pre-1963 motion picture film footage taken in Dealey Plaza (Dallas). This footage (at 4:04 in the video linked below) is from May of 1960, more than three years before Dealey Plaza became widely known:
More Dealey Plaza footage from the WFAA-TV news archives (circa 1960 to 1975) can be found HERE.
And the above videos gave me a good reason to expand my "Dealey Plaza Through The Years" page (including a car crash near the Book Depository in 1968):
ON JANUARY 4, 2020, DAVID V.P. SAID:
Just for fun, I put together this JFK Press Conference Marathon video, which consists of 10 full-length John F. Kennedy news conferences (three from 1961, four from 1962, and three from 1963):
ON JANUARY 6 & 7, 2020, DVP ADDED:
Consolidated into one-part videos:
DAVID VON PEIN SAID (ON JANUARY 8, 2020):
Here's an upgrade of one of my favorite interviews from the weekend of JFK's assassination. It's a (slightly) expanded version of Senator Hubert Humphrey's 11/23/63 chat with an NBC Radio correspondent. My previous version of this interview is a couple of minutes shorter and has a glitch midway through it, which I've fixed in this new video. And I've used several new photos for this "upgraded" version as well:
ON JANUARY 10, 2020, DVP SAID:
Still more baseball....
I recently added the 2nd and 3rd games of the 1963 World Series to my baseball archive, which means I can now offer up the following link which includes the NBC Radio Network broadcasts of all four contests in that '63 Series, which had the Dodgers sweeping the Yankees, four games to none. This 1963 Fall Classic, of course, was played just one month before President Kennedy was killed:
ON JANUARY 11, 2020, DVP ADDED THIS ITEM:
DVP ADDED THIS ON JANUARY 17, 2020:
Expanded version....
MORE STUFF:
ON FEBRUARY 3, 2020, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Here's a 1955 color film produced by the Dallas Citizens Traffic Commission, which includes two brief segments taken in Dealey Plaza (at 0:59 and 2:15), depicting the two-way traffic that still existed at that time on Elm Street, the exact same street on which JFK was riding when he was shot and killed eight years later. This film comes from the Dallas Municipal Archives:
ON FEBRUARY 9, 2020, DVP UTTERED:
Here's a high-quality KRLD-TV video clip showing Jack Ruby murdering Lee Harvey Oswald:
DVP SAID (FEBRUARY 20, 2020):
40 years ago this month:
ANOTHER DVP UTTERANCE ON FEBRUARY 21, 2020:
Here are both of comedian Vaughn Meader's "The First Family" LP record albums. The first album, which sold more than 4-million copies in the first two months after its release, was recorded on the same day that JFK addressed the nation with his famous Cuban Missile Crisis speech (October 22, 1962). Volume 2 was recorded on March 18, 1963. I put both albums on this one video, plus a December 1962 segment from the TV game show "What's My Line?", with Vaughn Meader appearing as the Mystery Guest:
ON MARCH 7, 2020, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Two 1963 color films featuring President John F. Kennedy visiting military installations in the western part of the United States:
ON MARCH 23, 2020, DVP ADDED:
My third JFK-related "Marathon" video:
ON APRIL 8, 2020, DAVID V.P. ADDED:
A 1975 interview with Vincent Bugliosi:
SOME TRUMP STUFF:
ON APRIL 16, 2020, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Amidst the 10-hour video below, I've added 7 more hours of 11/23/63 (Saturday) coverage to my CBS-TV collection:
ANOTHER REDS BASEBALL GAME:
HOW ABOUT A GOOD RADIO DRAMA?:
ON MAY 18, 2020, DAVID VON PEIN ADDED:
ON JUNE 16, 2020, DVP SAID:
Here's an interesting 1981 documentary (which includes segments on the murders of both JFK and RFK, plus lots of other things):
ON JUNE 27, 2020, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I've become fascinated recently by the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, which was attended by nearly 10-million people from April 21st to October 21st back in '62. My fascination with that event likely stems from the fact that it occurred during a time when JFK was in the White House (I love just about everything from the early '60s). So this week I decided to create a webpage devoted to the '62 Seattle Fair. Included is audio of President Kennedy officially opening the Fair:
DVP ADDED THESE ITEMS IN EARLY JULY OF 2020:
ON JULY 14, 2020, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I've now found a higher-quality version of Andre Leche's film of the 11/22/63 Dallas motorcade:
ON AUGUST 30, 2020, DVP SAID:
Here are a few "CBS Evening News" broadcasts I recently added to my archives. Some of the stories featured in these newscasts include the Charles Manson murder trial, the launch of the final Apollo moon mission, the tornado outbreak of April 1974, the worst loss-of-life plane crash in history, and the death of legendary crooner Bing Crosby. Plus, near the end of the first video below, 9-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. gets a little airtime too:
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DAVID V.P. SAID (ON SEPTEMBER 15, 2020):
Here's another interesting CBS Evening News broadcast. The headlines this night: Janis Joplin is dead .... Charles Manson tries to attack the judge at his murder trial .... The Reds & Orioles win baseball pennants .... President Nixon dodges eggs .... and prisoners riot in New York City. That's the way it was on Monday, October 5th, 1970:
And here are two more good radio mystery programs:
JOHN CORBETT ASKED:
By any chance, do you have the original War of the Worlds [radio broadcast] in your library?
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
By chance, I sure do. ....
And make sure you read the 1938 Cincinnati Enquirer story that appears on my "War Of The Worlds" page above. Some interesting stories there of the terror that Mr. Welles unleashed that night. But it's really rather amazing (and hilarious too) that anyone with half a brain (and two working ears) could have actually believed we were being attacked by Martians as they listened to that radio drama. And the main reason I say such a thing is because Orson Welles himself plays the part of "Professor Pierson" in the fictional story. And Welles, of course, also narrates the first part of the show. And he made no attempt whatsoever to disguise his voice while playing Prof. Pierson! Therefore, why didn't any of the frightened New Jersey residents simply say to themselves: This obviously isn't really happening, unless this Prof. Pierson guy sounds exactly like the host of the Mercury Theatre program. (LOL time.)
Footnote: Many people believe that the panic allegedly caused by Orson Welles' radio drama has been overblown and sensationalized by the media in the years since the original 1938 broadcast. But if the level of the alleged frightened reaction by the public is, in fact, merely a "myth", then the lengthy and detailed Associated Press newspaper article that appears in the previously linked 10/31/38 edition of The Cincinnati Enquirer (and which no doubt also appeared in many other U.S. newspapers that same day), which boldly declares that "Thousands Make Calls To Newspapers, Police Stations" and that the Welles' radio play caused "fright" that "was beyond measurement", must be nothing but pure fiction itself, dreamed up by newspaper executives anxious to discredit the then-fairly-new broadcast medium known as radio. And how likely is that scenario? (Not very likely, IMO.) [RELATED ARTICLE]
ON OCTOBER 8, 2020, DVP ADDED:
ON OCTOBER 16, 2020, DVP SAID:
I just finished making the 4-hour video linked below. It contains audio of 78 brief speeches made by JFK from April 1961 to November of '63.
The reason I created this long video is because I wanted to include in my collection several of President Kennedy's shorter speeches and public remarks that I hadn't yet downloaded and archived at my sites. But I didn't want to make 70+ separate videos lasting just 2 or 3 minutes each, so I decided to put four hours' worth of short speeches on one big video.
For the best quality, be sure to manually select 720p from the video player's Settings menu. Google Drive videos never default to 720p for some reason. They always make you bump it up manually; and as of April 20, 2020, the spiteful crew at Google Drive decided to eliminate the 480p setting entirely for all uploaded videos, which really ticks me off. I sometimes get the distinct impression that the people who are running Google Drive have been making certain aggravating changes in recent months just in order to drive me crazy. 😠
THIS JFK SPEECH WAS ADDED TO DVP's ARCHIVES ON OCTOBER 24, 2020:
AND THIS BRIEF JFK SPEECH WAS MADE PART OF DVP's COLLECTION ON NOVEMBER 19, 2020:
ANOTHER CINCINNATI REDS BASEBALL GAME:
ON DECEMBER 5, 2020, MARTIN CAIDIN SAID:
Some might find this interesting. It's a public official being interviewed in Dealey Plaza about a week before the assassination. And is Oswald on that bus that passes by? ....
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Interesting stuff for sure.
And I noticed something very intriguing that occurs in that 11/13/63 Dealey Plaza video. Near the very end of the video, the man standing on the left is a person that I am quite certain is a friend of Jack Ruby's. He's a lawyer named C.A. Droby, and he made the news on 11/24/63 after Ruby shot Oswald. Droby was interviewed on WFAA-TV and he was very emotional and upset because he had received death threats earlier that same day. Go to 1:02:20 in this video to see the Droby footage:
Now, if Droby isn't the same man that we see at the tail end of Martin Caidin's video, then I'll eat my hat--and yours too. Check out Droby's haircut in my WFAA video, and then compare it to the haircut of the man in Martin's video, paying particular attention to the "indented" hairline on the right side of his head. It's identical in both videos.
Interesting coincidence, eh? A friend of Ruby's who popped up on TV on 11/24/63 just happened to be filmed at the assassination site some 9 days before JFK came to town.
If I were a conspiracy promoter, I might just want to make a large mountain out of this innocuous anthill. 😉
BTW / FYI....
For more "Pre-11/22" Dealey Plaza video footage, check out my collection below:
ON MARCH 13, 2021, DVP SAID:
Here's an interesting 1962 newspaper article concerning the 40th Anniversary of WLW Radio in Cincinnati. (So there is somewhat of a tie-in to this "Audio/Video" discussion, since the linked newspaper article is talking about WLW's radio and television operations. 😉)
A lot of well-known personalities got their start at "The Nation's Station" (WLW), as we learn in this article from The Cincinnati Enquirer:
SIX MORE REALLY GOOD “OLD-TIME RADIO” EPISODES:
ON APRIL 4, 2021, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
For those interested in a real conspiracy surrounding a Presidential assassination, I'll offer up this 1980 installment of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater:
DAVID V.P. LATER ADDED:
DVP SAID THIS ON APRIL 11, 2021:
Here's the top news of the day from January 17, 1969 (via the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite), including an on-camera appearance by Dr. Russell Fisher of the Clark Panel:
MORE CBS-TV NEWSCASTS:
IN JUNE 2021, DAVID VON PEIN ADDED THESE
TWO WORLD SERIES RADIO BROADCASTS:
IN AUGUST 2021, DVP SAID:
I've created a “Radio Only” version of JFK's two speeches that he made in Fort Worth, Texas, on the fateful day of 11/22/63:
ON AUGUST 22, 2021, DVP SAID:
This new audio version of JFK's 20th press conference (linked below) represents an upgrade and a "completion" of that particular news conference. The previous version of that conference which I had in my collection is inexplicably missing the final three minutes of the conference. But with those missing 3 minutes now restored, it means that every minute of audio from all 64 of John F. Kennedy's Presidential press conferences is now included in my audio/video archive. Five of the conferences are also available in video format as well.
3 NEW “MARATHON” VIDEOS ADDED TO DVP'S ARCHIVES IN AUGUST OF 2021:
DAVID VON PEIN (ON AUGUST 25, 2021) SAID:
I just completed a new 5-part version of my WLW Radio Extended Coverage JFK assassination series (linked below). My older 10-part version of the same material was created in 2010. I wanted to reduce the number of parts in the series and I've been wanting to upgrade the video quality to 856x480, so the five-part version was born. Total running time for all 5 parts amounts to 33 hours and 31 minutes.
ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2021, DVP ADDED:
DAVID V.P. SAID (ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2021):
Here's another item for Cincinnati Reds baseball fans like me....
Former Reds' great Pete Rose, 80 years young, is interviewed for more than an hour-and-a-half by tennis legend Jimmy Connors on June 9th, 2021:
TWO MORE RADIO PROGRAMS (OCTOBER 2021 ADDITIONS):
ON OCTOBER 21, 2021, DVP SAID:
I've created my eighth "Marathon" video (linked below). This one—"Kennedy-Era News Capsules"—has 28 separate segments, with a total running time of
7 hours and 10 minutes.
Here's a list of the individual news segments:
01. January 4, 1961 (KLIF-Radio; Dallas, Tex.)
02. March 13, 1961 (NBC Radio Network)
03. April 11, 1961 (WMEX-Radio; Boston, Mass.)
04. April 13, 1961 (WBZ-Radio; Boston, Mass.)
05. April 14, 1961 (KYA-Radio; San Francisco, Calif.)
06. July 17, 1961 (KILT-Radio; Houston, Tex.)
07. July 24, 1961 (WKBW-Radio; Buffalo, N.Y.)
08. September 6, 1961 (WKLO-Radio; Louisville, Ky.)
09. February 20, 1962 (NBC Radio Network)
10. August 7, 1962 (WABC-Radio; New York City, N.Y.)
11. October 22, 1962 (CBS Radio Network)
12. October 26, 1962 (KDWB-Radio; Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.)
13. November 22, 1962 (NBC Radio Network)
14. December 7, 1962 (WCCO-Radio; Minneapolis, Minn.)
15. January 4, 1963 (WIL-Radio; St. Louis, Mo.)
16. July 11, 1963 (WJBK-Radio; Detroit, Mich.)
17. July 24, 1963 (KSFO-Radio; San Francisco, Calif.)
18. August 20, 1963 (KFXM-Radio; San Bernardino, Calif.)
19. September 2, 1963 (CKLW-Radio; Windsor/Detroit)
20. November 18, 1963 (Paul Harvey News; ABC Radio Network)
21. November 18, 1963 (KTKT-Radio; Tucson, Ariz.)
22. November 21, 1963 (ABC Radio Network & Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.)
23. November 22, 1963 (Paul Harvey News; ABC Radio Network)
24. November 22, 1963 (CBS-TV; CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite)
25. November 24, 1963 (NBC Radio Network)
26. November 25, 1963 (CBS-TV; CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite)
27. November 26, 1963 (WBAP-Radio; Fort Worth, Tex.)
28. November 28, 1963 (NBC Radio Network)
ADDED ON OCTOBER 22, 2021:
ON 10/24/21, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
In recent days, I have been able to upgrade the two JFK-related programs linked below. These upgrades provide much-improved video quality for both of these early-1960s documentaries. I was especially pleased to be able to bump up the picture quality of the David L. Wolper film, "The Making Of The President 1960".
BASEBALL GAME ADDED ON OCTOBER 31, 2021:
BASEBALL GAME ADDED ON NOVEMBER 3, 2021:
DVP WELCOMED THESE 2 RADIO CHILLERS TO
HIS COLLECTION IN NOVEMBER 2021:
ON NOVEMBER 17, 2021, DAVID V.P. SAID:
Today I created the 7-hour "Marathon" video linked below, which features
14 Old-Time Radio mystery programs with the "First Lady of Suspense", the always great Agnes Moorehead.
These are the fourteen shows I included:
01. SUSPENSE ("Sorry, Wrong Number") (11-18-48)
02. MYSTERY IN THE AIR ("The Lodger") (8-14-47)
03. SUSPENSE ("Weekend Special: Death") (5-24-54)
04. SUSPENSE ("The Thirteenth Sound") (2-13-47)
05. CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER ("The Old Ones Are Hard To Kill") (1-6-74)
06. SUSPENSE ("The Trap") (6-16-49)
07. SUSPENSE ("The Death Parade") (2-15-51)
08. SUSPENSE ("Don't Call Me Mother") (1-4-59)
09. INNER SANCTUM ("Terror By Night") (6-29-52)
10. SUSPENSE ("Uncle Henry's Rosebush") (6-29-43)
11. SUSPENSE ("The Signalman") (3-23-53)
12. CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER ("The Ring Of Truth") (1-26-74)
13. SUSPENSE ("The Evil Of Adelaide Winters") (9-10-51)
14. SUSPENSE ("The Chain") (4-27-50)
VIDEOS ADDED IN EARLY DECEMBER OF 2021:
DAVID VON PEIN SAID (ON THE 10th DAY OF DECEMBER, 2021):
I was watching some of my CBS-TV material from the day after JFK's death (11/23/63), and realized I could create another Kennedy-Era News Capsule from a portion of that coverage. So that's what I did, right here:
ALSO ON 12/10/21, DVP REMARKED:
While rewatching another segment of CBS-TV's post-assassination coverage from 11/23/63, I rediscovered the brief video snippet presented below, which I have now added as an addendum to my "News Media Errors" webpages. Take note of the slightly exasperated member of the behind-the-scenes CBS news team, who suddenly finds himself on the air right in the middle of President Lyndon Johnson's address to the nation:
A 12/14/2021 ADDITION:
ADDED ON DECEMBER 29, 2021:
AN OLD-TIME RADIO SHOW HOSTED BY PETER LORRE (ADDED ON JANUARY 3, 2022):
IN LATE JANUARY 2022, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I recently found an uncut version of David L. Wolper's 1964 made-for-television documentary "A Thousand Days" (linked below). The version of the film that I previously had in my collection is missing about three minutes. So it's nice to be able to finally see the complete film with those missing minutes intact.
ADDED ON JANUARY 30, 2022:
ADDED ON MARCH 5, 2022:
APRIL 17, 2022:
ANOTHER "NEWS CAPSULE" ADDED ON
APRIL 25, 2022:
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THIS 1972 BASEBALL FILM WAS ADDED
ON MAY 19, 2022:
ON JUNE 23, 2022, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Thanks to my friend and fellow collector of JFK-related audio and video, Eric Paddon, I was able to acquire the following 3+ hours of rare radio material. This Fort Wayne coverage includes mostly network news reports from ABC Radio and a little from CBS Radio. Thank you, Mr. Paddon! ....
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ADDED ON JULY 24, 2022:
A GRIPPING OLD-TIME RADIO EPISODE
(ADDED ON SEPTEMBER 4, 2022):
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ON OCTOBER 6, 2022, DVP SAID:
I've just added another Cincinnati Reds baseball game to my archives. This one is from 1977 and features Tony Perez' first appearance at his old Riverfront Stadium stomping grounds since he was traded away by the Reds to the Montreal Expos following the 1976 season (oh, what a terrible trade). Another highlight from this game is Pete Rose's 500th career double:
ADDED IN OCTOBER & NOVEMBER OF 2022:
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ON JANUARY 5, 2023, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I added this Reds/Cubs baseball game to my digital collection today, and it's a real barn burner to be sure. 31 runs, 43 base hits, and 11 home runs. It's just too bad that my Reds lost this one:
ON JANUARY 7, 2023, DVP SAID:
I just happened to notice today that The Sixth Floor Museum's website has recently added many full-length interviews from their extensive Oral History Collection. In past years, only limited excerpts from those interviews had been made available on the Sixth Floor site.
One of those full-length programs is linked below. It's the complete four-hour video version of the June 2002 Oral History interview featuring assassination eyewitness Buell Wesley Frazier. My previous version of this interview is in audio form only and contains just half of the complete program. So this represents a nice upgrade.
My thanks go out to The Sixth Floor Museum At Dealey Plaza for making available this entire interview (plus many others) on their public website.
Whether or not the current collection of complete and uncut Oral History programs will remain on The Sixth Floor website in the future, I cannot say. But as of this date (January 7, 2023), the uncut programs are indeed available to view, free of charge.
Here's the uncut Buell Frazier interview from 2002:
DVP ADDED THIS EXCITING REDS' GAME
ON JANUARY 30, 2023:
ADDED ON APRIL 19, 2023:
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ADDED ON APRIL 26, 2023:
A COUPLE OF JUNE 2023 ADDITIONS:
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ON JUNE 30, 2023, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I found this gem at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library's YouTube channel today:
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VIDEOS ADDED IN EARLY JULY 2023:
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ADDED IN LATE DECEMBER 2023:
A JANUARY 2024 ADDITION:
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Special thanks to:
KFMB-TV (Channel 8) in San Diego, California.
ADDED IN MARCH OF 2024:
ON JUNE 5, 2024, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Today I created the mini-marathon video below, which includes all three of President Kennedy's State of the Union addresses:
ADDED ON JUNE 22, 2024:
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DVP SAID THIS ON JUNE 27, 2024:
Here is a rare interview segment with Chief Justice Earl Warren:
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The full interview with Warren can be heard here.
ADDED ON JULY 30, 2024:
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IN AUGUST & SEPTEMBER OF 2024, DAVID VON PEIN CREATED THESE TWO MARATHON VIDEOS:
DAVID VON PEIN, ON OCTOBER 31, 2024, SAID:
Linked below is a 2-hour "Mini-Marathon" video I recently put together, which includes interviews with 22 people who were associated in some way with the events surrounding President Kennedy's assassination. These witnesses are included in the video:
Bill Newman, Gayle Newman, Abraham Zapruder, Marrion Baker, Roy Truly, Earlene Roberts, Jean Hill, Mary Moorman, Aubrey Rike, Dennis McGuire, Helen Markham, Ted Callaway, Pierce Allman, Paul Bentley, M.N. McDonald, Mal Couch, David Johnston, H. Louis Nichols, Gladys Johnson, Henry Wade, James Leavelle, and Ruth Paine.
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David Von Pein
December 5, 2016—July 31, 2019
December 6, 2016—April 11, 2021
February 17-19, 2017
December 12, 2017
March 27-29, 2019
April 12, 2019
April 22-24, 2019
March 13, 2021
June 17, 2021—October 31, 2024
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