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50th Anniversary of JFK Assassination at Arlington National Cemetery

In a photograph of the original teletype dispatch, a UPI 'FLASH' notes that "Kennedy seriously wounded perhaps seriously perhaps fatally by assassins bullet" on November 22, 1963. UPI reporter Merriman Smith grabbed the only mobile phone in the White House press car traveling in the presidential motorcade to make the report to the UPI Dallas office that then relayed the story to the world at 12:39 p.m. via UPI Teletype Machines. The 50th Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination will be marked on Friday, November 22, 2013. UPI

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