Ch. 1 brief transcript of DPD tape (Canadian copies) Ch. 2 brief transcript compared to establish real time on 11/22/63
Elapsed Channel 1 Correct Elapsed Channel 2 Correct Estimate
time in Unit message(""), event, repeat( {} ), time in time in Unit message(""), event, repeat( {} ), time in realtime
seconds Number unintelligible( ~~~~~~~~) seconds seconds Number unintelligible( ~~~~~~~~) seconds P.M.
Calling timed at underlined word Calling timed at underlined word
0.0 38 "Mind telling some of those people 3.2 28:36.7
involved having this deal out here
at Market Hall that there's people
walking across Southbound Stemmons
here in front of the Marriott
Hotel all the way down South?"
61.3 tires squealling 63.9 29:37.4
0.0 1 "Triple underpass." 0.0 30:24.6
114.1 tires squealling 116.1 30:29.6
8.0 dispatcher"12:30, KKB-364." 8.0 30:32.6
136.0 Shot #1 from TSBD 137.8 30:51.3
32.7 1 "Go to the hospital . . ." 32.7 30:57.3
143.2 Grassy Knoll shot 144.9 30:58.4
40.6 Dallas 1 "Get a man on top of that." 40.6 31:05.2
150.8 Bell tone( low A @220 cps) 152.4 31:05.9
55.1 1 "Have Parkland stand by." 55.1 31:19.7
90.5 Dallas 1 "..and hold everything secure until 90.5 31:55.1
Homicide & other investigators can
get {secure..} {secure..} there." -6.6 repeat1
125.3 dispatcher"Parkland has been notified,12:32 118.7 32:23.3
... {notified...} " -3.4 repeat2
238.5 dispatcher "531, testing-1,2,3,4...", whistles 239.3 32:32.8
142.7 sirens 132.7 32:37.3
153.7 5 "You want, what's the~that I have 143.7 32:48.3
with me?{what's the~.. with me?}" -3.8 repeat3
1 160.0 1 "Just go on to Parkland Hospital 146.2 32:50.8
5 and 1 {with me? Just go on to Parkland -3.4 repeat4
Hospital!}"
262.1 sirens 262.6 32:56.1
268.5 Courson? "Take off, Buddy." 269.0 33:02.5
183.0 1 "Get these trucks out of the way.. 165.8 33:10.4
{~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~}" -3.4 repeat5
297.0 car horn beeps 297.2 33:30.7
209.3 dispatcher"Could you send someone up there 188.7 33:33.3
to tell him to shut it of{tuck open
on channel 1.Could you send..off?}" -3.5 repeat6
317.5 190 "You want me to still hold this 317.5_230.5 190 "You want me to still hold this 206.4 33:51
traffic on Stemmons 'til we find traffic on Stemmons 'til we find
out something or ~~~~~~~~~." out something or let it go?"
344.5 break in recording for 6 seconds 345.3 34:18.8
271.9 dispatcher"12:35 {12:35}" Repeat 7(-3.5) 247.8 34:32.4
318.8 dispatcher"10-4.283, cut traffic Hines and NA NA
Industrial.{10-4. 283,cut traffic}"-3.5 repeat8
432.5 dispatcher "Attention all emergency equipment, 426.5_324.5 dispatcher"Attention all emergency equipment 315.4 35:40
Gerald attention all emergency equipment. Gerald
Henslee Do not use Industrial Boulevard, do Henslee Do not use Industrial Boulevard,
simulcast not use Industrial Boulevard.12:36." simulcast 12:36." Skips 1 & 2