The Dictabelt evidence relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy comes from a Dictabelt recording from a radio microphone stuck in the open position on a police officer's motorcycle when John F. Kennedy, 35th (1961–1963) President of the United States was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Many aspects of his assassination have been investigated and the less well-known Dictabelt recording, made by a then-common Dictaphone ...
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The Dictabelt evidence relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy comes from a Dictabelt recording from a radio microphone stuck in the open position on a police officer's motorcycle when John F. Kennedy, 35th (1961–1963) President of the United States was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Many aspects of his assassination have been investigated and the less well-known Dictabelt recording, made by a then-common Dictaphone dictation machine that recorded sounds in grooves pressed into a thin celluloid belt, has been gaining prominence among Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists.
The recording was made from Dallas police radio channel 1, which carried routine police radio traffic (channel 2 was reserved for special events, such as the presidential motorcade). The open-microphone portion of the recording lasts 5.5 minutes, and begins about 12:29 p.m. local time, about a minute before the assassination at 12:30 p.m. Verbal time stamps were made periodically by...
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