Here, finally, is the view from the street about November 22, 1963. This reporters' account of the Kennedy assassination brings to full focus the personal anguish as well as the professional pressure endured that day by those who could not take the time to cry. This book will become part of the real and permanent history of a dark day for America.

– Jim Lehrer

The story they tell is riveting, insightful, and filled with new detail about that awful weekend that changed America.

– Bob Schieffer, chief Washington correspondent, CBS News, author of This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV and Overload, CBS News

'The President has been shot!' It has been more than forty years, and everyone old enough remembers what he was doing the day Kennedy died. And then Oswald. But few were close enough to see the whole terrible story unfold. This book brings us a version few have ever seen. Bill Mercer, Bob Huffaker, Wes Wise, and George Phenix lived this story minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. Now they take us live and in living color back to those blood-dimmed days in Dallas. A stunning set of recollections.

– James Ward Lee, TCU Press

As each of the authors gives his account of the segment of the Kennedy assassination he was most involved with—the race to get the injured president to the hospital, Oswald's flight and capture, Ruby's shooting of Oswald and Ruby's trial—he opens a window into the earlier era of broadcast history. The integrity and dedication of these four veteran journalists is impressive, as is their ability to make a 40-year-old event come alive again.

– Publishers Weekly

TV reporters Bob Huffaker, Bill Mercer, George Phenix and Wes Wise combine to recall the assassination of President Kennedy in When the News Went Live: Dallas 1963. These four describe what it was like when reporters did everything, including process and edit, in time for the next newscast.

– Judy Alter, The Dallas Morning News

Their account of reporting events surrounding Kennedy's death goes beyond the mere retelling, reflecting on issues such as ethics and duty in the presentation of news. A fast-paced recounting of what they witnessed, accompanied by 43 evocative black-and-white photos. Thought provoking.

– Ari Sigal, Catawba Valley Community College Library

The account of reporting the events surrounding Kennedy's death goes beyond mere storytelling, reflecting on issues such as ethics and duty in the presentation of news. A fast-paced recounting of what they witnessed.

– The Muskogee Phoenix and Times Democrat

Noteworthy.

– Si Dunn,, The Dallas Morning News

[A] riveting account not only of the assassination but of TV's transformation into America's most dominant news source.

– Sacramento Bee

Well-documented and credible. A story that needed to be told.

– Longview News-Journal

Huffaker . . . as the main writer of the book, his accounts of that day, and the events following, are both dramatic and detailed.

– Rachel Stallard, Longview News-Journal

. . . one of the more engaging books I've come across in some time. . . . Had these four chosen different professions during their younger days, we would all be the poorer for it. This is a first-class account of a tragic historical moment that still has an impact on our nation.

– Ken Judkins, Little Elm Journal Star

This work brings immediacy and intensity to events that shook the nation.

– Sterlin Holmsely, San Antonio Express-News

Theirs is a compelling first person account that is being praised for its depth, authority, and readability.

– Big Bend Sentinel

Their account of reporting the events surrounding Kennedy's death goes beyond mere retelling, reflecting on issues such as ethics and duty in the presentation of news.

– Liberty Journal, Liberty Journal, RTNDA Communicator

The reporters . . . have truthfully written about what it was like to be there and witness history at the end of a microphone and live on camera.

– Today Midlothian

[A] fast-paced recounting of what they witnessed. . . . It concludes with two thought-provoking chapters about the business of news and its uncertain future.

– Library Journal

[T]hese four local journalists were changing the face of news minute by minute.

– George Mason University Broadside