'President Kennedy is dead': Watch the CBC report from 50 years ago today

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Archival footage from Nov. 22, 1963 — the day John F. Kennedy was shot

CBC News Posted: Nov 22, 2013 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Nov 22, 2013 7:14 AM ET

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As news of John F. Kennedy's assassination broke on Nov. 22, 1963, CBC TV took to the airwaves with a special broadcast.

Pictures from the day the 35th U.S. president was slain by an assassin's bullet on a Dallas street show the confusion and chaos that followed the shooting.

John F. Kennedy was shot by an assassin in Dallas 50 years ago. (Estate of Jacques Lowe/Newseum/Associated Press)

Cameras captured bystanders hitting the ground as shots rang out and the tearful reactions of those who witnessed the shooting.

"[Kennedy] stood for understanding and good relations between his own country and ours," Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson says in the broadcast.

"I feel that I have lost a friend."

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