During a 1998 interview between archivist Phil Gries and Don Pardo, Pardo describes his immediate emotions and feelings when he voiced the First & Second NBC Television Bulletins regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963 at 1:45:03 and1:46 EST.
Opening this special edition of NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams is the voice of Don Pardo announcing the first NBC TV bulletin 1:45:03pm E.S.T. recorded off the air by Phil Gries that President John F. Kennedy has been shot in Dallas Texas. On screen credit given (Archival Television Audio).