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Republican Rep Anna Paulina Luna said about the newly released JFK docs that:
"it was made aware to me this evening that NBC actually has a video that’s never been seen before."
Ah, nope. If such a thing existed it would be film - not tape.
In 1963 there were no portable tape decks. News gathering was done on 16 millimeter or 8 millimeter film. Any live reporting would have been beamed back to the station via microwave - which would require large trucks to handle the transmitter, mini-tower and micro dishes - and shown live. There were tape machines available at that time but they held at most 10 minutes of video and weighed hundreds of pounds. So probability that it's a tape is vanishingly small. Even if it did exist the original probably is unplayable now due to the deterioration of the tape media. TV stations are cheapskate and reused tape over and over and over.
Portable video recorders and cameras didn't com into existence until the 1970s. Sorry Anna.
Maybe she misspoke? Kids these days. Probably grew up with VHS tapes and mini-camcorders.
Dumb ass.
"it was made aware to me this evening that NBC actually has a video that’s never been seen before."
Ah, nope. If such a thing existed it would be film - not tape.
In 1963 there were no portable tape decks. News gathering was done on 16 millimeter or 8 millimeter film. Any live reporting would have been beamed back to the station via microwave - which would require large trucks to handle the transmitter, mini-tower and micro dishes - and shown live. There were tape machines available at that time but they held at most 10 minutes of video and weighed hundreds of pounds. So probability that it's a tape is vanishingly small. Even if it did exist the original probably is unplayable now due to the deterioration of the tape media. TV stations are cheapskate and reused tape over and over and over.
Portable video recorders and cameras didn't com into existence until the 1970s. Sorry Anna.
Maybe she misspoke? Kids these days. Probably grew up with VHS tapes and mini-camcorders.
Dumb ass.
