Dan Rather excluded from CBS' anniversary coverage of Kennedy assassination

Newsday ^ | 11-5-2013

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Dan Rather excluded from CBS' anniversary coverage of Kennedy assassination

Published: November 5, 2013 1:57 PM

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The 50th-anniversary coverage of the Kennedy assassination on CBS News won't include the recollections of its longtime anchor Dan Rather, further proof of the lingering bitterness following Rather's messy exit and subsequent lawsuit against the network.

Rather helped organize CBS' plans for President John F. Kennedy's visit to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and as a young reporter was a key component of assassination coverage. Now 82, with his own show on AXS-TV, he's one of the few reporters on the story that day who's still active in journalism...

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As for the rest of the stuff the Secret Service, FBI, LBJ, etc di or didn’t do, we will never know the reality until all those involved are long dead.

Some theories have more rigor and logic than others. This is one of them. It explains a lot, especially why the Secret Service acted like a bunch of thugs.