Didn’t Dan Ratherbiased go public with the word that JFK had passed away before he had confirmation of the fact?
First to break the story makes you famous.
Dan Rather early on reported he had seen a film (Zapruder?) and Kennedy was turned to the side and was waving to the crowd—hence allowing him to be hit from the front in the throat even though his assassin was behind him.
Since there is no film showing such, Rather was presenting a cover story to explain the front throat wound.
Later, after the front throat wound was dropped altogether from the official story, that account by Rather was deep-sixed. (It may be around on the NET somewhere.)
But clearly no one wants anyone asking uncomfortable questions...
We read so much for so long about that terrible day in Dallas. I was under the impression that JFK had been dead for a half hour before it was announced. Many of the tabloids keep implicating LBJ, as did Barr McClellan, the first husband of former State Comptroller Carole Strayhorn, in a book he wrote years ago.