[OrangeHoof]

Oddly, both Jim Lehrer and his future PBS partner Robert MacNeil were both in the Dallas motorcade covering the JFK assassination. There'a picture of MacNeil peering around the Grassy Knoll as eyewitnesses rushed the scene and here's a photo of Lehrer at the Dallas police station.

A lot of careers got a boost that day, including a CBS News regional correspondent named Dan Rather.

[dfwgator]

On November 22, 1963, MacNeil was covering President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Dallas for NBC News. After shots rang out in Dealey Plaza, MacNeil, who was with the presidential motorcade, followed crowds running onto the Grassy Knoll (he appears in a photo taken just moments after the assassination). He then headed towards the nearest building and encountered a man leaving the Texas School Book Depository. He asked the man where the nearest telephone was and the man pointed and went on his way. MacNeil later learned the man he encountered at about 12:33 pm. CST might have been Lee Harvey Oswald. This conclusion was made by historian William Manchester in his book The Death of a President (1967), who believed that Oswald, recounting the day’s events to the Dallas Police, mistook MacNeil as a Secret Service agent because of his suit, blond crew cut, and press badge (which Oswald apparently mistook for government identification).

[nutmeg]

Interesting... I didn’t know that! Thanks.