CBS Snubs Dan Rather In Kennedy Anniversary Coverage

[Purveyor]

By David Bauder | The Associated Press
First Published 1 hour ago • Updated 36 minutes ago

New York • CBS News hasn’t invited Dan Rather back to participate in its 50th-anniversary coverage of the Kennedy assassination, but images of the longtime anchor who parted bitterly with the network will be a part of its upcoming documentary on how the story unfolded that day.

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 who day still active in journalism.

Rather, who later became CBS News’ top anchor for 24 years, will appear on NBC’s "Today" show on Nov. 22 this year.

"I held off doing anything for anybody else for a while, thinking I may be asked to do something (for CBS)," Rather said. "I can’t say I had any reason for that hope."

CBS Washington bureau chief Bob Schieffer, who as a newspaper reporter in 1963 gave the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald a ride to Dallas after the assassination, will anchor a Nov. 16 special on that day’s coverage. CBS’ announcement of the special recently said viewers will relive the day with anchor Walter Cronkite and reporters Charles Collingwood, Harry Reasoner, Charles Kuralt and Mike Wallace. All of those men are now dead; Rather went unmentioned.

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http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/57087890-68/rather-cbs-coverage-kennedy.html.csp

[pangaia]

1. Bob Schieffer?? blechkkkk

vomit, throw up,
what a bought and paid for coward...

[Bobcat]

2. Schieffer

CBS had already trotted Schieffer out on their morning news show to numb the minds of the masses. They are calling it a "preview" for what is to come later in the month as the 50th anniversary approaches. He is fully onboard with the "lone assassin" (Oswald) theory and has yet to even entertain that many questions remain unanswered. They are afraid that Rather may break ranks with the official version.

[robertpaulsen]

3. Nice fucking historical whitewash there.

Days later, Rather was among the first people to see film of the assassination taken by Abraham Zapruder and he later described it live on CBS, reading from a spiral notebook what it captured of the president and first lady at the moment of impact. CBS failed, however, to acquire rights to the film.

That's quoting from the link in the OP. What they whitewashed: Rather fucking bullshitted!

Here's what Rather said about the head shot:

"His head went forward with considerable violence"

Whether or not you believe there was a conspiracy in the assassination of JFK, the quote above is an undeniable full-of-shit-statement. I don't know what's worse: CBS not giving Rather the opportunity to make amends for that canard, or David Bauder for not setting the record straight about exactly what Rather claimed the Zapruder film captured.

[Rowdyboy]

4. The jackasses will regret this mistake