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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShrub's only legacy: REVENGE on b.f.e.e. enemies: CBS not inviting Dan RATHER to JFK special
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[font size=5]Rather Not Invited to Join CBS Kennedy Coverage[/font]
By DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer
.... 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."
Rather worked at CBS News for 44 years. His downfall came as a result of a 2004 story about President George W. Bush's military service. Under criticism, the network concluded the story couldn't be substantiated, but Rather has stood behind it. His tenure as anchor ended six months later and he left CBS in 2006, eventually filing a $70 million lawsuit against his old employers that was thrown out in 2010 by New York's highest court. ....
He sprang into action when it became clear something had gone terribly wrong. Rather described in his 1977 book, "The Camera Never Blinks," that CBS radio went with his report that Kennedy was dead based not on official confirmation but his phone conversations with men who identified themselves as a doctor and priest at the hospital where Kennedy was taken, and a colleague's conversation with the hospital's chief of staff.
It was an extraordinary risk: if Rather was wrong, he conceded his career in journalism likely would have ended 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. ....
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Shrub's only legacy: REVENGE on b.f.e.e. enemies: CBS not inviting Dan RATHER to JFK special (Original Post)
UTUSN
Nov 2013
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UTUSN
(70,497 posts)1. As for the Shrub Nat'l Guard story, it's TRUE, everybody KNOWS, as assuredly as O.J. did it n/t
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)2. CBS has turned into a real fuckwad organization
Berlum
(7,044 posts)3. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL Bush (R)
Octafish
(55,745 posts)4. Dallas wants the anniversary to focus on the positive.
No sense in bringing people up to date on the criminal, such as when Poppy pulled strings to keep his idiot son out of Vietnam.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)5. For Christ's Sake, Rather was THERE!!!
He was the one feeding info to Cronkite from freaking Parkland!!!!!
CBS simply blows...
CBS simply blows...
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)6. CBS is dead to me.