On this day, November 24, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was being transferred,

[Liberal In Texas]

5. I remember seeing it live on TV in Omaha. The TV was on in what we called

the family room and I remarked that it looked like some kind of fight had started. It took the reporters a few minutes to figure out that Oswald had been shot.

Years later I flew to Dallas for a job interview at TV station KDFW and after being inside for a few minutes, I turned a corner on my way to the newsroom. And there it was; a full-sized blow-up of the picture you see up there in the OP. Sitting on a small platform pointed at the blow-up was the actual camera that was there broadcasting the scene live across the country. I thought the whole things was a little surreal.


The camera has since been donated to the Texas Broadcast Museum.