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Dan Rather excluded from CBS' anniversary coverage of Kennedy assassination
Newsday ^ | 11-5-2013

Posted on 11/05/2013 1:11:54 PM PST by smoothsailing

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To: CondorFlight
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.
Seinfeld JERRY: Newman, Kramer, if you'll indulge me.
According to your story, Keith passes you and starts walking up the ramp, then you say you were struck on the right temple.
The spit then proceeds to ricochet off the temple, striking Newman between the third and forth rib.
The spit then came off the rib, turned, and hit Newman in the right wrist causing him to drop his baseball cap.
The spit then splashed off the wrist -- pauses in mid air mind you -- makes a left turn and lands on Newman's left thigh.
That is one magic loogie.

21 posted on 11/05/2013 1:44:33 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: smoothsailing
Dan Rather got his start right after the Kennedy assassination. CBS and others in the MSM wanted reports from Dallas describing Texans as violent, right wing Kennedy haters who were happy that Kennedy had been killed.

At one elementary school in Dallas, children were sent home early after the assassination but were not told why. The children cheered when told they were let out early.

CBS wanted to show the kids were cheering because they were glad JFK had been killed. No other local journalist would file such a dishonest story. So CBS reported it as a live feed with a young Texan reporting that children of Dallas were happy and cheering because Kennedy had been shot. That young Texan was an unknown reporter named Dan Rather.

From that point on Rather's career advanced rapidly and he showed again and again he would lie on the air whenever needed. He became the anchor of CBS Evening News about a decade later.

22 posted on 11/05/2013 1:45:25 PM PST by detective
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To: KarlInOhio

Did anyone ever receive a certified hardcopy of Obama’s birf certificate? Or just layered PDF files?


23 posted on 11/05/2013 1:45:39 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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24 posted on 11/05/2013 1:47:52 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Rather may have done so, but some high school students DID cheer when they heard the news.


25 posted on 11/05/2013 1:48:30 PM PST by BwanaNdege (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. J.F. Kennedy)
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To: BwanaNdege

“Fake but accurate?”


26 posted on 11/05/2013 1:49:31 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: TexasCajun

Dan Rather is as lonely as a skunk at a Barn Dance.


27 posted on 11/05/2013 1:49:32 PM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Funny - they don't look like male models.
28 posted on 11/05/2013 1:52:57 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Servant of the Cross

FAKE BUT ACCURATE!!!


29 posted on 11/05/2013 1:55:21 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: Slings and Arrows

Great Post!


30 posted on 11/05/2013 1:56:21 PM PST by RRismyhero (Mr. Obama - You can keep your change.)
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To: smoothsailing
he's one of the few reporters on the story that day who's still active in journalism

They disappeared Dorothy Kilgallen.

31 posted on 11/05/2013 1:58:11 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: laplata

:)


32 posted on 11/05/2013 1:59:08 PM PST by RRismyhero (Mr. Obama - You can keep your change.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Interesting. Thank you. I’ve never heard this theory before.


33 posted on 11/05/2013 2:03:23 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: smoothsailing
So Dan Rather is still alive. I wondered where he went after lying on 60 Minutes about Bush, and trying to influence an election.

5.56mm

34 posted on 11/05/2013 2:07:20 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: smoothsailing
Schieffer can be boring enough and goofy enough for two -- or three or ten -- codgers.

Plus I have a feeling Bill Moyers will be crashing this. Doris Kearns, too?

35 posted on 11/05/2013 2:12:29 PM PST by x
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To: smoothsailing

Dan is too busy, still looking for Lucy Ramirez.


36 posted on 11/05/2013 2:15:30 PM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: RRismyhero

Thank you. I think that that little datum about Gunga Dan deserves to be remembered.


37 posted on 11/05/2013 2:16:18 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: laplata

He’ll probably get tighter than the rusted lug nuts on a ‘55 Ford. :o)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270789/posts


38 posted on 11/05/2013 2:17:39 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

First reports that Kennedy is dead came from a local Dallas reporter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEaGcHMYx5U

First mention of Rather at 10:26
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W7uYgd_CJE


39 posted on 11/05/2013 2:21:33 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: smoothsailing

LOL!

Thanks.


40 posted on 11/05/2013 2:22:12 PM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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