With "no Miranda rule, no PR people," reporters who were there that fateful day in Dallas 50 years ago when President Kennedy was shot "dealt directly with the cops,” recalls Bob
Schieffer, then a cub reporter at the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram. His access was pretty amazing: he wound up giving assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's mother a ride to Dallas because she'd called the
paper. ("Lady, we don’t run a taxi service here, and besides, the president’s been shot,” he first told her.) More stories here about that day that will undoubtedly receive a ton of
press coverage the closer we get to the actual anniversary , Nov. 22.
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