Tom Wicker's incredible 11/22/63 Kennedy assassination dispatch.

[Pirate Smile]

You should really go read the entire piece:

KENNEDY IS KILLED BY SNIPER AS HE RIDES IN CAR IN DALLAS; JOHNSON SWORN IN ON PLANE

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Gov. Connally Shot; Mrs. Kennedy Safe
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President Is Struck Down by a Rifle Shot From Building on Motorcade Route--Johnson, Riding Behind, Is Unhurt
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By TOM WICKER

Dallas, Nov. 22--President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin today.

He died of a wound in the brain caused by a rifle bullet that was fired at him as he was riding through downtown Dallas in a motorcade.

Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was riding in the third car behind Mr. Kennedy's, was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States 99 minutes after Mr. Kennedy's death.

Mr. Johnson is 55 years old; Mr. Kennedy was 46.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1122.html?scp=1&sq=Kennedy%20Shot%20to%20Death%20in%20Dallas&st=cse#article

Tom Wicker, Times Journalist, Dies at 85


By ROBERT D. McFADDEN

Published: November 25, 2011

Tom Wicker, one of postwar America’s most distinguished journalists, who wrote 20 books, covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for The New York Times and became the paper’s Washington bureau chief and an iconoclastic political columnist for 25 years, died on Friday at his home near Rochester, Vt. He was 85.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/us/tom-wicker-journalist-and-author-dies-at-85.html

[_eh]

1. Not many good reporters left

anywhere.