Did Dan Rather Invent a Source When He Broke the Death of JFK?

[dixiehack]

Did Dan Ratber send out a fangirl tweet about the Nuggets?

 

[playthrough]

So is JFK actually alive?

Living with Elvis and Dale Earnhardt.

 

[garrow]

It was Dr. (Roger) Mudd

 

[Liut]

Did he get a name for the clergyman?

It was Dr. (Roger) Mudd

LOL. That's really good inside humor. Seriously, I read a Mudd book not too long ago. I think it's entitled The Place To Be. The book is almost entirely about his time at CBS. IIRC, he and Rather patched things up a bit in later years.

 

[LanceyHoward]

I actually just started looking around here for an RIP thread on Dan Rather. I'm not invalidating the question. The action is probably not beyond the realm of possibility. But I'm wondering, why has this thread come up now? Any particular reason, or link, or something that somebody saw or read?

It is something I have long wondered. And I just watched the movie Parkland, which purports to be a true story of what happened at the hospital after the shooting. They had a scene where someone marches into the switchboard and demands an open line. It got me to thinking about how chaotic that telephone room must have been and yet Rather calls in and the switchboard operator transfers him to a good source.

 

[Slacker]

But I'm wondering, why has this thread come up now?

"COURAGE."

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I offer an alternative theory. KRLD was reporting that Kennedy had died.

This is not a theory. It's only a hypothesis with no evidence backing it up.

What proof do you offer?

 

[LanceyHoward]

This is not a theory. It's only a hypothesis with no evidence backing it up.

What proof do you offer?

Fair enough. It is a hypothesis, not a theory. But Rather says himself that he was at the KRLD news room. And Eddie Barker of KRLD, who was broadcasting from the Trade Mart, where Kennedy was supposed to speak, had gone on the air and reported Kennedy was dead. Barker's source was a Parkland doctor who was attending the event and had called the emergency room.

I have no evidence that Rather did not make the call. only speculation.

 

[HanSenSE]

Did Dan Ratber send out a fangirl tweet about the Nuggets?

No, he was too busy asking Cronkite what he should wear.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I have no evidence that Rather did not make the call. only speculation.

End of thread.

 

[garrow]

LOL. That's really good inside humor. Seriously, I read a Mudd book not too long ago. I think it's entitled The Place To Be. The book is almost entirely about his time at CBS. IIRC, he and Rather patched things up a bit in later years.

I read that too. Recalled Mudd ripped Dan for always using a ghostwriter for his books (often Mickey Herskowitz).

 

[Liut]

I read that too. Recalled Mudd ripped Dan for always using a ghostwriter for his books (often Mickey Herskowitz).

No doubt Gary Paul Gates wrote most, if not all, of The Palace Guard, but Gates did get a co-author credit. He and Rather were tight. The latter was a major source for Airtime. Both books are very good, IMHO.