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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on September 10, 2008, 11:49:18 AM
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Ike Pappas, who died on August 31 aged 75, was an American radio reporter who had just asked a question of the alleged assassin of John F Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, when the suspect was shot dead in the basement of Dallas police headquarters in November 1963.
As a reporter for radio station WNEW in New York Pappas had flown to Dallas to cover President John F Kennedy’s visit on November 22. Two days later he was in the media scrum in the police station as Oswald was being led away to prison.
Wearing a white raincoat, which made him clearly visible in photographs of the shooting, Pappas had just stepped forward to ask: “You have anything to say in your defence?†when the nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoved Pappas aside, fired a gun and Oswald crumpled, fatally wounded.
“There’s a shot!†Pappas blurted on the air, “Oswald has been shot! Oswald has been shot! A shot rang out. Mass confusion here; all the doors have been locked. Holy mackerel! A shot rang out as he was led into his car. Mass confusion… rolling, fighting.â€
Pappas subsequently testified at Ruby’s trial and before the Warren Commission that investigated the Kennedy assassination.
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link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2707433/Ike-Pappas.html)