Steve Thomas Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 Ike Pappas died Sunday of heart disease in Arlington, Virginia. He was 75. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Howard Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Ike Pappas died Sunday of heart disease in Arlington, Virginia. He was 75.Steve Thomas Ike Pappas, the longtime CBS newsman who reported the shooting death of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on the radio as it was happening, has died at age 75. Pappas died Sunday in a hospital in Arlington, Va. of complications of heart disease, his family said. Pappas was among the reporters at the Dallas police station who were waiting for Oswald to be moved two days after President Kennedy was assassinated. Pappas had just asked him, "Do you have anything to say in your defense?" when a shot rang out. "Oswald has been shot!" Pappas said on the air, adding, "Mass confusion here, all the doors have been locked. Holy mackerel!" Pappas was among more than 200 CBS News employees laid off by the company in 1987. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Graves Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Ike Pappas died Sunday of heart disease in Arlington, Virginia. He was 75.Steve Thomas Ike Pappas, the longtime CBS newsman who reported the shooting death of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on the radio as it was happening, has died at age 75. Pappas died Sunday in a hospital in Arlington, Va. of complications of heart disease, his family said. Pappas was among the reporters at the Dallas police station who were waiting for Oswald to be moved two days after President Kennedy was assassinated. Pappas had just asked him, "Do you have anything to say in your defense?" when a shot rang out. "Oswald has been shot!" Pappas said on the air, adding, "Mass confusion here, all the doors have been locked. Holy mackerel!" Pappas was among more than 200 CBS News employees laid off by the company in 1987. ______________________________________ Just curious: How could he have known, so quickly, that all of the doors had been locked? ______________________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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