Schieffer has been the host of CBS's Face The Nation for the past 24 years. He joined CBS in 1969.
Prior to joining CBS, Schieffer worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
He was a young reporter for the Star-Telegram on Nov. 22, 1963. On that day, he was involved in one of the more memorable incidents a newspaper reporter has ever experienced. He was working the overnight police beat. As a cub reporter, he was not involved in the reporting of the JFK assassination. The story, as best as I recall, is that he answered a phone call from a women who asked if there was anybody at the newspaper that could give her a ride to Dallas. As he was about to hang up, he mentioned that the President had been shot so they were very busy. The women responded that she had heard about the shooting, and then said that she thought her son was the one the police had arrested for the shooting. Schieffer seized the moment, and went from answering the phones to picking up Marguerite Oswald (Lee's mother), and driving her to the police station in Dallas. I've seen him talk many times about the discussions they had during the ride, as well as his experience at the Dallas police station. (None of the Dallas police asked who he was -- they were in disarray -- and they just assumed he was a Fort Worth cop, so they put him in a room with Oswald's mother, where he stayed for several hours. He convinced the Dallas police that Oswald's mom should get an opportunity to see Lee, and he was about to accompany her into the visit when a Dallas policeman asked who he was. When he answered that question, his inside view of the investigation came to an end.)
I don't watch network news all that much anymore, but I will miss Bob Schieffer.
Tom
Prior to joining CBS, Schieffer worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
He was a young reporter for the Star-Telegram on Nov. 22, 1963. On that day, he was involved in one of the more memorable incidents a newspaper reporter has ever experienced. He was working the overnight police beat. As a cub reporter, he was not involved in the reporting of the JFK assassination. The story, as best as I recall, is that he answered a phone call from a women who asked if there was anybody at the newspaper that could give her a ride to Dallas. As he was about to hang up, he mentioned that the President had been shot so they were very busy. The women responded that she had heard about the shooting, and then said that she thought her son was the one the police had arrested for the shooting. Schieffer seized the moment, and went from answering the phones to picking up Marguerite Oswald (Lee's mother), and driving her to the police station in Dallas. I've seen him talk many times about the discussions they had during the ride, as well as his experience at the Dallas police station. (None of the Dallas police asked who he was -- they were in disarray -- and they just assumed he was a Fort Worth cop, so they put him in a room with Oswald's mother, where he stayed for several hours. He convinced the Dallas police that Oswald's mom should get an opportunity to see Lee, and he was about to accompany her into the visit when a Dallas policeman asked who he was. When he answered that question, his inside view of the investigation came to an end.)
I don't watch network news all that much anymore, but I will miss Bob Schieffer.
Tom
