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...Pierpoint of CBS stood up, and our eyes met for ever so tiny an instant. We knew but did not want to believe. "What was that?" he asked. Doug Kiker, now of NBC, then a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, was typing on his lap. He paused. Kennedy's limousine had turned the corner beneath a boxy, ugly building and sunk out of sight. The pigeons -- the famous pigeons of death -- were rising and swooping under the trees...
Pierpoint stood still for a couple more seconds, Kiker pecked a time or two. Three seconds, four. Then reality rushed with terrifying clarity down that short street beneath the Texas School Book Depository. We were never the same, nor was the world...
...Newsman Douglas Kiker uses Cape Cod in winter as the setting for Murder on Clam Pond (Random House; 228 pages; $15.95), in which a broken-down former newspaper reporter finds a new hometown, renewed professional vigor and the love of a much younger woman, all through probing the murder of his next-door neighbor. What lifts the book above the ordinary is a detailed and subtle portrait of the dark side of charity: the victim is the richest woman in town, and the chief suspects are a group of bright young adults whom she singled out for her largesse...
...assignment will not be so easy. On Sept. 26, he and a hand-picked crew of correspondents-Garrick Utley, Douglas Kiker, Betsy Aaron and Jack Perkins-will go up against CBS's runaway hit Dallas. The vehicle: NBC's Magazine with David Brinkley. Replacing NBC's failed Prime Time, the show will have a new format and a hefty weekly budget of $300,000. Brinkley plans on something different from the tick-tock style of CBS's 60 Minutes and the razzmatazz of ABC's 20/20, but he is rather vague when he talks about...
...tendency has been to put them in high-visibility positions for which they're not prepared." TV newswomen do tend to be younger and less experienced than their male colleagues. For that reason and because they are "the first wave," they are highly competitive. As NBC Correspondent Douglas Kiker puts it, "When you want somebody to go out in a blizzard on a Sunday night to do a 30-second spot, they say, 'Send me in, coach.' They're coming from behind and they know...