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...overwhelming evidence piled up against Oswald, police decided to transfer him to a maximum security jail. At 11:20 a.m., Oswald was led into the basement garage of City Hall and toward a nearby armored...
Just then another car drove up. A man got out and jumped over a three-foot-high rail. He broke through a cordon of Dallas cops-who were certainly not having one of their good weeks -and approached Oswald almost as though he were going to shake hands. He was Jack Ruby (born Rubinstein) a stocky, balding 50-year-old bachelor who owns a couple of Dallas strip joints, was known to cops as a publicity-seeking pest...
Center-Screen. Television wasted no time making the most of its advantages over printed journalism, which can hardly match its immediacy or visual impact. Words and pictures reached all the way to Japan, by television signals bounced off the U.S. satellite Relay I. Even before Lee Oswald was formally charged with the murder, CBS put on the air an Oswald interview taped by a New Orleans station last August. ABC telecast a film taken from inside the warehouse where the killer had knelt; the camera played on a litter of chicken bones. Each moment of the unfolding story flashed before...
...Sunday, the networks were just settling to the sombre task of accompanying the cortege to the Capitol when they switched to Dallas to record Oswald's transfer to the County Jail. To their own astonishment, they caught instead what beyond all doubt was history's most public crime. The cameras caught everything: the gunman lurching into center-screen, detectives raining down on him and wrenching the gun away, Oswald being rushed to the ambulance, his hand dragging limply along the concrete floor...
...sometimes took over almost an entire paper. Predictably, among the nation's newspapers the New York Times's coverage was unique in its thoroughness. The Times gave its first 16 pages to the story and found room for nearly everything-including a separate appraisal of Lee Oswald's marksmanship as a marine (NOT A CRACK SHOT, ran the questionable headline). The Times assigned 40 men to the story in New York, sent six other reporters winging to the aid of Tom Wicker, who was in Dallas with the presidential party...