Word: pierpoint
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...time, a friend had been murdered; a President assassinated; a political movement, which we called the New Frontier, terminated. We reporters had been riding casually in the press buses when we heard three sharp, strange sounds from an ugly building 50 yards in front of us. CBS correspondent Robert Pierpoint, who had covered the Korean War, leaped to his feet and said, "Those sounded like gunshots." In a few seconds we saw the chaos on the grassy knoll, people facedown clutching the earth in panic, the motorcade chopped in two, Kennedy's limousine racing over a hill toward the hospital...