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CBS' Bob Schieffer Retires Sunday As Last Of The Old-School TV Anchors
Bob Schieffer, anchor of CBS' Face the Nation, retires Sunday after 46 years at the network.
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"Schieffer told NPR's Bob Edwards back in 2003 about his first big story; when he spoke to Lee Harvey Oswald's mother not long after President Kennedy was killed."
"I had literally walked into the office, picked up a phone and a woman said, 'Is there anybody there who can give me a ride to Dallas?'" he noted. "I said, 'Lady, the president has been shot.' And she says, 'Yes I heard it on the radio. My son is the one that they have arrested.'" Schieffer took her to Dallas and got the scoop for his paper."